Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-07-11
Scraps aud fafts.

Of the country. and has called upon his
father-in-law, the prince Of Montene-
gro, to "come across" with million
francs dowry promised when the king
married his daughter.
The weekly crop report Of the de-
partment Of agriculture, issued last
Tuesday relates to cotton as follows:
Cotton has made rapid growth
throughout the cotton belt, an i'm
Prov lent being shown in all dis
"ricts, the reports from the Carroll
..as and Georgia indicating the most
decided advance. Wet weather has
however, been unfavorable in portions
Of Louisiana and Texas, where the crop
is grassy, being quite poor in northern
Texas, in which state bool weevils are
causing considerable damage and con-
tinue to increase.
Kansas City Journal: A reporter
at Topeka finds that S12 pianos were
destroyed in the North Topeka flood
II these instruments had an average
value of $500 the total would amount
to $93,600. One thing is certain, not
a single piano which passed through
the food will ever be used again. Pi-
amos are commonly regarded as OF
strong and substantial construction.
To look at those which passed through
the Topeka flood one would conclude
that they were as fragile as a house
of cards. Their woodwork is swelled,
bulged. and split. Their veneering has
peeled off like paper from a wet wall.
Their Intervals are warped and twisted
out Of all semblance to an orderly
machine. They have been thrown out
In the streets, without an exception,
to be hauled away with other rubbish.
Here Is an outline Of the life OF
Leo XIII 1910, born March 2, In
Carpineto, Italy; 1924, entered college
at Rome; 1882, entered college Of No
BILE Ecclesiastics: 1887. appointed one
Of the chaplains to Pope Gregory,
March 16; 1887. ordained priest De-
cember %, in Rome; 1888, made gov
ernor Of the province Of Benevento;
1889, made governor Of Perugia; 1s43,
sent to Brussels to act as nuncio to
Belgium; 1S43, created archbishop Of
Dalmatia, in partibus infidelium; 1S46,
made archbishop Of Perugia, in Janua-
ry, by Gregory XVI; 1853, created
Cardinal December 16; 1877, became
high chamberlain Of the Roman
church, July 8: 1878, elected Pope, as
Leo XIII, February 1S; 1887. celebrated
golden jubilee as priest; 1888. issued
his famous encyclical on the Parnel-
lite plan Of campaign.
There was another terrible collis-
ion on the Southern railroad at Rock
fish Station, Va, last Tuesday. Pas
senger train No. IS crashed into freight
train No. 6S. Freight train No. 6S
had orders to wait at the station for
passenger train No. 35, which was
twenty minutes late. The freight con-
ductor misread his orders thinking
that the train was late an hour and
twenty minutes. He failed to go into a
siding as he should have done. There
were nearly two hundred people on the
train. OF these twenty-five, mostly
foreigners and Negroes, were killed.
Among the foreigners who escaped
were ten small children who were una
BILE to tell anything Of their parents
and who are being cared for at Char
louisville. The freight train conduc-
tor Is said to have gone crazy from
mental anguish. It Is thought that he
was drunk.
A Kin Chan. China dispatch Of July
8 says: "All the prominent Russian
officials in China, Manchuria and
Korea are attending the conference at
Port Arthur. Among them are Minis
ter Of War Kuropatkin. Admiral Alex
Jeff, the Russian ministers at Pekin
and Seol, the political agents in China
and Korea, including M. Pokotiloff, re-
Gently Russian financial representative
at Pekin, Gen. Dessino, the military
agent in China, the civil and military
officers at Mukden, Harbin and Kirin
and the administrator Of New Chwang.
The proceedings at the conference are
enveloped in profound secrecy. It is
popularity supposed that the Russian
officials are considering the war ques-
tion. The foreign commercial officials
at New Chwang and Port Arthur be-
lieve that the possibility Of war is in
creasing steadily. The Russian policy
Is believed to be to hold the present
positions in Manchuria, including New
Chwang, and to take no steps to avert
hostility with Japan If it is assured
that Japan will fight unaided. The war
feeling among the Japanese in North
China is intensifying."
Judge Gray, of the United States
court and chairman Of the special COM
mission appointed by the president to
investigate and adjust the differences
between the striking coal miners and
coal operators, was the principal
speaker at the greatest 4th Of July
celebration ever held in the city of
Wilkesbarre, Pa The most striking
Of his eloquent utterances was what he
had to say about the newspaper press
and its great services to the country
as follows: "a free and untrammeled
press is a potent influence for good. II
is reflex Of public opinion, which, on
the other hand, 1t helps to mould and
direct. We all live today under the
calcium light and the growing sense
Of responsibility on the part Of those
who conduct 1t is new ground for hope
fulness as to the future. We some
times resent it's invasion Of our pri-
vacy its mistakes and false judgments
and in our anger at the original Offend