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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-05-20
MERE.MENTION.

The Charlotte Observer reports that
the North and South Carolina mills
have declined to go into the Fries mill
merger. The National Cotton Seed
Oil company and the Southern Cotton
Seed OIL company have carried the
Texas antitrust laws to the United
States supreme court on appeal. .....
Three children of Lewis Henderson, a
Negro farmer living near Livingston,
Ala, were killed last Saturday by be-
ing run over by a passenger train.
Augusta, Ga, sent a company Of sixty
Confederates in full uniform to the
New Orleans reunion. They were
under command Of Capt. John Clark.
..... Street car strikes have been
creating a great deal Of disorder In
Bridgeport, Conn.,, during the past
few days. 80. The civil war in Mo-
rocco continues on a large scale. The
insurgents forces are showing much
strength. Spain has thrown up de-
against attack by the Moors. .... Dis
patches Of Sunday from New Orleans
stated that 1t was expected that there
would be fully 100000 visitors in the
city on account Of the reunion. The
advance guard began to arrive Mon-
day morning. The Spanish friars
have voluntarily decided to leave the
Philippine islands. :. The governor Of
Ohio has made requisition upon the
governor of Tennessee, for the woman
who is charged with consigning to
Mrs. Knobbe the whisky that caused
the death Of four Cincinnati express
men. ....... The Republics, Of Brazil,
Argentina and Chilli, are having an
international love feast in Valparaiso.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-05-20
South Carolina Insurance Benefits.

South Carolina Insurance Benefits.
The Insurance Press, Of May 6, pub
fishes a detailed statement Of the
amounts paid out during the year 1902
to life insurance policyholders and
their beneficiaries by American life
insurance companies. The grand total
was s320,169,3S2, or more than s1,000,-
900 for every working day in the year.
South Carolina Is credited with hav-
ing received $1,460,OS3. The largest
amount paid on an individual life was
on that of Captain John H. Montgom-
cry, of Spartanburg, the amount being
s3701S. Following towns are credited
with the amounts named: Yorkville,
$4,000; Rock Hill, $4,000; Chester, S.
900; Lancaster $4,000; Kershaw, s5,-
OGO; Blacksburg, s7,OnO; Gastonia, $14,-
OGO; Sharon, s2,5OO; Charleston, ss4s,-
3S9; Columbia, $s6,625; Spartanburg.
ss1,427; Beaufort, s34,S94; Sumter,
s35,160; Pacolet, s29,57S; Conway,
$4,000; Camden, $4,000; Greenville,
s22,O44; Belton, s21,677, and there are
probably fifty other towns in South
Carolina that received sums ranging
from $4,000 to $1,000 each. The total
amount paid out by the companies in
1902 was about $2O,O00,O00 in excess of
the payments Of 1901.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-05-20

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

The Enquirer-Wishes to recover a
black taffeta silk belt lost on May g..
Will pay reward for return.
Jas. M. Starr & Co.-Tell about the
good things to be had at their soda
and ice cream parlor, and tell. you
why their ice creams, ices and cold
beverages are good-they are pure.
Riddle & Carroll-Tell you that you
should use lard compound, and give
you some pertinent reasons for the
claim that 1t Is to your interest to
use lard. compound.
w. M. Kennedy, Agent-Talks about
the celebrated IA finger grain cradles
that he sells, and wants to sell you
crockery and tinware, and Invites
you. to see him about clothing.
T. w. Speck, The Jeweler-Requests
you to see his stock when out shop
ping for souvenirs for your friends,
and tells you What he has at the
lowest prices.
c. P. Lowrance & Co.-Want to sell
farmers pure sorghum cane seed at
the lowest prices. They have seed
peanuts, and ask the ladies to see
them for tea.
J. @. Wray-Says that his line Of hats
has caught the men folks and tells
you why this is so. He also tells
about his underwear.
F'oushee Cash Store-Tells about the
Brownie having a present for every
customer, and says that more 5 and
10 cent goods are coming In.
Loan & Savings Bank-Asks you to
make 1t the custodian Of your funds,
and says that its customers are its
reference. A call Is invited.
Sam M. Grist, Special Agent-Makes
statement about trying to buy life
insurance for less than actual cost.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-05-20

