Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-06-30
Scraps and facts.

been massacred by the Mahdists. The
expedition, it is understood, started out
last year from the Congo Free State to
operate among the Mahdists on the
headwaters of the Nile. The under
standing is that the British government
allowed a number of hussar troops to
join the expedition. The whole thing
was, as far as possible, kept secret.
Now the understanding is that the
Mahdists have fallen upon the ill-fated
expedition, and if a man escaped with
his life, the fact is not known.
- All heart records in Georgia have
been broken today, says an Atlanta
dispatch of Sunday and number of
fatalities throughout the state have re-
suited from the hundreds of prostra-
tions reported, Two deaths have oc-
Cured in this city and more are ex-
pected. The thermometer registered
104 degrees this afternoon and people
were compelled to stay indoors. Sew
eral horses were overcome on the
streets and a dozen bicycle riders, out
near Fort MCPHERSON, were carried
into neighboring drug store uncon-
scious. John n. Thomas, cotton
planter, living near Zebulon, died on
railroad train. The night has brought
no relief from the intense heat, and the
weather predictions for tomorrow are
equally discouraging.
- We notice in the press dispatches
that an international leprosy conven-
tion is to be held at Berlin on October
11th. The doctors are going to try to
agree on some scientific treatment Of
leprosy. A large number of distin-
guished physicians and men ofscience,
who know everything about leprosy
except how to cure it, will be present
and participate in the discussions. DIR.
Hutchinson, of London, will lecture
upon alimentation and leposy. Prof.
Virchow will discuss the pathological
anatomy of leprosy. DR.. Neisser, of
Breslau, will deal with the origin of
the disease. DR.. Besnier, of Paris,
will treat of its etiology,. Prof. Koch
will discuss the question whether the
disease is infectious. Drs. Kitasalo,
of Toxic, Mauritz Of Hawaii, During,
of Constantinople, and other eminent
experts, will attend. In view of the
fact that we are 10 annex leprous
Hawaii it will be worth while to send
a larger delegation of the United
States doctors TO this convention.
- Municipalities in Nebraska, says
The News and Courier of last Satur-
day, may now adopt the initiative
and referendum if they so desire, and
Omaha will soon take a vote on the
question. If the rule is adopted, Is
per cent. of the voters may thereafter,
by petition, propose ordinances, and 20
per cent. of the voters may compel the
city government to submit proposed
ordinances to vote of the people. So
much for the initiative. The referen-
dunn provisions are that ordinances
passed by the city council shall not 60
into effect for 80 days, and if in the
meantime 5 per cent. of the voters
petition for the submission of any or
dinance to popular vote, the same
shall be submitted, and must be ap-
proved by a majority to come into
effect. If 20 per cent. of the voters
petition, then the ordinance shall be
submitted at a special election held
within 20 days. Ordinances relating
to the immediate preservation of the
public peace and health, and items Of
appropriations for current expenses not
in excess of those made the previous
year, are excepted from the referendum
rule.
- The Republican tariff managers
are still hopeful that the present may
prove to be the last week of the tariff
debate in the senate, says Washing
ton dispatch of Monday. All the
schedules have been gone over once,
leaving nothing to be done but to con-
slider the paragraphs in the various
schedules which have been passed
when reached in their regular order
because of difference of opinion among
the Republicans themselves. Many
of the differences have been adjusted
in the Republican ranks; but the
Democrats will naturally take advan-
tage of their knowledge of the feeling
existing among their opponents to de-
bate some of the questions at length.
1t is understood now that coal, leather,
hides and lead ore will be vigorously
discussed, as will also the questions,
though more briefly, of reciprocity,
the treatment of trusts and the dispo-
sition of the Hawaiian reciprocity
treaty. In view of the determination
of the Democrats to exploit all these
questions and others as well, it would
seem impossible to conclude the SEN
ate's work on the bill before the end
of the week, and it is more than prob
able that the final work will be re-
served for the following week.
Charlotte Observer, Sunday: A
very distressing story comes from Due
West, 5. c. Miss McQuiston, or Ar.
kansas, was pupil at the Due West
Female academy last year. When the
term was drawing to close, her father
wrote her to meet him in Nashville, at
such and such a hotel, at such and
such time. She left Due West after
commencement for Nashville When
she got there she found that she was
ahead of time, and that her father
had not arrived. She thought she had
made mistake in the hotel, and start
ed out to look for him at other hotels.
Not finding him she returned to the