Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-08-01
Straps aud 9aets.

men Of Great Britain are very much
interested in the matter, and it is
probable that II Germany does issue
such a proclamation there will be
trouble.
The difficulty encountered by the
sanitary committee in New Orleans
last Friday may be plainly seen when
II is stated the committee found in
the Italian districts a full grown cow
on the third floor Of a building used
as living apartments. The stairs
were rickety, scarcely strong enough
to hold up the weight Of a man. Up
on investigation they learned that a
Sicilian was living in the rooms
where the COW was found, and said
he had carried the COW up stairs
when 1t was a calf and had raised
1t there.
Johann Hoch. the Chicago Blue
beard, who was so many times a
bigamist and who was to have been
hanged last Friday for the murder
of one of his wives, has been re-
prieved until August 25. The re-
prieve was granted a few moments
before Hoch was to have gone on the
scaffold. His case had been appealed
to the supreme court but the appeal
was abandoned because Hoch lacked
the money necessary to prosecute 1t.
A Miss Cora Wilson finally put up
$500, the amount required, and the
governor granted a reprieve. Hoch
insists that he is innocent of having
committed murder, and he claims
that the supreme court will certainly
reverse the finding of the court below
Washington Post: Oliver c. Mil
ler, OF Davidson county, n. c., says
that two years ago many eggs were
disappearing from his hens nests
and finally he placed a door knob
of white china in a nest. This, too.
disappeared, but the egg robbery
ceased. One Of Mr.. Miller's tenants,
John Forshee, told him this week
he had killed a very large black
snake. Mr.. Miller noticed a large
lump on the snakes body. He cut
the skin and found the door knob.
The snake had evidently swallowed
It two years ago, and 1t had cured
the reptiles egg stealing propensity.
Forshee spoiled a good story and de-
prived his landlord Of the natural
fruits Of his investment by killing
that snake. The Kansas City Journal
has an authenticated story OF a
snake that made its nest in a box
in which a bottle of whisky was con-
cealed and Matched out a bunch OF
little snakes. II the North Carolina
snake had been let alone, Forshee
would probably have had door knobs
to throw at razor-backs.
AT an emergency meeting OF
the International Cotton con-
gress held In l.
says a dispatch, 1t was decided
to urge spinners in Europe and Amer
lea to refrain from buying American
cotton during the next three months
except for immediate wants, and thus
try to obviate the danger Of the next
cotton season commencing with raw
material at the high prices at present
prevailing. The committee contends
there will be plenty Of time when ac-
tual figures are available regarding the
new crop to consider the situation
that will then arise and, should thS'
supply prove less than the demand, to
take such steps as may be necessary
to meet the conditions. At the same
time, the committee feels sure that the
surplus from last years crop guaran-
tees a full supply even in the event OF
the next crop proving small. The
committee decided to organize SER
vice to obtain correct information as
to the actual consumption Of cotton
throughout the world on the lines pro-
posed by the congress at Manchester
in June last.
While playing in the water SUIT
ton Davis, aged 16, was eaten by a
shark at Davis Shore on the North
Carolina coast, ten miles east OF
Beaufort, last Friday afternoon. The
boy, who was an expert swimmer,
had waded in about waist deep when
he was seized by shark, who pulled
him under and disappeared with him
into deep water. Several men were
on the shore at the time, but before
they could lift a hand 1t was too late
to aid the boy. A search was made
but no portion of his body reap
peared. 1t has been the custom OF
the people Of this section for years
to dive and swim freely, despite the
fact that a number Of sharks are
seen daily. Not in fifty years have
they attacked any one, but have con-
tented themselves with eating refuse
matter thrown into the water from
the factories. The shark that carried
young Davis out to sea and ate him
Is described by witnesses as having
been from twenty to thirty feet In
length. His movements were so
swift that the boy could not avoid
him.
One of the chief supports upon
which the Japanese government Will
lean during the peace negotiations
SAYS a Washington letter, will be
an American citizen who for 25 years
has been the legal adviser of the
mikado's big men and it is a singular
coincidence that these negotiations
will be conducted within the confines
of that Americans native state. That
man is w. H. Denison OF New
Hampshire. Japanese officials state
that Mr.. Denison has been or the
greatest possible value to their
government. He played a prominent
part in the preparation of the treaty
that ended the war between Japan
and China. He represented Japan
at the conferences growing out OF
the Boxer uprising and is credited
with having drawn up the secret
agreement that made Japan and
Great Britain allies and threw the
moral force of that powerful nation
against Russia in the present war,
And now, when the time has arrived
to arrange terms for its conclusion In