Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-08-21
Scraps and fats.


feated and withdrew from the helo
with a loss of 210 dead and wounded.
The insurgents held their ground, anu
at last accounts were receiving re-ih-
forcements pending the return OF tie
Turks.
Secretary of Agriculture wilson
will within a few days inaugurate aii
industry which he believes will anoro
employment to large number OF peo-
n,e in the United States. 1t Is the
manufacture Of raw silk from the ma
tive cocoons. Beginning next week this
industry will be put into practlcal
operation. Failure to obtain motive
mower to run the machinery last SAT
urday resulted in postponing a trlai.
The machinery for the manufacture OF
silk has only recently been estaohsneo
at the agricultural department. II was
purchased in France and two expert
cocoon reelers from that country nave
been brought to the United States 10
start the industry. AS soon as they
have instructed four young women EN-
ployed at the department to operate
the machinery these experts Will De
replaced by the latter. This INDUSTRY
will he under the immediate charge OF
DR.. E. O. Howard, chief entomologist
of the department. The machinery Is
nrovided with -four reels and each reel
will be operated by one person. Ine
machinery has a capacity for the man
ufacture of four pounds Of the ra"
product a day, and each reel Will TURN
out at least one pound a day.
Cheyenne, Wyo., dispatch OF Au-
gust 19: Albert Ecklund, alias George
ohm. n, who .was captured at RaWllns
AM. was being taken back to Chicago
to answer to the charge of grand lar
cenv. effected a remarkable escape
from Detective William Marsden.
Marsden left Rawlins last night with
Ecklund, and to make sure of his man
shackled him to seat in the smoking
commandment of a chair car. Whlle
Marsden was sleeping beside the pris-
oner, Ecklund went through the oe-
tectives pockets, secured the keys to
the shackles, released himself and then
shackled the officer to the steam pipes.
Having received the officers weapons
and other property, Ecklund left the
train at Laramie. Marsden was not
awakened by the conductor until
Cheyenne was reached, when he called
for assistance. AS Marsden had apso-
lutely nothing on his person to prove
that he was not a prisoner, the train
men would not release him. The rail-
road authorities telegraphed to Chi
cago for instructions, and when the
train reached Sydney, Marsdeen was
finally released from his predfcament.
Tonight he passed through Cheyenne
enroute to Laramie to try to effect the
recapture Of his prisoner.
John keenan,, an old miner or
Wharton, N. j., on last Monday depos-
tied in the National Union Bank OF
Dover the sum Of $4,000, representing
the odd hoardings Of years OF his
wife. who was buried last Thursday.
day or two after the funeral Kee-
nan, happening to call to mind habit
his wife had of helping herself to the
cash she could find in the pockets OF
her sons trousers whenever they came
home intoxicated and hiding 1t in all
sorts Of out of the way places about
the house, took it into his head to see
If he could find any Of these queer
hoardings Of hers. His search was re-
warded beyond his most sanguine ex-
pectations. Coin and bills of all de-
nominations were found In almost
every nook and corner he poked into
and when he had. as he supposes, COM
pleted his search found himself ac-
tually unequal to the task of counting
them all. So he tied them in a big
handkerchief and carried them to
friend, who counted them for him.
The total was an even $4,000. BY the
advice Of his friend, keenan, hired a
rig and drove with him to Dover, where
the money was deposited in Keenan's
name in the National Union Bank.
Brooklyn Eagle: The announce
ment comes from Germany that a
Frenchman, Edward Mollard, has re-
ported to the state department the dis
covery of another metal. This new
metal Is called Selium and is both light
er and stronger than aluminium. It's
hardness is not quite equal to iron,
but is greater than zinc, and it's power
of resistance ranks between iron and
steel. The greatest advantage Of the
new metal is its cost of production,
which is only about one-twentieth that
of aluminium. Selium does not corrode
and is capable of a very high polish.
The former quality is an important re-
quisite in ship building, while the
latter makes the new metal exception
ally suited for cooking utensils. Nu-
merous experimenters have tried to
obtain a metal as light as aluminium,
but one which would possess greater
rigidity. At first maglanium, which is
q combination of aluminium and mag
nesium, seemed to fulfil these condi-
tions, but a few trials proved that 1t
possessed a very short grain which
destroyed all elasticity. In other
words, the metal was capable of sus-
tanning a strong pressure, but breaks
easily. Such a metal, therefore, as
selium. possessing the good qualities
of aluminium, together with strength,
rigdity and the quality Of receiving a
high polish, can scarcely help becom-
ing a strong commercial factor, es-
pecially when the low cost of produc-
tion is considered. 1t is to be hoped
that selium possesses all the advan-
tageS claimed for it.