make the leap in his stead. With that
n great Turkey gobbler came sailing
down toward the ground, and that
portion Of the crowd which realized
the joke Immediately broke out In
good natured applause. 1t seems that
the same trick was played In Column
bia the other day from the top Of the
newly completed sky-scraper. The
Columbia correspondent Of the News
and Courier refers to the incident as
follows: 1T was good joke that
was played on several hundred citizens
and visitors yesterday afternoon just
after the parade. On the streets and
about business houses had been distri-
buted hand-bills announcing that the
celebrated prof. G. Ander would de-.
scend from the sky-scraper, with
parachute" At Z o'clock, the hour
appointed, hundreds of people collected
about the building, waiting for the .ex-
hibition. Soon an umbrella-looking
affair was placed in one Of the win
dows of the twelfth story and the FIR
ing of blank cartridges was taken to
indicate that the professor was about
to make his perilous leap. All were
in state Of intense expectancy for q
minute, when directly the parachute"
was thrown in the air and a squeak
ing old gander came sailing down.
Then everybody saw the joke and
laughed, and every other man you met
declared that he saw the joke from
the first and knew all along that "a.
Ander'' stood for nothing more than
gander. It Is wonderful how many
bright people one can run against un-
der such circumstances, but the great
majority of the crowd acknowledged
that they had been sold and enjoyed
the joke. Mr.. s. B. McMaster Is re-
sronsible for the idea. The State
company was particeps criminis, as
was also Mr.. Z. Berman, as one did
the printing and the other furnished
prof. G. Ander."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-05-20
TO cURTAIL PRODUCTION.
Southern Cotton Spinners Recommend
Discontinuance Of Night Work.

Southern Cotton Spinners Recommend
Discontinuance Of Night Work.
The Southern Cotton Spinners' as
ISOLATION, decided last Friday at their
convention in Charlotte that they
would change the name Of their or
ganization to the American Manufac-
turers Association" The following Of
icers were elected: w. c. Heath,
Monroe, N. c., president; Thos. M.
Swift, Elberton, Ga, vice president,
and Clarence B. Bryant, Charlotte,
secretary and treasurer.
The following report Of a special
committee was unanimously adopted:
"The cotton manufacturing world,
using American short staple cotton, Is
facing conditions that are likely to
continue 50 long as present artificial
influences dominate the market for the
raw material, and these conditions are
so serious that action by the Southern
Cotton Spinners' association is DEEM
ed imperative, and your committee, to
whom this subject has been referred,
would recommend that the whole in
fluence Of the association be used to
of night work; (2d) operation Of mills
not over four days per week; (3d) these
recommendations to take effect not
later than June ! to Is, 1903.
your committee are Of the opin-
ion that by proper effort the cooper
alton of the majority Of the mills in
the southern states can be secured
and believe that an appeal should
also be sent out to banks as we'll as
commission houses to throw their in
fluence in the same direction. If ia
vorable action is taken by the conven-
tion your committee recommends that
the American consul at Manchester be
cabled, to communicate these actions
to Liverpool and Manchester ex-
changes"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-05-20
ANNUAL PICNIC OF X. M. M. A.
Delightful Day at sutton's Spring
Last Saturday.

Reported for the Yorkville Enquirer.
The K. M. M. A. cadets gave their
annual picnic Saturday at Sutton's
spring, an ideal sylvan pleasure ground.
The day was a perfect May day; the
skies were clear, the air balmy and.
sweet. Early the vehicles began to
take their way thitherward, laden with
youth and high spirits. Quite a party
Joined them from Rock Hill, and add
ed much to the zest Of enjoyment. A
bounteous and inviting spread hal
been provided for the needs Of the in
ner man and was fully appreciated.
The cadets and their friends present
were: Cadet Hammond with Miss Ma
mie Lee Grist, Cadet Hart with Miss
Marie Moore, Cadet Johnson with Miss
Margaret Daniel, Cadet Rhodes with
Miss Elizabeth Hunter, Cadet Patrick
with Miss Lyl Parish, Cadet Neville
with Miss Elise Latimer, Cadet Hun
ter with Miss Maggie Sandifer, Cadet
Trammell with Miss Bessie Sandifer,
Cadet M. Morrow with Miss Addfe
Moore, of Morganton, N. c.; Cadet
Little with Miss Mary Gill, Cadet Bos-
chetti with Miss Leon White, Cadet
Searson with Miss Kate Hunter, Ca
det Chandler with Miss Marion Logan,
Cadet Bennett with Miss Cornelia Ell
liott, Cadets Ramirez, Beale, Boschet-
ii, Adams, Moore, B., Moore, c., Nor
row H., Heath, Blackwell, Miller,
Adickes, Dobson, Misses Mary Walker
and Hattie Elliott; Cadet Freidheim
with Misses Mcdaniel, Strauss Mills,
Rosa May Philips, Carrie Friedileim,
Susie Mills and Margaret Wilson, Of
Rock Hill; Mr.. Paul N. Moore With
Miss Rose Lindsay, Mrs. A. Frledheim
and two little sons, from Rock HILL
and Miss Minnie Wilson, Mrs. ". B.
Moore, Mrs. S. M. McNeel, Misses Co.
ra Kuykendal, Bessie Barron; Mr.. II.
c. Glenn with Miss Marie Carroll,
Capt. J. R. Ashe with Miss jamie Mas
sey, Of Rock Hill; Capt. H. D. Wolff
with Miss Louise Lowry, Mrs. Witfers
Adickes, Misses Eliza, Matte May and
Julia Neville. Miss Francis Adickes
and Master Henning Adickes --Ghape-.
rones, Mrs. w. B. Moore, Mrs. w. G.
Stephenson, Mrs. r. T. Stephenson.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-05-20
North and South.

