Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-09-16
Straps aud faets.


nIclpai primary unless their poll tax
was paid six months ago. The ruling
will uisQuaiity many CltlZens, who For
the sake OF voting paid their h.I-
Quenl poll tax during the last Jew
weeks. lnasmuch as these persons
voted without question in the nrst
primary, in which one candidate for
mayor and eleven candidates Tor
commissioners were eliminated, there
is fear tonight that the election was
thereby invalidatec and may nave
10 be neId anew. The committee will
not declare the election void, but will
let interested persons make the nrst
move in that direction through court
proceedings. The committee states
that something more than physicians
certificates OF disability is necessary
to exempt voters from the require
ment that they produce their street
tax receipts. One OF the candidates
for commissioner, DR.. o. w. Leon
ard, II Is said, issued number OF
such certificates of disability to voters
who had not paid street taxes.
The supreme court Of New York
state Is powerless to interfere with
the prerogatives of the court OF i'm
peachment which is to convene next
Thursday to hear the charges hied
against Governor Sulzer. The impeach-
ment court not only has the right TO
Judge the guilt or innocence OF the
accused executive, but also has au-
thority to determine the validity Of
the action of the assembly in adopt
ing articles Of impeachment. Once
impeached, Governor Sulzer's ex.
ecutive functions were transferred
automatically to Lieutenant Governor
Glynn until the impeachment court
has passed upon the charges. Su-
ed last Saturday in denying an ap-
plication made in behalf Of Samuel
Fowler of Rensselaer, for a writ OF
prohibition desired to prevent the
court of Impeachment from hearing
the Sulzer charges. Fowler's attor-
neys served notice that they would
take an immediate appeal, but the
case Is not expected to reach the
court of appeals before the impeach-
ment trial begins. The proceedings
were instituted as taxpayers action
to restrain the impeachment court
from convening on the ground that
the assembly could not legally adopt
articles Of impeachment at an extra
ordinary session.
The cost of living on June 15, was
dDDIOAlIIldlcly
the average between 1890 and 1900;
more than 8 per cent higher than 1t
was a year ago and nearly 10 per cent
higher than 1t was two years ago. In
vestigations of retail prices in forty
cities conducted by experts OF the bu-
reau of labor show prices practically at
the same level as last November, when
the high records of the last quarter
century were reached. Fourteen arti-
cles of food were investigated, and
compared with the average prices be-
tween 1890 and 1900. Every one except
sugar showed a marked advance; ba-
con, which led in the soaring, went up
1885 per cent Other articles which
showed remarkable advances We're:
Pork chops, Ill per cent; round steak,
1025; smoked ham. "a; hens, 76.s; sir
loin steak, 75.2; rib roasts, 70; lard,
66.5; butter, Alb: eggs, 40S; milk 1874,
and flour 28.6. During the same period
sugar showed decrease OF s per cent.
During the last year prices OF IL OF 10
articles investigated went up. Bacon
advanced 1872 per cent; smoked ham,
14.1; pork chops, 1874; hens, Ills; eggs,
lit; round steak, 10.1; sirloin steak,
9.S: lard, 7.2; rib roast, 6.S; butter, 5.S,
and milk, Al. The other four declined
as follows: Potatoes 31.9; sugar, 15.2;
wheat -four TT, and corn meal, 80.
- The mystery of Big Tim Sullivan,
the New York congressman who disap-
peaFed on August 81, has been cleared
up The body was identified IN Ford
ham morgue last Saturday by acci-
dent Just as 1t was about to be moved
for. interment in the Potter's Field. In
yestigation developed that Sullivan had
been killed by a train in a very short
IA. ~
The supposition Is that 1t was his in
tention to take a train to return to the
Bowery for a visit to some of his old
cronies and getting on the tracks In
the confusion of the darkness, he was
run over. The body was discovered
next morning by q policeman who did
not happen to be personally acquainted
with Sullivan and who sent 1t to the
mergue for Identification. AS the body
was being removed to Bellevue Satur-
day, preparatory to sending 1t to the
Potter's field a policeman who used TO
know Sullivan, recognized his features
and a brother-in-law completed the
Identification. Big Tim Sullivan was
street waif who became a newsboy, and
who grew up in the Bowery with a
kindly geneal nature that made him the
beloved Of all the denizens Of that fa-
NOUS quarter. He was elected to con-
gress and made 1t practice to give his
people a big banquet and each man
and woman a pair of shoes at each
Christmas. His mind became clouded
last fall, and although he was re-elect-
ed to congress he never took his seat.
His relatives took him to Europe in
the hope that he would be benefited by
the voyage; but there was no improve
ment and since his return he has been
under the care Of male nurses who also
acted as guards. 1t was generally be-
lieved that his fortunes amounted to
many millions, but as the result of a
recent suit, 1t developed that the estate
is practically bankrupt.
A list OF rebel and bandit chiefs in
San Luis Fotosi and border Mexican
states, compiled, according to an AS
sociated Press dispatch, from reliable
sources, shows total Of forty-three at
the head OF bands ranging from 80 to
600 men each. Data gathered from
ranch owners, refugees, Federal Of
ficers, railroad men and residents OF
towns raided show an aggregate OF
$500 men in that section under arms
against the government. The largest
group, measuring 900 and command
ed by Raoul Madero, brother of the
late president, Is near Herraduria, 100
ulllSS W Tie OSiiSA bahNS
Of 400 or 500 each, under Ernesto
Santoscoy, Alberto Torres and Jose
Cabo, are operating in the north, east
and south portions Of the state. The
remainder are widely scattered over
San Luis Potosi and the neighboring
states Of Neuvo Lareon, Tamaulipas.
Queratario and Zacatecas. TWO or
the most daring rebel leaders, Canido
Navarro and Pedro Santos, were killed
recently, but the others are striving
for the notoriety which these had
achieved. More than twenty-five
towns have been raided in the last
few months. most of which are in pos
session of rebels or are visited by reb-
els at will. The rebel methods have
been those of guerrillas from the out
set. They never mass their forces nor
seek to encounter an opposing force,
except where the advantage Is over
whelmingly in their favor. The three
large groups have six machine guns,
but the smaller ones are not always
we'll equipped, even with rifles, and
usually are short of ammunition. The
smelters at Matahuhela, Wadely and
San Luis Potosi, the rubber manufac-
tory at Cedral, and the salt works at
Salina, as we'll as many other indus
tries, are closed down. Exports and
i'm ports have been suspended. Mails