Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-07-04
Straps and faets.

tom. The town Is infested with mos
quitos and the law was enacted in Or
der to make the place an attractive
resort for summer boarders.
- The United States battleship Ore
gon is on Pinnacle rock, in the gulf of
Pc Chi Ii, near Chez Foo, China.
The vessel struck the rock in a fog on
June %, knocking a big hole in her
bottom. Several American vessels
have since gone to the rescue. In
cluding armament, the Oregon cost
$3.50, 900. As yet there is no detailed
information as to how much damage
there is likely to be as the result of
the unfortunate accident.
A Paris representative of the AS
sociated Press was informed last Friday
that as result of negotiations between
the Powers, an agreement has been ar
rived at which provides for the main-
tenance Of the status quo, as regards
spheres of influence and commercial
agreements, and alse respecting the
nature of the guarantees and compen-
sations which will be demanded from
China. According to the understand
ing the International army of occupa-
tion will consist of $4,000 men. Rus
sia and Japan will provide $4,000 each,
Great Britain will provide 10000 men,
France 5000, and Germany, America
ard the other Powers 5000 each. The
Russian army corps in Siberia, which
has Just been modified, will only cross
the Chinese frontier IN the event of the
crisis being aggravated.
- Secretary Hester's statement of
the worlds visible supply of cotton, is
sued last Friday, shows decrease for
the week just closed of las, ,009 against
a decrease of 145,521 last year. The
total visible is 1854, ,119 against 2,012,.
12S last week and 3,sO7,OS5 last year.
Of this the total of American cotton is
1,264,119 against 1890, ,12S last week
and 2,S11, ,0S5 last year and of all 9th
er kinds, including Egypt, Brazil, In.
dia, etc., 100000 against $4,000 last
week and 991, 1000 last year. Of the
worlds visible supply there is now
afoat and held in Great Britain and
continental Europe, 1,117,O00 bales
against 100000 last year; in Egypt
$4,000 against 10000; in India $685.
900 against 615, 900; and in the United
States 2s9,OO0 against 100000.
One of the most terrible fires in
the history of New York city,
started among the cotton bales stored
on pier No. 8, of the North German
Lloyd Steamship company, at Hobo
ken, N. j., last Saturday afternoon.
Within Is minutes the flames had
spread over an area of quarter of a
mile square. Four large ocean liners
docked at the various piers, and dozens
of smaller harbor craft were destroy
ed. There were many people on the
different vessels, including crews and
visitors, and although it is impossible
to estimate the number that may have
been drowned or burned, no one thinks
of putting the figures at less than 200.
AS many as 500 may have been killed.
The property loss runs up as high as
$4,000, 900 and probably great deal
higher. There was as many as 1900
bales of cotton on one of the burned
vessels but as yet no accurate figures
have been given as to the total number
of bales that might have been burned.
General Stahl, of the imperial Ger.
man army, who has been investigating
conditions in the Orient under a spe-
cial commission from the German gov
ernment, has arrived at Van Couver,
B. c., on his way home. On being
asked if he thought the Boxers would
be quickly suppressed, he said that in
his opinion the powers had started in
upon long, bloody conflict. In the
end the Boxers will be disbanded,. he
said; but the sacrifice of life will be
appalling, for the movement is spread
ing like wildfire. The southern Box
ers will, he says, join the north, and
vast mobs of fanatics will have to be
contended with. Enormous quanti-
ties of arms were being constantly
smuggled to them, and owing to the
vast territory covered they can for
sometime defy the whole world. Gen
eral Stahl added that the hostility be-
tween Japan and Russia is serious
complication in the present crisis and
will interfere with the unanimity of
feeling between the powers which is
almost absolutely necessary at this
time.
- Rear Admiral John Woodward
Philip, commandant of the Brooklyn
navy yard, died at his home in Brook
lyn last Saturday afternoon of heart
disease. As captain of the Texas,
Rear Admiral Philip participated in
the destruction of Cervera's feet, off
Santiago, on the 4th of July, 1898. 1t
will be remembered that when the
Oquendo blew up, and the men of the
Texas began to cheer, Captain Philip
said, "Don't cheer boys; they are dy-
ing!" And later, how, when the Tex
as had helped win the fight, and all
was over, the captain called all hands
to the quarter deck and said: 81
want to make public acknowledge
ment that believe in God the Father
Almighty, and I want you, officers and
men, to lift your hats and from your
hearts offer silent thanks to Him."
After the war Captain Philip was
quickly made commodore and later
a rear admiral, when he was assigned
to the Brooklyn navy yard as COM
mandant. He was one of the best.
known, best liked and most respected
officers in the United States navy.