The people Of the south pretty gen.
orally concede that the war is over,
but all parts Of the north are not quite
so certain about the fact.
This paragraph contained in a dis
patch of May 16, from Marietta, Ohio.
seems to indicate that there Is still
some feeling there against murdered
southern hopes:
The discussion Of recent incidents in
which Miss Nellie Archer, a beautiful
young southern girl, was compelled by
the G. A. r. veterans to take down a
Confederate flag from her residence in
this city, has resulted in movement
on the part Of ex-soldiers to have q
law passed by the Ohio legislature to
provide a penalty for displaying a
Confederate flag unless the same has
been captured In battle. Ex-State
Senator T. F. Davis, of this city, and
]. L. Wiltsie, Of Toledo, have proposed
the enactment of such law.
But down in Augusta, Ca, as else
where in the south, while they have
not forgotten that murder has been
done, they are willing to forget the
crime, and let the dead past bury its
dead. The southern spirit Is very cor
rectly illustrated in the following lit
tie story.
A Union veteran pleaded guilty in an
Augusta court the other day to break
ing into a store. He was old and in
want, and said that dire necessity had
driven him to the act. The jury, COM
posed Of Confederate veterans, asked
iro irrH0 fn W
with him. His honor, an ex-Confeder-
ate major, fined the prisoner 81, and
the sheriff, an ex-Confederate captain,
paid the fine. Before the Union SOL
dier left the court room the dollar
was in his pocket. The spectators rose
and remained standing in sympathetic
silence until he passed out. Later in
the day purse was made up by Con-
federate veterans, and the Union SOL
dier was sent to his home in Kentucky.
However, it would not be fair to hold
out the impression that the entire
north Is as bitter and unreasonable
as are the people Of Marietta, Ohio,
There are portions Of the country
where even some of the worst Of for
mer partizans are beginning to ac-
knowledge the spirit in which the
south poured out her blood and treas
ure. In reproducing the Augusta story
above the Ney York Sun comments as
follows:
On these facts, who shall say that
the war is not over In Georgia? One
heSitates to aver that Confederate
soldier would have been treated with
the same clemency and generosity in a
Pennsylvania town. for If we may
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-05-20
WAR IN MACEDONIA.
The Revolution Against the Turks Is
Actually In Prooross.

