Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-12-04
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course of the next few weeks. This
was the decision reached at the meet
ing Of the Southeastern Traffic asso-
citation, in session at Raleigh. 1t Is
said that freights on some classifica-
tions are to be lowered. The railroad
officials justify the increasing OF rates
by the statement that in Virginia,
Georgia and other southern states rail-
road taxation has been largely increas-
ed, and it is necessary to raise money
to meet this new demand.
- Richmond Pearson Hobson has
prepared a bill which he has requested
Representative Wiley Of Alabama, to
introduce In the house, for the purpose
as he says, of making the United States
the first naval power Of the world dur
ing the next eighteen years. The Dill
appropriates s2,750,000,000, a portion
to be used each year for new ships.
Fifty million Is made available for the
present fiscal year. sixty million for
the next and so on, increasing by ten
million each year up to 1915, when
lump sum of s1,5OO. 100000 is made to
carry on the programme to 1925.
General Charles r. Brayton' Re
nublican National committeeman for
Rhode Island, and party leader IN the
state is advocating plan to provide
representation in the Republican ma
tional convention on the basis OF four
delegates at large from each state ana
one delegate for each 10000 Republi-
can votes cast in the next preceding
general election. General Brayton de-
sires to get rid Of the control OF Re-
publican national conventions by the
southern negroes who do not count IN
the elections. The idea has been un-
der consideration for number or
wears past; but every time 1t has been
brought up somebody In interest mas
succeeded in defeating it.
The greater portion Of the annual
report Of Secretary Wilson, of the
agriculture department, this year, Is
devoted to the boil weevil-the de-
struction it has wrought and sugges-
tions for fighting it. The secretary is
of opinion that the boil weevil Will
eventually extend its ravages to every
cotton growing state, and he considers
that the future Of our cotton crop,
the value Of which he estimates at
$500,000,000 per annum, Is seriously
threatened. He recommends that con-
gress appropriate not less than $780,
600 with which to fight the boil wee
vii and this sum he proposes to use IN
entomological investigations and in
experiments with improved seed and
improved agricultural methods.
Steps have been taken to declare
John Alexander Dowie, the man who
calls himself Elijah H., to be a bank
rupt. Dowie has control Of all the
vast property Of Zion City, near Chi
cago, valued at about $20.00O,0OO. Since
the famous New York trip Of few
weeks ago the financial affairs Of the
self-styled prophet have been In bad
way, and recently his creditors have
determined to force him into bank
ruptcy. The prophet" is raging against
6SlCidiiy oiio tiiS "SPS~
pers especially. 1t is conceded, how
ever, that the ruin of the city will be
attended with great misery and suffer-
ing. Thousands of people have their
all invested in the property of the city,
and heretofore they have had implicit
faith in Dowie and his claims.
The preliminary estimate Of the
chief of the bureau of statistics of the
agricultural department as to the size
Of this years cotton crop, was issued
yesterday. The report puts the figures
at 9,962,O39 bales of an average net
weight Of 490.0S pounds. The reading
Of the estimate produced wild times on
the New York Cotton Exchange. Prices
were a little off from the preceding
day; but began to rise at the pronun-
citation Of the figure 49," The specula-
tors did not even wait to hear whether
it was nine million bales or one bale less
than ten million. They drowned the
reading with their bidding and within
a few minutes prices were from 40 to
60 points higher. March figures went
UP to 123 cents. Some Of the wilder
bulls actually began to talk twenty
five cents. w. P. Brown, the bull lead
er, is said to have been the coolest and
the happiest man in the ring.
The officials Of the naval observa-
vatory are making arrangements for
sending a New Year greeting from
Washington to all the countries Of the
civilized world at midnight December
81, by the employment of a series OF
signals to all points to mark the exact
second of the beginning of the new
year. A similar plan was successfully
employed last year in the case Of the
United States, and it is now intended
to extend the service this year to COW
er the continents Of North and South
America, the distant insular possession
Of the United States and to all points
in the world having the necessary ca
BILE and telegraphic connections, in
case the cooperation Of the foreign
governments can be secured, Of which
there is scarcely a doubt. Last year
the receipt of the midnight signals was
accurately timed at the Lick observa-
tory, in California, and it was found
that it took but six-one- -hundredths of
a second in transmission from Wash
ington.
- Safe blowers raided the department
store of Foye & Eckstein on Brough-
ton street, Savannah, Ca, at an early