Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-04-13
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One hundred Seminole Indians, Of
Florida, have rendered their services
to the United States government to
fight Spain. They have been in
duced to make this tender on account
of the assurance from the Federal gov
ernment that they would not be trans
ferred to reservation in the west !;
but would be allowed to remain in
Florida. The Seminoles generally are
hunters. They are brave and warlike
race, and it is believed that they will
prove of great value as scouts.
- Prince Albert Impey, student in
Shaw university, Raleigh, n. c., died
of consumption in the Pickford sanl-
tarium, at Southern Pines, last Friday.
He was not robust when he enter
ed Shaw university last August and
the winter affected him greatly. He
was sent to Southern Pines two months
ago. Impey was nephew of King
William, of a Kaffir tribe, of South
Africa. He came to America from
Milledrift, South Africa, under the au-
spices of the Foreign Missionary con-
yention of the United States to study
theology and medicine for eight years.
He was of pronounced Negro type.
In an interview a few months ago
Prince Impey said: "The present
King is my uncle, King William my
grandfather was King Khama. After
nv fathers death lived with King
William. 1 am a Methodist and at
tended the mission school at Barnshill.
have been baptized"
- James r. Randall, in Augusta
Chronicle: The proclamation OF Ru
bens, counsel of the Cuban junla in
this country, that, if necessary, the
insurgents would repel with arms any
interference of this country looking to
American military occupation aud ul-
innate annexation, came as surprise
to some people, and other people are
beginning to ask what Uncle Sam Is
to yet if he should sacrifice thousands
of lives and many millions of money
to free Cuba. Senator Daniel spoke
wisely when he said that no matter
how the present crisis eventuated, we
would have Cuban question, in some
perplexing shape, for 20 years to come.
Meanwhile, some old fashioned people
are alarmed at the evident determina-
ton to begin the formation of great
standing army, and all that such a
movement implies, in the light OF his
tory and experience.
- Duncan n. Hood, son of General
John B. Hood, the famous Confederate
commander, is now recruiting In New
Orleans regiment of volunteers
Young Hood is West Point graduate,
and supplemented his military educa'
ton by a course of engineering at the
Columbia college, New York. Upon
the thickening of the war clouds
Young Hood returned to his native
State, where he secured the promise
from Governor Foster of the appoint
ment of a colonelcy of volunteer
regiment if he could recruit one in
Louisiana. A recruiting office will be
opened tomorrow, with every promise
of the command being completed with
in a short time. Hood is a magnlh'
cent specimen of manhood, 6 feet tall,
broad shouldered, and with soldierly
bearing which comes of race OF SOL
diers, supplemented by college edu'
cation.
The members of the ways and
means committee of the house are bus
lily engaged with the treasury officials
in the work preliminary to the draft
ing of war revenue measure, 10 De
introduced in congress, Immediately
upon the opening Of hostilities with
Spain. An increase in the internal
revenue tax on beer from 81 to S2 a
barrel, and large increase in the tax
on manufactured tobacco, including
cigars and cigarettes, has been practl-
cally agreed upon. Bank checks, bills
of exchange, drafts, deeds, mortgages
and other papers of this class, patent
medicine and nostrums, in all probabil-
ity, also will be added 10 the list. A
rough estimate of the receipts to be
derived from these sources is that the
increase on these articles alone will
approximate, if not exceed, SlO0,OO0,-
600 a year. A bill providing for a
temporary loan of from $500, 600, 900,
at 8 per cent, payable in coin, has
been prepared by the ways and means
committee, and will be Immediately
introduced in case of war.
- Emilio NuncZ, a general in the
Cuban army, and member of the Gu
ban junta, and who is best known
through his activity in promoting Gu
ban fillibustering expeditions, talked
with a reporter of the Associated Press
in Philadelphia last Sunday relative to
the possibility of the United States
not recognizing the independence Of
Cuba. General Nunez said that he
had been told by man who is well
informed in diplomatic matters and
who is an intimate friend of repre-
sentative at Washington of foreign
government, that the United States
will not recognize the independence Of
Cuba. General Nunez does not be-
lieve that there will be war between
the United States and Spain. He
firmly believes that Spain will yield to
all the demands made by the United
States. at would be suicide for her
to 90 to war;" he said, with the few
good ships that she owns. Spain
would lot only lose Cuba, Porto Rico
and the Philippines, but would have to
face a revolution at home that would