Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-03-24
Straps and facts.

preme court and be governed by the
decision of that body. The United
States government has quite q serious
dispute with Venezuela, the old as
phalt quarrel not having been settled
yet. The Venezuelan government has
not yet answered the last note of Min
lister Bowen, and the government at
Washington intimates that unless
there Is a favorable answer pretty
soon there will be trouble. .."t
Says q New York dispatch OF
March %: A plan for the gradual ad-
mission Of the policy-holders OF the
Equitable Assurance society OF the
United States to a share in the control
of its affairs was adopted by the d.
rectors of that society yesterday. The
plan provides for an amendment to the
b. societys charter so that % OF its 6z
directors shall at the expiration Of four
years have been elected by the policy
holders and the remaining "a by the
stockholders. Under the new plan
seven of the thirteen directors an
nually elected will be chosen by the
policy holders and six by the stock
holders. The new method of control
will thereafter become effective after
four years.
Says a London dispatch Of Mon
day; The report Of the commissioners
sent out by the British government to
investigate the cotton growing possi-
bilities in East Africa is published this
evening In the form Of White paper.
1t says: Unless difficulties which at
present are thought to be insuperable
can be removed, cotton cultivation In
East Africa will never be undertaken
on any considerable scale" First
among the difficulties the commission
ers place labor, on account of the
apathy of the natives and their disin-
clination for work. The total area de-
voted to cotton growing under Euro
pean supervision can scarcely exceed
a few thousand acres. The commits
sioners' opinion Is that the only solu-
ton of the difficulty is indentured Ia
Dor from lnQla or emma.
Congregational ministers repre-
senting Boston and various sections or
New England, have forwarded to the
American board Of commissioners for
foreign missions a protest against the
acceptance by the board Of a gift OF
100000 from John D. Rockefeller.
The petition which was prepared by a
committee, chosen at a meeting Of the
clergymen, protests against the accept
ance Of the gift on the ground that the
Standard Oil company, Of which Mr..
Rockefeller is the head, Stands before
the public under repeated and recent
formidable indictments In specihc
terms for methods which are morally
iniquitous and socially destructive" and
that the acceptance Of such gift
involves the constituents Of the board
in a relation implying honor toward
the donor and subjects the board to
the charge of ignoring the moral issues
involved"
Scores Of people were killed and
hundreds were injured by the explo-
sion Of the boiler Of the Grover Shoe
factory at Brockton, Mass, last Mon
day. The explosion occurred shortly
after the 400 employees Of the factory
had gathered at their work. Fire fol-
lowed the explosion, and the panic
stricken operatives crowded the stair
ways and jumped from the windows
in their efforts to escape. Hundreds
OF people were imprisoned alive under
the wreckage, and burned to death
while friends on the outside were try
ing to rescue them. In all fifty-fve
bodies were recovered, most Of them
mutilated beyond recognition. Two
hundred and fifty-fve employees, all
more or less injured escaped with their
lives, and about fifty are still included
among the missing. Many Of these
may have been burned to ashes. The
property loss amounts to about $780,
900.
Columbia Record: The press dis
patches nearly every day contain some
more or less lengthy statements about
the Panama commission and its work,
or nom work 1t may be more accurately
said. These dispatches relate to the
health of the canal zone, a most i'm
portant matter, and there is a great
deal said about the disagreements of
doctors as to what steps ought to be
taken or what have not been. They
tell, also, about possible changes in the
official staff Of the commission and so
on ad infinitum. What the people of
the country want is actual digging to
begin. 1t will take long time at best
to complete the work. The Washing
ton Post hit the real situation very
cleverly in a cartoon printed the other
day. The picture represented wheel
barrow filled with shovels and picks,
at the sight of which the Panama
commission went into Mysteries. We
wonder, after all, whether some spe-
cial interests concerned are not res
ponsible for the continued delays even
railroad trust entirely disinterested,
for instance?
Dispatches Of the past few days
from correspondents with the Russian
forces indicate that the retreat toward
Harbin continues with the japanese
still in steady but not very vigorous
pursuit. One correspondent, wiring
from a point 1S0 miles north of Tie
Pass on Tuesday, said that the rear
guard of the Russian army was then
about 80 miles south, moving along as
rapidly as it could under the circum-
stances. Because the Japanese have
apparently lost some of their en-
ergy, the Russians are now taking