Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-12-22
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Ginners are urged to make no reports
except to the National Ginners asso-
ciation and the bureau Of agriculture
Final returns to the bureau of sta
tistics Of the department of agricul-
ture, according TO a bulletin issued
Wednesday, show the production Of the
principal farm crops in 1905 to have
been as follows: Corn 2,707,SsS.54O
bushels; winter wheat 42S, 462,SS4 BUSH
els: spring wheat 264,516,655 bushels;
oats s5S,216197 bushels; barley 1885,
$4,000 bushels; rye 27,616.054 bushels;
buckwheat 14,5S5,OS2 bushels; flaxseed
2s,477,753 bushels; rice 12,933,4S6 BUSH
els; potatoes 260,741,294 bushels; hay
60,531,611 tons; tobacco 633,03S,7ls
pounds.
Abraham H. Hummel of New YORK.
one of the most famous criminal law
yers in the United States, was on We'd
nesday sentenced to pay a fine or SSOO
and go to prison for period or one
year. The charge against Hummel was
conspiracy" in the notorious Dodge
Morse divorce case. Hummel induced
witnesses to perjure themselves, ana
won a case on perjured testimony. he
had probably won hundreds Of other
cases the same way; but in this one
he was caught Hummel Is quite
wealthy and had great influence. he
was convicted through the aggression
of Mr.. Jerome which knows no let up.
Savannah, Ga, December 20: j.
T. Vincent, manager, and Frank n.
Bourquin, shipping clerk of the local
plant Of the Schwarzschild & Sulz-
berger Beef company, were electro-
cuted during the electrical storm that
prevailed here this evening. Mana
ger Vincent picked up an incandes-
cent light. The insulation was de-
fective and he received the current.
He fell and Bourquin went to his as
sistance. AS he touched Mr.. Vincent
Bourouin, too fell. When assistance
reached them both were dead. MT
Vincent was 81 years old and leaves
q widow and two children. MI
Bourquln was 33 years old.
IT. ]. Kennan Of Pittsburg. presi-
dent of the American society, OF the
Isles of Pines, who for three years has
been fighting against ratification of the
treaty whereby it is proposed to give
Cuba, the title of the Isle OF Pines
is in Washington. Discussing the sub
iect he said: "I believe congress and
the American people realize that the
treaty now before the senate involves
the surrender to a foreign country for
government by absolute and un-Amer-
lean laws of a colony Of American clu-
zens. fostered as official records Will
demonstrate, by the American govern
ment. The measure will meet with
such general disapproval that 1t will be
impossible to put 1t through" He ad-
vocates sending a congressional COM
mittee to the Isle to investigate the en-
tire situation.
Spartanburg Journal: An immense
amount of work is now urIcr way en-
the South and Western railroad near
Marion, n. c., between 1900 and l,SOO
hands being employed in grading and
tunneling. and large force Is also at
work on the road in Virginia. The
read which is backed by Thomas F.
RYAN. James A. Blair and others who
are also interested in the Seaboard, Is
to cAt,nd from Elkhorn City, KY. via
the coal fields Of Tennessee and Vir-
ginia, to North Carolina and thence to
Spartanburg. At Rutherfordton, N. e.
connection for Charlotte and Whining
ton will be made over the Seaboard and
at Spartanburg it will connect with
the Atlantic Coast Line for tidewater
outlet at Port Royal or Charleston.
The promoters of the line say trains
will be running over the line in two
years. Trains are now running on
twelve miles Of track in Virginia and
sixty-five miles from Johnson City,
Tenn, to Spruce Pine, N. c.
st. Petersburg, December 20: The
proclamation Of a general strike for
tomorrow at noon has created the
most intense excitement. If 1t can
be successfully inaugurated and
maintained the revolutionaries are
confident that 1t will break the gov
ernment's back. In government cir
cles, however, confidence is expressed
that the proletariat organizations
cannot effect a complete tie-up and
that the strike must be Of short
duration. This hope seems based on
the theory that the extreme pro-
gramme of the Reds has alienated
the sympathy of a large proportion
of the real workmen and also upon
what they claim to be absolute knowl-
edge that the organizations are with
out funds. The governments calcu-
lations, however, have proved deplor-
ably at variance with the true situa-
ton in the past and the strike leaders
declare the government is again hope
lessly ignorant of the magnitude Of
the struggle confronting it. Their
plans are exceedingly ambitious.
From the nature Of the appeals OF
the leaders to the troops it is evil
dent that they expect to precipitate a
crisis in the army.
The census bureau on Wednesday
issued a bulletin showing the quantity
of cotton ginned from the growth OF
1905 to Dec. 13 to be 9,2S2,191 bales,
counting round bales as half bales as
compared with 11,971,477 bales on the
same date in 1904 and S.526,244 bales
on the same date in 1903. The amount
of cotton ginned by the several cotton
growing states for 1905 up to the date
named is as follows: Alabama, l.l3l,-
621 bales; Arkansas, 474,35O; Florida
69,663; Georgia, 1,62O,S59; Indian Terri
tory, 274 S13; Kentucky, 1858; Louis
lana, 414,715; Mississippi. s4s,2OS; Mis-
souri,, 33,53S; North Carolina, 59S,5O4;
Oklahoma, 257,4O3; South Carolina, l.
O42,SO6; Tennessee, 226 476; Texas, g.
l72,613; Virginia, 14,374. The statistics
are accompanied by the following eX-
planatory statement: In this report the
statistics are in running bales, /. E.,
bales as pressed at the ginneries, eX-