Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-12-08
Scraps and facts.

FIJI. Wilson, Republican, who resign.
ed 10 become postmaster of Brooklyn.
The other changes on the house roll
are as follows: Francis l.. Griffith, OF
Greensburg, Ind, Democrat, succeeds
Judge Holman, Democrat, who died !;
Henry G. Boutelle, Republican, sue
ceeds the late Representative Cook,
Republican, from Chicago; the late
Ashley B. Wright, of the FIRST Massa-
chusetts district, is succeeded by Geo.
P. Lawrence, also Republican Rep
resentative McLaurin has been elected
to the senate, and he has been sue
ceeded in the house by James Norton.
-"Practically all the cash wheat in
the United States will soon have passed
into the hands of parties who want
the actual wheat, and who are willing
to pay the contract price for it," says
a ST. Louis dispatch of the lst instant.
"This is the outcome of the tremend-
ous deal set on foot in midsummer by
certain cliques in every large market
in America. Today there were i'll the
neighborhuod of 1.250,000 bushels de-
livered to the same parties in this city,
and by the end of December the
amount may be increased to close on
to 100000 bushels, the largest game
the bulls and bears all over the United
States have ever played. Fortunes
are involved-not only here, but in all
of the great markets. 1t will take
something over Sl,000,000 TO pay for
the wheat that will be delivered TO
what is known as the Hartisk-Spencer
crowd in this city today"
- John Morgan, q condemned MUIR
derer, made a clear escape from The
Ripley, West Virginia, Jail one day
last week. He was to have been
hanged on December Is. Not long
ago he sold full confession of his
crime to a newspaper for $25. With
a part of the money he boug ht new
suit of clothes which, he announced,
it was his intention to wear on the
gallows. He was kept at night in
a steel cage. Friday night he made
dummy of his old clothes, covered
it up with his blanket, and then
climbed up on top of the cage. The
taller came along, and without making
any special examination, was deceived
by the dummy. He locked the door
and went on about his business. Out
side of the cage, it was not difficult
matter for Morgan to get out OF the
iail, and next morning he was gone.
A reward Of $500 has been offered for
his recapture.
In his annual report to the secreta-
ry of the treasury, Mr.. Forman, com.
missioner Of internal revenue, esti-
mates the receipts from all sources for
the current fiscal year will aggregate
at least $l55, 100000, an increase over
1897 of about IS, 100000. A compar-
ative statement of the receipts dur
ing the last fiscal year is given in part
as follows: Spirits, SS2,OOS, ,542; in-
crease over 1896, S1,33S,472. Tobac-
co, $50, 710, ,297 decrease, 81 ,231. Fer
mented liquors, S32, ,472, 1852; decrease,
$1,312,O72. The cost of the collection
of the revenues during the last fiscal
year was S3,S4S, ,469. During the year
2.241 illicit stills were destroyed and
80 were removed S29 persons were ar
rested, l killed and wounded. or
the stills seized and destroyed 22S were
located in Alabama, SAL in Georgia,
463 in North Carolina, 100 in South
Carolina, and 245 in the 9th Virginia
district. During the last ten years ten
officers were killed and l6 were wound
ed by moonshiners.
- The question is, how much
longer Can Spain afford to hold on
to Cuba. General Blanco's re-
report to the home government shows
that of $4,000 soldiers of the regular
army sent to General Weyler, only
$4,000 now remain fit for duty. In
the hospitals are to be found 10000,
thus leaving $4,000 who have perished
of wounds or disease. "When we re-
member" says the New York Evening
Post, "that this appalling loss of life
has been suffered by an army which
has never fought pitched battle
worthy of the name, in struggle
with an enemy who probably never
mustered more than 10000 rifles in
any one place, we get an idea of the
stupendous task which confronts Spain
in the suppression of the Cuban re-
bellion." 1t is marvellous that Spain
has hung on so long, and that she has
not found out, as Great Britain did,
that it is cheaper to let the rebellious
colony 60.
The postoffice department is taking
a firm stand against the so-called
"missing letter" and "missing word"
contests which are being conducted by
a number of publishers to increase the
subscriptions of their papers. The
lottery law directs that the postmaster
general upon evidence satisfactory to
himself that person is operating
through the mails a lottery, or scheme
offering dependent upon lottery or
chance, prohibit the delivery of all
mail matter to it. All newspapers
and periodicals containing advertise
ments of this character are forbidden
transmission in the mails. This law, 1t
is now announced, will be applied to
all schemes which are violations, if
they are continued in operation, or ad-
vertisements of them are published.
Missing letter contests are held to be
violations because many correct an
swers can be given but only one list is
determined "the correct list" by the
promoter of the scheme. The chance