Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-09-14

raQe Wnlcn was NeWeu ny HVV'VVV'
visitors. On Wednesday the feature
was 900 magnificent floats, IMPLYING
the city's industries and manufac-
lures. The cost of the floats in
Wednesdays parade are estimated to
have represented an outlay Of $780,
600. Yesterday the feature of the
day was a fireman's parade including
the eity's fire department, and thirty
outside companies which assisted
Baltimore at the time of the great
fire. The weeks jubilee will wind
up tonight with carnival of fun and
jollification.
John d. Rockefeller and the
Standard Oil company have failed,
after desperate efforts, to evade trial
I'm the Ohio courts on the charge OF
violation of the Valentine antitrust
laws of that state. Judge Banker
jarred the Standard Oil people last
June by refusing TO agree with them
on the proposition that they were
immune in so far as his court was
concerned. A few days ago he re-
fused to entertain the proposition OF
the Standards attorneys that Mr.
Rockefeller was no longer directly
connected with the Standard OIL
company. Judge Banker overruled
the proposition, stating that Mr..
Rockefeller was a very important
factor in the affairs Of the Standard
OIL company. The trusts attorneys
then made motion after motion to
have the cases postponed on techni-
cal grounds, but Judge Banker gave
the defendants attorneys to under
stand very plainly that the days OF
delays were gone and that the Stand
ard Oil company and John d. Rookie
feller would certainly have to stand
trial without any more foolishness
william Jennings Bryan received
an ovation in ST. Louis Tuesday sec
ond only to that which he received
in Madison Square Garden, New
York, on his return from his circuit
OF the globe. Tuesday morning MI
Bryan, made an extemporaneous ad-
dress to the Southwestern Immigra-
ton association, the most noticeable
feature Of which was the gentleness
with which he handled his proposed
government ownership OF railroads
proposition. In part he said: II
there is any sentiment in the country
today favoring government owner
ship of railroads, 1t Is because the
railroads have created the netion
that they own the government. Just
in proportion as the railroads regard
the rights OF the people, just in pro-
portion will we get along together.
The railroad Is the servant or the
people. When 1t seeks to become
the master of the people IL usurps
a place not rightfully belonging to
II. I have no objection to railroads
themselves. The only time 1 criti-
else them Is when they misunder-
stand their position in society"
John Sharp williams of Missis-
sippi, minority leader in the national
house of representatives, expressing
his views on the Bryan plans for
government ownership OF railroads,
said a few days ago: 81 am opposed
to government ownership Of railroads
irrevocably, now and forever, In the
DRY and in practice. 1t is a question
concerning which Mr.. Bryan and l
agree to disagree, but see no good
to be attained by rushing into print
on the subject. We will simply
vote II down II offered as a plank Of
the Democratic platform. Meanwhile
let US not magnify Democratic differ
ences. There are so many things we
agreed upon-let US magnify them;
push them to the front If we can.
Bryan is not infallible and does not
pretend to be. He is right about so
many things, eloquently and greatly
right, but absolutely and altogether
wrong about this one thing, especial
ly from the standpoint Of racial
peace and quiet in the south" Mr..
williams declared that he was strong
ly in favor of the government regu-
lating railroad rates, but not of op-
Grating railroads.
The Pennsylvania railroads tun-
mel under the North river and connect
ing New York and Jersey City has at
last been completed, and on Wednes-
day last a party Of the Pennsylvania
engineers, contractors and few out
siders, numbering forty, walked from
Jersey City to New York. This tunnel
has been under construction for the
past two years, the work being push
ed with all possible speed from both
sides of the river, and is intended to
give the Pennsylvania railroad trains
entrance into the centre Of New York.
The construction of this tunnel Is the
first successful attempt to tunnel un-
der the North river although there
have been millions of dollars spent In
previous attempts to connect the two
cities by tunnel through which trains
could be carried into New York city
from the Jersey side. Although the
work of building the tunnel was car
ried on from both sides of the river
the work Of the engineers was so ac-
curate that when the two tubes met
in the center of the river there was
only a variation of one-sixteenth of an
inch in their alignment. This Is the
first of three tubes or tunnels which
the Pennsylvania railroad company
will put under the river.
Wholesale massacres of Jews
continue throughout Russia. Hardly
a day passes that Jews are not
slaughtered in greater or less num-
ber in some portion of the empire.
At Siedlce, Russian Poland, a city
Of 10000 inhabitants, one-half of
whom are Hebrews, during Saturday
night, Sunday and Monday morning
200 Jews were massacred and 5000
persons were wounded. The massacre
was a direct result of an attack by
Terrorists, who fired upon troops
and police from the roofs of houses
occupied by Jews, a policeman being
killed by the firing. After the kill
ing of the policeman the Libau regi-