Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-06-27
Straps and faets.

last Saturday night, and was complete
ly wrecked. The wreck caught fire
and the entire train, with the excep-
ton of the sleeper, was destroyed.
Thirty five people, including all the
members of the crew and all the pas
sengers except those on the Pullman
car, were killed. The washout is said
to have been caused by a cloudburst.
- The Chicago Times. Herald, pub
fishes crop report prepared by Snow,
the crop expert, who has just com,
pleted two weeks trip through the
states of Minnesota, North and South
Dakota. He declares the situation a
national calamity, and claims the
wheat failure the worst ever known.
He estimates the Dakotas as promising
only 100000 bushels each, and Min
nesota 35,000,000, total of 75,000,-
OOC, agsinst 2OO,OOO,OO0 last year and
225,0OO,000 in 1898.
And even the trade of the burglar
is sometimes useful. When the Re-
publican state treasurer of Kentucky
left his Office to the Democrats, the
treasury vault was locked, and there
was no information as to the combina-
tion. The matter gave considerable
annoyance, and last week the new
treasurer employed Frankfort machin-
lists to open the doors. They worked
three days without apparently getting
any nearer to their object than when
they commenced. On Friday it was
decided to send for Frank Simmons,
convicted burglar serving term in
the penitentiary. Simmons called for
the usual material used in safe blow
ing, and in less than an hour from the
time he commenced work, the doors
of the vault were wide open.
- The dispatches published yester-
day morning threw but little new
light on the situation in China. Grave
fears are entertained as to the fate
of the force that Admiral Seymour
took to the relief of Pekin. There is,
as yet, no word from the fierce battle
that was expected between the 1000
internationals, and the 10000 Chinese
in the vicinity of Tien Tsin. This
battle, however, is probably over by
this time. The Grand Duke Alexis,
high admiral of the Russian navy, has
left St. Petersburg for China, to take
command of the Russian forces in
Eastern waters. The czar has ordered
that his Siberian armies be placed on
war footing, and the British are
sending re-inforcements from India.
The United States government is
rushing forward every available man
who can be spared from the Philippines.
So for as is known, all the American
missionaries are still safe.
- The Milwaukee Daily News, of
last Sunday, quotes Hon. w. J. Bryan
on the Philadelphia platform as fol-
lows: "The Philadelphia platform is
the best evidence thus far given of the
deception attempted by the Republi-
can party. Taken in connection with
the speeches made at the convention,
it shows that the Republican party's
platform of 1896 was a deliberate
fraud, as far as the promises of inter-
national bi-metallism were concerned; :;
that the party's attitude on the trust
question is insincere, and that the par
ty is not willing to state it's attitude on
the Philippine question and invite the
judgment of the people. Nothing
was more manifest in the convention
than the military spirit, and yet the
convention did not dare endorse the
demand of the president in 1898 for a
standing army of 100000 men,"
- Should the troubles in China
spread and continue for any length of
time, the trade in tea and cotton goods
might be seriously interfered with.
The tea trade does not seem to be in
imminent danger, since the disturb
ances are in northern China, while the
tea producing districts are in the south.
Pekin and Tien Tsin are about as far
from the great tea centers as it is from
Boston to Jacksonville. In the mat
ter of the cotton trade, however, the
situation is more aerious. The bulk
of American shipments of cotton goods
60 to Shanghai, whence they are trans
ferred to New Chang, Tien Tsin and
Chez Foo. These. cities are in the
heart of the district that is now dis
turbed by the Boxers. Already the
effects of the disturbance are being
felt. The active Chinese demand for
cottons that existed a month ago has
been cut, shipments are being held
back, and some houses look for cancel
lations.
- New York Sun: Echoes of the
Boxer troubles in China are being
heard in New York's Chinatown. Of
the Chinese who come to this country
only a very small proportion have any
intention of making it their permanent
abiding place. To them the American
is still "foreign devil" to be despised
and hated, though regarded with a
salutary fear. Of course, any indica-
ton of ill feeling toward the Americans
would bring down swift and condign
punishment, so the residents OF Pell
and Doyer streets content themselves
with making matters unpleasant for
their fellows who are known as Mo
Bin Tong or the No-Queue Club, whose
object is to foster Occidental ideas, in
token of which the members cut off
their pigtails and wear American
clothing. Since the Boxer outbreak
the Mo Bin Tongs have been insulted
and derided on the streets of China.
town, and two of them have been hurt
by missiles thrown from windows.
Every morning groups of Cinnamon