Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-07-23
Straps and faets.

$4,000 of them; but none Will be al
lotted to him since no application for
more than $4,000 will be granted.
- All along since the beginning OF
the war, the government has been
maintaining a coast patrol, consisting
of some 80 small craft of various
types, to guard the Atlantic seaboard
from Maine down to Florida. 1t is
now considered that there is no fur
ther danger of an attack from Spanish
vessels. and this coast patrol, or mos
quito fleet, has been ordered to Cuba
to supply the gaps in the blockade
that will be left by the departure OF
war vessels for Porto Rico.
A telegram from Santiago says
that few days ago General Shafter
rebuked Sylvester Scovell, g cores
pondent of the New York World, on
account of lying report the cores.
pondent sent his paper. Scovell talked
back and General Shafter struck him,
upon which Scovell returned the blow.
General Shafter then ordered that Sco-
veil be thrown into prison and trans,
ported back to the United States. He
was deprived of his army newspaper
pass as he had already been deprived
of his navy pass on account OF his
misrepresentation of facts.
- An official report received at the
navy department on Monday, through
Admiral Sampson tells of a peculiar
occurrence on board the Indiana du-
ring the recent campaign against San
tiago. Late one night when no firing
was going on a shell dropped on the
spar deck of the Indiana and burst
without warning. No flash was seen
and no report was heard. The explo-
sion destroyed the ceilings of several
staterooms, but nobody was wounded.
Whence the shell cams is mystery.
The official report says that it was an
8a-inch mortar shell. The Spaniards
used no mortars and none of such large
calibre was taken to Santiago by Gen.
Shafter.
- Caimanera is the Spanish base
from which the marines were attacked
at Camp McCalla. The marines have
all along been holding Camp McCalla
and there have been from 5000 to
5000 Spanish soldiers in Caimanera
and Guantanamo. A few days ago an
American officer went to Caimanera,
notified the Spaniards of the surren-
. der of Toral and gave short time in
which to surrender themselves. The
Spanish commander was informed that
unless arms, ammunition, gunboats
and all other public property should
be turned over to the Americans
without damage, the Spaniards would
not be treated as prisoners OF war.
The Spaniards surrendered promptly.
1t develops that quite a serious
mistake was made in the use of the
war balloon before Santiago. Some
body, it is not known who, ordered
the balloon sent up on the skirmish
lines of the Americans instead of far
to the rear. The observers were en-
abled to do some good work in giving
the Spanish positions by telephone
but the balloon was within easy reach
of the Mauser rifles of the Spaniards
and was soon filled with holes which
brought the big air ship to the ground.
Fortunately, those who went up in
the ship escaped without injury. The
proper thing to have done would have
been to have had the balloon sent up
far to the rear, out of direct range OF
the bullets of the enemy.
- Bids for the transportation of the
Spanish troops surrendered at Santa
20, were opened at the quartermas-
ter's department at Washington last
Wednesday. The governments pro-
posal called for the transportation oi
1000 officers and $4,000 enlisted men
to be transported from Santiago to Ca
diz, or other port that may hereafter
be designated. Cabin accommodations
are to be furnished the officers and
third class passage or steersge for the
enlisted men. The highest bid made
was by the New England Chemical
Supply company, of Boston, offering
to transport the officers and men for
$S9O,OOO. The contract was awarded to
the S panish Transatlantique company
represented by J. NJ. Ceballos u Co.,
of New York. The company agrees
to carry the prisoners from Cuban
ports 10 Spain at the rate of $50 fol
each enlisted man and $50 for each
commissioned officer, subsistence to be
furnished by the company on the army
ration basis, as provided for in the
governments advertisement for bids
- One of the great acts of this con
gress, to be considered by the people
is the appropriation bill, which prove.
the largest ever made by any congress-
Representative Sayers, of Texas, min
ority member of the house appropria-
tions committee, has made the follow
ing statement of the appropriations
made at this session: "The total ap-
preparations at the present session
amount to 1892, ,527, ,991. This includes
S117,S36, ,220 permanent appropriations
and 1861, ,7SS,O95 for war expenses.
Deducting the war expenses from the
sum total we have $3.50, 9,9O6 to be
charged against the civil and ordinary