Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-01-16


prices; complications have come to the
front in exporting goods to Mexico and
European countries. Agents have led a
merry war Of cutting prices with the
Mexican trade until the profit has been
wiped out.
Says an Indianapolis, Ind, dispatch
of January 10: Sheriff Canine, Of Mont
gomery county, acting under writ OF
ejectment, went to the farm Of Wesley
Graham today and tore up the tracks
of the Chicago and Southeastern rail-
road for the entire distance through the
farm. The officers were attended by a
large crowd of citizens, who cheered
the men as they took up the rails and
crossties. Men were sent out in both
directions to warn approaching trains
and all traffic Of the road was stopped.
The original owner of the land said he
never had ceded the right of way to the
company and Graham, who bought the
farm in 1893, brought suit in ejectment
and the writ was issued in 1894. APP
peals were taken from this, but final
decision was rendered yesterday and
the writ was enforced today.
Philadelphia Record: Two financial
bills have been introduced in the house
Of representatives by Representa-
tive Overstreet, intended to perfect
present legislation establishing the gold
standard by providing for the redemp-
tion of silver dollars in gold on demand,
and the other by Representative Lover
ing, providing for emergency issues Of
banking currency properly secured, in
order to give necessary elasticity to the
currency corresponding to varying bus
iness.demands. Both of these measures
are intended to remedy omissions and
defects in the law as it stands. The
present ease and strength in the finan-
cial position of the country make the
time opportune for wise action, but
coincidentally diminish the probability
of action. Congress is more engrossed
in schemes for spending the surplus
money now on hand than in providing
against inevitable contingencies which
disturb the business affairs of the
world.
Secretary Root has acknowledged
that the deportation of Filipino leaders
and agitators to Guam by General Nc
Arthur at Manila, was by authority of
the war department. This plan of dis
posing Of the Filipino leaders did not
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was recommended by General Near
thur and approved by Secretary Root.
1t is not the intention Of the depart
ment to extend this policy to all the in
surgents captured, but to deport only
those men whose presence in Manila
and the Philippines is calculated to
cause trouble and incite the natives to
hostility It is probable that all Fill
pino generals and high officers will be
sent to Guam as rapidly as they can
be captured, and that like disposition
would be made of Aguinaldo should he
be caught. Guam furnishes an excel
lent place of detention because Of the
difficulty to be encountered should an
attempt to escape be made. The har-
bors are poor and the island remote,
and any attempt to rescue the Filipino
leaders could be easily discovered and
frustrated by the American officials.
Discussing the general commercial
situation in Europe the other day,
with q correspondent of the Associated
Press, according to a st. Petersburg
dispatch, M. Dewitt, the Russian min
lister Of finance said: "Our position is
quite normal compared with other
countries. Our maladies are not from
ourselves. but from without, and pre-
vail in all the European markets. They
come from the war in the Transvaal.
When once this malady is passed our
affairs will be all right again. The
which is due to many causes equally
effective in Berlin, Paris, Vienna, and
London. While many causes are ope-
rative, as stated, the greatest Is the
Transvaal This is true because first
England has had enormous expenses,
which absorb capital otherwise availa-
bic for the worlds commerce and In
dustry, and, secondly, the Transvaal
gold is not coming to Europe. Eng
lish expenses in the Transvaal have
been much greater than those of all the
Powers in China. Our expenses have
been extravagantly overestimated.
When the Transvaal and Chinese ques-
tions are settled the situation will be
ameliorated."
The Colonial Life Insurance compa-
ny of America, with headquarters in
New York, has, in the belief that it is
the victim Of graveyard insurance
Swindlers, caused the arrest of Thomas
Martin, a newspaper editor of Union
Hill. n. j.; VIM. Necker, an undertake
er: Thomas j. Kelly, a pugilist, who
has been acting as an insurance agent;
and DR.. Richard Jahr, a physician,
who was formerly medical examiner for
the company. The editor, undertaken,
doctor and agent were working in con-
spiracy together. The agent and doc
tor hunted out suitable subjects, gen.
orally old people about to die, the doc
tor passed them as good risks, the un-
dertaker swore to their interment, and
the editor wrote up felicitous notices