Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-09-29
Scraps and faets.

26, prints correspondence from NH
Chwang declaring that the Russians
have killed indiscriminately between
1,59O and 1900 Boxers and Chinese cl-
villains, men, women and children, both
inside and outside Of the walls. The
correspondent adds that from all sides
comes reports Of the violation Of wo-
men and that the Russians are carry
ing out a policy Of the destruction OF
property and the determination OF the
people in Kia Chau. Nearly all the
villages have been burned and the IN
habitants killed. For some days, the
correspondent declares, the soldiers
and Cossacks have been allowed to DO
what they like and he thinks the an
nexation Of Manchuria Is intended.
Chicago dispatch to Philadelphia
Times: Mrs. Mary Ellen Lease, Of Kan
sas, has renounced Populism and De-
mocracy, and after a short, but un-
doubtedly satisfactory understanding
with Senator Mark Hanna, has gone
over to the Republican ranks. Mrs
Lease was at the Kansas City conven-
ton; but the polite frigidity with which
she was received, it is thought, has In
duced her to surrender to the forces
she has fought for nearly decade. L
do not know whether I will be able TO
speak for Mckinley this campaign"
Mrs. Lease said. II scarcely hope that
my lecture engagements will permit or
my making at least few political
speeches for the cause Of expansion. /
have given my endorsement to the Re-
publican party because 1t was choice
5etween Republican expansion and
Democratic contraction, and chose
the former. It was choice between
patriotism and copperheadism, and no
thinking person could hesitate in his
decision"
President Hill, of the Great North
ern, has received from Chief Engineer
Stevens, a telegram stating that the
east and west crews in the immense
bore under the Cascade mountains
has met, says Minneapolis, Mimi,
dispatch Of Wednesday. The two
forces, working from opposite ends in
the big tunnel, brought the two ends
together with hardly the variation Of
an inch. Now that the tremendous
task of boring out over two miles, OF
granite has been accomplished, the
work of laying the tracks is compare
lively insignificant. The tunnel Will
now be rushed to speedy conclusion.
1t is estimated that the tunnel, when
completed, will cost $5,OO0,000. One
thousand men have been engaged near
ly three years in it's completion and
all records Of tunneling have been
broken. The average progress was
from 1S to 20 feet per day. The tunnel
will abolish the "switchback" over the
Cascades, which, in itself has always
been looked upon as magnificent
engineering achievement. =.
- Says a London dispatch Of Septem-
ber IA: Zanzibar may supplant the
United States as the source Of Great
Britain's cotton supply. The agita-
ton over the crisis in the Lancashire
textile trade has resulted in a plan to
introduce the cotton industry, under
the guardianship Of British capital, In
to the little island domain in the In
dian ocean. The authorities assert
that Zanzibar and the contiguous terri
tory along the East African coast Is
the only region in tue world where
cotton fully equal in quality to the
American product can be produced.
There are indications that no relief
may be expected from the United
states either this year or next, and the
situation has given rise to a variety
of suggestions for emancipation from
Yankee manipulation Of the cotton
production" One Of these novel pro-
posals recommends that ramie, plant
that grows wild in the jungles of In
dia, be scientifically used. It Is said
that ramie can be worked into any
thing that is now made out Of cotton,
silk or wool.
London Truth: In 1920 "a English
Puritans sailed for North America
and there established a colony. Their
descendants are now taking a census
Of the country which they then found
ed. This census reveals that the
population of the United States is close
upon seventy-five millions-a million
to every Pilgrim father The popula-
ticn of the British Isles is forty mil
lions. Across the Atlantic there
are seventy-five millions Of English
speaking men, women and children liv-
ing under modern conditions, who are
prospering nightly, who manage their
own business, every one of whom is an
uncrowned king or queen, who do not
believe in the divine right Of sover-
eigns, in the doctrine that monarch
can do no wrong, the principle of hered-
!tary superiority. They enjoy free in
st.tutions based on the principles OF
modern civilization. Meanwhile, the
conservatives in England tell us that
progress is dangerous, that we should
hug our medieval traditions, and
that there is something worse than
war-reform.
Shelby Aurora, September 26: A
horrible tragedy occurred Friday after
noon near Sharon, resulting in the
death Of Miss Sarah Burgess, an aged
and well-known lady Of that commupi-
ty. Some men were unloading molas-
ses boiler, when the horse attached to
the wagon became frightened and ran
away. Miss Burgess was walking
down the public road, unconscious of