Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-06-26
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cided to wait. However, physicians
say that there should be an operation
as soon as Mr.. Sherman improves suf-
ficiently Information from Mr.. Sher-
man yesterday was to the effect that
he was getting along very nicely.
New York, June "a: The first
bale of this years cotton crop was
sold at auction at the New York
Cotton Exchange today. 1t was
fully strict good middling in grade,
and brought thirty-five cents a
pound. This bale arrived at Houston,
Texas, on the morning of June goth,
and was sold at auction there at 54
cents a pound. 1t was Immediately
expressed to this city, and following
the sale this morning was hurried on
board the Mauretania, sailing at noon
for Liverpool, where it will again be
sold at auction according to the usual
custom. This is said to be a record
for rapid handling of the first bale,
which has travelled from Houston to
New York and will probably be sold
in Liverpool within a period of ten
days.
Governor John JOhnson's mana
gers have packed up their belongings
at their Grand Pacific hotel headquar-
ters, Chicago, to go to Denver to make
a last stand against the nomination of
William ]. Bryan for president. They
admit that Mr.. Bryan has 'within
thirty or forty" of the necessary two
thirds Of the delegates instructed for
him. Nevertheless, the Minnesota
candidate will be represented at Den
yer by a fighting organization. While
the Johnson managers claim that Mr..
Bryan has not yet got the necessary
two-thirds, q table which is generally
regarded as correct, gives him to date
1877 delegates either instructed or
known to favor him. Governor john
son will not allow his name to be used
as the vice presidential candidate. This
announcement was made authorita-
lively at the Johnson headquarters.
Berlin, June 23: A story is print
ed here from Teheran saying that 500
persons-men, women and children,
publicans and soldiery-have been
killed there today in the bloodiest
massacre of the century. Tonight,
says a dispatch, the city is sham
BILE. Rioters surge through the
streets and a bloody reign Of
terror is sweeping the entire coun-
try The carnage, resulting from di-
rect orders of the shah, started in the
streets of the capital today when the
imperial artillery opened fire on
crowds surrounding the capitol, and
moved down hundreds by their rain
of lead Maddened by the sight of
blood, the troops and citizens mingled
in an indescribable free-for-all butch
cry. Women and children were not
spared The bodies of the dead in
many cases were mutilated beyond
recognition. Limbs were chopped off,
eyes gouged out and noses and tongues
slashed from the dead bodies.
Corpses of women were not spared and
indescribable outrages occurred on
every hand.
- Lincoln, Nebraska, June "a: The
following tribute to former President
Grover Cleveland was written tonight
by w. ]. Bryan. and will appear in
next weeks issue Of his paper: THE
death of ex-President Grover Cleve-
land brings to a sudden end the phe-
nomenal career of one of the strongest
characters known to the political
world during the present generation.
Like every commanding figure he had
Jealous supporters and earnest oppo-
nents, but those who differed from
him were as ready as his warmest
friends to concede to him the possess
sion of elements of leadership to an
extraordinary degree. He was deliber-
ate in action, firm in conviction and
ever ready to accept responsibility for
what he did. Few men have eXerted
a more positive influence upon those
associated with them. We are not far
enough from the period in which his
work was done to measure accurately
his place in history, but the qualities
which made him great are part of
the nations heritage, and universal
sorrow is felt at his DEATH"
Teheran, June 23 After a bloody
fight which was waged around the
parliament building today, the city
was comparatively quiet tonight al
though the Cossacks were camped in
the streets and squares. Cossacks and
soldiers early in the morning sur
rounded the parliament and demand
ed that a number of persons whose
arrest the shah had ordered, be forth
with handed over to them. Parliament
refused to comply with this demand
and shots were fired at the troops,
several of the soldiers being killed.
Orders were at once issued from mill
tary headquarters that the parliament
building be bombarded and the bonn
bardment commenced soon after lO
O'Clock. While this was i'm progress,
bombs were thrown from the parlia-
ment building and the mosque ad-
joining. disabling one of the guns and
wOunding the gunners. Eventually
the halls of parliament were cleared,
but not before many persons had been
killed and wounded. The lombard
ment continued until 8 o'clock in the
afternoon when it suddenly ceased. In
the meantime the troops pillaged the
political clubs in that neighborhood
and numerous residences of influential
members of parliament, i'm which
work they were aided by the populace.
!he number of casualties is unknown.
but it will be very large. The parlia-
ment buildings are practically in ruins.
The firing was confined 10 parliament
square. other parts of the city being
comparatively quiet. Large numbers
of leading NatiOnaliSts. including
priests and members Of parliament
have been placed under arrest.
- Recent anarchic conditions in
Persia have been favorable to growth
OF the agitation against Russians and
Russian influence. When Great Bri-
ta;n ioina6 with RuSSia i'm dividing