Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-09-06
Scraps aud faets.

trial at Wytheville, Va, "Wednesday:
VicIor Allen is the last to be tried OF
those taken into custody for the muir
ders. Floyd and CLAUDE Allen, fath-
er and son, are under death sentences.
triel Allen has been sentenced 10
eighteen years imprisonment anu
Sidna Allen and Wesley Edwards, the
alleged ring leaders in the raid on the
court house which killed six people,
are still at large.
Pittsburgh, Pa, September 8: A
total of forty dead and a properly
loss of two million dollars, probably
measures the toll of Sunday nights
flood in lives and dollars, but the ef-
feet of the cloudburst will be felt tor
several days in many stricken COM
munities. The list of fatilities Is Col
Iiers, West Virginia, Is; Cherry val
lev. Penn, 6; BrugettStoWn, Penn.'
4; Avella, Penn, 3; Canonsburg'
Penn. 7; Woodland and Wellsburg,
Penn. l each. Fifteen bodies nave
been recovered from the debris In
the Valley of Harmon's creek, near
Golfers. Searching parties are
working in other valleys OF the strlck-
en- district, digging in the ruins or de-
molished residences in the hope OF
finding bodies but in many instances
the rush of water is so strong tnat
II is believed that many victims were
carried far from the places where
they met death. Ten thousand acres
of growing corn have been ruined.
White River Junction, Vermont,
September 4: The full report OF the
balloting in yesterdays election In
Vermont was compiled late TO-DAY
without altering to any material de-
gree the general figures as lndlcateo IN
the early returns. The unohc1ai TO-
tai vote for governor reached 6o,oSo'
the largest in a state election IN
presidential year since 1904. Tnere
was no election by the people put
sufficient number of Republican mem
hers of the legislature were chosen
to insure the seating Of Allen Nd.
Fletcher in October as we'll as the re-
mainder of the Republican state tick
ct. The total vote for the state Tor
all five candidates were: Allen M.
Fletcher, of Cavendish, (Rep.) 26'-
259. Harlan B. Howe, OF st. Johns-
burg, (Dem.) 20,350. Rev. Frazer
Metzger, of Randolph, (Prog) 15,So0.
Clement F. Smith (Prohtb.) LAG.
Fred w. Suiter (Socialis) l,lS!.
Frogressives prevented people s
choice of a Republican candidate TOT
governor, and carried one county ana
81 towns.
Some startling evidencS on the
subject of police graft in New YORK
Is likely to be revealed in the reports
of the aldermanic investigating COM
mittee, which Is just beginning work,
says a New York dispatch. Evidence
has been submitted to the committee
covering a period Of three years, and
involving nineteen police inspectors
or captains and numerous lesser Of
ficers in graft charges. 1t Is said that
two police inspectors in Manhattan
district, twelve police captains or the
same borough, one police captain In
the Bronx and four in Brooklyn have
been enriched by the toll from dis
orderly houses and gambling dens:
Further, it Is asserted that several
police officials had confidential rela-
tions with pickpockets and thieves.
The criminals, it is said, have been
permitted to. ply their illegitimate
callings on a percentage basis. one
half Of the proceeds Of their loot, Is
understood to have been turned to the
graft collectors. 1t is announced that
William ]. Flynn, chief Of the local
secret service, has accepted the post
offered him by the investigating COM
mittee. He will act in an advisory
capacity.
Washington, September 4: Amer
lean bluejackets from the supply ship
Glacier, under Ensign Robert G. Co.
man, have recaptured from Mica
raugan revolutionists small steamer
the rebels had seized near Corinto
and taken to the bay Of Fonseca to
transport insurgent troops. Admiral
Southernland's cable reporting the cap
ture does not state the time nor say
IL there was a fight. Although Ad-
miral Switzerland has informed the
navy department from Corinto that all
is we'll with the Americans at Mana
qua, it is evident from the irregularity
of his dispatches to the navy depart
ment that the lines of communication
between the Niearaugan capital and
the coast still are precarious. The
$50 marines brought from the isthmus
by the California were expected to en-
train at Corinto today but owing to
the dilapidated condition Of the rail-
road caused by the attempt or the
rebels to destroy large part or II,
this force, under Colonel Pendleton,
Of the marine corps, probably will not
reach Managua until tomorrow. With
1,15O marines at his back In Mana
qua, Admiral Switzerland Is certain
that Colonel Pendleton will not only
be in a position to take control OF
this place. but also to open the rail-
road toward the south leading to
Granada. The armored cruiser Colo
RADIO was due at Corinto today to fur
ther reinforce the American fleet In
Nicaraugan waters.
Washington, September 3: Rules
Of foreign cotton exchanges, governing
tare on cotton exported from the Unit
ed States, have created false stand
ard of weights which inject uncer-
tainty into practically every American
cotton sale in the important markets OF
Europe, resulting in serious abuses,
indefensible practices and every fraud
on the part of cotton merchants in this
country, according to Luther Conant
Jr., commissioner of corporations, in
report to President Taft, made public
last night. The report is based upon
an extensive investigation of cotton
tare-the allowance for bagging and
ties enclosing a bale of cotton in order
to ascertain the net weight-which
was undertaken on complaint that
American cotton producers were sub
jected to serious loss because OF eX-
cessive deductions for tare under the
regulations of leading Europeai, mar
kets. The producer does not ordinarily
suffer under these rules, according to
the commissioner, because of the ac-
tive competition among merchants in
the purchase of cotton from the farm
ers for export. The existence of COM
petition and its remedial effect, how
ever, he points out, cannot always be
relied upon, and it Is impossible to es-
cape the conclusion that the producer
may be injured and sometimes is. The
tare rules, the report declares compli-
cate price calculations with an un-
necessary element of chance and in
wolves economic waste because of the
use of excessive bagging. II this
waste does not injure the producer or
merchant or spinner, it must impose
an unnecessary burden upon the con-
sumner of cotton goods, says the re-
port. Commissioner Conant declares
that immediate action should be taken
to remedy the evils and offers sugges-
tions for temporary and ultimate per-
manent relief.
- Hendersonville dispatch to the
Spartanburg Herald: Declaring that
wickedness is existing in high places
in Hendersonville and that many Of
the towns so-called respectable peo-
pie are not only violating the law,
but have been for years, the Rev. K.
w. Cawthon, pastor of the First Bap-
tist church, yesterday in the second