Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-10-13
Straps and faets.

cial channels to the effect that the mer-
chants Of China had decided to aban-
don the boycott of American products,
for the time being at least. The plan
is to await action by congress on the
exclusion law, which, IL favorable, will
mean the complete eradication of the
anti-American movement, but II ad-
verse to Chinese interests will result In
the prosecution of the scheme with re-
newed vigor. The decision, which is
reported to have been reached by the
Chinese merchants throughout the en-
pire, is In line with the recommends
tions Of the Chinese government, which
were based upon the attitude Of Pres
ident Roosevelt.
Because Of peculiar freak Of ma
ture, Robert Gardiner prisoner In
York county, Illinois, Jail charged with
the murder of Agnes Morrison may es-
cape the death penalty. When arraign-
ed in court last Monday, his attorney
William Buckney startled the court by
saying to Assistant State Attorney
6aTDOuT. 1HlS O S1oS -
won't do you any good to ask for the
death penalty. They can't break this
mans neck If they try to hang him,
and you may lose him altogether by
hanging him and failing to execute the
sentence in full" 1t appears that the
prisoner is suffering from ossification
of the vertebrae and tissues Of the
neck. According to well-knoWn
medical authority. only five cases sim
liar have ever come to the notice OF
the medical profession.
When the flood Of Sept, 8, 1900,
swept the Galveston, Tex. district.
Geo. Wright, his wife and 3-year-old son
lived at Virginia Point. This hamlet
was quickly demolished and Wright
with his family sought safety further
inland on an improvised raft. While
battling with the flood the child was
snatched from its fathers arm and dis
appeared. The parents were rescued
and made diligent search for their
child without success. The morning
after the storm the child. in an almost
lifeless condition, was picked up on
the roadside near Texas City and nurs-
ed back to life. Not being identified
1t was sent to the Luling Orphan asy-
lum, from which 1t was adopted by an
aged couple near Brownwood. rail-
road man knowing that Wright had lost
a child during the storm and that this
child had been found after the storm
notified Wright who found 1t was his
baby boy.
While much talk Is heard on all
sides regarding the annual message or
President Roosevelt, which is almost
completed high government official
day that there is a greater disposition
on the part of politicians to believe
that there will not be break between
Mr.. Roosevelt and congress this winter
over the rate question. This does not
mean that the chief executive Is any
the less determined to frame some
measure by which one of the CHIEF
evils Of the country can be remedied,
but It is rather believed that he has
won a number of opponents to his
side who could pretty we'll control
things In the senate and cause lot OF
delay by needlessly drawn out discus
sions and debates. The house, under
Cannon's lead, Is counted with the
president. so whatever opposition his
views might meet is expected to be
encountered in the senate.
According to recent German statis-
tics, the length Of the railroads Of the
world was 537,105 miles on Dec. 81,
1904, of which 27O,3S6 miles were in
America, 1S7776 miles in Europe, 49,
592 miles in Asia, 1853 miles in Afri-
ca and 1902 miles in Australia. OF
the mileage of European railroads Ger
many stands first. with 34,016. followed
in their order by Russia, 33,2S6;
France, 1926; Austria Hungary, a.
261; the United Kingdom, 22,592; Italy,
10,025; Spain, $3.50; Sweden and Nor
way, 1880. The average cost Of con-
struction of the European railroads
per mile Is estimated at $107,577,
while for the remainder Of the world
the estimate is only $59.6SO. The to-
tai value Of the railroads of the world,
according to these statistics, Is $43,-
900 100000, of which the European
roads figure for $22,O00,000,0 The
estimate for rolling stock is as fol-
lows in numbers: Locomotives, l5O,-
900: passenger coaches, 255,000, and
freight cars, 100000.
III. F. Werley, an agent of the In
sular bureau, who was sent to Santo
Domingo to investigate the revenue
conditions on the border between the
Dominican and Haitian republics, has
made a partial report to the war de-
partment. Mr.. Worley made trip into
the interior Of Hayti while he was on
the island. and says that reports were
often brought to him of savage GUS
toms in the widest regions, including
cannibalistic feas:s where the victims
are babies. These reports were sufti-
ciently authentic to be believed by
him. He estimates that smuggling that
has been going on across this border
has cost. the Dominican government
from $500 to 100000 a year. The
method was to land goods at points in
Hayti and send them by coasting ves-
sells near the Dominican line. They
were then carried over the border by
mule trains. The tariff in Santo DOM
lingo, according to estimates made Mr..
Worley, is about 73 per cent ad VAL
orem, which is a great inducemeHt to
smugglers.
TO go from the Pacific to the
Atlantic ocean quicker than anybody
else has ever made the trip is the
ambition of E. H. Hartman, according
to a Chicago dispatch. Although 1t will
be two weeks before he arrives at San
Francisco from the Philippines Off
cials of his railroads have begun ar
rangements to give him a record
breaking run. I'VE hope to have Mr..
Harrimans special train run from San
Francisco to Chicago in fifty hours
fat" said an official of one of the Har-