Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-09-12

they collect in immense herds and start
for the winter pastures and salt licks
several hundred miles to the south.
Deer headed for their wintering
grounds rush irresistibly over every
thing in their path. If the leaders hes
itated the immense body in the rear
would rush over them.
"A Shanghai dispatch to Dalzieps
News agency in London, explains that
the Boxer massacres were due to
forged ultimatum, purporting to come,
from the ministers Of the powers, and
presented to the empress by Prince
Tuan. This ultimatum demanded the
absolute retirement of the empress, the
reinstatement Of the emperor, Kwang
su, the placing Of Chinese finances un-
der European control, the removal Of
the seat Of government from Pekin and
the appointments Of foreigners to direct
the affairs Of state. Upon receipt Of
the ultimatum, the empress, convinced
that the powers entertained hostile de-
signs, ordered a general massacre OF
foreigners. She now believes the ulti-
matum to have been a forgery. Prince
Tuan insists that it came through reg
ular channels.
Concerning the wealth Of some of
the principal business quarters of
storm stricken Galveston, a Houston
dispatch says: Many millions of dollars
are invested in the wholesale and retail
business of the city. On Strand street
alone, there are ten blocks of business
establishments that represent an in
vested capital Of $127,O00,0 ZOO. Market
street is the heavy retail street, and
there, in the heart of the flooded dis
trict, the losses cannot but reach into
the millions. The fact, as indicated by
the dispatches, that water is standing
six feet deep in the fremont hotel, fur
nishes startling evidence that Calves
ton has been indeed dreadfully visited.
The hotel Is in almost exactly the CEN
tire Of the city. Two years ago Calves
ton did the heaviest shipping business
in cotton and grain Of any Southern
city. Two shiploads Of cattle leave the
port on an average every week.
Philadelphia Times: White, the COL
ored congressman from North Carolina,
declares his purpose to quit that state
and go to New York, where he thinks
he will be better treated, and he says
he will take $4,000 Negroes with him.
Recent events have not indicated New
York as a particularly desirable resi-
dence for black men. They may be al
lowed to vote, though the accuracy
with which their votes are counted is
another matter; but it is doubtful If
their actual treatment there is as kind
as in North Carolina. White, Of
course, finds his political occupation
gone in the practical disfranchisement
Of a majority Of the blacks, and he
may wish to migrate; but those are
better advisers of his people who urge
them to keep out Of politics and settle
down to work. With industry and a
determination to gain some education,
their opportunities are better at home
than in the slums of a Northern city.
-Th fraternal societies are making
a determined effort to dodge the pay
ment Of the war revenue tax on their
policies. It is the contention Of the fra
ternalists that fraternal insurance COM
panies not conducted for profit are ex-
empt from stamp taxes. Commission
er Wilson maintains that these compa-
nies shall pay a revenue tax Of eight
cents per each $100 on every policy
written since July 1, 1898, the date
when the revenue law became opera
tive. This is said on high authority to
be a tax which fraternal insurance
companies cannot pay. With some of
the larger companies, like the Modern
Woodmen, the Woodmen of the World,
the Royal Arcanum and the United
Workmen. the decision, if enforced,
will mean the payment Of hundreds of
thousands Of dollars in taxes, and as
the companies named have no reserve
fund to draw upon, the results would
be serious.
None of the allied troops in China
have been blameless. 1t turns out
that many of the American and Japan
ese soldiers, who have deported them
selves decently, have engaged in rob-
bling and beating helpless Chinese. But
the Cossacks lead all the rest in the
crimes which are being perpetrated at
Tien Tsin and other places. They are
the liveliest devils in the entire orgy.
They knock down women and pound
out their brains with rife butts. They
pick up babies by the feet and dash
their brains out against stones. They
impale children and helpless old men
on their bayonets and throw others in
to the river and club them to death
when they try to swim ashore. These
things are done before the eyes Of Off
GERS without rebuke, and are done so
openly and frequently as to convince
the correspondent that they are 1.-The
ordinary practices of Russian war
fare.'
Describing the punishment laid out
for Bresci, the Italian anarchist who
assassinated King .Humbert the Wash
ington Star says that for an indefinite
length of time he will be confined in a
secret CELL where he will have scarce
ly room to turn around. His bed is
but a narrow, sloping plank; for food
he will be restricted to bread and wa
ter. He is condemned to absolute si-
lence. If he breaks the rule he is sub
ject to severe punishment. After serv-
ing his term in the secret cell he will
be removed to another somewhat
larger, but equally devoid of comfort.
Here he will remain for 10 long years
in solitary confinement. He will not
be allowed to read, write, smoke or