Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-01-17
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mill at Lonsdale, R. l. Last week
% weavers from Greenville, S. c.,
arrived in the town. The arrival of
the Greenville weavers created conster-
nation among the strikers. 1t devel.
oped that the Greenville weavers had
not been told of the strike by the
agents of the mill, and they knew
nothing about it until they arrived on
the scene. Some of them refused to
work. The matter is still in process
of adjustment.
- There is still good deal of talk
about the probability of war between
Russia and Japan. A Vancouver, B.
c., dispatch of the 11th instant says:
There is abundant evidence in the
japanese press of the probability that
Japan is drifting into war with Rus
sia. The Japanese apparently do not
shrink from the dangers of such con-
fict, their government having recently
given an order in England for 100000
suits of warm winter clothing for jap
anese soldiers in preparation for d
campaign In Russia.
- Charlotte Observer, Sunday: "ln-
telligence was received here last night
that George Gould, the New York
millionaire, has become a stockholder
in the Loray Cotton mills, at Gastonia,
to the amount of S250,000, and that a
check for this amount has been re-
ceived in Gastonia. 1t is also stated
that another subscription of $4,000
from northern capitalist has been
sent the promoters of the new mill.
These subscriptions, it is believed, will
raise the capital stock of the mill to
$1,4O0,000. Contracts for some of the
buildings and machinery were given
yesterday"
John Barrett, ex-United States
minister to Siam, in lecture before
the students of Lake Forest university
at Chicago, last Saturday, charged
Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts,, with
indirect responsibility for the Philip
pine war. He said that the senator's
anti-eXpansion speech of last February
was cabled to Hong Kong and subse-
quently put into the hands of the
Filipinos who at once precipitated the
attack. When approached with refer
ence to the matter on Sunday, Senator
Hoar declined to take any notice of
Barrett's statement.
- Washington correspondent News
and Courier: Senator McLaurin has
been invited by a committee of officers
and members of the American -Asiatic
association to be the guest of the as
sociation at dinner to be given in New
York on the Goth instant. This associ-
alton is comprised very largely Of cot
ton spinners, and is formed for the pur-
pose of advancing the cotton trade of
this country in the East. The associ-
alton has invited Senator McLaurin as
a Democrat and Southern man, and
Senator Beveridge as a Republican and
Western man, to deliver the chief
speeches at its dinner, which is
scheduled to be big affair.
- "In His Steps, or What Would
Jesus Do?" has been dramatized by
Francis Nelson, the well-known Lon
don playwright, and the play is soon
to be put upon the London stage.
When interviewed on the subject at his
home in Topeka, Kan, last Thursday,
Rev. Charles NJ. Sheldon, the author,
said he had heard the report; but was
not party to the dramatization. He
said that he had neglected to copy
right the story in England, and,
therefore, had no control over it there.
He expressed the opinion that if the
story be played by Christian actors, it
will do great deal of good ; but 9TH
erwise only harm will come of the
dramatization. He will not permit
the dramatization of the story in Amer
ica for the reason that it may be put
on the stage by present day stage
manager, who would likely commit it
to immoral actors, incapable of bring
ing out or impressing the truths that
are sought to be taught.
- There is no doubt of the fact that
if the Transvaal government could
succeed in putting few well equip
ped privateers into commission, much
decentralization could be inflicted on
Great Britain's merchant marine. The
situation is such as to appeal very
strongly to the imagination Of newspa-
per correspondents, and one of them,
in Atlanta, has started story to the
effect that a fleet of merchant vessels
is collecting in the Bahamas to be con-
verted into privateers for service un.
der the Transvaal government. 1t is
alleged that the command of the fleet
has been rendered to Captain Charles
Hill, the Atlanta man, who, during
the Brazilian revolution, sailed the
steamer Nichteroy from New York to
Rio Janeiro, and kept so carefully out
of the way Of the Revolutionary fleet
during the trip. Captain Hill is quot
ed as giving credence to the story of
the collection of merchantmen in the
Bahamas; but he has not yet said that
he would accept command of the fleet
The story sounds ishy rather than
otherwise.
- 1t is now pretty generally under
stood that Delagoa bay, and Lourenco
Marquee, the town and habor thereof,
are among the principal problems with
which Great Britain has to deal in her
Transvaal war. The bay and town
belong to Portugal, a neutral power;
but still the town is the only harbor of
the Transvaal. There is railroad
from Lourenco Marquee to Pretoria,
and the distance is 34S miles. Fifty
four miles of this are across Portuguese
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