Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-07-20
Straps aud fat;s.

Estates do not always pan out
as people think. Pierre Lorillard was
thought to be worth some $15,000,000,
but S4.000000 was the actuality. On
the other hand, the estate of the late
John I. Blair, of Blairstown, N. j.,
which appeared in the will to be worth
from $50, 1000 to s3O,000,0O0. is now
valued by the executor at S50,000,000.
The current report of the statistic
ian Of the interstate commerce COM
mission brings out the fact that dur
ing the Is years ending June 80, 1900,
1921 persons were killed by railroad
accidents in the United States and 469,-
027 injured. The number Of employees
killed was 3S,34O, Of passengers 3,4S5,
and Of other persons including tres
passers, 54,452.
The proposed continental boycott
of American goods is taken very seri-
ously in London city circles, says a
London dispatch to the New York Tri-
bune. The view is, the correspondent
says, that the menace Of America is
not merely a matter Of trade. They
profess to regard the question from
q highly moral standpoint. They say
it is no advantage to the world that a
great nation should dominate 1t with
ideals into which money can enter and
with a system of government in which
money is the controlling power. The
ideals of Europe have ever been higher
than that and to drop to the American
standard would be fatal error.
Says a Little Rock, Arkansas, dis
patch to the Memphis Scimitar: A de-
tective arrived a few days ago In the
Kings hiver neighborhood, Madison
county, and placed under arrest sup
posed young woman, who had been
teaching a private school in the neigh
hood for sometime. 1t turned out that
the school teacher was man In dis
guise, that his name was Sears and
that he was wanted In Texas on the
charge of a murder committed IN Tex
as seven years ago. 1t is said that ne
was a most engaging person. NO one
has ever suspected the deception.
When arrested he had $4,000 in cash In
his possession, carried in a belt.
Says an Omaha dispatch Of July 16:
Rev. F. Merten Smith, the noted Eng
lish evangelist, who Is conducting reVl-
val services in the cities OF the west,
tonight led a congregation OF several
thousand people in prayer for a poun-
tiful rain, which will prevent business
annihilation in the corn belt. An I'M
mense tent was erected in small park
located in the heart Of the residence
district, and in this were seated hun
dreds of men of the congregations OF
the city. About the tent, the side walls
of which were raised, was massed
crowd Of citizens of all classes and all
religious faiths. partaking In the ex-
ercises and lifting their voices In uni
son in repeating the invocation spoken
by the divine.
The ladies of Huntsville, Ala, says
a dispatch to the Philadelphia RECORD,
are heading a movement to employ
white girls in their housework by way
of answer to the implied threat OF the
Negroes to organize in order to fur
tber their interests. For some months
the service on the part Of the Negro
girls has grown steadily poorer and II
was exceedingly difficult to obtain
reliable cook or housemaid. The in
different attitude Of the Negroes.
coupled with the vague rumors, caused
the ladies to believe that some organi-
zed movement was about to be set on
foot. and forthwith they began to cor
respond with employment bureaus In
the Northern and Western cities. Ad-
vices have been received to the erect
that hundreds of white girls are will
ing to come south if assured Of perma-
nent positions Some Of the most
prominent ladies of the city held sew
eral meetings last week to consider
concerted action, and 1t is probable
that within two weeks there Will be
abundance of white labor in this and
other Southern cities.
The report of the Isthmian canal
commission, which 1t was supposed
would be completed before this time,
may be delayed several months longer.
The commission held four days ses-
sion last week, and the end was not in
sight when they adjourned SaturdaH.
Another meeting will be held in about
three weeks. but there is no expecta-
ton that the report can be finished at
that meeting. The difficulty about
completing the report is chiefly due to
the delay incident to working up data
connected with the cost Of the canal
over the various routes. Extensive
borings have been made, especially
over the Nicaraguan route, and the
most careful calculations must be
made from the data obtained by these
borings as 10 the cost of excavations,
etc. The commission intends that it's
report shall be exhaustive and thor
ough in every particular and cover the
entire ground. so that congress will
have before it when it acts every pos
Sible detail of information and that
there can lie no excuse for further de-
lay and no need for another commits
sion.
The use of crude petroleum as
fuel for the generation of steam on a
large ocean craft has had a practical
proof of it's adaptibility in the voyage
of the steamship Cowrie from Borneo
to London. a distance Of 10000 miles.
The method adopted on the Cowrie was
to atomize the crude oil at the mouths
of the furnaces by blowing 1t into the
furnaces in the form of a spray, by
means of steam jibs. and in this way
a complete combustion of the fuel was
obtained. A comparison was made
with the old system Of coal fuel on this
ship, with the result that there was
found to be a saving of over 40 per
cent. in the weight of fuel day, and
by the reduction of the work of firing
with oil fuel the complement of fire
men was reduced from sixteen to six.
The space occupied by ton of oil, as
compared with the same coal weight,
was much less. being "a feet for the
former to 42 cubic feet for the latter
the coal being bituminouS. There are
considerable quantities of oil fuel to
be found in Borneo. and it is said to
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