Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-14

of the question at issue between
Greece, Turkey and the European
powers, are still in progress. A late
cablegram says that the powers have
notified Turkey that she must accept
the boundary marked out by the pow
ers. This boundary leaves Thessaly
as a part of Greece. The note does
not fix date for the acceptance OF
the condition required, and there seems
to be doubt as to whether the note will
have the desired effect.
United States Consul General Lee
has been rendering some account to
the government of his expenditures
from the fund appropriated by congress
for the relief of destitute American
citizens in Cuba. His figures were
presented to the cabinet last Friday,
and the showing was remarkable, for
it appeared that of the total of 500, ,ooO
at the disposition of General Lee, ne
had expended only $4,000, and yet had
given substantial relief to every dis.
tressed American whom he could find
ready to receive aid, and besides had
shipped some of them back to the
United States.
General Booth Tucker, American
commander of the Salvation army,
called on Secretary Wilson, of the
department of agriculture, last Satur-
day, to seek the secretary's advice re-
garding schemes for colonizing in the
country the poor of the great cities.
The conference was an interesting one,
and Secretary Wilson offered every
aid that the department could give to
promote the plan for getting people
out into the country and suggested to
Mr.. Tucker that he knew of no better
place for such colonies than the vicin-
ity of the District of Columbia. He
pointed out the advantages to be de.
rived from the proximity of such
location to the very desirable market
to be found in this city for products OF
small farms, and also called to his
attention the cheap price at which
land within 25 miles of Washington
can be secured.
- The army officer in charge of the
Pueblo and Jaccarilla Indian agency
in New Mexico, has submitted very
vigorous report on the dances carried
on by the tribes, and has asked for in.
structions looking to giving the teach
ers of the reservation security from
insults from the Indians in future. He
says he has just finished an inspection
of the day schools about the agency
and found many teachers complaining
on account of the dance in Pueblo.
They were either locked in the rooms
and compelled to remain there until
the festivities were over, or were driven
out of the village entirely and not al
lowed to come back until the expir-
alton of given period. The teach
ers at San Felipe were evicted and
driven across the Rio Grande, and
numerous other complaints of every
description giving place to it. All the
outrages committed, it is asserted, orl-
ginated in the dance. "This whole
question, in all its damnable ramifca-
tons" the agent insists, twill have to
be settled sooner or later. The govern
ment cannot 60 on appropriating mil
lions of dollars annually for the civil
ization of the Indians when these
plague spots exist and thrive Oh its
bounty"
- The fierce heat under which the
greater portion of the country has
sweltered since the 1st of July, moder-
ated in many localities on last Sunday,
says a Chicago dispatch, and the
weather indications from Washington
are to the effect that more moderate
weather will prevail for some days.
The record of prostrations and deaths
resulting from the long heated term
approaches in magnitude that of a
general epidemic. Reports from all
sections of the country, received by
the Associated Press tonight, shows
prostrations numbering in the neigh
borhood of 1000, with fatalities close
to $50. In addition to this there were
scores of deaths resulting indirectly
from the intolerable heat, the death
rate in many of the large cities show
ing a fearful increase over previous
years. The central states suffered
more severely than other sections, the
heat being most deadly in Chicago,
Cincinnati and St. Louis. In number
of fatalities, this city heads the list
with 81 deaths, Cincinnati and subur-
ban points reporting IS, and st. Louis
AZ. Through the lower south the heat
was intense, but death rate much low
er than in the north.
- Eighteen months ago today, says
a New York dispatch of Thursday,
Frank Burton left the city hall on a
trip around the world. He began the
journey as the result of a wager
made by two prominent sporting men
in this city. One, who was an ad-
mirer of Burton, declared that he
could 20 around the world, starting
without cent in his pocket, and
make the trip without begging, bor-
rowing or stealing dollar. Each of
these two men staked $4,000 on the
trip. When Burton left the city hall
he had in his pocket pass to Albany,
which Mayor Strong had handed to
him. The pass had been entrusted