Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-03-15
Scraps and facts.


the Lao river Great Britain and the
United States have warships at a
point up the river. and holding as they
do that any interference with the nav
igation Of the river would be a viola
ton of Chinese neutrality. have given
Russia to so understand. The Rus
slams claim to be very much incensed
at the attitude Of the foreigners on the
subject.
Moscow cable Of March IA: 1t Is
learned that the reason the Vladivos-
tok forts did not reply to the shelling
nv the Japanese vessels on March 6,
was that the officials at st. Petersburg
had supplied them with shells whose
diameter was two millimeters, which
were too large for the guns. AS re-
suit they were reduced to a state bor-
dering on impotency and had the Jap
anese warships sailed into the harbor
they could in all probability, have
taken the town without serious trou-
BILE. Orders to rush ammunition OF
the right calibre have been sent to st.
Petersburg, and investigation has been
started to ascertain the responsibility
for the blunder.
The New York Heralds correspon-
dent in Colon telegraphs that the
French steamer arriving there Sunday
morning, brought the news that the
Colombian government has definitely
desisted from any movement to recov-
er it's lost territory in Panama, and
has prohibited any further attempts
to attack the Panamaian frontier.
Nine hundred Colombian soldiers are
now returning to Bogota. Several CO.
lombian officers from Carthagena have
arrived at Colon, probably on their
way to Cauca- The last Colombian
expedition to Tutumati, consisting OF
eighty men. has been obliged to re-
turn to Carthagena on account of ILL
ness among the men.
1T took seventeen companies or
militia to restore order in Springfield,
O., last week, after the lynching of
negro for the murder Of policeman
The whites were threatening to exter-
inmate all the negroes in the city. The
negroes were also making ominous
threats. Some seven or eight compa-
nies Of troops are still under arms
The spirit Of lawleSsliess has spread to
the children. On last Friday, some
white school boys captured a small ne
gro boy, put a rope around his neck
and were trying to hang him when
older whites interfered. The bitter
ness between the whites and blacks in
the city is intense, and there is no good
reason to consider the trouble as final
ly settled.
A Yin-Kow, China, cable Of Satur-
day to the New York Herald says:
When the Japanese again bombarded
Port Arthur on Thursday morning the
new town was badly damaged. Forty
persons were killed and $50 wounded.
The Retvizan was hit five times and
had twenty casualties. The forts en-
gagged the enemy, who retired without
loss. The Retvizan has been floated
and is now in the east basin. My pre-
vious report about the presence of
Feng- Wang -Cheng is confirmed. The
japanese are now reported to be scout
ing at Ta-Tung-Ling. Russian rein
forcements are arriving here. Guns
and other artillery have been put in
place and an attack is believed to be
imminent as soon as the river is re-
opened by the melting Of the ice.
In the United States supreme court
yesterday an opinion was delivered in
the merger case Of the Northern Sc
curities company VS.. the United States
in favor Of the governments conten-
ton that the merger was illegal. The
opinion Of the court was handed down
by Justice Harlan and it upheld the
decree Of the circuit court of Mime
sofa in every particular. Four of the
justices dissented from the five con-
stituting the majority. The division
in the court was due to a difference Of
opinion as to the right of Federal con-
troll Of state corporations. The ma
jority opinion proceeded on the theory
constitution to control interstate COM
merce, no matter by whom conduct I'd,
while the majority or dissenting opin-
ion was based on the theory that in
the present case the effort is to reSu-
late the ownership of railroad stocks
by state corporations and that such
ownership is not interstate traffic.
= Says a Tien Tsin dispatch of March
12: The first credible reports Of the
effect of the bombardment of Port Ar
thur from midnight on Wednesday to
past noon Thursday last, which have
been received here. arrived today. Eye
witnesses say that the Japanese fire,
which was Indifferent in previous at
tacks, showed marvellous accuracy.
The fire came from the direction of
Pigeon Bay. where the Russians re-
ported sighting double the previous
number Of Japanese vessels, and it is
supposed that transports of various
kinds accompany the fleet. 1t is report
ed that the RetviZan, which, it is un-
derstood. was then inside the entrance
Of the harbor, was struck several times,
and that there were fatalities among
the crew. 1t is also said that the Col
den Hill forts were badly damaged and
that there were many casualties among
the remaining non-combatants in the
new town, which suffered most. One
building in the rear of the war bureau
was destroyed and elsewhere a shell