Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-09-11
Scraps aud farts.

as an alleged dangerous clldldSte'' "@I
shot and killed in bar at 6 O'Clock oy
c.. F.. Campbell, a deputy sheriff. IL
il said Campbell opened fine or Pear
son as soon as he saw him, there nav
ing been bad blood between the TWO
for some time. Campbell surrendered
and was placed in jail
Capt. Richmond Pearson Hopson'
delivered at Tuscaloosa, Ala. last Mon-
dav the first of a series of lectures to
he given in this district on America
Mighty Mission in the World. ne
was greeted by large gathering ana
received the closest attention. ne
closed his address with an appeal tnat
the American navy shall be placed III
the first rank, for which he adVocateu
the expenditure Of one and a hait Dill
lion dollars for new ships, covering
period Of thirteen years, peginhlhs
with fifty millions to be appropriated
.t tho next session of congress and IN
creasing by ten millions each succeed
ing year.
La Porte, Ind, dispatch of Septem-
her 9: Mrs. Jane Stewart Boyeson Oh
Chicago, died tonight at AsheViile' N.
q as a result of nervous SHOCK 1oi-
lowing accusations of theft. The news
reached here in a telegram to frlenos.
While Mrs. Boyeson was at a hotel
near Spartanburg, S. c., the room OF
guest from Augusta, Ga, was roooeo
of $500 worth of jewelry. Mrs. Boyeson
was accused. She was not IN gooo
health, and the charge resulted III her
physicial collapse. Before the emu
came she instituted $4,000 damage
suit against the proprietor OF the hotei
in the Federal court at Charlestoh'
Mrs. Boyeson had done conslderaole
newspaper work, and was musician
of marked ability. She was meih-
her of the Daughters of the American
Revolution, the Chicago Womans cluo
and other organizations.
- The weather bureaus weekly sulh-
mary of crop conditions, issued last
Tuesday is as follows as the same ap-
plies to cotton. Complaints or rust
and shedding are general throughout
the cotton belt, and as a result the
condition of cotton has deterlorateo
during the past week. The staple IS
opening rapidly, in some sections pre-
maturely, and picking is becoming
general in all districts. Favorable re-
norts are received from North Carroll
ma Oklahoma and portions of South
Carolina and Mississippi prospects De-
ing good for a top crop in the nrst
named state. In Texas, While the DOH
worms have mostly disappeared Doll
weeyils continue destructive ana are
nuncturing nearly all new forms in the
southwestern. central and eastern Sec
tions and the crop is also sunerlns
from drought in the northern anu
western portions Of that state, wnlch
retards fruiting and causes much she'd
ding. . po,+,-
DERBY, Conn.,, dispatch to Baltl-
more American: Whether or not SOL
emn oaths bound Bernabucci to de-
stroy himself, he took his life most
calmly and deliberately today. Ber-
nard Bernabucci was forty years old.
He was in good health and he had en-
nlovment. There seemed to be no rea-
son why he should end his existence.
Last night he told his room mate, JOS
eph opposite, that he was one OF d
suicide. club. whose meeting place IS
in Catherine street, New York. L
have been chosen" he said to Espos-
ite. "I have been elected to die.
have sworn not to try to escape my
fate at the appointed time. Indeed, 1t
would be useless, for if / do not XIII
myself they of the club would kill me.
The doomed man went to the line OF
the Naugatuck railroad this morning
He tried to throw himself under a
passing locomotive, but it WhizZed py
him. Arising he explained to those
around him that he had stumbled ana
fallen. He coolly waited until a FAST
passenger train approached, then div
ed at the flying engine, fell under It's
wheels and was killed.
The following editorial utterance of
the New York Times is worthy or at
tention: when Mr.. John Temple
Graves assures us that the experiment
of political equality for the Negro, ar
ter thirty eight years of trial, mas
failed he appeals successfully to the
consciousness of his fellow citizens.
In no community in which people or
color are numerous enough to constl-
tute a Negro problem can it be said
that the Negro is any better off for
the bestowal upon him, more than a
full generation ago. of the right or SUI
frage. 1t was given to him in the ex-
pectation that he could and would use
il to protect himself in his legal rights.
It has been of no value to him in that
regard His political equality has not
helped to make and keep him equal
before the law, which is the one equal
ity he can demand as of right. 1t has
not contributed to his social or civic
advancement. In the communities IN
which it was expected to be most ef-
ficacious it has been entirely nullified
by the resolve of the dominant race.
The wisest men of the Negroes own
race and those whites who are most
intelligently interested in his welfare
urge him to give up political agita-
ton and the expectation Of benefit
from political action and to addict him.
self to the industrial training which
alone will make him useful and inde-
pendent member of society. An in