Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-10-08
Straps and facts.


by the senator, was being painted by
a force of 16 men who did not belong
to the union. Officials Of the Paint
ers' union came to see the senator, who
was not at home. Mrs. Hanna heard
what they had to say, drove to the
house at once and ordered the men to
quit work. They obeyed promptly, and
that night every one of them joined
the union. Employees Of another firm
followed suit next day. and the paint
ers are considering the advisability Of
electing Mrs. Hanna an honorary busi-
ness agent.
There was an exciting time at the
Nottingham mine, Of the Lehigh and
Wilkesbarre Coal company, last Friday
night. A Negro deputy came out Of
the stockade, when, it Is alleged, he
was assaulted by some strikers. The
deputy shot into the crowd and bullet
struck Jos. Yarkman, striker, In the
abdomen. After firing the shot the Ne
gro retreated to the stockade. Soon a
large crowd gathered and they threat
ened to tear down the stockade and
take the Negro out and hang him. COL
Dougherty, of the 9Th regiment, dis
patched six companies to the scene at
once. The troops arrived just in time
to prevent serious riot. The mob was
dispersed. The Negro deputy who did
the shooting has been handed over to
the civil authorities.
The presence of United States war
ships at Panama and Colon, with ma
rines in charge of the railroad between
those places, has developed some COM
Of the Cincinnati, arrived at Colon,
he announced his object to be to guar
antee free railroad transit across the
isthmus, and that announcement was
satisfactory to the representatives of
the Colombian government. Rear Ad-
miral Cosey, of the Wisconsin, however,
has gone further and given it to be un-
derstood, that the Colombian govern
ment cannot use the railroad for the
TRANSPORTATION of armed or unarmed
tions of any kind. This has caused
trouble. Gen. Salayar, governor OF
Panama, claims that under the treaty
of 1916, the United States is bound to
in no way interfere with the sover-
eighty of Colombia or the isthmus of
Panama, and these orders are regarded
as interference. The matter has been
referred to Washington.
An apparently inspired" dispatch
of Saturday from Washington says:
There will be no call for an extra ses-
sion of congress to deal with the coal
strike situation. The president express
ly stated in his appeal to the operators
and representatives Of the miners yes
terday that he did not act officially In
calling them together. He has for the
time being exhausted his usual resour-
ces. If the commonwealth finds itself
unable to control the situation and ap-
peals to him through the constitutional
channels, the president will be ready to
bring into play the great forces of the
national government. But for the time
being the president has relaxed his eff
forts. A great many radical sugges-
tions have been made as the result of
the failure of the conference yesterday,
and they include everything from TAX
ing possession of the mines by the gov
ernment to sending United States
troops to Pennsylvania without regard
to any call from the governor. 1t can
be positively stated that none of these
suggestions has received any serious
consideration by the administration.
There was another conference at the
White House on Sunday to. consider
the settlement of the coal strike. The
president was not at all satisfied with
the result of Fridays conference. He
thought the mine owners should have
shown some disposition to meet Pres
ident Mitchell half way, and he did not
like their treatment Of his proposition.
Nothing was given out Sunday night
with reference to the cabinet confer
ence during the day; but the correspon-
dents surmised that it vas the inten-
tion Of the president to recommend to
the miners that they go back to work
at once and then he would recommend
the calling of an extra session OF the
PENNSYLVANIA legislature to take some
action. The idea of calling congress
together in extra session has been sug-
gested; but as to whether the president
intends to do this is not known. 1t is
pretty generally believed that the pres
ident is disgusted with the action of
the mine operators and that his SYM
pathies are entirely with the miners.
Nobody believes that he intends to let
the matter drop until after he has ac-
complished something decisive.
Captain John J. Pershing's column
has completely routed the Moros in the
island of Mindanao, killing or wound
ing a hundred of them and capturing
and destroying forty forts, says Ma
Mia cable of Saturday. Two Ameri-
cans were wounded. Tuesday the
Moros retired to their largest and
strongest fort on the lake shore, and
Wednesday, Captain Pershing attack
ed them with artillery, bombarding the
enemy for three hours. At noon Lieu
tenant Loring, leading squad of men,
attempted to set fire to the. fort. He
crept under the walls and started a
blaze, but the MoroS discovered him
and forced the Americans to retreat.
During the forenoon the sultan Of Ca
bugalan led a sortie at the head of a
band of fanatics. They crept through
the grass and sprang up and attacked