Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-10-19
Scraps aud fatts.

Charleston folks Immediately arranged
to secure 10000 bales Of cotton, and the
understanding is that they will furnish
the Wittekind with a return cargo
every time 1t comes. Along with sew
eral hundred immigrants this time the
ship will bring a cargo OF kainit for
Charleston. -
Postmaster General Cortelyou has
given out an advance statement Of the
receipts and expenditures Of the postal
service for the fiscal year ended June
30, 1906. 1t shows reduction OF the
annual deficit from s14,572,5S4 for 1905
to S1O,51s,s96 for 1906, over four mil
lions of dollars, or 27.S3 per cent. The
total receipts for 1906 were $167,sS2.7SS,
an increase over 1905 Of $15,106,1sS'
which is the greatest increase for any
year In the history Of the service. The
per cent of increase in receipts for 1916
is 9.SS, as compared with 6.42 for 1909
The total expenditures during 1906 were
s17S,449,779, an increase Of $11,O5O'6lo
over 1905. The per cent Of increase In
expenditures is less than for number
of years and is smaller by one third
than the per cent of increase during
1906.
washington, October IS: Reports
to the weather bureau indicate that
the tropical hurricane has evidently
passed northeastward through the
Florida straits and is now over the At
lantic some distance east Of the Geor-
gia coast. Reports from land stations
give no Indication at present OF dan
gerous winds along the immediate
coast and adjacent territory. General
rains have fallen in the middle ana
southern Atlantic states. Rain Is indi-
Gated for Friday In the middle Atlantic
states. The weather will clear in the
south Atlantic states Saturday and Will
be generally fair. Storm warnings are
displayed from Cape Cod to Florida
The winds along the middle Atlantic
coast will be fresh to brisk northeast;
along the south Atlantic coast, light to
fresh north to northwest; along the
gulf coast, fresh northwest to north.
Next to the czar. Emperor William
has always been the best guarded mon
arch In Europe. Since the terrorists
have become so active in Russia the
kaiser has sanctioned extraordinary
precautions for safeguarding his per-
SON. When he visited a Berlin exhibi-
tion Immediately after the St. Peters
burg massacres 900 uniformed police
men and scores Of detectives and secret
service agents followed his movements.
During his Posen visit he had body
guard of twenty special detectives,
while the number of secret police In
the town itself was quadrupled. When
he repairs to his shooting box at Rom
inten the whole forest is closed to out
siders by a ring fence of gendarmes
and police officials. And whenever ne
goes out driving he is attended not
only by an escort Of cavalry, but by
a body of police mounted on bicycles,
who zigzag from one side Of the road
to the other looking for lurking ex-
plosives. ~
= Statistics summarizing the twelfth
census show the total burden Of public
debt, for the period ending June 80,
1906, to have been $3.50 per capita.
This. together with elaborate tables, Is
given in an advance summary just Is
sued by the bureau Of the census. The
above total is based on all forms OF
debt, that of the National government,
of the states and territories, Of coun-
ties or parishes, and Of cities and other
minor civil divisions. The total debt OF
the republic at the close Of the period
covered by the census was $2,7S9,207,-
46S, as against $2,02S,703,2SS for the
preceding decade. OF this total, the
actual national debt was $925,011,6S7;
the state and territorial debt, $2S4,S14,-
100; county debt s196, 96,414.052; city, vii
lage, township, etc.. $1,SS7, ,279,56s;
school district debt, $46,1SS,015. The
actual per capita Of the National gov
ernment debt is $11.77, the lowest ever
reached. The per capita state and ter
ritorial debt is $29S, also a record min
imum figure.
The fight in Philadelphia between
two women over the distribution OF
$50, 100000 Of the late William Weight
man, chemist, was abruptly halted last
Monday by the production of a small
piece Of note paper turned yellow with
age What the paper contained was
not made public. The halt in the pro-
ceedings was made at the suggestion
OF the counsel for Mrs. Jones Wister,
who is acting as guardian for her
daughter, Martha, the contestant. The
beneficiaries predict that the case is
ended forever. William Weightman
first made a will leaving his estate
equally divided between Annie Weight
man Walker, a daughter, and his two
sons. Ten years later ne made another
will and left the entire estate to his
daughter, his sons having died, leaving
eight children. The widow Of William
weightman married Jones Wister, and
she contests the will on behalf Of her
daughter Martha, on the ground that
he left a codicil in which he provided
for his grandchildren. The sudden halt
caused rumors of a compromise, but
this is denied by attorneys.
-. Charlotte Observer. Wednesday:
The expected death of Mrs. Varina
Jefferson Davis, widow of the presi-
dent OF the Confederacy. occurred last
evening. She was a native of Natchez,
Miss, was born Howell, May Z, 1926,
and died, therefore, in her eighty-first
year She was married to Mr.. Davis in
lS45 and followed him through his
varying fortunes. OF glorious achieve
ment, of eclipse, and of life which
presented all the phases of success and
tragedy, with the loyalty and devotion
which belong to a true woman and a
true wife. Mrs. Davis was a woman
OF not only character but Of ability,
and has written many criticisms for
newspapers and magazines, as we'll as
a book: Jefferson Davis-A Memoir
BY His Wife" Four sons and one
daughter (Miss Winnie) are dead and
but one child, Mrs. l. P. Hayes of Col
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