Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-06-28
Scraps and farts.

front say that the battle fought on
Thursday at Simenting, about forty
miles east of Kaiping. was the hardest
blow the Russians have yet received.
The Muscovites lost, according to
these accounts, $4,000 in killed, wound
ed, missing and prisoners. That the
Russian. retreat did not turn into a
rout was due to the dogged bravery of
the men Of the Ninth East Siberian
Rifle brigade. under Gen. Kendrats-
vetch, who covered the flying troops,
contesting every inch of the way"
Says a New York dispatch Of Sat
urday: That upwards of 1000 persons
perished in the burning of the excur-
sion steamer Gen. Slocum is now prac-
tically certain. According to an ex-
haustive report made by Police In
spector Schmittberger on the number
of dead, missing, injured and uninjur-
ed in the disaster, it appears that 9SS
bodies have been recovered and that 80
persons absolutely known to have been
aboard the vessel are still unaccount-
ed for, bringing the total mortality OF
the disaster up to 1,031. Those injur-
ed numbered 179 and of the throng of
fully $500 who embarked on the ex-
cursion Of st. Marks church but 236
escaped without injury. The report
is the result Of minute inquiry by
corps of 100 patrolmen under the di-
rection of the inspectors.
j. ]. Hill stands high as an indus
trial and economic authority, and what
he has to offer on these subjects is
well worth attention. General busi-
ness he says, is contracting. 1t was
first apparent, and is now most evil
dent, in manufacturing enterprises.
The railroads are public carriers, and
if the public has nothing to carry. the
railroads can'1o no business. AS traf-
fic decreases they must mark up their
rates or lose money. Wages must go
down, and working forces be lessened.
The railroads are dropping men be-
cause there Is not work enough for
all of them. The whole question falls
back primarily upon decreasing busi-
ness and the reason for it. The prin-
cipal one is that the demand for the
products of the United States is not
now COY oy,,nensurate with the supply.
-Th - was another very important
naval fight at Port Arthur on June %,
as the result Of which the Russians are
believed to have lost battleship sunk
and two cruisers badly disabled. Com
plete details have not been published;
but fr.m the official reports issued
from Tokio. it appears that the Rus
slams began the attack with several
batsleships and cruisers, going out Of
the harbor after the Japanese. Two
japanese destroyers that were on guard
at the entrance Of the harbor met the
outcpming fleet and there ensued
battle between Russian and Japanese
destroyers. During the fight, one of
the Russian cruisers took fire. The
Russian shops were decoyed out of the
After while the Russians, with the
exception of one battleship, which was
sunk, went back into the harbor. st.
Petersburg has not yet given out any
information about the affair; but the
news from Toxic is of such a nature
as to leave but little doubt of its cor
rectness.
- Ion Perdicaris and Cromwell Var
ley were released by Raisuli, the BAN
dit last Friday on the outskirts Of Tan
gier. The money for their release was
pGii by the sultan Of Morocco. Both
Perdicaris and Varley were in good
health; but Perdicaris shows signs of
great uneasiness and worry. His hair
Is much whittier than it was month
ago, and he otherwise shows signs of
having aged very rapidly. He fell from
a horse while he was being taken to
the mountain fastneSs from his home
and hurt his hip. He has not entire
ly recovered from the injury. He says
that Raisuli treated him very nicely
during his captivity. In order to Sc
cure the release Of the captives the sui
tan of Morocco had to pay Raisuli
about $50,000, release number of his
followers, make him governor of a
province, and promise him immunity.
Now, it is understood that the United
States and Great Britain will both de-
mand that Raisuli be punished. and al
though the sultan of Morocco would not
be averse to seeing such an end
brought about, there is good reason to
believe that an attempt to punish the
bandit will stir up a dangerous rebel
liop throughout the whole territory in
which he is best known.
Charlotte Observer: The Charles
ton News and Courier, referring to
case mentioned recently in this paper
in which woman sues the Southern
Railway company because, when she
got off the train freight train block
ed the way and she was caught in the
rain. says: "Of course, it will be
rheumatism and pneumonia and ap-
pendicitis and other diseases followed
her exposure to the elements, and there
will be speeches to the jury and charges
end, and the chances are that a we'll
trained jury will find for the claim
ant. That Is, we should not be sur
prised at such a result in some other
communities, but we do not believe that
the moral sense of the people of
Mecklenburg county would permit such
verdict against the railroad company