Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-02-12
Straps and faets,

ing is that the legislature will remedy
it without delay.
- The black plague is reported to be
raging in some portions of China with
such violence that the living are not
able to bury the dead. 1t has been
a great many years since this plague
has ravaged Europe; but since it is
raging so extensively in Eastern Asia,
European medical men are growing
very uneasy.
- Jerry Simpson has gotten close to
Mr.. Dingley, the great protectionist.
He discovered the other day that Mr..
Dingley was wearing hat with a
London label in it, and the presump.
ton is that the hat was made in Lon.
don. At the first opportunity after
his discovery, Jerry talked the thing
out in open meeting. Mr.. Dingley
tried to explain that the hat was real
ly American made; but that the Lon
don trade mark was in order to help
its sale with Americans. But the ex-
planation will not 60. The probability
is that the Dingley hat will figure this
summer in the campaign harangues.
- Columbia State: Figuring further
on the cotton crop of 1896-97, as re-
ported by the national department OF
agriculture, we find that South Caro-.
lima raised more cotton per inhabitant
than any state on the Atlantic coast,
and, with the exception of Mississippi,
more than any state in the Union.
Virginia, North Carolina, Florida and
Tennessee are of course out of cOnsid-
Grafton. The other cotton states
show these percentages of bale to
each inhabitant, the populations ex-
cept South Cardinals being taken
from the estimates in The World al
manac for 1898, and this states being
placed at 100000; Arkansas, 40 ;
Louisiana, .49; Alabama, .4S; Geor-
gia, so; Texas, 65; South Carolina,
.72; Mississippi, IT. So South Caro-
lima is next to the worst cotton state,
and produced, in a favorable year,
nearly three-quarters of bale of cot
ton to every man, woman and child
within her borders. Surely this is the
place where the cut should begin!
The attorney general sent to the
senate last Tuesday letter written
by Assistant United States Attorney
McMechen, giving the results of his
investigation into the recent burning
of the two Seminole Indians in Okla
homa by a mob. Mr.. McMechen's
letters tell, in the main, an old story !;
but he gives some new details. Nc
Gisy, he says, was the first of the
Indians to move a muscle after the
torch was applied, and he did not
move until the flesh began to drop
from his limbs and the fire began to
touch his ears. He then gave a loud
whoop, and bent as far as the chain
would allow, and, sucking in the leap
ing flames, sank down and expired
without showing any more signs of
pain. Not so with Palmer Sampson.
He did not move until after McGisy
had inhaled the flames. Then he CON-
menced to kick with both feet, throw
ing pieces of burning wood 25 to 80
feet away. 1t was with difficulty that
they succeeded in getting him burned.
Mr.. McMechen says Baptist preach
er named Hiram Heit prayed for the
two Indians before the execution, and
as he knelt in prayer he held rife in
his hands.
A Chicago dispatch to the St.
Louis Globe-Democrat has the follow
ing with regard to adulterated -four :
Two gigantic rival milling combines,
involving all the mill owners of the
central and northwestern states, are
engaged in bitter war. The adulter-
alton of -four is the basis of attack.
One faction includes the Pillburys and
the powerful northwestern millers.
The other side embraces The big max
ers of corn -four, with the Decatur
Cereal Mill company and the Shella-
barger Mill and Elevator company in
the van. For several days agents Of
the newly formed combine of the corn
flour millers have been on the board
of trade gathering signatures to a pc
tition praying congress TO throttle the
bill which was recently introduced in
the senate by Senator Mason. This
struggle comes at time when the ag.
itation against the adulteration of -four
and "black bread" is at its height. To
make matters more interesting, Joseph
Letter is made the object of criticism
by the representatives of the millers'
journal, The Weekly Northwestern
Miller, for the part he plays in conlroll-
ing the supply of wheat. The bill be-
fore congress provides that adulterated
wheat shall be wiped out by penalty,
and that a tax for internal revenue
shall be placed upon blended -four
made of corn and wheat.
- The trial of Emil Zola, the author,
in Paris, is creating the greatest inter
est throughout France. 1t has grown
out of the Dreyfus matter. 1t will be
remembered that Dreyfus was convic-
ted before military tribunal of giving
information of French Notifications to
Germany, and sentenced to life i'm
prisonment on DEVILS island, of the
cost of French Guiana. Some months
ago there developed suspicion that
the conviction of DreyfuS was q mat