Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-08-14
Straps and faets.


for the issue and while the country
vote was almost solidly in the aftirma-
tive, the issue was defeated because
the returns did not show that a ma
iority of the vote of the county had
been cast.
The Island Of Jamaica was swept
by a terrible West Indian hurricane
last Tuesday: Port Antonia,' on the
north coast, was completely overwhelm-
ed. only six houses being left standing,
and the southeastern portion Of the Is
land was almost completely denuded OF
crops. The loss of life Is estimated at
about fifty, which is very small, con-
siderine the tremendous property loss,
which is put down as being hardly less
than $1O,000,000. The storm swept
over Cuba with less severity; but did
more or less damage in the eastern
part Of the island.
The Macedonian insurrection Is in
creasing in strength and volume daily.
Turkish troops have been sent into
the country in large numbers. and they
have already committed many excess
es. In some localities Of the province
the Turks are in the majority while
in other localities the Macedonians
outnumber the Turks. The Turkish
army is operating against the localities
where the Macedonians are strongest
and where the Turks are strongest 1t
hot
to massacre their Christian neigh
bors. A dispatch Of Wednesday from
Sofia, Bulgaria, represented the Turks
as gathering at their mosques In large
numbers, and that Is taken to indicate
a general uprising. The dispatch had
it that widespread massacres might
commence within a few days and GER
tainly within two weeks.
Paris and France are interested; In
and excited over the trial Of the Hum
bert swindlers, which trial was COM
menced this week. Than that work.
ed by Mrs. Humbert, the present gen.
Grafton has not seen a more re-
markable swindle. About a dozen
years ago this woman represented that
a rich American named Crawford had
left her a fortune Of twenty million
dollars for some alleged service, and
by shrewdly manipulating counterfeit
will she managed to borrow some ten
million dollars from many hundreds of
people. The fraud was kept covered
up first one way and then another un-
til it could be concealed no longer,
when Mrs. Humbert ran away. She
was arrested in Spain about year
ago, and now the French people are
trying to punish her for the hoax she
put upon them. Her victims range
from poor laborers up to high govern
ment officials; but she still has some
money with which to fight to the last,
and as to whether or not she will be
convicted Of her clever swindling re-
mains to be seen.
There is a feeling of confidence
here, and on the part Of some of Ella
ton, over the situation in cotton, says
a New Orleans special Of Tuesday to
the New York Times. The men who
have engineered the bull movement
and cotton dealers generally through
out the south are satisfied that the sit
uation Is perfectly legitimate, and that
it benefits the south and will inure
to it's prosperity. Furthermore, they
believe, that high prices will continue,
or, rather, that the period of low prices
for this great staple has passed never
to return. The bull movement has the
sympathy Of nine-tenths Of the peo-
pie Of the south generally. 1t is esti-
mated that good crop at present
prices is worth s2OO,OOO,OoO more to the
south than at former prices. The peo-
pie generally must have been benefited,
for evidences Of prosperity are appar-
ent on every hand, and the changed
sentiment of the people Is even more
apparent. The prevailing opinion is
materialiZed in the undertaking Of
many improvements, such as new office
buildings, schoolhouses, storehouses,
electric light and water plants, street
railways, etc., and the general spruc-
ing up of private property. Values Of
bank stocks and other securities on
southern enterprise have also increas-
ed. All this is so contrary to the
poverty and lassitude manifest when
the bears in cotton are in the ascendant
that the satisfaction is widespread
that the market has been wrested from
New York influences, and it is hoped
and expected that the latter have been
permanently dethroned.
President Roosevelt has granted
a pardon to a man under peculiar con-
ditions. Bill Follis of Texas, is the
man, and his pardon Is granted so that
he may convict his own nephew Of
murder and bring about the execution
Of the latter. About twelve years ago
Bill Follis was convicted in the north
ern district of Texas for having coun-
terfeit money in his possession and
passing it. He was sentenced to two
years imprisonment in the Detroit
house Of correction. He served his full
lSiil dilO Ndo ulSSltdISSu llOill pIlSOll
just twelve years ago. He went back
10 Texas, and so far as known has
been a good citizen. He has not been
able to exercise his rights as citizen,
however, and his pardon was granted
by the president so that his testimony
might be used in bringing about the
conviction of Jim Follis, his own
nephew. Jim Follis has confessed to
the butchery of Hamp Mcdonald, an
old and well to do farmer and ferry
tender in Henderson county. Tex. He
knocked the old man in the head with
an axe and then sunk his body in Trim