Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-12-01


blacksmith to learn his trade. In Sep
tember, 1898, he went to Manchester,
where, associated with Oliver w. Bal
lev, he established the Vulcan Works,
under the firm name of Bailey, Blood
& Co. From moderate beginning the
business, has grown and an immense
number of engines have been turned
out for the various railroads of the
country. Mr.. Blood was interested in
many concerns in New England, and
cotton factories in Columbia.
- The Lincoln Journal says that, on
Wednesday of last week, force OF
revenue officers numbering seven,
raided into CASTOR county, and near
the Long Creek Gold mine, where
Messrs. Mears and Leeper met with
such warm reception and had their
overcoats and baggage stolen, captured
a big sowpaw plant and would have
captured the parties operating it; but
a woman saw them coming and began
screaming. This alarmed the moon
sinners and they escaped. On their
way back, they captured and destroyed
still and 1900 gallons of beer, near
Cherryville. The force went into Ca
tawba county and will be heard from
again. A large number of the block
aders have been identified and the dep
uty marshals will be busy now making
arrests by the wholesale.
- The Rev. Anna Shaw, of Chicago,
hopes soon to be appointed D police
man. "I would rather be policeman
than be president" she says. "The
one crying reform that is now needed
in New York and Chicago is 200 uni
formed women policemen to walk the
streets. If Mr.. Van Wyck or Mayor
Harrison had the knowledge Of exist
ing sociological conditions, which they
ought to have, and which 1 hope their
successors will have, woman should be
an active police officer. If these gen
tlemen want 10 know where to find
women to fill the places, and fill them
we'll, I could tell them. From the
ranks of the Salvation Army and the
American Volunteers could be obtain
ed, on short notice, 200 women, whose
presence on the streets of Chicago in
uniform would do more toward the
elimination of crime than many times
the number of men,"
- Hiram S. Maxim, superintendent
of construction of the Atlantic and
Pacific Aerial Navigation company,
with headquarters at San Francisco,
has in course of construction an air
ship in which it is expected to make
the trip to the Klondike. TO re-
porter for The Examiner, a few days
ago, he said: "When everything nec-
essary is on board the ship, it will
weigh 5000 pounds, and we shall take
on board about one ton weight of pas.
sengers and provisions. The space oc.
cupied will be 100000 cublt feet. The
propelling power will be sixteen
horse power naphtha engine, which
will be made Of aluminium so far as
that metal can be used, and will
weigh complete 900 pounds. The gas
olene will be stored in tanks in the
cases, which will contain sufficient
quantity to drive the vessel around the
earth without replenishing the tanks.
The skin of the ship will be double
and the intermediate space will be
filled with hydrogen gas. This gas
will be confined in separate compart-
ments and will be in the upper part OF
the cylinder and in the cones"
A special of last Friday to the
Louisville Evening Post says: Ches-
terfeld, Indiana, was almost wiped OF
the map at an early hour this morning
by the explosion of 80 quarts Of nitro
glycerine, which had been brought
overland from Montpelier and placed
in an open field half a mile from town.
Marion Mausey and Sam Mcguire were
working a gas well nearby when the
explosion occurred. Mansey was
thrown so feet, but not fatally injured.
Mcguire was thrown 100 feet in the
air and badly lacerated, but will re-
cover. Mr.. James Colds house, 300
rods distant, was blown to pieces. The
explosion tore a hole in the ground
down to the water line, and so far as
it is learned, it was spontaneous. A
3-ton engine was torn to fragments,
and every animal in the vicinity was
killed instantly. The town of Ches-
terfeld is mass of ruins, every house
being moved from its foundation, win
dows shattered, doors smashed in,
every light put out and the plastering
shaken from the walls. Several peo-
pie were shaken out Of bed. At Dales-
Vile, two miles away, and at York
town, five miles distant, the damage
was almost as great. Many people
were injured, and it is a miracle that
none were killed outright. The jar of
the explosion was felt in all directions
for Is miles distant. The gas in the
we'll was blown out, and a workman
named Cooper lit it and caused anoth-
er explosion in which he was fatally
burned. The damage cannot be esti-
mated.
In discussing the proposed annex
alton of Hawaii TO the United States,
Secretary Bliss reviews at some length,
in his recent annual report, the various
acquisitions which the government has
made to its territorial area since the
beginning of our independence. Says
this report: "First, of course, comes
the cessions of the western reserve, or
the territory lying between the original
13 states and the Mississippi. These
cessions made by the states gave the
Federal government 25S, ,504, ,l29 acres.
Then, in 1903, came the first of our
annexations, the Louisiana purchase