Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-08-07
Scraps aud faets.

ance To-Day was very SIIldli, many uSi-
egates having left for their homes.
The general theme for the discus
sion today was Race Organization,
Their Purpose and Work" Bishop
Walters said that in order to secure
civil and political rights the negro
must go into the courts and fight the
question out. Rev. ]. N. c.. Coggins;
of Covington, Ga, said the separation
of the races had done. the negro
an incalculable injury, ''and our enc
mics have taken advantage Of this
unfortunate circumstance to retard
our political progress" The associ-
alton today adopted resolutions con-
demning the railroad companies
for the inequality of service fur
nished, contending that the negroes
were satisfied with the separate cars
but that the race was not fur
nished the accommodations prescribed
by law.
Charleston Post: The first official
announcement respecting the battle
ship Dreadnaught is contained in a
White Book on naval construction
during the last year, issued at Lon
don. Besides the ten 12-inch guns,
the big battleship will have twenty
seven l2-pound quick firing anti
torpedo boat guns and five submerg-
ed torpedo tubes. In the arrange
ment of armament, six of the big
guns are mounted in pairs on the
center line of the ship, and the re-
naming four are mounted in. pairs
as broadsides. Thus, eight 12-inch
guns, or eighty per cent Of the plain
armament, can be fired either broad
side, and four, and possibly six 12-
inch guns. or sixty per cent, can be
fired simultaneously, ahead or astern.
In view of the modern potentialities
of torpedo boats, and considering es-
pecially the chances of torpedo at
tack toward the end OF the battle,
torpedo boat guns are widely sepa-
rated, so that all cannot be disabled
by one heavy shell, After thorough
consideration from every point of
view, the White Book says experts
were unanimous in the decision to
adopt turbines, which are considered
more advantageous for sea-going
speed. The speed is designed to be
twenty-one knots. The bunker ca
pacity is 2,700 tons, with which the
Dreadnaught. can steam $500 sea
miles at economical speed and $500
miles at eighteen and one-half knots.
The estimated cost, including guns,
is $S,9S7,4S5.
A terrible marine disaster oc-
CURED off Cape Palos, Spain, last
Saturday afternoon. The italian
steamship Sirio, from Genoa for va
rious ports in Spain to South Amer
lea, with about 500 people on board, |
went down. The vessel struck a |
rocky reef and went down so rapidly |
that it was almost impossible to do
a great deal toward rescue. II hap
pened that there was a fleet of fish |
they did what they could to help the
distressed passengers and crew. The |
captain of the ship admitting that the |
accident was due to his own impru-
dence, committed suicide by blowing
out his brains. The captains of
the fishing boats acted most heroic |
ally. Most of them went close up TO
the sinking ship and took the strug-
Cling passengers out of the water.
In one case, the crew of a fishing |
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as many people as il was thought |
the vessel could carry with safety, |
wanted to pull away. The captain
drew his revolver and declared that
the boat should not move as long as
IL was possible to give help to an
other unfortunate. He got 200 peo-
pie on his boat and saved them all. |
The captain of another trawler after
getting 500 people aboard, and his
boat loaded almost to the waters
edge. forced the people at the muz-
zle of his revolver to go down into
the hold. Otherwise his boat would
have been capsized. A roll call on
shore showed that $50 persons were
missing but ii is practically certain
that many of these were rescued.
There was a brutal panic on board
the Sirio soon after she struck the
rock. Italian emigrants fought for
the boats with their knives and soon
got possession. 1t was not until af-
ter they had secured control that
the captain blew out his brains. The
scenes on shore after the rescued
were landed were most heartending,
mothers wailing for their missing
children and children crying for their
missing parents.
- Washington correspondence Char
lotte Observer: In attempting to
prove the charge that the people no
longer have any influence with their
public servants, the statement is fire.
quently made that Speaker Cannon
and the other standpatters in con-
gress are defying public sentiment in
the matter of revision of the tariff. |
Speaker Cannon and the other stand
patters are doing nothing of the sort.
They think they are following pub
lie sentiment. At least, they think
they are pursuing the course calcu-
lated TO secure the election of the
largest possible number of Republi-
cans to the siXtieth congress. In
stead of being in an attitude of de-
fiance, the haunting fear that they
have chosen the wrong road causes
them troubled days and sleepless
nights. They would fall over one an
other in changing front were they fully
convinced they were i'm error. There
isn't a Republican member of con-
gress who wouldn't be rampant for
revision of the tariff if he thought a
majority of his voting constituents
felt that way about it. All of which
goes to show that General Hancock
wasn't far wrong when he said the
tariff was local issue. 1t certainly
is local to troubled statesmen who
are in an agony of dread lest they
guess wrong on the direction in
which the cat intends To jump.
The state law of New York re-
stricting the labor of women and
children to ten hours a day and sixty
hours a week in a factory, was de-
clared last Friday by Justice Ohm
stead in a decision handed down in
the court of special sessions to be IAN
unwarranted invasion of conStitu-
tional rights" The ruling was con-
CURED i'm by Justice Mexican and
Justice Deul. Judge Olmstead de-
clared that the law was class legis-
lation. Judge Olmstead said in his