Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-02-03
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the accompanying disturbances In the
Philippines killed 700 people in the
town Of Talisay, according to report
cabled to the war department We'd
nesday by Gov. Gen. Forbes of the
Philippine Islands. The earthquake
shocks continue, the governor general
added. Among the estimates OF cas-
ualties transmitted to the war depart
ment today was report which placed
the total dead at 300. The report add
ed that 5000 families had been ruined
by the disaster Recent earthquake
shocks have been slightly perceptible
in Manila, but have caused no damage.
Since the first disturbance, the seismo-
graph apparatus of the Manila obser-
Vatory has recorded the unprecedented
number of ia shocks up to 3.45 p. m
today.
The president has given out that
the appointments of his proposed
southern trip during March, will be
cancelled with the exception of the WIS.,
IL to Atlanta on March 10, when ne Is
to address the Southern Commercial
congress. The reason for cancelllng
these appointments was not stated
but it is generally thought that the
president has been Influenced by the
attitude of the Republicans in con-
gress to his pet scheme of reciprocity
with Canada. The president has in
mind a reciprocity arrangement with
Canada that will very nearly bring
about free trade so far as Canada and
the United States are concerned, and
the high protection Republicans do not
favor the experiment. 1t looks like the
president is in danger of bringing
about a serious rupture with party
leaders.
Hamlet, N c., January 81: The
body of Editor James A. Cromartie OF
Sparta, Ga, who disappeared from the
hotel at this place November last, was
found in a swamp three miles from
Hamlet by hunters. His personal pos
sessions, including a considerable sum
of money, were intact, and there was
no evidence of foul play, but how ne
met death and how long he has been
dead have not been ascertained. Crom-
artie was on his way to visit relatives
in Bladen county, this state, and stop
per over here to change cars. He dis
appeared during the night, and though
his three sons secured this section TOT
a month, no trace of his movements
could be found. Identification was full
" established by relative. Search
ers had passed within ten feet OF his
body. The report several weeks ago
that Cromartie had been found in the
woods in a demented condition near
Ellenboro later developed to have been
a case Of mistaken identity.
New York World: Nine. Curie has
been excluded from the French Acad-
envy Of Sciences not because she is not
sufficiently great or famous but be-
cause she is a woman. The action or
the academy was foreshadowed by the
vote of the parent body, the institute,
formally declaring that the admission
of a woman to membership would De
contrary to its "immutable traditions.
The land of chivalry and of equal
rights-for mems not yet disposed to
accord them to the other sex in res
pect to giving women a full share or
public honors for eminent services to
literature, science and art. Her reJec-
ton defeats the hopes of the feministlc
leaders in France, but arms them
with an argument which in the long
run should do more to advance their
cause than her election might have
done. It shows the institute commit
ted to a policy of Bourbon adherence
to the past wholly antagonistic to the
spirit of progress. The institute has
often laid itself open to criticism for
the prejudice exhibited in rejecting ell
gible candidates. In excludin" one or
the foremost of modern scientists on
the sole ground of sex 1t has provided
the opportunity for more effective sa-
tire than that which inspired Daudets
pen.
New York, February /: Counsel
for the Standard Oil company which
recently began damage suits for $780,
900 against Hampton's Magazine, as
publishers and for 100000 against
Cleveland Moffett, the writer, of an al
legged defamatory statement concern
ing the Standard Oil company, today
received written retractions from both
the nublisher and the writer. The ar
ticle in question referred to the man.
ufacture and sale of impure candies
and said the Standard Oil company
manufactured and sold impure mate
rial which went into these candies, and
that when the various dealers were ar
rested and fined the Standard paid the
fines. Upon investigation" writes
Moffett in a letter given out today, Il
have ascertained that your company
was in no way connected with the
transactions referred to and | hasten
to retract in the fullest manner all
charges made against your company
and to express my sincere regret that
I should have fallen into this serious
error. Another letter, from Benz. b.
Hampton, president of the Broadway
Magazine company, Inc, publisher OF
Hampton's was also given out IL
expresses regret that the apparently
erroneous statements had been made
and agrees to publish a full retraction
in the next number of the magazine.
Berlin, February 2: Germany's re-
ply which has been presented to Sec
retary Knox by the German ambassa-
dor to the secretary's inquiry as 10 the
reasons for the imposition of a penal
ty tax on potash, purports to correct
certain alleged erroneous propositions
contained in the American note ana
presents a history of the potash law,
with special reference to the provis-
ions applicable to the American case.
The reply is based on the idea that the
American government, when informed
of the true nature of the penalty tax,
will come to different conclusion re-
garding it. Germany proposes to sub
NIT to any arbitration court the legal
question as to who shall be liable Tor
the excess payment OF export duties
and for the tax on extra production at
various mines brought about by pri-
vate contract outside the syndicate.
In the event of the decision being un-
favorable to the American purchasers,
Germany is prepared to negotiate a
basis of understanding already outlin-
ed in private conversation between
Herr Sydow. the German minister of
commerce, and Mr.. Hill, the American
ambassador, the German and Ameri-
can governments mutually determining
upon the price which shall be the basis
of the compromise, and agreeing to
use influence to induce the acceptance
of this by the respective parties con-
cerned.
- New York, February /: A cargo of
dynamite, in transit from a freight car
to the hold of a lighter moOred at
Pier No. 7, Communipaw, n. j., let go
at just one minute past noon today, $50
yards south of the Jersey City termi-
nal of the Central railroad Of New Jer-
sey, and in the widespread ruin that
followed seven men are known to have
been killed, seven more are missing,
hundreds were wounded and varying
reports leave from Is to 90 more un-
accounted for. Thirty seems TO be a
conservative estimate Of the dead and
property damage will hardly fall be-