Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-11-27
Straps and faets.

Thursday and decided to ratify the
recently negotiated isthmian' canal
treaty Immediately upon it's arrival.
Arrangements have been complet-
ed for the holding of boil weevil
convention in New Orleans next Mon
day. All of the railroads have been
requested to give reduced rates from
all parts of the cotton belt.
Great Britain Is about to bring to-
gether two fleets Of high class war
vessels in the caribbean sea. 1t will
be the greatest display Of Englands
power ever seen in West Indian wa
ters, and is expected to impress all
nations interested in the Panama de-
.velopment and the approaching de-
cision in the Venezuelan claims arbi-
tration.. 1t is expected that an Amer
lean squadron will make display in
West Indian waters simultaneously.
Mrs. Silas Bracklin, who, as Miss
May Belle Gregory, was few years
ago pronounced the most beautl1ui
woman in America, was burned 10
death at Murfreesboro, Tenn, last
Wednesday night. The Bracklin resi-
dence was being remodeled, the fam
lily occupying cottage nearby. Work
men discovered the flames, but were
unable to extinguish them, and Mrs.
Bracklin was cremated before she
could be rescued. It is thought her
clothing caught fire from an open
crate. Several years ago New York
newspaper, as the result of a contest,
pronounced Miss Gregory the most
beautiful woman in America.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster Cen
eral Bristow has determined to ap-
point John Washington, brother or
Booker T. Washington, postmaster at
a station at the institute at
Tuskegee, Alabama, the Negro school
conducted by Booker T. Washing
ton. The Alabama representatives
in Washington are protesting Wig
orously. They say that the establish
ment of the sub-station will operate
unfavorably on the Tuskegee post
the allowance for clerks and probably
the salary Of the white postmaster
They assert that the Tuskegee Female
seminary, an old and fashionable
school, deserves a sub-station fully as
much as the Washington school.
-Redtape is redtape all the world
over. In a small Russian village where
a postoffice had just been erected it
was felt that a lightning conductor
would be Il useful addition, and ac-
cordingly a request that one be pro-
vided was forwarded to the depart
mental headquarters. There was
long interval Of waiting, during which
the letter went the round of the vari-
Gus departments, and finally a notice
was sent to the village postmaster
asking him to state, with regard to his
request for lightning conductor, how
often lightning had done any damage
in the neighborhood during the pre-
ceding five years. and Furthermore,
how close and how often in the vicin-
ity of the postofflce.
H. j. G. Becker of Texas, has been
appointed government inspector of cot
ton ON the plantations OF German
East Africa. His headquarters will
be at Oar Els Salaam. The official an
nouncement Of his appointment was
accompanied by the statement that
Becker formerly held the honorable
office of county commission" The
German East Africa Cotton crop last
season produced, under the direction
of some of Booker Washington's pu-
pills, total Of $50 bales. Fresh SOW
ings, this year, are expected to triple
this crop. Togoland, German West
Africa, also yields several hundred
bales. The German chambers of COM
merce are energetically supporting the
development of cotton growing, but 1t
Is recognized that the growing of cot
ton in the German colonies must re-
main inconsiderable until railroads in
the interior are built.
The entire cotton belt region of
West Mississippi and Arkansas is en-
veloped in a dense smoke as the re-
been raging for several days. Large
areas of timber are burning while the
fires have spread RAPIDLY by attack
ing the dry undergrcwth. Advices
from Little Rock Ark, state that fires
are burning in all directions and a
pail Of irritating smoke hangs over the
city. Between Memphis and Little
Rock on the Choctaw railroad the
woods are on fire on both sides Of the
railway line. At Greenville, Miss, and
other points in the Yazoo belt great
clouds Of smoke seriously interfere
with the river traffic. The inhabitants
of the cotton belt are anxiously await
ing the first signs of rain which will
serve to eXtinguish the flames. No
lives are lost so far as known, but
it is reported that live stock has suf-
fered severely.
Fred Bohrer, the editor of the
Berne Witness. who was mobbed last
week by saloonkeepers and their
friends because of his determined fight
on the saloons, has converted his
home into an arsenal. In addition to
revolvers and shotguns, with which he
supplied his home and his office. two
Calling guns were received Monday by
express, and these have been added to
his already we'll fortified home. Mrs.
Bohrer who has refused to leave her