Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-06-13
Straps aud faets.

gunners on the first-c class battleship
Kentucky on the northern drilling
grounds, says q New York dispatch.
Twenty miles outside Sandy Hook last
Thursday, one gunner with fourteen
shots q minute hit target thirteen
times, the second gunner fired thirteen
times a minute, hitting the target each
time. Two other men had each twelve
hits out Of thirteen shots a minute.
The range was sixteen hundred yards
and the target was 21 by IT feet, con-
sisting Of a painted muslin screen
floating on q raft. Rear Admiral
Evans said If the squadron had been
firing at an enemy, 1t would have been
no enemy In half an hour.
The military secretary at wash
inRton received the following from
General Corbin at Manila last Satur-
day: "Brigadier General VIM. H.
Carter reports that Captain Cromwell
Stracey, with eighty men, Company
E., Twenty-first Infantry, and Ssth
company, Philippine scouts, surprised
the main camp Of the Pulajanes, June
4, fifteen miles southwest OF Catubig.
Daguhob, the Pulajan chief and forty
Pulajanes were killed and six cap
tured. Arms and valuable records were
also captured. None Of the killed was
on our side; two Of the wounded are
doing well. Daguhob's death does
away with the most troublesome ia
natic on the Island Of Samar. Opera
tions are being carried on In support
of and In conjunction with the civil
authorities" ....--.
"A New York dispatch OF last Fri
day represents that the Equitable con-
troversy has at last been adjusted,
Thomas F. Ryan, the well-known n
nancier, gets credit for the arrange
ment. He managed to get James n.
Hyde to "divest" himself Of his ma
jority Of stock by placing 1t In the
hands of trustees, consisting OF Grow
er Cleveland, George Westinghouse
and Morgan O'Brien. These trustees
are hereafter to vote the stock. Wheth-
er or not Hyde retains ownership Is
not known. James w. Alexander
James H. Hyde. Gage E. Tarbell' Geo.
T. Wilson and James Mcintyre have
resigned their positions Of president
first, second, third and fourth vice
presidents. Paul Morton, who has
resigned as secretary Of the navy his
resignation to take effect on July !,
has been elected to the presidency OF
the Equitable, and will have a control
ing voice in the selection Of his lieu
tenants. ........ ,.... .....
The international cotton congress,
which had been in session in Man
chester, Eng, for a week. adjourned
last Friday after deciding to meet In
Germany in 1906. The congress passed
resolutions urging the nations Of Eu-
rope to promote the cultivation Of cot
ton In their possessions, and instructed
the international committee to en-
deavor to secure the amendment OF
the rules of the adhering associations
with q view to improving the banng
and marking OF cotton in the United
States and Egypt. ]. A. Hutton, vice
chairman Of the British Cotton Grow
ing association, outlined steps for the
increase Of the output Of cotton In
Africa, India, and elsewhere. He IN
sisted that the United States would
not be able to supply the increasing
demand for cotton, and said that the
efforts of American growers were oi-
rected toward reducing the output In
order to secure high prices. 1t was
essential, he said, that the nations OF
Europe should heartily cooperate for
the purpose Of establishing new cotton
fields so as to secure an ample supply
of cheap cotton.
Secretary Hesters cotton state
ment for the week ending last Friday
is as follows: for the nine days OF
June an increase over last year OF H.
600 and an increase over the same
period year before last Of $4,000. For
the 2S2 days Of the season that have
elapsed, the aggregate is ahead or the
same days Of last year 2,6Ss,00O and
ahead Of the same days year before
last, 2,007, 900. The amount brought in
to sight during the past week has been
123,73O bales, against 2s,1S7 for the
same seven days last year and 44,ssO
year before last. The movement since
September 1st shows receipts at all
United States ports to be 9,S52,SlS,
against 7,O02,1S3 last year; overland
and across the Mississippi, Ohio and
Potomac rivers to northern mills and
Canada, 1,O26,420, against 902,sSs last
year. Interior stocks in excess Of those
held at the close Of the commercial
year, 1878. against 10s,7S6 last year.
southern mills taktngs, 1,S44,OOO'
against 1,697,71S last year. The total
movement since September 1st is H.
421,452, against 9,7S2526 last year.
Foreign exports for the week have
been 1852, against 33,1S7 last year.
making the total thus far for the sea-
son 7,S31,765, against 5,7Sl,6Ol last
year. The total takings Of American
mills north and south and Canada,
thus far for the season, have been
4.400,443, against 3,7sS,s31 last year.
Stocks at the seaboard and the ~
leading southern interior centers have
decreased during the week l24,s75
bales, against a decrease during the
corresponding period last season OF
1888. Including stocks left over at
ports and interior towns from the last
crop and the number Of bales brought
into sight thus far from the new crop,
the supply to date is 12,5S3,419, against
9,9O0,S25 for the same period las year.
The dispatch that President Roose-
Welt recently sent out to the Russian
and Japanese government looking to
the bringing about of peace negotia-
tions was made public last Friday. 1t
Is as follows: THE president feels
that the time has come when in the
interest Of all mankind he must en-
deavor to see II 1t is not possible to
bring to an end the terrible and la
mentable conflict now being waged.
With both Russia and Japan the Unit
ed States has inherited ties OF friend
chin apd good will II hODeS for the