Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-09-05

that he win soon be in Matteawap
again. t'.i"
Death has freed "Bill" Miner
notorious robber, jail-breaker and
Gentleman of Fortune" from his last
prison term. His picturesque career
which included clashes with the laws
of more than q score of states and
several Canadian provinces, ended late
Friday night at the Georgia state
prison farm near Villegeville. He had
been Ill for several months 1rom
gastritis. He was rs years old
Miners criminal career began nearly
so years ago. He Is said to have lef1
his home in Kentucky before he was
Is years Of age, and gone west. de
admitted numerous stage coach rob-
berries. and train hold-ups, and was
several times incarcerated for burg
larizing banks. He operated through
out the west, worked north into Can
ada and then invaded the eastern
states. He escaped many times from
jails and state prisons. Three years
ago he was brought to the state pris-
on farm in Georgia for robbing
train near Lulu, Ga, and began
term Of twenty years. He has since
escaped and been recaptured twice
For several years Miner was mem
ber of the outlaw band led by Jesse
James. His real name, he told prison
authorities a few days before he died
was George Anderson.
Thousands Of New Yorkers pour
ing from the beach trains at Brook
lyn Bridge during one night last week
were victims of q fake sensation
when they went in their pockets for
a nickle to buy q newspaper" across
whose front page in black letters
three inches high, they read, Harry
Thaw shot trying to escape. The
papers sold rapidly and those who
bought received an even greater thrill
for their money when they read be-
low the report that Thaw was killed
and one or more men with him In his
dash for liberty We're also killed or
injured d'-Qualified however, by the
statement that the report was un-
confirmed. At close inspection lie
fake became apparent, as the issue
was volume /, number 1" Of the Sun
day Telegram" printed in Philadel-
phia, where no regular established
paper Of that name is known. The
similarity which the name bore to a
New York newspaper, led to protests
to the police and confiscation Of about
500 copies which the news boys had
over 100, 900 copies OF the fake news
paper had been sold In cities between
Philadelphia and New York and In
New York City, with a profit OF about
$4,000 to the perpetrators Of the en-
terprise. The story was wholly un-
founded, Thaw not even having at
tempted an escape. ......
-Twenty-six persons were killed
and nearly fifty injured, some OF whom
may die, in a rear-end collision short
ly before Z o'clock last Tuesday morn
ing on the New York, New Haven &
Hartford railroad six miles north of
New Haven, Conn. The first section
Of the White Mountain express bound
for New York, speeding along at prob
ably forty miles an hour, in thick
fog, rushed by a danger signal, l. Is
said, and crashed into the rear Of the
second section Of the Bar Harbor ex-
press, standing 100 feet beyond the
engine cleaved the two rear Pullman
cars, both Of wood, splitting them In
two, and tossing their wreckage and
three-score Of mangled human beings
some alive, some dead, on either side
Of the track. The third car, also OF
wood, and occupied by forty boys on
their way from q summer camp al
Monmouth, Me-, was lifted into the
air and fell on its side crumbled UP
and crushing two Of the boys to death
and injuring others. Some Of the
victims Of the two rear Pullmans
were hurled from berths over fence
paralleling the track fifty feet dis
tant; mattresses, bedding and clothing
found lodgment in the telegraph
wires. 1t was the third serious wreck
which the New Haven has suffered
within year, and inaugurated the
first day of the regime of Howard FL
lott, the newly elected head OF the
road. Mr.. Elliott, returning from his
summer home in New Hampshire to
assume his duties, passed over the
scene Of the wreck on an earlier
train less than an hour before.
AN appeal by Senator Root fol
justice to the people of New York In
levying of the income tax and a re.
ply by Senator Lewis OF Illinois, who
declared that the chosen few OF
wealth should be made to pay for the
benefits Of government, marked las'
Tuesdays tariff debate in the senate
Senator Root declared that his state
which paid so large a proportion Of
the income tax during the war be.
tween the sections, voluntarily hac
surrendered its constitutional protec'
tion against unfair taxation on the
conviction that the wisdom of self
control and moderation would stay
the other states from combining t
heap upon II the burden Of taxation
He said the men upon whom the in
come tax would fall were those upoI
whom New York depended as tht
source Of meeting its great yearly ex'
penses. He attacked the $4,000 ex'
emption as relieving the agriculture
states from the burden of taxation
and advocated a $1,000 exemption
Senator Lewis said New York hat
failed notably to make its rich mel
bear their share Of the burden OF gov
ernment, and that in accordance will
the growing idea that where state!
had failed to act, the Federal govern
ment must act for them, he was read!
to make the rich pay. He said Sena
tor Root himself had preached thi'
doctrine when secretary Of state
who are the people of New Yorl
for whom the senator Is so solicitous?'
inquired the Illinois senator. "Ar'
they those who breed around Wal
street and flock to the Waldorf-As
toria? Are they those whose names
are seldom found on the assessors
list, but who hover around the Med
iterranean in the summer and th'
islands Of the Caribbean in the win
ter? Are there no poor and humbl,
in his state? Why should the sena
tor ask that my people should b,
exempt from the burden of govern
ment?"
Washington. N. c., Sept. 4: Proper
ty valued at more than $4,000, 900 Is re
ported to have been destroyed an
rumors are current of heavy loss o
life as the result of the destructiv
storm that swept the eastern Carolin
coast yesterday. Wire communicate
with the stricken district only wa
meagre tonight. Efforts to verify b.
wireless reports Of many casualties o.
Ocracoke island, in Pamlico SOUND
have been fruitless. All wireless sta
tions in that vicinity are believed t
be wrecked by the storm. The great
est damage to property was in Beau
fort county. Havoc was wrought b
the storm among the fishing craft i
the Pamlico river. In Washington bus
mess houses and manufacturing plant
along the water front were PRACTICAL
swept away. The total damage In thi
county alone was roughly estimated a
$2,000,000. The fury Of the gale chief
was centred on towns along Pamlic
sound. among these being Morehea