Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-06-25
Scraps aud faets.

mule camps and managed to spread
the disease, the virus having been OBJ
tained from chemical laboratories for
the purpose. Charbon or anthrax Is
also common in South Africa, and this
disease came in the same manner. =
The Spooner amendment to the
Isthmian canal bill, as adopted by the
senate last Thursday, provides that
the president, through the law officers
of the government, shall determine
whether a clear title can be obtained OF
the Panama company's property, rights
and concessions. If he shall be salts
fled that such title can be obtained, he
shall purchase the property, rights and
concessions for $40,000,000. If, In mis-
opinion, a clear title cannot be obtained
he shall proceed to construct an 18TH
mfan canal by the Nicaragua route.
The bill provides that a commission
Of seven shall be appointed by the
president to supervise the work and 10
make arrangements for all the details
oe it. 1t also provides that gold bonds
in the sum Of $3.50, ,0OO,O 900. 2 per cent. in
terest, shall be issued to raise money
with which to construct the canal.
The Democratic members of the
house committee on labor, on last
Thursday, filed a minority report on
the bill creating a commission to in
auire into the status Of the Negro race.
The minority says that there does not
seem to be the slightest necessity for
the creation of this commission, nor for
considering the status Of the Negro
race apart from other races. THE Ne
gro race can never reach it's full devel-
opment," says the report, until 1t IS
permitted by the government to work
out its destiny as do the other races
with which it comes in contact" The
report further asserts that the real
object Of the inquiry is to secure the
investigation proposed by the Crum-
packer resolution. Such inquiries, 1t Is
stated, are not Of advantage to the
great bulk of the Negroes, and benefit
only those who make merchandise OF
their politics. It Is urged also that the
progress of the mass of the Negroes in
the south is dependent upon the Coop
Grafton and good will Of the whites
among whom they live.
An attack upon the American army
in the Philippines, made at a garden
party here last night, started desper-
ate fight which may cost four lives,
says q Knoxville, Tenn, dispatch or
Sunday. One man is dead and three
others, including the traducer OF the
soldiers and a discharged regular, re-
Gently returned from Manila, who de-
Tended the name of the militia, are
probably fatally wounded. Monday,
who served three years in the archi-
pelago as a member Of the Ninth in
fantry, and who is survivor of the
massacres of Company c at Balana-
giga, Samar, gave Barger the lie when
the latter declared that "two-thirds OF
the American soldiers who went to the
Philippines were hoodlums and the
other third were towards and bullies.'
In the fight that followed, Hobbs and
Kennedy took the part Of Barger. All
fought with pocket knives until Mon
day, weak from the loss of blood, sank
to the ground. Then one of his friends
in the crowd handed him a revolver
and he shot Kennedy dead. Monday
then shot at Barger and Hobbs, but
failed to hit either.
Washington Post: 1.-The great lead
ers of Populism in the palmy days OF
that party in our state have nearly all
disappeared from Kansas" said United
States District Attorney Dean. Of To-
peka, at the Raleigh. Mrs. Mary Ell
len Lease has become a resident Of New
York city, Mrs. Diggs is in Oklahoma,
Jerry Simpson Is trying to amass
wealth in New Mexico, and ex-Gover-
nor Leedy is seeking to retrieve his
fallen fortunes in Alaska. Very few
Of the prominent ones remain. Mrs
Lease was a fine speaker and at one
time welded great influence; but she
was absolutely reckless in her state
ments, and when on the stump made
up her figures as she went along. In
depth Of intellect and ability to rea-
son Mrs. Lease was outclassed by Mrs.
Diggs, who was careful to state only
the facts in the treatment Of economic
questions. Mrs. Lease once told an au-
dience of miners that the coal oil trust
made a profit of Is cents on every gal
Ion sold. AS the miners were buying
oil then for 12a cents, 1t can be surmised
that her statement acted as boone
rang, and from that time her state
ments commanded no respect"
Washington special to the Balti-
more Sun: Great interest is manifested
by Democrats in congress in the work
of the various Democratic state con-
ventions. Particular attention was
paid to the platform adopted yester-
day by the Illinois convention. Senator
Jones, Of Arkansas, said to a correspon-
dent of The Sun today: my belief is
that two years hence there will be
three leading issues with our party.
First will come the question Of i'm
perialism; next, the question of the reg
ulation and control of the trusts. Then
will follow the question of the tariff,
which will be a collateral issue with
that of the trusts. The tariff itself
will be given very active and material
consideration. 1t will be lively issue
in the campaign" Representative ia
cob Rupert, Jr., of New York city,
who is a member of the Democratic
congressional committee, said: II am of
onininr that tho antioa Of tho Ii.