Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-12-14
Straps aud fatts.


for governor, was elected. Charles E.
Hughes, Republican candidate for gov
ernor, was elected by plurality OF
57,973. The pluralities for the DEM
ocratic candidates for the state offices
below that of governor ranged from
SAP for Chanler to 14,250 for Martin
H. Glynn, the Democratic candidate
for comptroller.
A dispatch from Austin, Texas,
saws: The anti Bailey movement has
gained headway throughout the state
during the last few days. The leaders
of the opposition to Bailey claim that
seventy-two members Of the legisla-
ture have made 1t known that they
will not vote for Bailey's reelection.
This Is enough to defeat him. Attor-
ney General r. v. Davidson, said that
he had no further reply to make to Mr..
Bailey. Mr.. Bailey had called for the
proof of the charges which he had
made against him, and he had res
ponded to that demand by furnishing
Ii, he said.
-Kekomo, Indiana, December IL: A
riot of negro troops, similar to the
Brownsville affair, has happened In
the Philippines, according to letter
received by Mrs. M. H. Jackson, the
mother Of Lieutenant Calvert, who was
murdered by members Of his company
while on duty. The letter says Cal
vert was the victim Of premeditated
murder. He tried to stop drunken
fight of his men of the twenty fourth
infantry, negroes, when shot. The en-
tire company Is under arrest An ap-
peal will be made to President Roose-
Welt to have the guilty punished. NO
members of the company viii reveal
who did the fatal shooting.
- Washington, December IL: The
annual report of George E. Roberts,
director Of the mint, was filed today.
It shows that the coinage was less
during the last year than for several
years previous, owing, chiefly, to the
exhaustion Of the stock Of silver bull
lion. The total OF domestic coinage
was 167,371,O35 pieces of the value OF
s60,216,747 Of this $5S,002,0s7 was In
gold coin, $3,016,36S, was subsidiary
silver coins, s2,SO2.397 was in five-
cent nickels and $S95,SS4 was in bronze
one-cent pieces. There was also a
coinage Of 25,000,000 pesos in gold for
the Mexican government: 100000 frac-
tlonal silver pieces for the government
Of Costa Rica. 100000 half balboa
pieces for the government Of Panama,
and 1,557,629 pesos and 1887 pieces IN
fractional silver coins for the govern
ment Of the Philippine Islands.
- Washington, Dec. IL: The crop
reporting board Of the bureau OF sta
tistics of the department Of agricul-
ture from the reports Of the cores
pondents and agents Of the bureau In
conjunction with the recent report by
the bureau Of census Of the quantity
Of cotton ginned, estimates that the
total production Of cotton in the Unit
ed States for the year 1906-07 will
amount to 6,001, 726,000 pounds (not
including linters), equivalent to H.
$4,000 bales Of 500 pounds gross
weight. The estimated production in
50O-pound bales by states Is as fol-
lows: Virginia, $4,000; North Carolina,
$4,000; South Carolina, $4,000;
Georgia, 1,57S,OOO; Florida, $4,000;
Alabama, 1,252,000; Mississippi, 1,4S4,-
900; Louisiana, $4,000; Texas, 3,s44,-
900; Arkansas, $4,000; Tennessee, ESQ.,
900; Missouri, $4,000; Oklahoma, $50;
Indian Territory, 4O5,0O0.
Former Gov. Franklin ]. Moses OF
South Carolina was found dead in bed
at his lodging house at Winthrop
Beach, Mass, last Tuesday, death be-
ing caused by asphyxiation. When his
room was broken into gas was found
escaping from a small stove which
was used to heat the place. Mr.. Mo-
ses was sixty years Of age. He had
resided in Winthrop for several years
and occasionally had acted as moder-
ator at its town meeting. Mr.. Moses
had a varied career and although once
was wealthy, 1t Is said that he died In
comparative poverty. He was govern
or of South Carolina in 1872. Moses
was a native of Sumter county. He
was honorably discharged from South
Carolina college shortly after the wal
and as a member Of the staff Of Gov
F.. w. Pickens raised the South Caro-
lima flag over Fort Sumter, after its
surrender by Major Anderson. Until
1865 he was a Democrat; but during
reconstruction became a Republican
and was a member of the constitu-
tional convention Of 1858. He was af-
forwards governed. His administra-
tion was one of corruption. He sold
pardons outright and took big rakeoffs
from dishonest appropriations. He
penitentiary.
During the consideration of the
legislative, executive and judicial ap-
preparation bill in the house Of repre-
sentatives last Tuesday, Representa-
tive Richardson Of Alabama, spoke In
favor Of sustaining in the bill the par
agraph appropriating $4,000 to send
cotton experts to foreign countries to
investigate the outlook for the sale OF
cotton products. He said it was amaz-
ing to him that the appropriation COM
mittee had stricken out that para
graph Of the bill. Cotton manufacture
and cotton production. Mr. Richardson
said, was the greatest industry in the
world. There is no conflict between
the spinner and the grower" he re-
marked. Europe is paying US today
for cotton fully $500 100000, more than
$l,O0O,000 per day. If this industry
should be destroyed the most import
ant business of Great Britain would be
prostrated." The legislative, executive
and judicial appropriation bill affords
an opportunity for general debate,
covering a wide range of subjects from
a dissertation on Alfred Nobel, the
founder Of the Nobel prize, to the rails