Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-06-03
Scraps aud 9aets.

ended, and the prospect Is that the
treasury surplus for the whole fiscal
period will approximate s45O,0OO'OOo.
This is larger by many millions than
was expected by the treasury officials
last summer. The receipts were from
the following sources: Customs, $780,
471,049; internal revenue, $1S,16O,SOS;
miscellaneous, s4,4S2,61O. For the
eleven months ended today the re-
ceipts of the government have been
s510,533,471 and the expenditures have
been $471,5s4,S55. The surplus to date
Is therefore s3s,94s,616.
Manila cable of May 81: Rios, the
self-styled Pope Of Luzon," who, at
the head of a band. Of fanatics, COM
mitted many crimes, and who was
was captured last month, has been
sentenced to be hanged. Twenty-sev-
en- Of his followers have been SEN
fenced to long terms Of Imprisonment.
Rios organized q religious and MILL
tary movement and proclaimed him.
self a prophet. He promised divine
aid for an insurrectionary movement
and succeeded in hoodwinking many
Of the ignorant natives, from whom ne
obtained money. He secured a few
arms and his band terrorized the
province of Tayabas, where they prey
ed upon their countrymen. Repeated
efforts were made to capture him; but
they were without result until the au-
thorities Of the town, while pretend
ing to shelter the brigand, notified the
constabulary Of his presence, and ne
and some Of his followers were made
prisoners.
New York American: Out Of the
crowd Of little cotton kings who have
ruled the market in turn on the ex-
traordinary rise in prices that has
gone on without pause for several
months, comes now the Emperor Of
Cotton in the person Of McFadden, the
great spot dealer Of Philadelphia.
Wall street reports said yesterday that
McFadden not only had the cotton
market Of America cornered far into
the new crop, but that he owns almost
half of the actual cotton now held In
Liverpool. McFadden's holdings Of
spot cotton in this city alone are es-
timated at $4,000 bales. He has such
control of the actual market that spin
ners will be forced to come to him, 1t
Is said, to get cotton at his prices or
close their mills. He has actually
bought back from mills at higher
prices the cotton he sold them early
in the season. Now these mills that
were tempted by the higher prices are
said to be clamoring for the cotton
again at still higher prices.
The general assembly Of the
Northern Presbyterian church, in
session at Los Angeles, CAL, last week,
adopted the following: Resolved, That
this assembly earnestly calls upon the
people Of the United States to use
their utmost endeavor, employing all
honorable means, to secure the expul-
sion Of Apostle Reed Smoot from the
halls Of the national senate, and urges
the senate itself, and each member
thereof, to exhaust all legal means to
this end in accordance with the pro-
visions of the Federal constitution.
This assembly also calls upon the peo-
pie and the congress of the United
States in both houses, and each mem
ber Of each house, to employ and ex-
haust all legal means to secure such
amendment to the Federal constitu-
tion as shall define legal marriage as
monogamic, and make polygamy under
against the United States, punishable
by adequate penalties, including dis
enfranchisement and disqualification to
vote or hold Office in the United States
or in any state or territory under the
Jurisdiction Of the United States"
Victoria, B. c., dispatch Of Satur-
day: The steamer Indravilh brought
news from the Orient Of continued
spondence at Pekin tells Of large sums
arriving over the Tran-Siberian rail-
way for Neu Chwang. The war feel
ing in Japan continues and war prep
arations are still going on. Heart
rending details Of suffering and death
Of families as a result Of the famine
in Kwang 81 were given in Hong Kong
papers received by the IndravelE. Mr..
Hess, missionary at WI Chow, who
has been investigating on behalf Of the
Hong Kong charities, says that owing
to three successive failures of crops,
people are starving and dying by hum
dreds. During March and April. it is
computed that thirty thousand people
employment in the Straits settlements
and the women and children being sold
into slavery on the coast. Story after
story Of distress was told by the mis-
dying in the act Of eating when they
had food brought to them; Of people
reduced to skeletons being abandoned;
Of mothers selling daughters into lives
Of shame for a mere bottle Of rice.
Washington special Of Friday to
the Charlotte Observer: President
Samuel Spencer, Of the Southern Rail-
way, stated today that s25,O0O,0OO
would be expended during the next
three years in double tracking the
main line from Washington to Allan
ia. The Southern, which is the first
of the big systems in the south to dou-
BILE track it's lines, has now more than
two thousand men at work, between
here and Orange, Va, distance Of 80
miles. Shortly work will be inaugur-