Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-01-14
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officers and 81, 900 men were wounded
or put on the sick list. OF these 20
per cent have since recovered and re-
Joined the army. The Bulgarian gov
ernment has asked for the services OF
20 Russian and Czech physicians to
combat infectious diseases which have
appeared in various regions.
Bitter criticism of the order OF
President Taft placing fourth-class
postmasters under the classified civil
service was precipitated in the house
last Saturday during consideration OF
the postoffice appropriation bill. Rep
resentative Bartlett, of Georgia, pro-
posed a resolution prohibiting the pay
ment Of per diem allowances to post
office inspectors, while they were max
ing selections and recommendations
for appointments as fourth-class post
masters. In the debate which follow
ed, the Democrats roundly attacked
the presidential order and predicted
that It would be revoked by President
elect Wilson.
After riding the blinds" for $40
miles, dressed as a boy and spending
four days and nights among tramps
who never suspected her sex, Miss
Edith Pogue, 19 years old, Of Mayfield,
Ky., was arrested at Louisville, KY,
Friday night on a vagrancy charge.
Miss Pogue, according to her story,
left her home in Mayfield a month ago
and came to Louisville in search OF
employment. Failing to find employ
ment and wishing to return to her
home to her mother who had fallen
i'll, she cut her hair, borrowed mans
suit Of clothes and started out to beat
her way" All went smoothly, she
said. until she applied at the Wayfar-
ers' Rest last night for lodging, where
those in charge insisted she take a
bath in the presence Of an attendant.
It was in explanation Of her refusal
that she confessed her sex. Frank
O'Brien of Boston, who was with Miss
Pogue, said the disclosure that his
companion was a woman was COM
plete surprise to him.
Norfolk, Jan. IL: The billy goats,
monkeys, cats, dogs, parrots and other
pets aboard Uncle Sans fighting ships
at the Norfolk navy yard, which were
banished a few days ago, when report
said Rear Admiral r. M. Doyle was
butted by a goat on the quarterback
of the battleship New Hampshire, will
be restored to the jackies, who love
them, and there is Joy in the fleet
of the navy department. took their
banishment seriously enough to inves-
tigate 1t and let 1t be known that the
department did not approve their
summary removal. Today Admiral
Doyle Indignantly denied that the goat
had butted him and announced that he
had ordered the removal Of the pets
because medical officers thought they
might have something to do with
cerebro-spinal meningitis and measles
at the marine barracks.
New York January IL: BY a court
order, II was learned toay that Con-
gressman- elect Tim D. Sullivan, long
a prominent figure in the legislature
affairs, will be formally committed to
a private sanitarium in Yonkers. He
has been q voluntary patient for sew
eral months, recuperating, 1t Is said
from q nervous breakdown, but upon
application yesterday by relatives, the
court order was issued, formally COM
mitting the patient. The action seems
to involve the probability of special
election for congressman to succeed
Sullivan, in the 18th district Sulli-
vans career has been unusually pecu-
liar. Starting as newsboy on the
East Side one Of the most popular fea-
lures has been charitable work nearly
every Christmas day. He distributed
thousands Of pairs Of shoes and other
useful gifts, besides giving great
dinner for the poor Of the city.
Albany, n. Y, Jan. 10: Governor
Sulzer Friday confirmed the report
that he was preparing special mes
sage to. the legislature, calling for the
passage OF laws which would compel
reforms in Wall street and the stock
exchange. He would not specify what
his ideas were along that line. but
he is understood to favor the follow
ing reforms: Incorporation Of the
stock exchange, which, as private
association, Is not adequately amen
able to the control and supervision Of
state authorities Prohibition Of usur-
ious practices by banks which lend
money on stocks, by the repeal Of
the special exemption provision Of
the law which fixes per cent as the
legal rate Of interest. Taxing seats
OF stock exchange members, as we'll
as the property Of the exchange.
BILE gambling, such as pyramiding,
short selling and wash sales. The
governor has been consulting with
the attorney general as to the powers
Of the legislature and the best way to
bring these reforms about.
Washington, January 13: A ver-
dict Of guilty was voted by the senate
on the first impeachment charge
against Judge Robert w. Archibald, of
the commerce court that he wrongful
ly influenced Erie railroad officials to
grant him an option on the Katy-Did
Culm Dump. Conviction on the other
twelve charges are not necessary to re-
move Archibald from the bench. On
the second count, charging an attempt
to secure fees by settling a case be-
tween the Marian Coal Co., and the
Lackawana railroad, Archibald was
found not guilty but he was declared
guilty on the third charge, alleging
undue influence on Lehigh Valley road
officials in a coal dump deal. He was
declared guilty on the fourth count
charging secret wrongful correspon-
dence with a railroad attorney on a
case pending. On the fifth indictment
charging undue influence on Reading
railroad officials in coal land lease he
Was again found guilty but on the
sixth count alleging corrupt use of in
fluence with Lehigh valley on coal
land deals he was found not guilty and
again on the seventh he was found not
guilty of taking mining stocks as re-
ward for favorable court decision.
Louisville, KY, Jan. IL: Between
700 and 1000 families have been driv-
en- from their homes along the water
front here, in the past twenty-four
hours, by the rising waters of the
Ohio river. The stage at this point at
Z o'clock tonight, according to the To-
cal weather bureau. was 1873 with a
rate of rise Of 2 feet an hour. A stage
of 3S feet is predicted by tomorrow
morning and Of 40 by Tuesday even
ing. The homeless families are being
moved to vacant houses with the aid
of the fire and police departments. The
cellars and first floors of number of
storehouses and business houses, along
the river front, have been flooded The
weather bureau predicts that by Mon
day noon, tomorrow, 1t will be over the
"cut off, east of the city, in which
event an area of several square miles
will be flooded and about 400 families
rendered homeless. Residents in this
section have deserted their homes tenn
porarily. Railroad service throughout
the state Is impeded though not sus-
pended. Dispatches from many points
in the state tell Of damage to homes
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