Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-10-23
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ment issued today shows: For the
nineteen days of October an increase
over last year OF $1,000 and decrease
under the same period year before last
of 10000. For the forty mine days Of
the season that have elapsed the ag-
gregate is behind the same days Of last
year $4,000 and behind the same days
year before last $4,000. The amount
brought into sight during the past week
has been 495,643 bales against 441, 1853
for the same days last year and $751;
4SS year before last.
After singing religious songs for
two hours the jury in the case Of the
state Of Ohio against the Standard OIL
company, which has been proceeding
for several weeks at Findlay, Ohio,
brought in a verdict Of guilty as
charged last Friday at 4.30 a m. The
Standard was tried upon the charge OF
violation of the Valentine antitrust
law and is punishable by fine Of not
less than $50 nor more than $4,000, and
Imprisonment OF not less than six
months nor more than one year or both
In the discretion Of the court. The
prosecuting attorney Of Ohio predicts
that this verdict is sounding Of the
death knell Of the oil trust.
j. Walter Rhoads, Pittsburg, Pa,
millionaire, prominent In the steel and
iron trade, at the age of thirty has been
placed in a sanitarium because Of ply
sical breakdown. With 100000 in his
own right, and one Of two heirs to $1O,-
100000 more, young Rhoads started In
after graduating from college to make
more millions. He thoroughly STUDIED
the iron and steel and was regarded as
an authority in everything relating to
the steel trade. Unlike most Of the
not indulge in any kind Of dissipation
or fads, but put in ten to fourteen
hours each day in his office and his
collapse Is said to be entirely due TO
overwork.
The labor situation in the Missis-
sippi valley is one OF the serious prob
lens confronting not only planting, but
manufacturing interests, and the courts
are being called upon to close up all
dives in the cities and drive all lotter-
ers therefrom, in order that there may
be enough help to gather the cotton
crop. and carry on manufacturing IN
dustries. says Memphis, Tenn, dis
patch to the New York Commercial.
This step has been taken in Memphis,
and reports from jackson, Miss, are to
the effect that the proprietors of man
ufacturing establishments have appeal
ed to the courts to shut up all the low
dives and stop the Illicit sales Of whis-
ky, declaring that, IL this is not done,
the manufacturing plants will have TO
be closed down. At Vicksburg, Miss,
efforts have been made to drive all the
unemployed negroes out OF the city, and
recently one Of the judges was asked to
adjourn court and let the negroes who
were on trial go to the cotton fields,
and help gather the crops, request
with which he readily complied.
Richmond, Va, October 10: With
full military honors, while saddened
throngs stood about with barred heads,
the body Of Mrs. Jefferson Davis was
buried this afternoon between the
graves of the president of the Confed-
eracy and her daughter Winnie. The
family and escort arrived here this
morning and was met by Lieutenant
Governor Ellison and details Of broken
old men in gray uniforms from Lee and
Pickett camps Of Confederate veterans.
The funeral procession was escorted to
ST. Paul's church between lines Of by
ISLANDERS who stood with barred heads in
the streets. There, In the edifice where
Mr.. and Mrs. Davis worshipped during
the war and where President Davis
was seated when telegram from Cen
eral Lee was handed him announcing
the fall OF Richmond, the body lay in
state as the silent crowds filed past.
The burial was at 3 o'clock in Holly
wood in the Davis square and the
bricks of the new grave touch that
of the president, Mrs. Davis having
asked that she be buried as closely as
possible to her husband. The crowd at
the funeral was large and hundreds OF
beautiful floral tributes were banked
over the grave.
-Gastonia Gazette: On the train the
other evening between Kings Mountain
and Bessemer City, Mr.. r. w. White
bought some apples from the news
butch. The butch was a keen old man
wearing spectacles. Later on the
butch wanted to exchange some coin
for a five dollar bill. Mr.. White ac-
commodated him. While counting over
the nineteen quarters and four nickles,
Mr.. White observed the butch coming
back and remarked to him, short
nickel" The butch paid 1t, and said
IT was mistaken and gave you Can
adian quarter" Then he poured the
coin into the butch's hand, who stack
ed the quarters in little piles like on
his palm. He failed to find the foreign
coin and with a slick motion apparently
emptied his hand into the hand Of Mr..
White. Without counting the coin
again, Mr.. White snapped his purse and
put II in his pocket. He left the train
at Gastonia, but kept thinking Of the
Canadian quarter" so hard that he
counted his money again and found
himself 1925 short. The train had
ed next day for the butch's return.
Meanwhile. he consulted Esquire w. I.
Stowe. Next day Mr.. White and Po-
liceman Carroll watched 80 roll in from
Charlotte. They both boarded the
train. Said Mr.. White to the butch,
THAT Canadian quarter business work.
ed all right yesterday but 1t don't go
this morning. / want my $2.25. AND
the man came across with the stuff.
Atlanta, Ca, October IS: The meet
ing of the Georgia branch Of the Far
mers' union tonight made 1t pretty
plain that there Is fight to the death
going on between that organization and
the Southern Cotton association. The
Farmers union claims to have, and pro-
badly has, $4,000 members in this state
alone, and says that the strength Is
about equal in other states of the cot
ton belt At the meeting tonight there
was quite a little discussion along the
line Of the interview with President
Barrett, in which he said that Mr.. Jor-
dan and the Southern Cotton associa-
ton had not done right in not endors-
ing and urging the minimum price OF
cotton at IL cents. Mr. Barrett be-
lieves that the crop will be short one,
and contends that there is every rea-
son for holding to IL cents as the low
mark for marketing the crop. At the
meeting tonight resolutions were pre-
sented and unanimously adopted by the
union advising all farmers particularly
in Georgia, but generally throughout
the cotton belt, to pay no further at
tention to President Harvey Jordan OF
the Southern Cotton association in the
matter Of advice issued by him on the
cotton situation. The resolutions make
II plain that Mr.. Jordan is not popular
in his ideas on the cotton situation
with the new organization, and there
Is little or no room left to doubt the
fact that the union and the Southern
association are no longer to pull to-
gether, but rather that the union will
make q determined effort to break up
the Southern Cotton association.
1t Is estimated that not less than
6n0 neODle lost their lives last Thurs