Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-08-13
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ed. 1t seems that the lady was one or
a party of young matrons who went to
the river to enjoy a days fishing. She
was sitting on the bank with the 9TH
ers waiting for a bite. There was a
violent pull on her line and she was
dragged into the stream. She went
under, according to the story, became
entangled in the stout line and was
drowned before aid could be extended.
The dispatch goes on to say that the
fish was afterward found at the other
end Of the line and that it weighed
forty pounds.
Atlanta, Ga, August IL: President
Harvie Jordan of the Southern Cot
ton association, announced today that
the meeting of the executive committee
of that association will be held at
Jackson, Miss, on September 5th, in
stead of September 9Th, as previously
announced. The meeting of the Sea
Island Cotton association of which Mr..
Jordan is president, will be held at
White Springs, Fla, September 18th.
The object of these meetings is to fix
the minimum price Of cotton. Mr..
Jordan will leave this week for Texas
and will make tour Of the southwest
ern and gulf states in the interest OF
the association, looking closely into
crop conditions.
- Salisbury, N. c., August 10: Miss
Julia Jackson Christian, the only
granddaughter Of General Stonewall
Jackson, became the bride Of E. R
Preston Of Atlanta, shortly after mid
night last night at the home OF MI
John NJ. Julian, editor of the Salisbury
Post. They eloped here from Char
lotte. The bride was introduced to the
members of the Georgia legislature
this week, that body having been ad-
journed in order to be introduced to
the grandchild of the distinguished
Confederate general. Miss Christian
has scores of friends in Charlotte,
where she has made her home with
Mrs Stonewall Jackson, her grand
mother. The bridegroom is a young
lawyer who formerly lived in Char
lotte.
News from Morocco indicates that
the holy war which has been threaten
ed during several weeks past is now
fairly under way. The bombardment
of last week drove all the hostile
Moors from the town of Casablanca;
but since then thousands of horsemen
have gathered from all the country
surrounding, and the French troops
brought from Algeria, have had their
hands full keeping them back. Dis
patches printed yesterday say that
there was heavy fighting going on
about seven miles from Casablanca.
The Moors would ride forward against
the French troops in large numbers,
and although moved down by the well
directed rifle and artillery fire, would
recoil and return to the fray. There Is
reason to believe that the uprising will
soon include all of Morocco.
- Charlotte Observer: OF course the
figure sharps have got busy on the
fine Of $29.24O,00O imposed by Judge
Landis on the Standard Oil company.
Perhaps the most noteworthy Of their
findings is contained in the statement
that this amount in the form of silver
dollars would load about fifty ordinary
coal cars to full capacity. But there
are other comparisons not much less
wonderful. Five class battleships
could be built. or 1884 homes at $10,-
900 each. This sum would yield an
income of $4,027 a day. 1t is slightly
more than half the money coined each
year by the United States government
and about 35 cents for every man, Wo-
man and child in the country. If they
contributed all their salary the presi-
dents Of the United States could not
work out the amount in less than 5S5
years. 1t is nearly half the number Of
silver dollars in circulation. In short,
1t would be a tremendous fine if lev
led upon any other human institution
than the Standard Oil company.
Washington, Aug. 8: A story is re-
ceiving some circulation to the effect
that the $29,240,000 fine levied by Judge
Landis on the Standard Oil company
is causing a gigantic alliance, offensive
and defensive, among large corpora
tions and leading railroads Of the coun-
try by which they are to withhold
their books and data discriminating
them OH charges of freight rate dis
ordinations in cases brought against
any of them by the government. 1t Is
said that Chicago and New York traffic
managers have taken secret action to
this end. At the interstate commerce
commission those who are thoroughly
such an agreement. The interstate
commerce law as amended at the re-
cent session of congress required rail-
roads to produce their books when
called upon by the commission, and
fixes a fine of $500 for each offense
a similar fine for each day of the con-
tinuance of the offense. The railroads
are forbidden by the law to retain any
book called for. The idea that rail-
road officials would undertake to null
lify this law by an agreement among
themselves is regarded as preposter-
Gus.
- Washington. August IL: Naval cir
cles are agitated over a report which
reaches Washington that the British
admiralty is about to lay down the
keel for a giant ship that will be so
per cent greater in tonnage than the
redoubtable Dreadnought. 1t is diff
cult to secure any information respect
ing the plans for this ship. and it is said
that the British government is again
proceeding as it did in the case Of the
DreadnOught. to build the vessel be-
hind closed gates. Eventually of
course, the main characteristics Of
war vessels built under these condi-
tions become known, but the British
government feels that il is amply re-
paid for the trouble it takes to build
the ship secretly by the fact that the