The Revolution Against tho Turks Is
Actually In Progress.
According to the popular conception
of the term, "a state Of war" exists
today in those European vilayets call
ed Macedonia. Whether the news
comes via Paris, London, Vienna, or
whether its source be official, Journal
istic, or the Revolutionists them
selves, the situation in Monastir,
Salonika, Bansko, and Djuma is shown
to be one of active hostility. Mines
have been exploded, people have been
slain, and property has been Destroy
ed. According to the cable dispatches
after making due allowance for ex-
aggeration caused by one motive or
another-these things have been done
through the exercise of the utmost
barbarity on each side. On one hand
Turkish troops have wantonly killed
women and children and deprived
them Of food and shelter. On the 9TH
er the revolutionists have murdered
Moslem Inhabitants and have pillaged
and destroyed their dwellings. Both
Revolutionists and troops, when they
have come in conflict, have fought to
kill, and the number Of dead on both
sides, even reckoned from a consew-
ative estimate, has long since passed
the thousand mark.
There Is just as much reason for
saying that "a state Of war" exists in
Macedonia as there was for saying
that 1t existed in Cuba before the in
tervention Of the United States. But
the most significant thing about 1t is
that while the Turkish troops in Ma
cedonia are far more active in carrying
on their campaign than were the
Spanish troops in Cuba, the resist
ance made in the Turkish vilayets is
far more elaborate in design and is
pursued with many and varied re-
sources, which were beyond the reach
of the Cubans.
Filibustering expeditions were sur
reptitiously sent to Cuba from the
United States, but the filibustering ex-
petitions sent from Bulgaria into Ma
cedonia form an actual army of inva-
sion organized in Sofia, led by Bulga-
rian officers and acting through the
connivance and with the approval Of
the Bulgarian government. There is
no doubt of this. The Revolutionary
committee, for obvious reasons, no
longer hesitates to make fully known
the plans through which it is opera
ting. These plans include a map Of
the country invaded, together with the
divisions assigned to each officer, all
Of whom, with the exception Of Boris
Sarafoff, who Is actually commander
in chief Of the expeditions, are officers
in the Bulgarian army.
Kostoria Is being invaded by 75O
men under Col. Yankoff and four Of
ficers; Salonika by $50 men under
Boris Sarafoff and four officers; U.s.
kub Palanka, and Kumanovo by 900
men under Gen. Tsontcheff and five
officers; Juma Dala by $500 men un-
der Brotkeroff and seven officers;
Vevrokop by $50 men under Dumaroff
and six officers; Series and Demir
Hissar by $50 men under Davidoft
and three officers; Adrianople, Ded-
eagatch, and Kavalla by 1,75O men un-
der Istenbanovich and eight officers.
New York Times.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-05-20
The Railroad Ticket Problem.

Columbia special to the News and
Courier: The two cases on which the
state supreme court has called the
court en- banc involve the right Of the
railroad companies to collect rs cents
from passengers who do not buy
tickets at regularly established agen-
cies, and decline to pay this penalty
for not having provided themselves
with a ticket There have recently
been three such cases before the su-
preme court and the court seems
much divided as to whether the rail-
roads have the right to charge the ex-
cess and issue a check which Is re-
funded upon presentation at any sta
ton. The railroads are much inter-
ested because the purchase Of tickets
at regular agencies keeps business in
its regular channels; is q system Of
checks, and avoids confusions and de-
lays on passenger trains and allows
the conductor to attend to other bus
mess and not go into the sale Of tick
cts to passengers who will not buy
tickets from the regular offices. The
cases upon this subject do not include
the Kibler case, which is said to be
another phase of the rate question.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-05-20

Judge from. the vehement protests to
the erection Of statue Of Robert E.
Lee on the field Of Gettysburg that
come from Union veterans in Pennsyl-
vania, the war Is not over In that
state.
There is nothing to fear on the part
Of the south from such smallness as
sometimes shows up in the first par
agraph above. Southern principles
have always been nearer right than
have been the principles Of the north,'
and as right invariably wins In the
long run, the chances are that not
withstanding all efforts to prevent,
time with vindicate the south fully and
completely in practically all Of her
contention.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-05-20

THE political papers continue to dis
cuss Former President Cleveland as
r.,ssible Democratic nominee for the
presidency and one of the latest sug-
gestions is that Mr.. Cleveland Is now
encouraging this kind Of talk with a
view to retiring, after the eastern"
wing of the party has been sufficiently
united upon himself, in favor Of his ex-
attorney general, Judson Harmon, OF
Cincinnati. This idea seems reasona-
bly, plausible; but as to whether 1t has
any foundation except as an idea is
doubtful.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-05-20
NOTE AND COMMENT.

