Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-04-08

accompanied Dy three otner leaoerS IN
the suffrage movement. I'VE are la
BILE to have many more OF these 'spon-
taneous' meetings with the president"
said Miss Burns significantly. The wo-
men openly expressed their disap-
pointment at the failure to induce the
chief executive to make mention OF the
cause" and reprisals were as openly
discussed.
Expert sociologists and economists
will be called on by the new progress
sive organization in the house to frame
the bills contemplated in the extensive
legislative programme Of the new par
ty in the coming congress, Representa-
tive Victor Murdock has announced.
He says that among those called upon
will be William Weyl, Of New York;
Jane Adams, the Chicago expert in So
Geological work, and Dean William
Draper Lewis, of the University Of
Pennsylvania, all of whom were promi-
nent in framing the platform at the
Chicago convention Of the Progressive
party. The Progressives will get to-
gether for their first conference, or
caucus today. The meeting will be
unique in the history Of national poll
tics. For the first time in so years a
third party organization will take its
place in the legislative activities OF the
to the public and a special invitation
to attend has been extended to women
interested in public affairs. Mr.. Muir
dock said that probably 15 or 20 mem
bers of the house would attend.
The progress of Balkan affairs is
giving European diplomacy some un-
easy moments. The allies have taken
a stiff-necked Independent attitude
and refuse to accept orders from the
powers. The question Is, If 1t becomes
necessary to coerce them, how can that
be done? The allies realize this and
realize that the concert of Europe Is
not as harmonious as month ago.
The present policy Of the Balkan states
is to debate the peace terms and con-
tinue the war, at least until Montene-
gro has captured Scutari. The small
est kingdom in Europe continues to
defy the six great powers. King Nicho-
las talks freely to interviewers, declar-
ing that he will take and keep the
town, which he considers necessa~v to
the prosperity of his kingdom. I.sht
warships are b!ockading his por., but
with the exception Of Austria Hungary
and Germany this measure Is being ex-
ecuted reluctantly. These two powers
alone demand that Scutari be incor-
porated in the state Of Albania, and the
other four powers have joined them
apparently merely for the sake OF pre-.
Great Britain and Russia Is strongly in
favor of Montenegro. The British
newspapers are almost unanimous in
expressing admiration and sympathy
for the brave mountaineers. Montene-
gro has made the greatest sacriftces or
any of the allies and gained the least
and the English people do not want TO
see the profits of victory taken from her.
They remember the Greeks declaration
early in the war that the allies should
keep what they gained.
clyde Stratton, known as the Chi
cago motor bandit" escaped from the
Federal prison near Leavenworth,
Kansas, Saturday by crawling through
a sewer. Two other prisoners who at
tempted to escape with him gave up
the struggle after being almost over
come by gas. The escape was discoV-
cred shortly before noon, when three
prisoners, who had been excused In the
morning to report for sick call, failed
to return to their cells. An immediate
search was made and one of the storm
sewer openings was found to be un-
covered. John Hughes and Frank
Fernsdorf, the prisoners who gave up
the attempt to escape, were found
standing in two feet of slime, very
anxious to get out Investigation show
ed that Stratton and his confederates,
after leaving the doctors office, went
directly to the sewer manhole, removed
the cover and dropped into the pit, a
fall Of fully fifteen feet. The main sew
er leading from the mannole was pro-
tected by 1-inch steel bars. The pris-
oners evidently had hack saws, for two
of the bars were sawed off and wrench
ed out to permit exit into the main
sewer. The sewer tapers from about
twenty-four inches to fifteen inches in
diameter, and is continually full oil
sewer gas and live steam, besides wa
ter and filth. Fernsdorf and Hughes
admit they tried to follow Stratton, but
had to give 1t up. Stratton's tracks
were found at the mouth of the sewer
and he was followed by his footprints
to the woods west Of the prison. Guards
were sent in every direction, and the
prison siren was blown for long time,
warming the farmers to be on the look
out. Stratton Is a desperate and Is
suspected of being implicated In the
murder of j. H. Logue, diamond mer-
chant, in Chicago last year. The gang
to which he belonged operated motor
car The police were unable to con-
meet Stratton directly with the Logue
muIQ6T anu AlIIl ONCA W ShS
Federal authorities, who wanted him
for robbing a postoffice at McCool
Ind. Thousands of dollars worth OF
stamps were found in the Chicago fiat
where Stratton lived.
Paris, April 5: Lacombe, notori-
GUS anarchist bandit and murderer
committed suicide today by jumping
from the roof of the prison de La San
te. His leap to death was witnessed by
all the prison officials and guards, by
Lacombe's lawyer, the prosecuting at
torney and the judge who had COM
mitted Him to the prison. All these
spectators had been summoned by tel
ephone during the two hours that La
combe stood at the edge OF the rool
arguing with the wardens, who sough,
to persuade him to return to his cell
Lacombe was awaiting trial on the
charge of assassinating NJ. Ducret, edi-
tor of the newspaper LIdee Libre. He
was also charged with numbering sew
eral other people in various parts OF
France. He had been arrested in Paris
on March IL, after the police through
out France had sought him for several
months. A mob tried to lynch hin
while he was on the way to the police
station. He was known as one Of the
most desperate criminals in the coun-
v,
fessed to the murder of Ducret, ad-
mitted killing a postmaster at Bezons
and a railroad cashier at Les Aubrals
near Orleans. A special guard was
kept on him in Jail, and even during his
daily hour of exercise he was closely
watched. This morning while Lacombe
was talking with his lawyer in an en-
closed courtyard inside the prison, his
guards stood few yards off. Sudden
ly Lacombe, who was an all-round ath-
lete and a professional performer Of
feats of strength at county fairs sprang
forward and grasped the lower rungs
Of an iron ladder leading to the upper
part of the building. He had climbed
past tier after tier of cells and hao
mounted swiftly to the roof before the
guards recovered from their astonish-
ment. A dozen wardens passed through
the prison and on to the roof by trap
doors, gradually surrounding him or
three sides. He threatened to throw
himself down and the guards hesitated
to approach. A singular conversation
then took place between Lacombe, the
examining Judge, and the prosecuting