Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-07-21
Scraps and faets.

8 picnic EXCURSION duu d uuuuoi vi
Young men went in swimming in 80
foot water. They remained in long
time and several of the bathers gave
out and called for help. Both these
Young men were endeavoring to res
cue others. The Persian graduated at
Davidson and was studying medicine.
He aimed, when he finished, to return
to Persia.
A dispatch tells that on his retreat
to Tien Ysin, Admiral Seymour had to
kill his own wounded to keep them
from falling into the hands of the Chi
nese. Finding himself 80 hard pressed
that he could no longer carry the
wounded, be ask each of them whether
they would rather be shot by their
comrades or left to the mercy OF the
Chinese. In each case the wounded
men said they would rather be shot,
and men were taken from the defense
line to perform this act of mercy. The
Chinese kill all prisoners with the
most horrible torture.
"A London dispatch of Wednesday
to the New York World quotes cor
respondent as cabling from Shanghai
"Prince Tuan has issued an edict to
fix deliberate date for general ris.
ing. What the date is I cannot ascer-
tain but it is doubtless an early one,
for Prince Tuan is stated to have or
dered all dispatch in view of the
arrival of more foreign troops. A
large body of Chinese tonight is re-
ported to be moving from Hupei in
the direction of Shanghai. The situa-
tion here grows more threatening
every day. The city is still without
any means of defense and all the forts
are being held by the Chinese"
- While the entire country is await
ing with anxious dread to learn the
fate of Minister Conger, no other part
of the country is quite 80 anxious as
the little town of Dexter, in Dallas
county, Iowa, where Mr.. Conger was
raised and has always made his home.
He is the leading citizen of the town,
the most popular and beloved man,
and has been followed in his public
career with the intense pride of Dex-
ter that so little town should produce
80 big a man. Hence the townspeople
feel sort of horror that he should be
cut down by murderers on the other
side of the earth, just as he was reach
ing his height in usefulness and fame.
Says a San Francisco dispatch of
Wednesday: There is absolutely no
feeling here against the local Chinese
because of the atrocities in Pekin, and
from present appearances it would be
impossible to get up any anti-Mongol-
ian demonstration such as marked the
Kearney Sand Lot excitement of 20
years ago. Chief of Police Sullivan
said tonight: "You can assure the
people of the east that there will be
no anti Chinese outbreak here. We
have not felt the necessity of putting
any extra force on in Chinatown.
Even the Chinese are not fearful of
violence. All the old hatred of the
Chinese is gone and the people here
are too fair. minded to hold local Chi
nese responsible for crimes committed
by their countrymen over 5000 miles
away"
The third convention of Georgia
Wheat Growers, held at Macon last
week, was complete success. The
attendance was large and embraced
many of the most progressive farmers
of the state. The showing made in
the convention demonstrated that
wheat is profitable field crop through
out middle Georgia. The. yield of IS
bushels to the acre on four acres of
land, which won the first prize, is a
phenomenal yield of wheat on any
land, and the second best yield of 593
bushels would be cause for pride in the
best wheat-raising states. The Macon
Telegraph says: "The wheat crop of
Georgia this year will be the largest
by thousands of bushels certainly since
the war, if not, indeed, since the state
was settled but it is altogether pro-
bable that the yield for the coming
season will greatly exceed even the
great crop of the present"
Vice Consul General Mclean has
made report from Yokohama on the
subject of the importation of Ameri-
can -four into Japan. He says that
the use of -four is not confined to the
large cities of Japan; but is becoming
common throughout that country. He
speaks of three or four American
built -four mills, the largest having a
capacity of $50 barrels day, that are
now helping to supply Japan with
-four. There are many small native
mills of hand and water power through
out the country; but their product is
of coarse character and they do not
compete to any extent with the i'm
ported stocks. American wheat is
also being imported into Japan, and
the considerable amount of -four made
from it is sold there. The demand for
-four throughout the Orient is rapidly
increasing, the best points of consump-
ton at present being Russian posses
sions in Northern China and Eastern
Siberia.
- An important question in connec-
tion with the payment of troops on
Chinese service has been decided by
tho ,oupooetor ponora1 of tho war de.