Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-07-03
Scraps aud faets.


a fire on Cedar street this morning
at 9 o'clock. Responding to al
alarm a barn was found to be burn
ing briskly and it was while fighting
the flames that dynamite stored IN
house nearby exploded, with th'
above results. Three other member
Of the department, Randolph Erwin
Clyde Todd and Robert Barnes
were also more or less painfully hurt
The dynamite was being used by
contractor who was doing some stree
grading for the city. The origin o
the fire is unknown, but there 1
strong suspicion that it was of incen
diary origin. Chief. ]. H. Wallace
died at 1920 in local hospital
where he was rushed just after th'
accident.
- Washington, July l: Treasury
figures completed tonight, show the
Federal government went through II:
first fiscal year under the Wilson ad'
ministration with its income exceed
ing ordinary expenses by SS3, S4,4oZ:' =
UI. Nearly thirty-three and nan
million dollars pouring into the treas,
ury yesterday, the last day, Drousn'
the total receipts for the year up tC
SIS4,34S,7OO.2O million and hall
estimate and turned into a surplus
what had promised the day before &c
be a substantial deficit. Corporatlor
and income tax payments furnished
the stream of gold at the finish. FROM
this source came SIG, ,1S2.S2, be-
tween the opening and closing OF the
treasury yesterday, and tonight, Sec
retary McAdoo and other admins
tration officials were pointing TO the
total figures as proof of their prom
ise as to what would be accomplished
under the new tariff. Secretary Nc
Adoo sent kilograms of congratulauon
to President Wilson, Representative
Underwood, chairman of the house
ways and means committee, ana to
Senator simmons, chairman OF the
finance committee of the senate, upon
the result under the new tariH law
Later he issued a statement saying:
THE department is exceedingly CRATE
full with the results for the hrst MS
cal year of the new tariff and income
tax law. Unquestionably very much
better results will be obtained during
the present fiscal year"
Seasickness in the heart of Kansas
in the geological centre of the United
States, has arrived. The malady Is
caused by the wheat fields. Travellers
on railway trains in central and west
ern Kansas tell some weird tales about
the sickness. On nearly every line IN
the state, long, unbrOken fields OF
wheat, five and six foot stalks, can be
seen as far as the eyes can reach. AND
il is known far and wide that wind
more or less gentle blows most OF the
time in the SunflOwer state. The Wlhu
blowing against the thousands OF acres
of wheat, produces a biliowy wave.
gentle sway is all there is to 1t, but
persons have become violently Ill be-
cause of the wheat. A tale is told OIL
one man who has been to Europe sew
eral times. Sitting in his Pullman on
a through train, the traveller looked
out to admire the luxurious wheat
lands. AS usual the wheat was waving
1t caught the eye of the traveller. II
worried him. He ceased looking at the
wheat and decided TO soothe his feel
ings with a cigar. He arose TO enter
the smoking compartment ana maze
his way there with some difficulty. In
a short time he was Seasick. Doctors
tried TO diagnose the trouble put ran
ed. Finally one of them reached the
conclusion that it was a new illness,
Wheatsickness. And later circum-
stances point out that it is true. Train
men report daily that passengers have
slight or serious attacks OF wheat
sickness.
DIR. Howard A. Knox, assistant
surgeon in the United States public
health service, in New York, has an
nounced that the missing link was
recently found at Ellis Island and de-
ported. He told of the strange lnol-
vidual he believes to have been a
throw back" to the cave man the
man Darwin wrote about but never
saw. According TO rules, the man
name may not be made public, but he
was called John, and came from Fin
land lust three weeks ago and was de-
ported on account of constitutional
inferiority He was of average height
but his strength was prodigious. The
set of his body. his pendulOus abdo-
men and his long arms forcibly sug-
gested the ape. In describing John
DR.. Knox says: His forehead was
startling receding, his ears much low
er on the head than is normal with
man, and the top of his head was Dul-
let round and covered with coarse
wiry hair. The under jaw stuck out
much too far, and in place of canine
teeth he had long fangs that made ms
lips protrude. During his examination
the Finn was docile and good natured
He had had four years schooling ano
showed the mentality of ten-year-
old child The most remarkable fea-
ture of the case was the hands WhlcN
were ape like in nearly every particu-
lar" Dr. Knox and others who exam
ined the emigrant claim he was gen.
uine man-ape.
Within five years the management
of the Southern railway expects tC
have a double track line the entire
distance, 649 miles, from Washington
to Atlanta President Harrison has
made arrangements for financing this
undertaking and it is planned thai
the work shall go forward as rapidly
as il is possible to carry 1t on With
out interfering with freight and pas
senger traffic. The funds will be pro-
vided by the sale of 2O,OOO,OOO ol
bonds of the Atlanta and Charlotte
Air Line Railway company, the issue
of which has been authorized ana APP
proved by the Georgia railroad com
mission. OF these bonds, $5,500,00C
have already been sold and the pro
ceeds will be used TO refund an equal
amount of Atlanta and Charlotte All
Line bonds now owned by the South
ern Railway. This sum will be used
by the Southern railway in double
tracking those portions of its line be-
tween Washington and Charlotte
which are still single track. Wher
this has been completed, attention VIII
be turned to double tracking that
portion of the line between Charlotte
and Atlanta, which is still single
track. This will involve Il great dea
of heavy work, especially in the
mountains of north Georgia, and viii
call for the expenditure of between
$l3.OOO.O0O and $l4.0OO,OOO. The
single track lines north of Charlotte
To be double tracked are as follows
Orange. Va, to Amherst, Va, 1873!
miles; Whittle. Va. to Danville, Va.
22.O9 miles: Pelham. y. c., to Greens
boro. ~ c., 37.14 miles; Concord, y
c., to Harrisburg. y. c.. CA miles, q
total of 1882 miles. OF the line
from Charlotte to Atlanta, 26I.5 miles
double track has been constructed be-
tween Atlanta and Duluth. 24.5.
miles, and between Spartanburg anC
Spartanburg Junction, l.SS miles. {
total of 1873 miles. leaving 2lS.2 miles
Of single track.
- Former President Roosevelt. a
Pittsburgh. Pa, last Tuesday night
made his first speech of the 1914 cam
paign He spent five hours in Pitts
burg and was welcomed enthusiasm
cally. In his address before the Penn
Sylvania Progressive league, he criti'
CiSed the uOlicieS of the Wilson ad.