Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-09-04
Scraps and faets.

uuet given last Wednesday night at the
Auditorium hotel, Chicago, by the Ma
tional Association of Merchants ana
Travellers. Lyman ]. Gage addressed
the association on the same subject
Just before his retirement from the
treasury department, and great inter-
est was attached to the speech We'd
nesday night Of the present secretary.
In his discussion Of the financial ques-
ton Secretary Shaw declared that
what was needed was not an elastic
dollar but some provisions by which
automatically, the aggregate volume
of dollars should increase whenever
and wherever more dollars were need
ed, and would as promptly retire when
not needed.
.-Chekib Bey, the Turkish minister
at Washington, has received from his
minister of foreign affairs at Constan-
tinople a dispatch, giving the Turkish
version of the reported attempt on the
life Of United States Vice Consul Ma
gelssen, at Beirut. After declaring that
the report of the assassination of Mr..
Magelssen was false, the dispatch gives
a version Of the affair practically the
same as has been told before in the
dispatches from Turkey. 1t says the
pistol was fired by a man returning
from a marriage fete; that the shot
was fired in the air, and that it hap
pened Just as Mr. Magelssen was pass
ing in his carriage. This, the dispatch
saws, led the vice consul to believe that
an attempt had been made against his
life. The man who did the shooting
has been delivered to the judicial au-
thorities. Chekib Bey's dispatch also
asserts that order and tranquility pre-
vail at Beirut.
Says a Buffalo, N. Y, dispatch Of
September 9: The Southern Railways
Land and Industrial Agents associa-
ton is meeting here today in special
session for the purpose of considering
and devising plans of inducing migra-
ton to the states comprising the south
eastern part of the United States and
methods of interesting capital in the
same territory. Cotton raising, the
manufacture Of iron and steel, stock
raising, the fruit industry, foreign i'm
migration, the resources of the section
and their development will also be dis
cussed at the meeting. The associa-
tion was formed last spring with the
development of the entire southeast as
it's aim. The officers Of the association
are: President M. V. Richards Of the
Southern railway; first vice president,
J. E. Ingreham, vice president of the
Florida East Coast Line; second vice
president, G. A. Park Of the Louisville
and Nashville; secretary, w. L. Gless-
ner of the Georgia Southern and Flor
ida.
The Suffrage League Of Boston, a
Negro organization, last Monday night
adopted resolutions declaring: 'Tnas-
much at Booker T. Washington has
glorified the revised constitutions Of
the south, has minimiZed the Jim Crow
car outrage. has attacked the wisdom
Of the fourteenth and fifteenth amend
ments to the constitution, has depreca-
ted the primary importance Of the bal
pie silent submission to intolerable
conditions and makes his people by
word, he is not a fit leader for the col
ored race, and no president who rec
ognizes him as political leader should
receive the colored vote of the north.
Therefore, since President Roosevelt
has given him charge of the appoint
ment Of all Negroes Of whatever state
in the Union and has made him the
Negro adviser as to all policies affect
ing colored Americans in the interests
of our race, we call upon President
Roosevelt to dispense with Mr.. Wash
ington as our political spokesman"
The totals of Secretary Hester's
annual report of the cotton crop Of the
United States were promulgated from
New Orleans last Tuesday. They show
receipts of cotton at all United States
ports for the year 7,724,104, against
7.679,290 last year; overland to north
ern mills and Canada 1,0S3,3S3, against
1.103,953: southern consumption taken
direct from the interior of the cotton
belt 1.920.072, against 1891 making
the cotton crop of the United States
for 1902-03 amount to 10.727,559 bales
422 the year before. Colonel Hester
has made his usual investigation into
the consumption of the south and has
received reports by mail and telegraph
from every mill consuming cotton in
the cotton growing states, including
woolen mills that have used cotton,
and the results show a total Of 2,000,
729. but of this S0,657 were taken from
ports and included in port receipts.
This shows that the mills of the south
have used 62.75S bales more than dur
ing l9O1-02 and 379,I9S more than dur
ing 1900-1901. a most remarkable show
ing i'm face of recent trade conditions,
supposed to have been brought about
by the abnormal difference between
values OF the raw material and the
manufactured article.
New Orleans dispatch Of Septem-
ber /: In many churches throughout
Texas on Sunday, prayers were offered
for relief from the Mexican boil wee
vii pest. Cotton planters, alarmed at
the reappearance of the insect, asked
the ministers for their aid and the pas
tors responded, not only in the coun-
try towns and villages, but in the larg
est churches in the principal cities in
the state The Mexican boil weeVil