Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-09-08
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record for the longest public official
flight. The distance covered by Wright
was not accurately measured, but it
is estimated at between 143 and II
miles. The feat was accomplished by
a remarkable series Of evolutions, dem
onstrating the precision Of Wrights
control Of the machine. When ne
alighted easily within three feet OF
his starting apparatus the American
aeroplanist was overwhelmed with
congratulations.
Atlanta, Ga, September 4: Com
missioner of Agriculture Hudson to-
day. in an interview, stated that IN
his belief the cotton crop of Georgia
has been damaged by the recent rains
to the extent Of 100000 bales. The
commissioner said that in only two
counties in the state is the crop up 10
the standard of that Of last year. "Ihe
heavy rains which were general
throughout the state two or three
weeks ago. followed by the exceed
damage" said Commissioner HUDSON
"The two excesses caused the cotton
to shed it's young bolls and injured
II TO such an extent that every acre
of farm land in Georgia was literally
covered with them. The damage Is
greater this year than ever before In
my knowledge"
New Orleans, August 81: Sig
mund Odenheimer, president of the
Textile Mills Corporation, with plants
in New Orleans and at Wesson, Miss,
announces that contract has been
signed with ]. L. Colliss, business
agent of the Mississippi division OF
the Farmers Union, to supply cotton
bagging to the cotton planters OF
Mississippi this season, experiments
carried on at the Wesson Mills having
nroved successful. The product will
come in 7O-yard rolls, weighing from
II to 12 ounces a yard. sufficient Tor
10 bales Of cotton. The price is IN
excess Of jute, but there will be nine
pounds saved in tare, balancing the
cost of jute. Severe tests show that
the cotton bagging meets require
ments as to fire, water, hook ana
weather resistance.
Victoria, B. c. Sept. 5: News was
received by the empress Of India from
South China of an ambush of 100
French troops. Tirrailliers and Leg
gonnaires. on the Toxin border. Cap
tain Fleury. leader of the force, and
Lieutenant DeLattre were shot down
soon after the fight opened. Between
five hundred and six hundred Chinese
had a position on the low hills at
each side of a gully, through which
the French troops entered the village
The French captured the village
twice, it being retaken by the Chinese.
Shots were exchanged during the
greater part of the fight at from 30
to so metres. When Captain Fleury
and Lieutenant DeLattre, who went
to assist their leader, were shot the
Chinese threw themselves upon the
bodies not yet dead and decapitated
them, carrying away the heads amid
cheers.
Charlotte Observer: The Balti-
more News concludes that the Hearst
Independence League is an organiza-
ton that is out for mischief. 1t points
out that its vote of 1852 in the Yer
mont election of last week out Of a
toral of 66,747. was about 2 per cent
of all, and that a percentage of 8
carried into New York, would mean
about $4,000 votes; that in Vermont
it had no backing and no footing,
while in New York, Illinois and Cali
fornia it has a substantial organiza-
ton and powerful newspaper support.
Of course the supposition of The
News that the league means mischief
is undeniable, as also its conclusion
that it derives its support principally
from the Democratic party. 1t re-
uuired no peculiar gift of prophecy
to divine, as much as year ago that
this organization had one mission in
life and that the defeat of Mr.. Bryan
and this is more apparent now than
ever before.
- Fort Worth, Texas, September s:
At the closing session today of the
annual meeting Of the National
Farmers Union, plans were adopted
for marketing the crop for the men,
bers of the organization, which would
eliminate the middlemen. 1t is pro-
posed that a commission of twelve
members, one from each of the cot
ton growing states, with officers at
Memphis, deal direct with the spin
ners at home and abroad. This COM
mission is TO have exclusive handling
of the cotton in union warehouses and
when a sale is made the amount to
be taken from each warehouse is to
be appOrtioned according to the
amount held. 1t developed today that
the Mississippi Bankers Association
had agreed to advance sixty per cent
on cotton warehouse receipts and 1t
is hoped to extend this arrangement
to other states. Other than that it
probably is a sliding scale, nothing
as to the minimum price for which it
is proposed that the crop be sold can
be ascertained. The secret price will
be given members Of the union only
and the secret is to be carefully
guarded.
- Washington, September 6: Sur
geon General Wyman, Of the Public
Health and Marine Hospital service,
has issued in pamphlet form paper
prepared by Assistant Surgeon ]. NJ.
Eaget giving a history of the spread
of bubOnic plague during the last
fourteen years. No study presents
more important and difficult sanitary
problems DR.. Eaget says, than the lines
Of march taken by bubonic plague
during the period mentioned in its
advance from the remote endemic
focus of the disease in the province
of Yunnan. China, to the numerous
countries in all quarters Of the globe,