Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-09-03
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Roosevelt for the governorship of New
York. 1t is now being suggested that
Tammany take up and advocate the
election of Captain William Astor
Chandler, who raised and equipped a
regiment at his own expense when the
war broke out.
- The fact has long been noted that
cotton cultivation and production in
India does not extend as was once
anticipated for it. The small yield
per acre in India seems to be the chief
factor in preventing the extension of
the growth. The average yield is only
about Is pounds of lint cotton per
acre, against yield in Egypt of about
$50 pounds of a greatly superior ar
ticle. At present the Indian, japanese
and Chinese mills are taking the bulk
of Indian cotton.
- The Clayton-Bulwer treaty, the
possible abrogation of which is being
discussed in England and this country,
was made in 1850, and has reference
to a Nicaraguan canal. 1t provides,
among other things, that neither Great
Britain nor the United States "wlll
ever obtain or maintain for itself ex-
elusive control over said ship canal, "
and that "when the canal shall have
been completed they will protect 1t
from interruption, seizure or unjust
confscation, and will guarantee the
neutrality thereof, so that the canal
may forever be open and free.'
An order was issued by the navy
department last Tuesday detaching
Commodore J. w. Philip from COM
mand of the battleship Texas, at New
York, and placing him in command OF
the second squadron of the North
Atlantic fleet, with the cruiser New
York as his flagship. He thus succeeds
to the command formerly held by Rear
Admiral w. T. Sampson, as comman-
der-in- chief of the North Atlantic fleet.
Admiral Sampson has been assigned to
duty as a member of the military com
mission to attend to the evacuation OF
Cuba by the Spaniards.
Charlotte Observer: Mr.. J. P. Sos
samon, editor of The Peoples Paper,
received by express yesterday, from
Captain H. S. Chadwick, at Jackson
Vile, a Cuban machete, which was an
object of interest to everybody who
saw it. 1t is a straight steel blade,
2 feet 2 inches in length, with a horn
handle of inches, so cut as to give q
firm hand-grasp. 1t is formidable
looking weapon and in hand-to-hand
fight fearful execution could be done
with it. The machete is very differ
erent-looking affair from what it had
been imagined by those who had never
seen one before.
- The Negro race is more active in
North Carolina politics this year than
it has been in 20 years. In several OF
the counties there are full black tickets
for county officers, and the Republican
Populist state fusion has made ar
rangements for Negroes to hold sever
al more important Offices. There is a
probability that some of the state in
stitutions will be dominated by Negro
politicians in the event of the success
of the fusion ticket at the approaching
election. The white mans supremacy
in that state is seriously menaced.
This has been brought about through
the political brokerage business con-
Quoted by Marion Butler and his CO.
workers in Populism.
A new law in Ohio has for its pur-
pose the prevention of the misuse OF
the executive prerogative in the mat
ter of pardoning murderers or COM
muting their sentences. Under this
law a recommendation to mercy, in
in case of a conviction of murder in
the first degree, has the effect of max
ing the punishment Imprisonment for
life but in such instances the governor
is prohibited from pardoning the con-
vict or committing his sentence, except
upon proof clearly established his inno-
cence. In other words, a convicted
murderer in order to procure pardon
must not only upset the testimony upon
which he was convicted, but must
prove that he did not commit the
crime with which he was charged.
That, it is believed, will make the par
doning of convicted murderers almost
an impossibility.
Ambassador Hitchcock at St. Pc
tersburg has cabled the state depart
ment that he has received from the
Russian minister of foreign affairs a
copy of the identical note addressed
by order Of the czar to all representa-
tives in St. Petersburg of foreign gov
ernments, proposing a joint confer
ence to consider the question of gener-
al disarmament. The full text of the
note will not be cabled by Hitchcock,
but will be sent forward by mail. Its
character is such as would require
something more than mere acknowl-
edgment of its receipt, and the PROPOSE
tion is one the acceptance of which
would involve a radical change in the
foreign policy of the United States.
1t is sure to receive most earnest at
tention and consideration at the hands
of the president and Mr.. Hay, when
the latter assumes his Office.