Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-04-13
Straps aud fatts.

cotton movement for the seven months
of the season, from September l to-
the close of March, shows that Texas
and the Indian Territory brought into
sight 3340.2S5 bales, an increase over
same time last year of 9l6,455. Other
Gulf states produced 2.504,2I9, a de-
crease of 1866; Atlantic states, 3,051,-
461, a decrease of 207,S32. The total
crop in sight at the end of March was
S,S96. OPP, an increase over last year of
5S9,957.
The Springfield, (Mass.) Republican
saws: THE Harvard university au-
thorities will probably give the honora-
ry degree of LII. D. to President NC
Kiniey at the coming commencement,
if the president is in Cambridge at the
time. Although some of the men IN
authority think such degree should
be given to any holder Of the office Of
president. others are deeply sensloie
of the effect of giving such academic
honor to William Mckinley. 1t is re-
called that Grover Cleveland, when
president, declined the degree on the
ground, it is believed, that it was to
be given him reluctantly by some OF
those in authority simply because ne
was president"
The picturesque egg rolling fete OF
the children of Washington occurred
on the White House grounds last Mon
day, says a Washington dispatch. The
gathering of the multitude OF young
sters of all ages, sizes and colors in
the large terrace grounds back OF the
White House each year for their Eas-
ter frolic, is one Of the sights OF wash
ington. Last Easter $4,000 persons
witnessed the fete and fully as many
were present today. The Fourth Ar
tillery band, of Fortress Monroe, play
ed throughout the day. Mrs. McKin-
ley, whose love for children, is we'll
known, spent most of the time at her
window or on the White House We
randa watching the little tots make
merry with their multi-colored eggs.
According to a Herald special from
Washington, since the rebellion in the
Philippines $4,000 men is the lowest es-
innate of the war department OF the
casualties sustained by the Filipino
forces; 1867 rifles have been captured
or surrendered and 605142 rounds of
ammunition, as shown by incomplete
returns, have been seized. The num-
ber of Filipinos killed cannot be ac-
curately determined, as General Mac
Arthur in his dispatches states that it
is impossible to be accurate on this
point. 1t would not surprise officials
should the Filipino fatalities reach 25.-
900, and some say that $4,000 is closer
to the real figure. Adjutant General
Corbin is satisfied that the casualties
suffered by the Filipinos will in them
selves form a potent reason for the
abandonment of further resistance by
the natives.
The Japanese minister, Mr.. TAX
hira, says a Washington dispatch, on
Wednesday, received official advices
from the foreign office at Toxic entire
ly dispelling the alarming reports as
to a RuSso-JapaneSe rupture, and
showing that the japanese government
accepted the latest declaration OF
Russia on Manchuria with the same
sense that it had been received in the
United States. Mr.. Takhira called at
the state department and informed
Secretary Hay of the gratifying turn
of events. The position of Japan. as
now defined in the highest official
quarter, is practically the same as that
Of the United States. AS the other
powers already have indicated their
acceptance of the Russian declaration.
the course of Japan removes the last
possibility of division, and appears to
restore the harmonious concert which
has thus far proceeded in dealings
with China.
Ex-Governor Bradley, of Kentucky,
gave sensational testimony at Frank
fort last Wednesday, in the trial of
Captain Garnett D. Ripley, charged as
an accessory in the conspiracy to muir
der Goebel. According to Bradley he
was in the office of Governor Taylor
the day before the shooting. and heard
Taylor say that Goebel would not be
living at the end Of "a hours. or words
that he tried to get further particulars
in order to prevent the crime, but was
misguided with the assurance that the
whole thing was fake and that no as
SaSsnation was intended. Ripley en-
tered plea of not guilty on arraign-
ment The testimony Of Governor
Bradley. however is of the utmost i'm
portance as setting at rest all possible
doubt that the assassination was cooly
premeditated. not by irresponsible des-
peradoes, but by the highest represen-
tatives of the Republican party IN
Kentucky.
President Harvie Jordan, of the
Georgia Cotton Growers association
and of the Interstate State Cotton
Growers association. made the follow
ing statement last Tuesday night to
the Macon correspondent of the Allan
ia Journal: I'VE are now confronted
by the most difficult Of problems. 1t
is. how to keep the farmers from plant
ing too much cotton. Of course. we
can hope for nothing but ruin if the
acreage is very considerably increased.
In the first place. supply merchants
are selling on credit meat at 12a cents
per pound and corn at 81 per bushel:
mules are higher than they have been
in years. and everything else is up in
proportion. Therefore the man who has
these things to buy cannot hope to
raise cotton this year for less than I
cents per pound. If the price goes
down to cents next fall, the more
cotton he has tried to make the deeDer
in debt will he he. The necessity for
raising all supplies at home was never
greater than it is right now. and if we
fail to impress this fact upon the far
mers of the south this year. there will
be gloom and disaster among them
next fall"
New York Sun: In our opinion no
American need feel ashamed of Fun
ston or of FunSton'S achievement. His
methods were legitimate and within !
the rules of warand consistent with the
soldiers personal honor. Intention to
deceive there was. Intention to de-
ceive there is when q general makes |
a fent to the right with a purpose all
the time to move to the left; or when !
he causes misleading information of
any sort to reach his antagonist: or
even when the captain Of a man-of |
war paints the hull of his ship with q |