Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-04-14
Straps and faets.

Wednesday, nominated the following
ticket: Governor, Charles B. Aycock
of Wayne Lieutenant Governor,W w. d
Turner, or Iredell Secretary of State
]. Bryan Grimes, of Pitt; State Audit
or, B. F. Dixon, of Cleveland; State
Treasurer, R. B. Lacy, of Wake.
Charlotte Observer: The cotton
buyers in many Mississippi cities are
counting upon doing business nex'
wear direct with the Carolina cotton
mills. They say the tide of business
from middle and upper Mississippi is
turned from northern 10 the Carolina
mills. These buyers even now mani
fest the greatest interest in the extent
to which the mills are already supplied
or will need cotton for the remainder
of this year.
- Secretary Hay denied Wednesday
morning that there was any foundation
for the report that arrangements have
been concluded with Nicaragua and
Costa Rica for acquiring a strip OF
land ten miles wide between Greytown
and Brito for the Nicaragua canal.
He called attention to the fact that
the Nicaragua Canal commission has
not vet selected a route for the water
way and added that it was obvious
that the state department could not
make arrangements to acquire terri
tory, as stated in the published report,
without the consent of congress.
Furthermore, the substitute for the
CLAYTON -Bulwer treaty is still before
the senate, be said, and there are var
ious bills and resolutions before con-
gress pertaining to right of way for
the canal and other matters; and 1t
was absurd to suppose that the gov
ernment has taken steps to acquire a
strip of land from the Central Ameri'
can governments in the present situa-
ton and without the knowledge OF the
people of the country
There was remarkable pro-Boer
mass meeting in Philadelphia last
Tuesday night. There were present
5000 people, mostly school boys. 1t
was gotten up by Webster Davis for
the purpose of protesting against the
war now being waged by the British.
Speeches were made by Davis and
Bourke Cochran, and Edward Mark
ham read an original poem. The boys
seemed to be interested principally in
having fun, and they were difficult to
manage. At the close of the meeting,
there was a formal call for messen-
ger boy. In accordance with a pre-
yious arrangement, James Francis
Smith, employed by New York Elk:
press company, presented himself, and
he was entrusted with a sympathetic
message to President Kruger, signed
bv 5000 high school boys. He was
instructed to deliver the message in
person, and he set out at once with the
intention of leaving New York city
Wednesday on the steamship st. Louis
Two other boys accompanied him.
The party will arrive in the Irans-
yaal sometime during the summer.
"A remarkable experiment was
made last Monday at the laboratory OF
Thomas A. Edison, in Orange, n. j.,
when a piece Of iron was melted IN
five seconds. Louis Dreyfus, Of Frank
fort ON the. Main, who is the agent OF
Goldschmidt's Chemische.Thermo In
dustrie, of Essen, Germany, showed
Mr.. Edison this new process for attain
ing great heat in an almost lncredloly
short time by the combustion OF GER
tain chemical compound, which the
inventor keeps a secret, used in con-
pection with powdered aluminium;
Mr.. Dreyfus placed half a cupful OF
the chemical in crucible, covered II
with small quantity of powdered
aluminium and then placed wrench
about half an inch thick and six inches
long in the crucible. Touching a
match to the compound, Mr.. Dreyfus
stepped back and the mixture blazpd
up furiously. In five seconds the
wrench melted. 1t is estimated that
the heat evolved III the process was
5000 degrees Centigrade, hitherto con
sidered impossible to reach. The value
of the process is expected to be shown
In WeIulnS loSelHei soee' io''S'
National Tubing company is negotla-
ting for the right TO use it for welding
together the ends of tubes.
General Arthur Macarthur, who is
scheduled TO succeed General Elwel
S. Otis as governor general of the
Philippine islands, is spoken of as an
excellent officer whose past military
record renders it more than likely that
his administration of affairs in the
east will be acceptable to the govern
meut. General Macarthur is medal
of.honor man, having planted the col
ors of his regiment on the crest o.
Missionary Ridge during the fercest o
the fight on November 25, 1868. He
was born in Massachusetts and went
to the front in 1861 as private in The
Twenty. fourth Wisconsin volunteers
rising to the colonelcy of the regiment
on merit, with extra brevets for gal
lantry at the great pitched battle o
the Civil war-Franklin, Tenn, at
Perryville, Stone river and the battles
of the Atlanta campaign. In 1866 he
was made a first lieutenant of the
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