Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-08-09
Straps aud faets.

by the principal American dealers.
All kinds of gems are affected by the
American market. Pearls, according
to prominent London dealer, have
gone up at least 75 per cent in the
last five years. A fine Orient pearl
which twenty years ago could have
been bought for 500 will now sell
for as much as $500. with dia-
monds it is much the same and COM
paratively small stones, worth two or
three years ago $35 to $45 are now
fetching $50 to $40. Sapphires have
three years, and amethysts have
greatly increased in price, but rubies
are q little cheaper, and opals remain
practically as they have always BEEN"
Am average Of 500 people are kill
ed in the United States each year by
lightning, according to data collected
by the weather bureau. This means
that about l in each 100000 of popu-
lation is killed in that manner. The
belt of most numerous visitations in
cludes all of Florida except the south
ernmost tip, the lower edge Of Geor-
gia and the southeastern corner OF
Alabama. In that belt an average OF
forty-five thunderstorms a year Is eX-
perienced. The region from the Vir-
ginia capes to Connecticut escapes
with an average of 25 such storms,
while Boston is visited by only 20.
The frequency diminishes until the
Rockies are reached, and on the Pa
cific slope there are practically no
such storms. The region of greatest
danger from lightning stroke does
not coincide with the zone of greatest
thunderstorm frequency, but includes
southern Vermont, the whole Of Mas
sachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut,
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
Delaware, West Virginia, Ohio, Ken
lucky, Indiana, eastern Illinois, VIZ
ginia and the greater part of Mary
land. In the zone more than five
deaths to each 10000 square miles
year are caused by lightning.
Two years ago a number Of the
farmers Of southwestern Kentucky, In
order to fight the Tobacco trust, form
ed the Black Burley Tobacco associ-
alton. In order to force their fellow
farmers to join them, they have de-
stroyed the property Of men who con-
tinued to sell to the trust. Members
of the association have dug up non
members plants, and injured their
crops in the fields; they have become
might riders" pursuing the methods
Of the old Ku Klux Klan; companies
of men have taken farmers from their
homes at night and lashed them; the
barns Of non-members have been
fired: the depredations have been
spread to other crops beside tobacco
They have burned the tobacco barns
and the tobacco stemmeries Of the To-
bacco trust. There has been some
retaliation. The property Of associ-
alton members has been destroyed.
But so far none Of the marauders on
either side have been punished by the
law. At the same time, the opponents
to the Tobacco trust have organized
the American Society Of Equity, made
I'D of tobacco raisers, which proposes
to manufacture tobacco products. II
has bought up a large proportion OF
this years crop and will attempt TO
force the trust out of the market.
Tangier, Apeust 6: AS result OF
In Sf 1uanE in CASA
Blanca, causing the violent deaths OF
eight Europeans, the city was bonn
barded by the French cruisers and the
Moors were shot down in large num-
bers, and are now practically In the
possession of the French and Spanish
landing parties. The Moors fired the
first shots on the landing parties,
which returned a deadly fire, followed
by a storm Of melonite shells from the
warships on the native quarters OF
the city. Six French were wounded
but no European was hurt during the
bombardment, in which two or three
thousand shells silenced and reduced
the fort at the mouth of the harbor
and largely destroyed the native quar-
ters of the city. The French cruisers
Galilee and Duchayla were engaged In
the bombardment Other French and
Spanish vessels with landing parties
have been dispatched to Casa Blanca
and other Moroccan ports where the
situation is critical. The firing first
began Sunday morning when French
landing party was sent by permission
OF the Moorish authorities to protect
the consulate. Later the Spanish
cruiser Don Alvaro Debazan landed
marines and both have since been re-
inforced. The italian minister de-
manded reparation and indemnity for
five ItIlians killed last week.
In 1905, there were 23,l55,61S
spindles in this country. In 1900, 49,
OOS,352. OF these, 13,911,241 are In
the New England states; 7,5OS,749 In
the southern states; l,54S,7l9 in the
middle states; and only 1S6,9O4 in the
western states. New England has al
ways had the predominance in cotton
manufacturing and still retains her
place though the increase since 1900
is not large. The southern states,
however, nearly doubled their produc-
ing capacity in this time. AS individ-
ual states, Massachusetts is first; South
Carolina second: Rhode Island third;
North Carolina fourth, and Georgia
fifth. In five years South Carolina
has nearly doubled the number OF
spindies used. Thus we see the great
growth of cotton manufacturing in
the south, a most encouraging out
look. Most of the fifty million dollars
worth of cotton goods still imported
are embroideries. laces, etc. In 1900
the number of establishments for cot
ton manufacture in New England
was 1872, and in 1905, only 3OS. and
there was likewise a decrease in the
middle and western states. In the