Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-03-30
RE-MENTlON.

Congress is seeking to economiZe in
the pubic printing office by placing the
publication of various public docu-
ments within the discretion of Il COM
mittee. 1t is estimated that the un-
necessary waste now amounts To MIL
lion dollars a year. ......N Nine Workmen
were killed by the ditching OF an ac-
commodation train on the Chicago ana
Northwestern railway at Casper, Wyo.,
last Monday. The city of FayetteVlllc.
n. c., was swept by q $25O,OOO fire last
Monday. The distress of the Japan
ese famine continues very great. .....
The Joint committee of bituminouS op-
orators and miners that has been Ill
session at Indianapolis, Ind, for some
time, finally reached a disagreement
last Monday, and it is understood that
all of the bituminous miners will go on
a strike next Saturday. The bitumi-
nous miners affected number 5OO,OOO.
Mrs. Willie Standifer, the Atlanta
woman who recently killed her sister,
Miss Chapelle WhiSOnant, for reasons
of jealousy. has been indicted by the
Fulton county, Ga, grand jury on the
charge of murder. :. General Luke II.
Wright, the newly appointed ambassa-
dor to Japan, will sail for his new post
on April 30. Capt. f.. w. Jones. OF
the Virginia national guard, recently
convicted for the murder OF Il woman
named Maude Cameron Robertson. mas
been sentenced to the Virginia penl-
tentiary for period or eighteen
years. The owners of Florida naval
stores camps are making the expert
mrnt of bringing Chinese laborers from
Oregon to diSplace the negroes VINO
have become very unsatisfactory ana
unreliable. In New York last We'd
I 10 q
divorce from his wife, Alice Webb
Duke. The bodies of six murdered
Bulgarans were found in IL house In
Minneapolis. Mimi. last "Wednesday
night Ii was thought that the men
had been quarreling among themselves
and that others who escaped could tell
more about the affair. Two of the men
had been dead several days ana the
deaths of the others were more recent.
TILLMAN ON THE SENNTE.-Scnator
Tillman isn't writing any book.
There are always some - fellows
who go around here Matching up
such things" he says.
4 few weeks ago newspaper
syndicate asked Senator Tillman to
write Il story on the senate. At iirSt
he refused. or said he would have To
take the matter under Amusement
before he would consent to write ii.
While he was thus considering, an
other syndicate made him an offer of
twice the amount offered him by the
first one for Il story. This time he
consented. The story will appear in
some of the Sunday papers and Will
probably be several columns in
length.
Somehow from this the New York
Sun, which furnishes Il tclcgraphic
service To number of papers, got
it into its head. thence into its col
umnS and the columns of other pa
pers that the South Carolina senator
was writing a book. Doubtless be-
cause of the general presumption
that the senator's generally are on
the defensive these days. il was nat
ural To suppose that whatever he or
any other senator might write would
be Il "dcfcmSc of the senate" Hence
the subj, was also attributed To his
"bnnk.' As Il matter of fact his arti-
81" will be- about the senate. but
whether he is going To defend il or
not. when he sits down tn writ" or
stands up to dictate. neither he him
self nor any one else would b" safe
in predicting Washington cores
pondcnC" of tn" Columbia State.
THE JAPANESE FAMINE.-Thc latest
statistics prOculIblr from the three
prrfrCturrS most heavily affected by
the famine are as follows:
Fukushima A complete failur" Of
the crops over two-thirdS Of the whole
cultivated area. The sufferers num-
bcr 4S.5S% out of Il total population Of
1.l70.95S.
Miyagn-A complete crop failure af-
fccts nearly the whole cultivated area.
The sufferers number 2S4.%G5 out of Il
population of SS9,7S2.
Iwatc-A total failure of the crops
over nearly two-thirdS of the whole
cultivated area. The sufferers number
1gO.492 out of Il population of 1897.
The sufferers here mentioned are
only those requiring immediate relief
i'm the matter of food and clothing. The
other procedures are also more or less
affected. especially. Gumma. The total
number of sufferers calling for aid eX-
ceedS 1000.000 Assistance. both pri-
vatc and official. is active. but entirely
inadequate I" the necessities Of tn" oc-
Ginn