Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-08-10
Straps aud facts.

makers. lUU business Hlell, oii last
Tuesday, rounded up a number of the
strike leaders, loaded them on vessel.
and sent them out into the gulf. The
work of cleaning out the strikers is still
going on. The business people OF the
city are determined to put stop to the
anarchy which has been giving them SO
much trouble.
A daughter Of Ex-Governor Jones,
of Alabama. was killed under most dis
tressing circumstances at Montgomery
last Tuesday. 1t seems that the young
lady was subject to a nervous disorder
which frequently developed into Smells
during which she had an uncontrolla-
bile desire to run. Ex-Governor Jones
was sitting in his front piazza ana tne
daughter was in the yard gathering
flowers. A trolley car came along at
great speed and the young lady mace
for it as fast as she could run. Ihe
car was going down grade and was not
within control of the motorman. The
young lady ran against the car and was
quickly tangled among the wheeis. ohe
was dragged a hundred yards or more
before the car could be stopped. Her
BODY was badly mangled. Ex-Governor
Jones witnessed the horrible sight.
- Great floods. caused by the over
flowing of the Yang Use, have caused
the death of many thousands in CHINA.
says British Columbia dispatch OF
August G. The river has risen ~ feet
and for hundreds of miles the country
is a great lake with only tops of trees
and an occasional roof showing. At
Anking the town is flooded, some of the
houses to their roofs. At Kiu Kiang,
the native town is flooded and two feet
of water stands in the foreign settle
merts. Lower down the river towards
Swu Hue. the destruction was greater
and boatmen estimate that 2O.O0O were
drowned in the district. Chong The
was wiped away by floods and 10000
drowned there and many other points
have been inundated involving awful
loss of life and great destruction OF
property. 1t is feared an embankment
built by Chong Cheh Tung near Wu
Chang would break and cause the
drowning Of thousands.
New York World. August 5: Some
remarkable freaks of Jersey lightning
have been reported this summer, but
the one that caps them all. according TO
hitherto truthful citizens. took place this
afternoon at Bargaintown. few miles
from here. when the barn of Jacob Fultz
was struck. Mr.. Fultz. who was stand
ing on the porch watching the storm,
says that the lightning struck loaa OF
hay and set fire to the barn. A men
which was nesting in the barn at the
time was instantly killed. SeVerai cat
tie were grazing from the haystack ana
they became so frightened that they
ran to the other end of the yard. A
minute later another bolt came. pass
inc along q rail fence and chased the
cattle back to the hayStack, shot up
knocked off that part Of the barn ahre,
nuttinr the plaZe out, while the neat
from the second bolt hatched out the
chickens on which the dead hen was
sitting.
Morristown. n. j., dispatch, Sd:
Henry Drummer, a woodman living on
the north slope of the Watnong noun
tain, near Beach Glen, had terrlnc
encounter with q black eagle this
morning. He was choDping wood in MS
ward when he saw the eagle rise near
by and begin circling overhead. PICK
ing up his gun he fired, and the eagle
fiuttered to the ground near by, one OF
it's wings having been broken. Brun-
ner walked toward the bird. expecting
to find it dead or dying: but Wnen
dozen feet away the eagle llew at MN.
He clubbed his gun to beat or the
bird, but could not withstand the f1erce
onslaught and soon turned and ran,
his hands and face bleeding and ms
clothing torn to Shreds. Arriving at the
woodpile he picked up the axe and with
that again attacked the bird: After
n few swings with the axe he severed
the earle's head. The bird was a mag
rificent specimen of black eagle. meas
uring eight feet from tip to tip. and
weighing % pounds. Drummer is laid
up.
The figures of the treasury bureau
of statistics show that the yaiue of the
raw cotton exported in the fiscal year
1901 was more than in any previous
wear i'm the history of the country. and
that the total value Of cotton and It's
products exported averaged Sl,0oo'oe9
for every day in the year. The total
value OF raw cotton exported IN l9ol
was $313.6I2.44S. against S2s0. I2'S9S III
1891, the best year ever before KNOWN
and the total value of cotton. COTTON
goods. cottonseed oil and meal and 9TH
o. prnducts Of that plant exported was
sc265. .4n5. .1N1. In quantity the exports
OF the ye;r were not SO great us in 1919,
1SGS o. 1899. but the price was so much
better that the value exceeded BY many
millions that Of the years Of the great
est movement as measured in pounds.
This brings the export value of cotton
and it's products above that OF all
breadstuffS or all classes of provisions,
and only about Sl0G.O0H.O00 less than
breadstuffS and provisions combined.
the wears exports of brea1stuffs he
ing s275. .5G461S. and Gf provisions $780,
GAS.SiS.
- The failure of the conference he
tween the Amalgamated asSocia ton
representatives and officers of the Uni
ted States steel corporation seems to
have left nothing else for it than that
the stee! workers strike. President
Shaffer. of the A!nalgamated asOcia-
ton. on last Tuesday. issued the fol-
lowing: "Rrethren: The officials of the
United States steel trust have refused
to recognize as union men those who
are now striving for the right to or
ganize The executive board has au-
thoriGei me to issue n call upon all
Amalgamated and other union men in
name and heart to Join in the move
ment TO fight for labor'S rights. We
must fight or give up forever our per-
sonal liberties. You will be told that
YOU signed these contracts. but you
never agreed to surrender these con-
tracts to the United States steel corpor-
ton. It's officers think YOU were sold
to them lust as the mills were: con-
tracts and all. Remember. before you
agreed to any contract you took an OBJ
legation to the Amalgamated associa-
ton. It now calls you to help it in this
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