Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-06-07
Straps aud faets.

Acreage, oI,UoU,VUV. He IepOIlS SIioM
the acreage to be 32,060,000 compared
with 32,O49,OO0 last year BY states:
Virginia, acreage $1,000, condition so;
North Carolina, 1,437,000, condition 80;
South Carolina, 2,463.000, condition II;
Georgia, 4,S23,000. condition "a; Flor
ida, 279.OO0. condition 80: Alabama. B.
509,000, condition 65; Mississippi,
3,252,00 condition 65; Louisiana, l.
100000, condition "a; Texas 9,439,0OO,
condition 70; Arkansas, 2,O11, 900, con-
dition 65; Tennessee, 765,000, condition
63; Missouri, $4,000, condition 90;
Oklahoma, 100000, condition so; In
dian Territory, $4,000, condition 7S.
A tragic incident took place near
Rome, Italy, few days ago during a
review of the troops by King Victor
Emmanuel and Queen Helena. AS a
part of the manoeuvres military pal
loon was sent up to height or 'OO
feet with Capt Villivelli in the car. A
storm which had been coming up,
burst suddenly and the thousands OF
spectators were Mortified to see flash
of lightning strike the gas bag. There
was an enormous burst of flame and a
terrific detonation and the collapsed
balloon with it's dangling car fell to
the earth over a mile from the scene
of the review. Crowds of persons,
afoot and in automobiles, and other
conveyanceS. rushed in the direction
where the balloon had fallen. Capt.
Villivelli was found alive, but un-
conscious. He was placed in an auto
mobile and rushed to a hospital where
he died without having regained con.
seriousness. King Victor Emmanuel
and the military authorities went to
the hospital after the review to in
Quire concerning him.
New York correspondence Phila-
delphia Ledger: Unreasonable wealth
er has caused losses to the New York
retailers and wholesalers in wearing
apparel, hats and shoes that run into
the millions. Stocks laid in by the de-
partment stores and small retail stores
early in the spring still cucumber the
shelves, and the wholesale houses are
unable to collect for the goods they
have delivered all over the country for
the reason that sales are as backward
in other cities and towns as in New
York Hundreds of employees were
laid off Saturday afternoon. One big
store suspended 472 salespeople, an
other ITO. The more optimistic shop
keepers hope to catch up as soon as
the weather turns warm; but even
blistering hot spell in few days will
fail to save heavy losses, in the esti-
nation of many merchants. Suits, hats
and general apparel designed for spring
wear will not be sold. When the rush
of buyers comes on 1t will go to the
distinctly summer grades. The loss
falls heaviest upon the small retailers
handling only one line. Their payments
for spring and summer goods are due
and their stocks are practically intact.
Haberdashers especially have suffered.
- Newspaper men in San Francisco
are treading no fiowery path in get
ting the news of the traction strike out
there, according to the Frisco papers.
One reporter, in getting up a "Speciai
on the strike, also collected mis-
cellaneous assortment of bruises and
lacerations from stones and clubs in
the hands of the strikers. A photog-
rapher was in the middle Of another
battle, and had a man shot down be-
side him, who, in falling, knocked over
his camera. Another photographer was
mobbed, and some of his best plates
were broken. Still another reporter
was shot at by strike breaker. AT
a meeting of the strikers the reporters
were thrown out and told if they came
around again their heads would be
beaten in. They attended the next
meeting, just the same, hiding in the
flies of the theatre where the gathering
was held, while the strikers went look
ing around behind the scenes with
large sections of gas pipe. The papers
the next day carried a full and ac-
curate, If not complimentary, story OF
the meeting.
Toxic, June 5: The opposition
newspapers prominently quote Count
Okuma as urging the concentration OF
Japanese national efforts, toward the
settlement of what is known as the
San Francisco question; that Japan
should demand public apology from
the mayor of San Francisco, and also
that the Japanese should receive treat
ment similar to that given to Anglo
Saxons in the United States. Herein
lies the sole hope Of definitely set
tling the question. Otherwise, if nee
essary, demonstrative measures will be
taken which it will be impossible to
regard as precipitate in the circum-
stances. Seven university professors,
famous for agitation in molding pub
lie opinion before the war with Russia
and during the period when the peace
negotiations were in progress, are
again bestirring themselves, although,
this time, in the direction Of a gener-
ally more stalwart foreign policy, in
Guiding Japan's dealings with Korea
and China. 1t is said that the opposi-
tion, by means of public meetings and
otherwise soon will begin campaign
against the Saionji ministry on the
basis that it is showing itself too con-
ciliatory and too much disposed to
make concessions in the matter of the
persecution of Japanese in San Fran
CISCO Leading persons in and out Of
politics seem to have feeling of ap-
prehension regarding Japan's future
relations with the United States.
Boise, Idaho, June 5: Alfred Hors-
ley, alias Harry Orchard, the actual
assassin of Frank Steunenberg, went
on the stand today as a witness against
William ID. Haywood and made public
confession of a long chain of brutal,
revolving crimes, committed, he said,
at the inspiration and for the pay of
the leaders of the Western Federation
of Miners. An understanding by the
prosecutors for the state that they
would by later proof and connection
make his testimony legitimate, opened
the way like a fioOdgate to the whole
diabOlical story and throughout the
entire day Orchard went on from crime
recital to crime recital, each succeed
ing one seemingly more revolving than
the one that preceded. Orchard con-
feSSed that as member OF the mob
that wrecked the Bunker Hill and Sui
livan mine in the Occur d'Alene district
he was one of the first that carried
fire TO the giant powder. He said be-
cause he had not been paid for his at
tempt in the NindicatOr mine he had
been treacherouS to his associates by
warning the managers of the Florence
and Cripple Creek railway that there
was u plot to blow up their trains;
confessed that he cruelty fired three
charges Of buckshot into the body of
Detective Lyte Gregory Of Denver,
killing him instantly; confessed that
for days he stalked Gov. Peabody of
Colorado about Denver, waiting Il
chance to kill him; confessed that he
and Steve Adams set and discharged
the mine under the station at Inde-
pendence that instantly killed four
teen men, and confessed that, failing
in an attempt to poison Fred Bradley
of San Francisco, he blew him and
his house up with a bomb of gelatine
powder Orchard has more brutal
crimes to tell that will bring his bloody
career down to its end at Caldwell,
where. with Il great bomb. he killed
Gov. Frank Steunenberg. These will
come tomorrow. for he is to resume the
stand when the district court sits
again.