Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-07-24
Scraps aud fatts.

count Of the Scanty water supply, due
to the insufficient rains Of last winter.
The sultan has granted permission to
the municipality to bring water from
the Pools Of Solomon through iron
pipes into the city along the line OF
Solomon's stone aqueduct. The new
works were begun today on telegraph
ic orders from the sultan, who contri-
butes 5000 lires. They will be finished
in two months"
Thousand Of drunken fish in Mai
den creek anorded great amusement
to hundreds Of people along the banks
Of the stream at Reading, Pa, one
day last week. The distillery and
warehouse of Aaron Dunkle at Berkley
were burned and two hundred bar
rels Of whisky were emptied into
the water. Bass, carp, catfish, sun
fish and eels fioated on the sur
face. Some were lively and kick
ing, while others were stupefied
and still. Tubs Of fish were captured
before they got over their spree and
returned to quarters.
- Secretary Hester's statement Of the
worlds visible supply of cotton, issued
last Friday, shows the total visible
to be 2,45O,547 bales, against 1851, 1884
last week, and 1902, $3.50 last year. OF
this the total Of American cotton Is
1,4S1,547 bales, against 1,573,9S4 last
week, and 944,3SO last year, and Of all
other kinds, including Egypt, Brazil,
India, ETC., $4,000 against 100000 last
week and 55S,0OO last year. OF the
worlds visible there is now afloat and
held in Great Britain and continental
Europe 1,163,OO0 bales against $4,000
last year; in Egypt 100000, against 49,
900 last year; in India $4,000, against
294, last year: and in the United
States $4,000 against 212,OO0.
This has been an exceedingly hot
day in Kansas, says Kansas City
dispatch Of July 10. The mercury has
ranged from LOG to 100. While the feel
ing Of utter helplessness attendant up
on the drought has passed, the people
Of the state do not attempt to deny
that the fall crops are in a desperate
condition. Farmers are beginning to
plow up their corn fields and sow them
in wheat and alfalfa to make pasture
fields for the stock in the fall and win
ter. The Kansas river, running
through Topeka, is so dry that green
grass is growing in the center Of the
river bed. Most Of the streams Of the
state, except the larger ones, have
gone dry and there is a poor prospect
for stock water.
AT the funeral Of the late Congress
man A. N. Martin. held in the First
Presbyterian church, at Bluffton, Ind,
one day last week, Rev. Clarence c.
Miller the pastor, uttered remarks In
the course OF his sermon that have
created a sensation. During the ser
vice the widow and daughter asked to
be taken from the church. 1T would
have been far better" said Rev. Mr..
Miller, If Martin would have been
shot on the field of battle than to have
lived to lead the life he did. He was
in public office the better portion OF
his life, and made in one Office $100, 900;
but was sent home for burial in a
cheap pine coffin furnished by the gov
ernment. His life has been a tragedy,
and the use Of liquor has made it So"
Feminine society was interested
Friday when it became whispered that
the King Of Dudes" had arrived, ac-
cording to an Atlantic City. N. j., dis
patch. He is ]. Waldere Kirk. Two
years ago he caused sensation at the
shore and became the object Of much
attention by the manner in which he
dressed, the amount Of suits Of clothes
he carried and his entertaining ways.
Mr.. Kirk arrived today, accompanied
by his valet and ten Saratoga trunks.
He took apartment at the Dunlop.
1t is said that Mr.. Kirk brought with
him over 100 suits Of clothes, collars
and cuffs too numerous to count,
scores Of all kinds of colors Of shirts,
dozens Of suits Of underwear, hun
dreds Of pairs of socks Of most bril-
liant colors, twelve different bathing
suits Of attractive hues, while he Is
also said to carry with him rs pairs
Of shoes and over Is stlyes Of hats.
His ties number several hundred. Mr..
Kirk changes his clothes six times
day.
- Mr.. Warner Arms, vice president
of the American Tin Plate company,
made the following statement last Fri
day to a representative Of the Asso-
ciated Press. Mr.. Shaffer wants these
companies to sign for all the non-un-
ion mills. A wage agreement Is a con-
tract entered into voluntarily between
two or more persons, representing GER
tain interests. Mr.. Shaffer has no
right to ask these companies to sign
an agreement with him for persons
he does not represent. These compa-
nies are not antagonistic to labor and
have proved it by entering into wage
agreements in the past with Mr.. Shaf-
er for those that he represented. This
year the American Tin Plate company
entered into an agreement for one
year from July 1st; but Mr.. Shaffer
violated that agreement by calling out
the men on a sympathetic strike when
they had no grievances"
Seven revenue officers were am
bushed. supposedly by moonshiners.
about six miles from Monterey, in Put
nam county, Tennessee, last Saturday.
One man was killed and one badly
wounded. A possee of seven, led by
Deputy Collector Bell was creeping