Mr.. T. ]. Nichols, the well-known
bee raiser Of Bethel township, says
that the bees have been doing splen-
didly during the past few weeks, MAX
ing lots Of fine honey from poplar blos-
SONS. Mr. Nichols has been putting
q considerable quantity Of honey on
the local market lately, and finding
ready sale for 1t.
Although it is evident that the wheat
crop is not to be a complete and abso-
lutte failure as so many feared a few
weeks ago, still the crop, with the ex-
ception Of q few fields will be so light
as to hardly be worth gathering. Oats
have begun to show up much better
than wheat. There are numerous
patches about that promise to YIELD
satisfactory crops.
The recent statement in The ENouI-
RER to the effect that the Carolina and
North Western railroad gives the
Southern freights amounting to about
100000 year will strike people who
are not especially we'll informed as
somewhat wild. It Is fact that the
York Cotton Mills alone pay some
thing like $50,000 a year in freights,
and it does not seem surprising that
ali the mills up the Carolina and
North Western railroad should pay ten
times as much.
Although the number Of Confederate
veterans buried in the Yorkville cem-
etery Is not remarkably large, still 1t
is a fact that had it. not been for the
Ladies Memorial association, and the
Winnie Davis Chapter Of the Confed-
eracy, assisted by number OF. older
citizens, notable among whom has been
Mr.. A. F. Mcconnell, 1t Is probable
that several Of these graves would
have been forgotten. Mr.. Mcconnell
has for many years past been the "old
Mortality" Of the Confederate soldiers
In the Yorkville cemeteries. He has
located a number of forgotten graves
in the past fifteen or twenty years, and
each memorial day, when called upon
to do so, is in a position to give q list
Of the soldiers who have passed over
the river, during the twelve months
preceding. Mr.. Mcconnell, however,
Is at a loss to locate the grave of
James Wright. He thinks Mr.. Wright
was buried in the Yorkville cemetery
but Is not certain. Perhaps this para
graph may fall under the eyes of some
individual who might be able to give
some definite information with regard
to the matter, and If so 1t Is hoped
that they will report to Mr.. McCoa-
nell, in order that all doubts will be
settled.
Many citizens Of Yorkville and the
country surrounding will remerber the
rich joke that the employees Of the
Lombard Iron works played on the
completion of the standpipe here some
years ago. They advertised a week or
two beforehand that on a certain day
and hour. Prof. Gander would make
jump from the top Of the standpipe.
People gathered from all over the
country to witness the remarkable feat,
many predicting that the Professor
would certainly be dashed to pieces on
the sidewalk below. At the appointed
hour, one Of the iron works boys ap-
peared at the top Of the standpipe
and announced: Professor G-a-n-
der Is sick and unable to keep his
engagement today; but in order that
the people who have gathered to see
him may not be disappointed, Profess
sor Turkey has kindly consented to
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-05-20

and bled to death. After escaping, the
insurgents gathered and renewed the
attack on the Americans. The caval-
ryman who was not wounded repulsed
the enemy and defended his dead and
wounded companions until the return
Of Lieutenant Cameron. Capt. Over
ton is criticised for having kept only
three men to guard fifty and for hav-
ing neglected to destroy the insur-
gents bolos. Flores Is Visayan and
the majority Of his followers are Pag-
amos, living in the Misamis mountains.
No Moros were concerned in the af-
fair"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-05-20
Tas flurkrillr Gnq'lirer.
YORKvILLE, s. c..
WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1908.

CORRESPONDENTS Of the News and
Courier are quibbling over the pro-
priety and expediency Of national aid
to good roads. We have an idea that
It will be quite while before the ma
tional government undertakes any as
sistance; but-we want good roads.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-05-20

secution that are coming from south
western Russia are vividly suggestive
OF Jewish experiences during the centu-
ries past, as told by the Scriptures.
We note a statement Of few days
ago in which 1t Is stated that the Rus
sian governor Of Bessabria has issued
ali order forbidding the Jews to de-
fend themselves, a decree just the op-
poslte from that persuaded out Of King
Ahasuerus by Queen Esther. OF course
it Is profitless to attempt to speculate
on the meaning Of these things, but
at the same time 1t Is quite difficult
to believe that there Is not at least as
much significance to Jewish persecu-
ton now as there was three or four
thousand ago and since. Those who
believe in the Bible and Providence
have to believe that Providence Is
working some way in the present hor-
rible developments; but Of course this
fact does not make human responsible
ity any lighter. These poor oppress-
ed people are entitled to some relief at
the hands of the more enlightened ma
tions Of the earth; but If they get such
relief they will have to look for it
through Providence instead Of on the
initiative of the nations themselves.
Mass meetings were held in many cit
les of the United States on Sunday
for the purpose Of calling upon the
We obinoton ooyornnoent to eptar pro-
tests; but. inasmuch as 1t has not been
shown that any Of the outraged citi-
zens had the luck to be naturalized in
this country the Washington govern
ment Is unable to see that 1t has a
right to interfere.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-05-20

ALTHOUGH it is difficult for the peo-
ple of South Carolina to bring them
selves to realize the fact, one of the
most sore needs among them Is in
creased efficiency Of their court ma
chinery. The acquittal Of guilty Of
tenders against the laws needs to
come to be looked upon as a public
crime
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-05-20

T1LLMAN ON CLEvELAND.-"The SIM
pie suggestion of Clevelands nomina-
tion for u third term" said Senator
1'illman. of South Carolina today, "is
an insult to the 6.5OO,OOO Democrats
of the country who voted the ticket at
the last two elections"
1T seems to me-" he continued, that