Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-11-30
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exact number has not been aScertained.
Up to I.30 o'clock this morning eight
dead bodies had been recovered, and
eighty Of the severely wounded persons
had been conveyed to- hospitals. The
work OF rescue now going on Is attended
with the greatest danger from the pos
sibility Of a renewal of the explosions.
The accident occurred at about half
past eight o'clock. There were two tre-
mendous detonations, heard through
out the entire surrounding industrial
region. which Is thickly settled. The
inhabitants of the neighborhood fed
in panic, fearing further explosions.
The town Of Amen is nothing more
than a heap Of ruins. Houses were
shattered right and left, and no house
escaped injury. Roburit is an explo-
sive Of high power, composed Of salt
petre, ammonia, sulphur and other in
gradients It is not easily exploded by
a blow, and 1t can be burned with safe
ty in the open air. Its power is second
to that of dynamite.
udl lIlC IluSoldu llVuUiOo ehAS 'ANS
over was shown by the extensive mill
tary mutiny at Harbin in eastern ST.
IBERIA. Ever since the close OF the
Japanese war, there has been great dis
content among the Russian troops at
Hardin and Vladivostok, on account OF
the governments failure to keep Its
promises regarding their return home.
The Siberian troops were sent to their
respective provinces and a number or
favored European regiments were re-
turned year ago, but the artillery and.
the regiments of the line were left in
what they regard as banishment and
revolutionary agitators were not slow
to tell the men that the czar was afraid
to bring them home for fear they would
tell in every province Of Russia how
disgracefully they had been betrayed
during the Japanese war. The conse-
quence was two mutinous outbreaks at
Vladivostok and three others at'various
points during the last summer in addi-
ton to that which is now taking place
at Hardin. Dispatches concerning the
situation are meager, but a significant
addition is the statement that condi-
tions are rendered worse by the bold
ness Of the Chinese bandits, Chung
Chunges, who 1t is said, have overrun
all that portion Of Manchuria not un-
der Japanese control.
Washington, November q: The
house committee on the legislative,
executive and judicial appropriation
bill took advantage of the appearance
before II today Of Public Printer
Stillings to discuss the question Of SIM
plified spelling in congressional docu-
ments. The bill came before the COM
mittee in both the old and the new
styles Of photography, the estimates of
the treasury being in the new. style and
the reproductions of the current law
in the old. Attention was called to the
fact that the supreme court OF the
United States had refused to recognize
the executive order for change OF
spelling, and the question was raised
whether by legislative enactment that
tribunal could be compelled to adopt
the modern system. The same ques-
tion arose with reference to the execu-
tive departments, the question there
being whether congress could compel
those departments to return to the
orthodox spelling by legislative enact
ment. There were so many points at
issue that there was no attempt made
to reach a conclusion today. The pub
lie printer agreed with some members
of the committee that an effort to
maintain different systems for the ex-
ecutive and legislative branches would
involve considerable extra expense.
Mobile, Ala, November 81: Govern
or Jeff Davis, newly elected United
States senator, in an interview at
Brookville, Miss, last night, said poll
ticians preach harmony, but 1t Is not
harmony that is needed so much as an
old-fashioned row in the United States
senate. with gentle, kind-hearted
Bob Taylor Of Tennessee, 'Pitchfork'
Tillman Of South Carolina, and the
fearless Vardaman Of Mississippi, there
would be first-class row. When get
to the senate there will be something
doing" He says the race Of life at
this time is not for the fair and equal
one which was in the minds Of the
trainers of this government; that the
combinations Of capital called trusts
have defeated the objects Of the con-
stitution and the law. It's a day OF
commercialism, Of greed, and of graft.
He declared the belief that no man
ever made q million dollars honestly;
that 20 accumulate that vast sum he
must trample on the heads and hearts
of his fellow creatures. But the trust
Is not the only evil. he said. There are
the bucketshops. The bucketshop has
brought more misery, ruined homes,
wrecked more businesses. made more
straight men crooked and destroyed
more lives than any other agency.
He gave a graphic description of a
visit to the New York Cotton Exchange
which he called the great He bucket
shop" where a few gamblers, standing
afOOnO DTdSS q Pioy
thing of the south's great staple, men
who never owned pound Of cotton.
This winter. says a Washington
correspondent, the advocates Of ship
subsidies will be backed by the full
power and authority of the national
administration. Heretofore, that to a
great extent, has been lacking. Presi-
dent Roosevelt never has taken up the
subject with serious purpose, not be-
cause he was unfavorable to it, but be-
cause other matters, to his mind, DOM
mated it in Importance. This winter,
however he will urge not only the de-
STABILITY of such legislation, but the
necessity of 1t. If American merchant
vessels are to be an important factor
in the worlds commerce. He has ad-
verted to the subject in previous mes
sage, but this year will recommend the
enactment of a subsidy measure, In
strong terms and will use his personal
and official influence in support OF 1t.