Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-11-28

small enough margin to cover the bad
debts, warehouse expenses and profits.
They claim that If the present rate
were capable Of being reduced, compe-
tition would reduce it. The houses
which have refused the demand Of the
Southern spinners represent a capital
OF $50,000,O00.
Says q Philadelphia dispatch: The
intelligence that Russia will spend $780,
100000 in this country for five battle
ships, causes much qualification In this
city. AS the great success attending
the battleship Variag, which was built
by the Cramps, has brought this large
new order to this side Of the ocean, it
is naturally supposed that the Cramps
will get the most If not all, although 1t
Is limited that there is some chance OF
the Scott works on the Pacific coast Sc
curing some contracts, as the czar and
the Russian officials were highly pleas
ed with the performance Of the battle
ship Oregon. Great pride is felt in this
city in the honor brought by the nota-
BILE output of the Cramp shipyards,
which have challenged and surpassed
the English shipyards.
Richmond Dispatch: The biggest
baby on record in America Is the young
elephant which has just been born un-
to Alice" the famous pachydecln Of
Ringing Brothers circus. The thick
skinned newcomer weighs 300 pounds.
and is 80 inches long. 1t is 81 feet high,
and it's trunk is IA inches long. The
baby elephant will be fed from bottle,
and a cow has been purchased to sup
ply the necessary diet Alice" the
mother, proved the inconsistency of
feminine nature by attempting to kill
her offspring when it was first born,
and we blush to say that the other ele
plants united with her in her attempts
at infanticide. The little stranger" Is
covered with long hair, which it will
shed when year old. Knowing ones
people, not elephants) say the young
ster favors the mother, and has her
complexion.
The Cuban constitutional conven-
tion has decided that its proceedings
shall be public. The following wise
provision was agreed upon last Friday:
when the convention has been def
nitely constituted, period Of 80 days
shall be allowed during which delegates
may present proposals as the basis Of
a constitution or an entire draft Of a
constitution. On the eighth, sixteenth
and twenty-fourth days the executive
committee shall classify and print the
rio11c r,rnioofc in, nr1or RI cyi1yc "a
delegates an opportunity to study
them. The convention shall then di-
vide into five committees for the pur-
pose Of considering the proposals, MAX
ing additions where it may seem desir-
able or necessary. These committees
shall each name one member, to con-
stitute a new committee of five, whose
duty it shall be to draw up final pro-
ject for presentation to the conven-
tion.''
Science, prompted and urged by the
commercial instinct, says the New
York Press, has demonstrated that
casein, from ordinary cows milk, Is
quite as good for baking as the finest
hen eggs, and company with $500, 900
capital has been formed to manufac-
ture out Of it a substitute for the
fresh" and strictly fresh" product Of
the poultry yard. One pound Of casein
is equal to six dozen eggs. August
Belmont is the largest stockholder in
this corporation, which already though
only an infant, puts out about 1900
pounds a day, the equivalent Of 86, 400
eggs. The hens only remaining advan-
tage lies in the unhatchableness Of the
rival product and its incasement in a
box instead Of a shell. She alone can
be the mother Of broods and f1ocks Of
chickens Casein cannot deprive her
Of that cherished privilege. The arti-
fetal egg has arrived, but not the arti-
fetal broiler, fowl, roaster, etc.
Says Washington dispatch Of No
vember %: The Manila papers Of Oc-
tober 1S, devote considerable space to
a renewal of the report concerning
Aguinaldo's death in northern Luzon.
They say that the circumstantial char
acter of this report, together with the
fact that General Trias recently has
been signing himself "commander-in-
Culel VI Tie lliSUfSShl loICSS, iShoS q
strong color to the belief that Aguinal-
do may be dead. The latest account in
this line comes from Neuva Ecija, in
northern Luzon, where in an outpost
skirmish, Aguinaldo's horse was killed
and his saddlebags, with a number of
personal papers, were captured. Agui-
naldo was shot from his horse, and Sc
verely wounded. He was carried by
his followers into jungle and subse-
quently reported to be i'll with fever.
His body afterward was carried down
the river on raft, slung in hammock
and completely covered with palm
leaves, but the natives who saw the
passage Of the raft were uncertain
whether he was dead or alive. This, to-
gether with the claims Of Trias and
others Of the insurgent generals. to the
chief command Of the army, leads the
local Manila papers to give considera-
BILE credence to the story.
- Secretary Hester's weekly New Or
leans cotton exchange statement, is
sued last Friday, showed decrease in
the movement into sight compared
with the seven days ending the same
date last year, in round figures 41,OOO
For the "a days of the season that have
elapsed the aggregate is ahead of the
"a days of last year 215,0OO bales. The
amount brought into sight during the
past week has been 81, ,S05, against 412,-
384 for the seven days ending Novem-
ber % last year. The movement since
September 1st shows receipts at all
United States ports 5,073,s25. against g.
76S,954 last year; overland across the
Mississippi, Ohio and Potomac rivers
to northern mills and Canada, 3S9, ,2S7.