Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-05-03
Scraps and facts.

ty has lust seized a small fleet of these
floating saloons. It is said that one OF
them-Shamrock III, Admiral r. X.
Cook-will be sold to satisfy court
fines and costs.
Examinations will be held through
out the United States next month Tor
the purpose of establishing eligible
registers for the appointment or postal
clerks. The United States civil service
commission Is now arranging to holo
these examinations which are made
necessary by the coming promotions
and increases in the force Of the postal
service. It is understood that about
5000 new appointments will be MADE TO
take effect, July 1. The postofhce ap-
propriation bill carries an item for IN
creased pay throughout most OF the
offices of the country. 1t will also en-
able the department officials to put on
more clerks in all Of the large offices.
-Four officers and one marine OF the
United States cruiser Chicago, are IN
iail in Venice under sentences OF from
three to four months each for resisting
arrest at the hands Of the Italian po-
lice. It seems that the officers were
ont sightseeing, and in some way got
into a difficulty with mob. Inc ponce
interfered and the officers resisted
The state department at washington
has taken the matter up; but 1t looks
as If about the only hope the officers
have is a pardon from the King ol
ItaIy. The circumstances of the ar
rest and Imprisonment do not seem
Of a nature that would warrant the
United States in making any demands
A special to the Birmingham News
from Jackson. Miss, says: The nrs'
regular contract ever made III the
world to pick cotton by machinery was
closed in Greenville few days SINCE
and the first experiment with the ma
chine will be made on plantation III
Washington county next fall. A fltts-
bure man is the inventor Of the device.
and for the past ten years mas peeh
conducting experiments in the vicinity
of Greenville. He now claims that the
device has been modelled on practl-
cal working basis and feels conhdent
that he will revolutionize the cotton
picking industry in the south. The
machine, he admits, is valueless ex-
cept on the level uplands. low valleys
and, prairie grounds, but even II II
should prove successful within TINS
limit it's erect on the labor question
in the south will be very marked.
AS the result of a panic in big
philadelphia tobacco factory last We'd
nesday, eight girls were killed, three
were fatally injured and 40 or 5o were
more or less seriously hurt. ABOUT
1000 people worked in the building. II
appears that the elevator man was ac-
cidentally caught under his car. A
witness sent up a cry Of distress, and
somehow the operatives got the idea
that the building was on fire. They
reached the stairways in a panic
trampling each other under foot. Two
or three jumped out of windows and
were killed. 1t was nearly three hours
before the excited women could be
made to realize that the whole trouble
was due to a false alarm, and when
quiet was restored the mortality was
found as stated.
A conference Of citizens opposed to
the policy at present followed in the
Philippines, composed Of some so or V
persons coming from different parts Of
the country, was held Tuesday at the
Plaza Hotel, New York. Charles Fran
els Adams, of Boston. moved: THAT
a committee Of seven persons be ap-
pointed by the presiding officer, whose
duty it shall be to take all necessary
steps to effect the full disclosure Of the
facts connected with the processes and
executions in the course of military op-
erations in the Philippine islands and
to appear in person or by counsel be-
fore the present senate investigating
committee and take such steps. there
or elsewhere, as may be calculated to
secure full publicity and further in
itiate such action as may tend to vindi-
cate the national character" Carl
pointed as members of this committee.
Charles Francis Adams. of Boston:
Andrew Carnegie, New York; Wayne
Mcveagh, Philadelphia; Edwin Burritt
Smith, Chicago; Herbert Walsh, Phil
adelphia, and President ]. c. Schur-
man, Of Cornell university, to which
committee the name of Mr.. Schurz
was added by resolution as member
ex officio.
II Under a special order which allow
ed three hours debate, but cut off all
opportunity of amendment, the house
on Tuesday, passed an omnibus public
building bill which will distribute ST.
4O5, $50, among ia cities. AS the bill
covers into the treasury $1,5S5,000, the
total amount carried by the bill is re-
duced to that extent. The bill provides
buildings on sites already purchased,
II buildings on donated sites, and IS in
creases in appropriations for buildings
already authorized. 1t also provides
for the purchase of 16 sites. The ma
jority for the bill was so overwhelming
that only nine members backed a de-
mand for the ayes and noes on the
passage of the bill. There was some
criticism of the method by which it
was proposed to pass the bill without
opportunity for amendment, which Mr..
Mercer, chairman of the committee.
answered by stating that if the bill had