Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-07-03
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of May was 21,0S6, according to the
monthly report Of the chairman. The
departure of European laborers con-
tinued during the month, $50 having
taken passage for Brazil on May &c.
Considering the fact that many Euro
pean laborers have been on the work
a sufficient time to accumulate a
small competence and that others are
impelled by the spirit Of adventure to
seek new fields of work, it is said that
the departure OF a large number from
the isthmus without special grounds
of complaint as to their work, pay or
treatment, can not be considered as
abnormal, and this condition may be
expected to continue from year to
year, especially during the early part
Of the wet season.
Washington, July l: The average
condition of the cotton crop in the
United States on June 25 was S1.2
per cent Of normal, as compared with
1917 May 25 last, 72 on June rs year
ago, 1873 June 25, 1906, and SIS av-
erage Of June condition for past ten
years. This was announced by the
crop reporting board Of the bureau OF
statistics of the department Of agri-
culture, based upon the reports OF
correspondents and agents of the bu-
reau. The condition of the cotton
crop June 25, and ten years average
respectively for the states named Is as
follows: Virginia 92 and "a; North
Carolina SO and S5; Florida "a and
IS; Mississippi "a and 81; Texas SO
and 82 South Carolina "a and 81;
Georgia SO and 81; Alabama 50 and
81; Louisiana 80 and 80; Tennessee
SO and SIS. The condition Of the cot
ton crop monthly for the past ten
years shows average Of 1928 per cent
May 25th, S1.S on June 25th, S1.4 on
July 25th, 1873 on August 25th, and
SIS on September 25th.
i Bids are being opened for supplies
for the regular army, aggregating mil
lions Of dollars, and samples OF the
thousands Of things necessary to make
the soldiers comfortable and the best
New York and will be purchased, not
in small lots, but by the thousand,
The purchase is probably the largest
that the United States army has ever
made in time of peace and will include
everything from 2,9S6.OOO buttons to
1,415,OO0 yards Of khaki cloth. Prefer
ence will be given to American manu-
featured goods. In addition to the
khaki cloth and buttons, some OF the
articles that the army needs are $4,000
pairs Of gloves, 100000 caps, $4,000 bed
sheets and an equal number Of corn
straw brooms, 100000 tent pins, large
and small, 10000 black japanned
buckles and 100000 shelter tent buck
les, 5000, 900 yards black sewing thread
and $4,000 yards Of colored silk
threads; 10000 linen collars. 10000
pillow cases, 10000 undershirts, $50
bugles, 1880 bedsteads, 1900 trumpets
and 775,0O0 brass grommets.
New York, July l: A building
900 feet high and comprising sixty
two piled-up stories is to be set down
on the block bounded by Broadway
and Nassau, Pine and Cedar streets,
replacing the present Equitable build
ing, if the plans filed yesterday by D.
H. Burnham & Co., architects for the
Equitable Life Assurance society, go
through. The new building is likely
to be a reality in the course Of two or
will ha highest
structure in New York by hundreds
of feet. Only one structure in the
world will surpass its height, and that
will be the Eiffel Tower, in Paris The
French skyscraper will still hold the
record, but it's 9S4 feet are not very
much over the 909 feet of elevation
that the Equitable means to erect The
fiagpole Of the Equitable building, a
long 150-foot steel affair, will actu-
ally surpass the summit of the Eiffel
Tower and be, at 1850 feet, the loft
lest point Of earth-supported struc-
ture in the world, unless the French
men feel like putting up long flag
pole too.
- Minneapolis, Minnesota, July l:
Because it is to the interest Of the
public that she should no longer have
the right to re-marry, Mrs. Hannah
Begin, five times married. five times
divorced, and champion grass widow
of Minnesota, has reached the end Of
her matrimonial rope. In an order
fixed yesterday, Judge F. G. Brooks,
Of the Hennepin county district court,
grants Mrs. Begin divorce from her
fifth husband, but the divorce is linn
tied, and the right to re-marry is de-
MED the woman. Judge Brooks holds
that a decree Of limited divorce will
grant Mrs. Begin every right which
she should acquire from an absolute
separation, except the right to marry,
the further exercise of which," says
Judge Brooks, would not be likely to
prove beneficial either to her or the
public" Mrs. Begin is only forty-two
years old, and she did not begin her
matrimonial career until she was
twenty-six. In sixteen years she has
been led to the altar five times, and
in fourteen years she has been divorc-
ed four times.
- Salisbury, n. c., June 80: The
people Of Salisbury were treated to a
very unusual sight at the depot yester-
day and the fresh and enthusiasts es-
pecially were given something to
think about. Mrs. William Tyson, a
middle-aged, wealthy woman Of Fitch
burg, Mass, arrived here comfortably
tucked away in large box with glass
front, having made the trip in the
baggage car. Mrs. Tyson has been a
sufferer of bronchitis and nervous
troubles and for the past year has liv-
ed in a very close room imagining the
slightest draught might aggravate her
condition. To avoid the cold, damp
climate of the north she decided TO
come to North Carolina in the hope
that the climate might relieve her.
The box in which she decided to make
the trip on the train is a large, long
affair with glass front and having
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