Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-08-13
Scraps aud faets.


ident has appointed as his successor
Oliver Wendell Holmes. chief justice
Of the supreme court Of Massachusetts,.
Attorney General Knox had tussle
with some millionaire toughs at Oyster
Bay one day last week. Together with
a party Of ladies, that included his
wife and daughters, he was dining in
restaurant. Four or five well-dressed
men, sitting at another table, began to
make remarks that were evidently in
tended to be offensive to the Knox par
ty. The story is that they severely
criticised the attorney generals atti-
tude with reference to trusts. General
Knox took the ladies from the room,
returned, and asked the party to re-
pea, They repeated and fight en-
sued. General Knox claims to have
knocked one man out. The walters
took the side of the attorney general
however, and pummeled the other men.
This Is the Associated Press version OF
the story. The northern newspapers
are printing various versions.
IQ6 COHlIillSSiOlCi VI PShSAoiAS VA
Monday gave out the statement that an
erroneous impression seems to exist
among many ex-Confederate soldiers
regarding the Interpretation to be put
upon the recent act of congress relieV-
ing Union soldiers of the disability for
having previously served in the Con-
federate army. The idea seems to pre-
vail that under this act the govern
ment is authorized to pension ex-Con-
federate soldiers, and the result Is that
the pension office is being deluged with
applications from the former wearers
Of the gray. The commissioner ex-
planned that the law in question does
not contemplate the pensioning of ex-
Confederate soldiers, but that 1t was
designed solely to remove the disabil-
ity which so long existed in the case
Of men who were impressed into the
Confederate service and later joined
the Union army.
Says a London dispatch Of August
9: Earl Roberts. CHIEF
of the British forces, and General JOS
eph Wheeler, of the United States, sat
together tonight at the first banquet of
the New Anglo-American Pilgrims
club, which was given at tn Carlton
Hotel. Lord Kitchener presided at the
banquet. After toasts had been drunk
to the King and President Roosevelt,
General Wheeler. in a very eulogistic
rfc hon..
orary president Of the club. Earl Rob
erts, replying to the American general,
said he hoped some day his responsible
ties which appeared to increase with
the advance of years, would permit him
to visit the United States. which coun-
try of all others he most desired to see.
We welcome you," said Earl Roberts,
"as brothers Of the same stock who
share all the proud traditions Of the
Anglo-Saxon race"
Paris cable to New Orleans Times
Democrat: The cotton industry in the
French Soudan is receiving much at
tention. The Gallici syndicate that is
exploiting the new field, Is confident Of
great success. It's president, M. PETER,
says the climatic conditions Of the
Soudan are the same Of those Of Egypt
dry and with seasons alternating reg
ularly. There are also good facilities
for irrigation. 1--WE are convinced" he
said, that we will be enabled speedily
to outstrip the great cotton industry Of
Egypt. while English manufacturers
are now offering to do all in their pow
er to cooperate in order to place us in
q position to rival arrogant cotton
magnates of the American southern
states" M. Lecompte, director of the
colonial laboratory, has been asked to
cooperate with the syndicate by pre-
pairing an exhaustive report Of cotton
culture in Egypt. Thereafter he will
go to the American gulf coast to con-
tinue investigation. Mr.. Lecompte
said: "This thing has been in process
Of realization for several years and
has only been awaiting the purchase Of
lands and the acquiescence of some re-
fractory members Of the syndicate.
Everything depends upon the quality
Of the cotton grown, but the outlook In
that direction is splendid
Says a Washington special to the
Philadelphia Record: A distressing sit
uation exists in Cuba as the result of
the failure of congress to grant COM
mercial reciprocity. The reports COM
ing to the state department and the
war department are such as to indi-
cate that conditions will grow worse
until disorders occur, and that annexa-
tion or starvation will be the choice
before long. 1t is estimated that half
Of the working people of Cuba are un-
employed and that the number must
increase instead Of decrease. Interest
rates range from 10 to 20 per cent. on
first mortgage security. A letter from
an American official at HAVANA says
that a Cuban colonel of the insurrec-
tion army, committed suicide at the
door of the Cuban senate chamber re-
Gently. The man was so desperate that
he entered the chamber while the SEN
ate was in session and in loud voice
demanded his pay as a colonel in the
Cuban army. When the president of
the senate announced that the senate
was unable to provide his back pay,
the colonl said: Il demand, then, that
1 be given a position which will enable
me to support my family in the way
we lived before the war" THE senate
has no position to which you can be
appointed" replied the president
Thereupon the colonel shot himself
thrnnnh the head with his revolver