Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-02-07
Straps aud 9aets.

10 investigate lully liAe "oy IA
the Confederate home had been man
aged during the last two years. The
communication was referred to the
committee on ways and means on mo-
ton of Mr.. Lumpkin OF Richland.
Mexico City, February 4: Intense
excitement was aroused today when
the reports Of q night session OF the
senate were made public, containing
part of speech by Senator Ca!ero, for
merly the Mexican ambassador ct
Washington. The senator was quoted
as saying: For months ! lied to the
United States government by inform
ing the state department that the Mex
lean revolution was a trivial affair and
would be over in six weeks. You gen.
tiemen know it will never end so long
as Francisco Madero remains presi-
dent"
Columbia, February 81 After two
and a half hours debate, the house kill
ed by vote Of so to Sc the Remoert
inheritance tax bill, one Of the big
measures before the general assembly.
The bill If 1t had passed would have
effected profoundly the system OF tax
alton in South Carolina. The bill was
opposed on constitutional and other
grounds. Its advocates held that lts
passage would lift the tax burden from
the shoulders of the masses. They de-
cIared that the state had right TO
tax the right Of succession, which was
an acquired and not natural right.
Washington, February S: To sim
plify the parcel post service and make
it more convenient for the general pup
lie, Congressman w. w. Gr1est OF
Pennsylvania, has introduced Dill 10
permit the use Of ordinary postage
stamps of any denomination on parcel
post packages when the words "parcel
post" are written on the cover OF the
package. Since the beginning or the
parcel service much difficulty has
suited from requirement that distinc-
tive stamps be affixed. In hundreds
instances people have placed the ordi.
nary postage stamps on packages, ano
in consequence have suffered hnancla'
loss.
Washington, December 4. Despite
the check in the movement OF the cot
ton boil weevil during the last year on
account of the unusual climatic conol-
tions of the winter of 1911-12, the in
sect has made a net gain of 1900
square miles, according to report
made to the department of agriculture
by w. D. Hunter and w. II. Price In
charge of the southern field crop in
sect Investigations. The total area IN
tested with the boil weevil in 1912 was
27S,S00 square miles, as compared WIN
271,5OO in 1911. Texas with 11,O6O
square miles led all other states In
the area of infected territory gained
during the year. Alabama came second
with 100 square miles; Florida third
with 2,200 square miles and Mississippi
fourth with $40 square miles.
Brazil sent to the United States
100, 100000 pounds more Of coffee In
1912 than in the previous year, Whlle
Colombia added 25,oOO, ,oOO to her quota
and Venezuela 100000 pounds, ac-
cording to figures by the bureau or do
mestic and foreign commerce. The to-
tai exports from Brazil to this country
last year were $4,000 900 pounds; CO.
lumbia, S1,000,000 and Venezuela, 49,
OOO. 900 pounds. OF India rubber there
came to these shores from Brazil last
year 4S,000,000 pounds against onE
$4,000, 900 the year before. On the other
hand, Brazil bought from the CnlteG
States $425,000 worth Of agricultural
implements in 1912 against $3.50 600
worth in 1911; $3.50 barrels Of wheat
flour against $4,000 barrels; and
of Illuminating oil, 100000 gallons
against $4,000 900 gallons.
Spartanburg, February s: James
johnson, alias portland Ned" the
yeggman in the South Carolina peni-
tentiary serving a ten-year sentence
for the robbery Of the safe OF the En-
oree Manufacturing company IN l902
and who figured conspicuously In the
now famous "dictagraph stories OF
the recent summer. as the prisoner
whose rich Chicago relatives were go
ing to pay c. P. Sims and S. J. Nichols
lawyers of this city $4,000 to get out
of prison, according to the story told
by the detective, has appealed to the
ueople of Spartanburg to address COM
munications to the governor in his be-
half asking for pardon. Johnson
served a term of seven years in the
Federal prison in Atlanta for this same
Enoree robbery, 1t being charged that
stamps were taken by the yeggmen. Al
the end of this term in Atlanta ne was
arrested again, being brought here for
trial.
The taking of testimony before the
legislative committee on the charges
brought by the governor in his inau-
gural address with reference to state
ments made by DR.. S. c. Mitchell, pres
ident of the University Of South Caro-
lima, was begun in the supreme court
room Wednesday afternoon at O'CLOCK.
Among the witnesses summoned were
DR.. Mitchell, DR.. D. B. Johnson, presi-
dent of Winthrop college, and eX-GoV.
Martin F. Ansel. The specific charge
made was that DR.. Mitchell had tried to
influence the general education board
to give money to the university and
deprive Winthrop college. There was
a large crowd present Senator Weston,
of Richland county, is the chairman OF
the committee. DR.. D. B. Johnson, pres
ident of Winthrop college, was on the
stand for several hours this afternoon
The sum and substance of his testl-
mony was that winthrop. college would
have received between $250,0O0 and
100000 in place of 100000 from the
Peabody fund If it had not been Tor
the interference of the University OF
South Carolina through DR.. 5. G. Nit
chell and other southern colleges.
New York, February 4: John Paul
Farrell, a janitor, confessed today ne
sent Bernard Herrera last Sunday, the
bomb which resulted in the death OIL
Mrs. Herrera and injury to MISS Nina
Fughtman, a boarder. Then he as
tonished the police by calmly reciting
how he had sent the bomb which did
the killing Of Mrs. Helen Taylor, year
ago, adding she was his daughter. He
also testified the bomb intended to XII
Judge Rosalsky was sent by man
known to him as Tony" Unmoved by
the knowledge that his recital mlght
send him to the electric chair, Farrell
placidly took a pencil and drew the
diagrams, explaining how he had plan
ned the mechanism of the bomb. He
said he began the bomb after Mrs
Herrera had notified him that a negro
had been engaged to take his place.
Like the bomb he sent Mrs. Taylor,
and Judge Rosalsky, the bomb was en-
closed in a pasteboard box. Farrell
confessed that the man was known as
kid Walker" who, Farrell alleged, to
be the traitor Of his daughter, Mrs.
Taylor, was shot down on the Bowery
nearly twenty-siX years ago.
Sofia, February s: The main OBJ
ject of the Bulgarian armies, apart
from the reduction Of the fortress OF
Adrianople, was disclosed in dispatch
es given out by the war office today
The plan is to reach the Dardanelles
straits and clear them for the passage
of the Greek fleet into the sea Of Mar
mora. Then the Greeks will attack
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