Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-09-21
Straps and faets.


- A Washington dispatch of Friday
says: "The three battleships which
have just been contracted for have
been consigned to the builders as fol-
lows: The Ohio to the Union Iron
works, of San Francisco the Missouri
to the Newport News company; the
Maine to Cramp & Sons, of Philadel-
phia. The ships are to be built in 80
months. Formal notices of awards
were sent out today to the successful
bidders"
- Baltimore Sun: The Engineering
and Mining Journal keeps an account
of the gold brought from the Klondike
region, the result of last winters work,
and finds the Canadian authorities
have collected royalties on but s., 4,OOO,-
900 of gold, and expect to collect on
$4,000. 900 more that has already been
mined. About all the gold produced
was in Canadian territory. Some gold
is brought out secretly, no doubt. In
the final cleanup for the year The
Journal expects to see $9,OOO,OO OF
gold produced. The average earnings
of the year were about $3.50 per man,
which is not much, in view of the fact
that it costs SIS a day to live. Most
of the Klondikers have been living on
money they took with them.
Orders were issued from the war
department on Monday for the dispo-
sition of the FIVE regiments of regular
cavalry now at Camp Wikoff, in com
mand of Major General Wheeler.
Three of them are to be sent to camp
hereafter to be designated, within l0O
miles of Huntsville, Ala. The Second
regiment is to 60 to South Dakota, to
relieve the Eighth regiment, with head
quarters at Fort Meade, and the Ninth
is to be distributed throughout Arizona
and New Mexico, to relieve the
Seventh, now stationed in those terri
tories. The Seventh and Eighth upon
being relieved will join the three regi-
ments from Montauk at the camp
which may be selected in the vicinity
of Huntsville. Its location will de-
pend upon the recommendation OF a
board of army officers now in the south
engaged in inspecting camp sites.
Major General Wheeler will have COM
mand of the cavalry, which is to form
part of the army of occupation for
Cuba and Porto Rico.
A crowd of about 700 people be-
sieged the house of General Toral at
Vigo, Spain, last Friday, demanding
that the troops which arrived there on
the day before from Santiago de Cuba
on board the Spanish steamer Leon
XIII be Immediately landed. They
proceeded to the quays, cheering the
troops, and were with difficulty dis
persed by soldiers of the garrison.
Afterward crowd of about l 800 peo-
pie returned to the quays, and when
they saw the soldiers landing bare
footed and nearly naked, they became
infuriated and surrounded General
Toral's house, hooting and Kissing and
stoning the building. Eventually, the
Spanish general succeeded in escaping
to the Leon XIII. On learning that,
the mob gathered on the dock and
stoned the steamer for half an hour,
smashing the cabin windows. Ihs
Leon .XIII- was obGs"4to one
place where she was moored.
- Secretary Hester's New Orleans
Cotton Exchange statement, issued
last Friday, shows that the amount
brought into sight for the week ending
on that day was 159,S40 bales against
44,622 for the seven days ending
September 16 last year, and 3l2, ,2O6
year before last. This brings the total
amount for the 16 days of the new
season to 263, SOP, against 405, $40 last
year. The statement shows receipts
at all United States ports since Sep
tember l of 176,95O bales, against
262,479 for the same time last year.
Southern mill takings were 6,l62,
against 54,376 last year. Foreign ex-
ports for the 16 days have been 70,736,
against 1927. Including amounts left
in stocks at ports and interior towns
and the number of bales brought into
sight thus far for the new crop, the
supply to date is 53l, ,O6S, against 522,-
AGA for the same period last year.
New York Voice: Bishop Cbas.
H. Fowler, of the Methodist Episcopal
church, speaking before the Wesleyan
Methodist conference in England, is
reported by the New York Christian
Advocate to have said: ave are sure
that you will rejoice to have me say,
from personal knowledge, that an ex-
emplary Christian and Methodist
communicant occupies the White
House, a man who is more anxious to
please God than to please any other
being in the universe. We know his
integrity and honor; we believe in his
personal religious experience. God
bless William Mckinley, the honored
president of the United States Of
American Either Bishop Fowler or
the "Discipline" is sadly wrong; for
William Mckinley has been receiving
rent for saloon property, sets wine be-
fore his guests, drinks wine at public
dinners, is controlled by party organ
ization that is managed in the interest
of the liquor traffic." and today stands
personally responsible, as commander
in-chief of the United States army, for
the continuance of the canteen system,
an abominable and often unlawful
form of the evil that "can never be
legalized without SIM"
- Miss Winnie Davis, the "Daughter
of the Confederacy," died at Naragan-