Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-01-15
Scraps and faets.

the health Omcer reports, Cnere WeIe
232 cases of the disease and only 2
deaths, neither of which is attributed
entirely to smallpox.
- Mark Hanna was elected United
States senator from Ohio last Wednes-
day, receiving a majority of 8 over all in
the house and polling two behind a
majority in the senate. The result is
as has been generally anticipated.
There are numerous charges OF bribery
on the part of the senator's friends ;
but these, of course, cannot be proven.
- Monroe, N. c., is having dose OF
Judge Simonton. At recent session,
the North Carolina legislature gave
Monroe a dispensary law similar to
that of South Carolina. Shortly after
Simonton's original package decision,
an Augusta concern opened an so. p"
shop in Monroe, and now the Monroe
authorities are trying to run the o. p.
man out.
A Washington dispatch tells of a
shrewd dodge on the part of importers
of foreign mineral waters to escape
customs duties. Under the Dlngley
law ice is free, while spring water is
dutiable at the rate of "a cents GAL
lon. The importers have decided to
freeze all mineral waters before import
ing them, and bring them to America
in the form of ice. The custom off,
cials recognized that if this is done,
the only possible way to keep even
with the importers is to have the law
amended, and how to do this so as to
cover the point, is recognized as a
knotty problem.
- The agricultural department has
issued a circular regarding the spread
of the Mexican cotton boil weevil
during the past season. Several years
ago the weevil made its appearance in
certain portions of Texas and there
was great fear it would spread to the
north and east of the infected regions
in that state and even to Louisiana,
Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia.
The investigation conducted by the
department shows, however, that the
progress of the insect toward the
north and east has been very slow ;
that its spread is practically checked
by the first heavy frost, and it is
doubtful whether the insect will ad-
vance to any great extent beyond the
region of the growth of volunteer cot
ton.
"A letter from Dawson City, dated
December 9, says: "Joaquin Miller
arrived at Dawson City from Circle
City December 4, at II o'clock. He
was very badly frozen, having lost a
part of the great toe of his left foot,
his left ear was sloughing off and both
cheeks were frozen. He left Circle
City 35 days before in company with
Harold Canovano, of the coast survey.
They started from Circle City without
dogs, having been unable to secure
them. They pulled their outfit on a
sled. Mr.. Miller brings story of
great suffering all along the river by
parties caught in the ice on their way
to Yukon. He reports also the death
of Charles Anderson, a young man
from Brooklyn, N. Y, who accidental
ly shot himself while in boat about
so miles above Circle City"
- Some months ago the Sacramento
Bee asserted that a local judge had
been guilty of falsehood. The editor
of The Bee was fined for contempt by
the Judge whom he had attacked.
The editors counsel appealed to the
supreme court and contended that as
there was a question of veracity be-
tween the Judge and the editor, the
latter could not be denied the right to
prove that the judge was guilty OF
falsehood. The case was argued elab-
orately by both sides, and the supreme
court, by vote of four to three, de-
cided in favor of the editor. The ma
iority of the court declared that while
the power to punish for contempt is
proper and necessary, it should be
used with great discretion, and that
the Judge in the case under considera-
ton had made an unwarranted asser-
ton of his authority. The decision
has caused much comment in the Cal
ifornia press.
- Senator Chandler had a confer
ence with President Mckinley, few
days ago, on the subject of bimetallism,
and after the interview said "The
president stands firmly in favor of in
ternational bimetallism as promised by
the St. Louis platform. He considers
the negotiations with the European
powers only temporarily suspended on
account of the peculiar condition OF
affairs in India, and is the presidents
intention to again send his ENJOYS to
Europe as soon as the conditions are
favorable for continuing negotiations. "
Senator Chandler added the opinion
that the president is as earnestly in
favor of bimetallism-"the use of both
metals as standard money''-as the
senator himself. A great many, how
ever, do not agree with the senator.
They think that the president is in
doubt as to exactly what he thinks.
Car Reed is the one Republican
who has never buckled Gown to Boss