Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-11-17

mills nave Deen standing Idle or run
ming with reduced forces. The union
operatives are vacating the factory
houses as rapidly as possible, in accord
ance with orders issued some days ago.
Those who have not been able to Sc
cure employment elsewhere are tempo
rarily living in tents furnished by the
National Textile union.
Cotton Is king again, and its export
record for the month just past makes
all former records look insignificant,
says q New York dispatch of Tuesday.
The movement Of cotton itself was not
only unprecedentedly heavy, but the
price was phenomenal. During October,
1,312,574 bales Of total weight Of 67S,-
600, 900 pounds was sold abroad at an
average price Of 9.S per pound, total
value s6O,391 ,107, as against 790,S55
bales total weight 407, ,0O0, 900 pounds in
October, 1899, sold at only Z cents a
pound or total value Of SIS, ,34S, ,41S.
689, or gain Of 113 per cent. High
water mark for years was the record Of
November and December, 1898, in each
Of which months the sales amounted to
scarcely s40,000,000. Strangely enough
other leading exports show a falling
off for October.
Says a Washington dispatch: The
administration Is considering a plan
having for its object the education in
this country of a considerable number
Of Fflipinos, young men and women,
who, when their education Is completed,
will be sent back home to act as teach
ers in the island schools. By this
means it is hoped the educational level
Of the Filfpinos will be speedily raised
and the rising generation Of the archi-
peiago will have istilled into 1t Ameri-
can ideas and love for American in
stitutions. In pursuance Of the plan,
the civil service commission has pre-
pared a circular letter which will be
sent out to many minor colleges apd
normal schools throughout the country,
making inquiries as to their facilities
for accepting as students Filipino
young women, the probable cost Of a
thorough course Of instruction, etc.
When the information thus sought has
been obtained 1t is understood the plan
will be laid before congress by the
president with a recommendation that
an appropriation be made sufficient to
defray the cost Of the education in this
country Of two or three hundred young
men and women from our new posses
sions in the Orient.
The state election board, says q
Frankfort dispatch, will meet on De-
cember to canvass the returns and
officially declare the result Of the elec-
ton in Kentucky. While the Repubn-
cans have formally conceded the elec-
, tion Of Beckham as governor and an
nounced that there would be no con-
test, both Republicans and Democrats
will be represented by counsel at the
canvass Of the vote. Every phase Of
the election will be closely watched by
both sides, as matters may arise which
will have bearing on the contests for
congressman in two districts-the Sd
and the 9th. Governor Beckham will
be inaugurated on December II. It is
said that one Of the first official papers
Governor-elect Durbin, Of Indiana, will
have to consider when he takes office
will be a requisition from Governor
Beckham for the return of former Gov
ernor Taylor and ex-Secretary Of State
Finley to Kentucky for trial. Leading
Republicans claim to have assurances
from Indiana Republican leaders that
Mr.. Durbin will follow the precedent
set by Governor Mount in these cases
and will refuse to honor the requisition
The London Globe, Of Tuesday af-
ternoon, publishes letter from a Bel
gian gentleman who has been travel
ling to Pekin, via the Trans-Siberian
railroad. He describes, under date of
= September 6, what he saw in the Amur
river. His account surpasses in hor-
ror those previously published: "The
scenes have witnessed during the
three days since the steamer left Blag-
ovetchensk," he says, "are horrible
beyond the powers Of description. It
Is the closing tableau of fearful hu-
man tragedy. Two thousand were de-
liberately drowned at Morxo, 1000 at
Rabe and 5000 around Blagovetchensk
total Of 1900 corpses encumberfng
the river, among which were thousands
Of women and children. Navigation
was all but impossible. Last week a
boat had to plough her way through a
tangle and mangled mass Of corpses
lashed together by their long hair. The
banks were literally covered with
corpses. In the curves Of the stream
were dark, putrid-smelling masses Of
human flesh and bone, surging and
swaying in the steamers wake and
wash. The captain vainly ordered full
speed ahead. The sight and smell will
be ever with us. From Blagovetchensk
to Aigun, As kilometers, numerous vii
lagos studded the bank, with thriving,
Industrious population of over 100, ,000
That Of Aigun was 10000. No one will
ever know the number Of these who
perished by shot, sword and stream.
Not village is left. The silence Of
death was around us, the smoking
ruins Of Aigun on the right, with
broken down, crumbling walls and
shattered, roofless houses"
Director of the Census Merriman
was at the White House Tuesday, says
Washington dispatch. He called the
attention of the president to the fact
that the figures on the population Of
the United States, the total Of which
had been announced, are in such shape
that they will be at the disposal
of the next congress when it meets
for any action it may desire to
take in the direction Of the reap
portionment bill. The reapportion-
ment following the count Of the 18th
census will become operative by law in
1903. Starting with ratio Of 1 to every