Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-09-08
Scraps and faets.


has since been engaged In trying to
agree on minimum figures at which the
price shall be fixed. The statistical
bureau of the association on yesterday
gave out Its estimate as to the probable
number Of bales of cotton that will be
ginned this year at s,5SS,1S3. There
has been talk Of fixing the minimum
price at 10 cents; but many delegates
are Of opinion that the figures should
be placed higher. There Is under con-
sideration a proposition to purchase
outright one million bales of cotton
In order that there may be no trouble
about insuring a good price for the
balance.
The south last year exported Al
per cent of the value Of the exports
of the whole country-a total or
S614,9 900, 900. OF course. the greatest
single commodity was cotton. Cot
ton to the value Of $S7s.s65,O14 was
sent to other countries; cotton seed
oil, $15,125,OS2; cotton seed cake and
meal, $lS,S97,17S; naval stores, $16,-
106,64S; phosphates, $6,SS6,274. Besides
this, manufactured cotton goods, tim
ber, tobacco, petroleum grain, COAL
cattle, iron, steel, ETC., were exported
The south is coming into her own IN
dustrially She Is developing her own
resources. And the immediate future
will see still further increases or
such an astonishing nature that the
world will be compelled to sit up
and take notice" 1t should not be
long, at this rate. before quite half
of the whole country's exports Will
be sent out from the south.
Contrary to expectations. the ia
panese people have gone into perfect
frenzy on account Of what they consid-
cred the tremendously humiliating
peace terms their representatives have
agreed upon. The resentment, too, Is
largely directed against the United
States. There was more or less dis
order on the receipt of the first news,
and 1t has been growing In extent
and violence daily. A dispatch OF yes
terday tells of the burning OF ten
Christian churches In Toxic and else
where, and also Of the burning OF the
palace Of Baron Komura, foreign min
lister, now In the United States. On
Wednesday E. H. Hartman and party
of Americans were attacked on the
streets of Toxic. The American con-
sulate was besieged by dangerous
mob which had to be kept at bay by
bayonet charges. Another big dem
onstration was on foot yesterday, and
the leaders Of the uprising said
that their action was for the purpose
of attracting the attention Of the en-
peror. They wanted him to refuse to
ratify the treaty.
Washington, Sept. 6: David E.
Salmon, chief Of the bureau Of ami
NAL industry Of the agricultural de-
partment, has rendered his resignation
and II has been accepted to take effect
on October /. The resignation was
announced by Secretary Wilson at
noon today, but he declined to state
whether the severance Is due to the
charges filed recently against DR.. Sal
mon. These charges related to the
connection which Dr. Salmon had had
with Geo. E. Howard, in the printing
business, and which later resulted In
the organization Of the Howard Label
company, which holds the contract for
supplying meat inspection tags to the
government The relations Of DR.. Sal
mon and Mr.. Howard were investigat-
ed by Solicitor McCabe, Of the depart
ment of agriculture and the doctor was
exonerated, 1t having been shown that
he withdrew from the company soon
after the first contract was received
from the government. Charges were
preferred against DR.. Salmon also In
connection with the meat inspection
service. He was exonerated also on
these charges, but the report was not
accepted as satisfactory by the packing
concerns, whose applications for meat
inspection had been denied.
In attempting to infiict punish
ment on q motorman last Tuesday
night an angry crowd in Clinton street,
New York, caused the death Of a lit
tie girl who otherwise would have es-
capped with a few slight bruises. In
the riot that followed several persons
were badly hurt and police reserves
had hard fight to disperse the mob.
The victim of the accident was Anna
Shrinshock. two years old. With her
father and another man she was being
led across the street when crowded
north bound car rolled the girl under
the fender where she lay crying, but
apparently uninjured. Before the mo-
torman could step from the platform
and lift the fender the crowd made
rush for him and In the scramble he
was forced against the controller,
turning 1t around and putting a full
current on. Instantly the car shot
forward a distance Of 200 feet and the
child's body was ground to pieces.
The sight of the mangled body added
fury to the mob, and the motorman
was dragged from the car and nearly
beaten to death.
There Is considerable dissatisfac-
ton, says a Chicago dispatch, among
the older members Of the Knights of
Honor a fraternal organization. with
a large membership scattered through
out the United States, over the increase
in the rates which went into effect
last Tuesday. Thousands of the older
members seriously consider the ad-
visibility Of severing their connection
with the organization. The change.
which was decided on some time ago
by the officers of the supreme lodge,
differs essentially from the change
which caused so much dissatisfaction
in the ranks of the Royal Arcanum.
It affects only members between sixty
and seventy years Of age. Formerly
all members over sixty years Of age
were assessed s8 per month, while un-
der the new arrangement members OF
seventy will be assessed SIS a month
on $4,000 insurance; those of sixty
nine years, $l4: those Of sixty-eight
years, $3.50 and so on down the scale.