Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-10-05
Scraps and fafts.

took an appear 10 tne SupTeihe Soui
and he was released on bond of $780,
900, pending the result Of the appeal
Paris. October 2: A dispatch to the
Latin from Fee, says that inquire:
show that Ii Roghi, the pretender tC
the throne Of Morocco. who was exc
cuted at Fee in the middle OF Septem'
Der, was put to death by Sultan Muia
Hafid himself under circumstances o.
revolving cruelty. According to the
correspondent the monarch, assisted
by his chamberlain, dragged the pre-
tender into a cage Of lions and ther
provoked the animals which leapec
upon the manacled captive, infiictine
horrible wounds. Then, as FL Rogh
fell to the ground motionless, the lions
left him alone despite the goadings ol
the sultan, who thereupon pulled MS
still living victim outside the cage
with hooks, emptied can OF lamp OIL
over him and set him on fire, feedine
the flames with oil-soaked rags unti
nothing but the charred bones Of the
pretender remained.
Washington, October 4: There had
been ginned to September 25. counting
round as half bales, 2,562,SSS bales
compared with 2,590,63s for 1908
These are the figures given in report
of the census bureau, issued today
The round bales included this year
were 4S,176, compared with 57,lO1 1or
1908. The Sea island cotton reported
for 1909 was 1926, compared with
a1.457, for 1908. The number Of bales
counting round as half bales, ginned to
September %, by states, was as fol-
lows: Alabama 1SS,6S9. against 316,-
s4s in 1908; Arkansas SS,771 against
so.465; Florida 19,433 against 1851;
Georgia 535,O26 against 514.S90; Louis
lana 62,351 against 1902; Mississippi
ssS, ,ss7 against 1ss,OO1; North Carolina
so,472 against Ss,O6S; Oklahoma 1S4,247
against 5,7O5; South Carolina 2S4'72S
against 2S9,96S; Tennessee 17.125
against 2S,10s; Texas 1,057,S76 against
q6s GOT. and in all other states 2,21s as
compared with AHA. The corrected
statistics Of the quantity Of cotton
ginned to September l, was announced
as 3Ss,242 bales. The report today VIII
transmitted by mail by individual gin
ners.
-Bluefield, w. Va, October 2: The
guilt of Howard Little, who was ar
rested about a week ago charged with
the murder Of Aunt Betsy Justis,
Geo. A. Meadows and wife and their
three children, seems now to be es-
tablished beyond a reasonable DOUBT.
Little's wife confessed today to having
washed his bloody clothing after the
murder, and in her affidavit she says
also that he left their home about dark
on the night Of the murder and re-
turned the next morning with his
clothes all bloody and torn and said
that he would kill her II she told any
thing about his condition. He Dor
rowed a 32-calibre revolver a few days
before the crime was committed ana
returned 1t on the following Wednes-
day with two chambers empty. Tne
body of George Meadows was exhumed
and two bullets, taken from 1t by Drs.
Richardson and White, were almost
identical in weight with the balls tax
en- from shells belonging to the wea-
pom Little had borrowed. Little's wire
also turned over the lantern that ne
had brought home with him that night
which showed file marks as If some
one had tried to remove stains. He
was seen in the barn next morning
folding papers across his knee appar-
entity counting money, and he gave s2O
to a woman with whom he had plan
ned to start for the west a few days
after the murder was committed, with
which to buy clothing and prepare
for the train. Having done this she
returned $3.50 to Little, at which time
she swears he threatened her life II
she revealed any part Of their secret.
-Reposing in the vaults Of safe
deposit company at Washington, are
nine mahogany boxes, which 1t is ex-
pected will play a decidedly important
part in the annual $600,000,000, more
or less, transactions in cotton in the
United States. The nine boxes refer
red to contain the nine standards or
cotton which haN. been approved by
the secretary Of agriculture and which
were decided upon by committee OF
a score or more of cotton men in all
sections of the country as summar-
izing all grades of commercial cotton.
Access to these nine standards can on
ly be had by committee designated
by the secretary of agriculture. With
in a short time-perhaps within a day
or two-the department Of agriculture
will have replicas of these nine stand
ards and will place them in the hands
of limited number of associations,
organizations, exchanges and agricul-
tural colleges for inspection. The sets
will enable the cotton producers, cot
ton merchants and spinners to become
familiar with them by September l,
1910, when 1t is expected they will
govern dll lldlSdSllOllS III
with the buying and selling Of cotton.
1t is said that they take the place of
about thirty varying standards now in
use. Middling Gotten is used as a
basis and establishes a standard of
the nine different grades. designated as
middling fair, strict good middlinS,
good middling, strict middling, mid
ding, strict low middling, low mid
ding, strict good ordinary and good
ordinary.
A romantic story has been disclos-
ed by postoffice inspectors regarding
Harrison Hatfield of the family OF
feudists of that name, who died re-
Gently in the penitentiary at Mounds
willie, w. Va, says Washington dis
patch of last Sunday. Harrison Hat
field lived near Horse Pen, in the
mountains of West Virginia. He was
widely known as "Old Hatcher" and
was a leader of the Hatfields in the
Mccoy Hatfield feud, which amounted
almost to civil war and disrupted sew
eral counties on the borders of West