Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-09-24

had the contract, no blame can attacn
to the United States.
- The total attendance at the Oma-
ha exposition last week was 0,943.
Rain reduced the average. The grand
total is now nearly a million and a
half. A notable event of this week
was booked for Tuesday, the Goth,
when Is or more United States sena-
tors were to pay an official visit to the
exposition.
- Lorenzo Snow, the newly chosen
president of the Latter Day Saints, is
an Ohioan by birth and graduate of
Oberlin college. He became a Nor
man through visit to his sisters at
Kirkland, O., then Norman centre.
AS a missionary in the Norman faith
he has travelled at home and abroad,
and there is scarcely place in the
United States which he has not visited
on his errand of proselytizing. He is
now "a years old but is in perfect
health and possessed of all the keen
mental faculties requisite for his newly
assumed leadership.
A Washington dispatch of We'd
nesday says: "The navy department
has been informed by Captain Good
rich of the Newark, at Guantanamo,
that Commodore Watson sailed yes
terday from that place for New York,
turning over the command of the naval
ships on the station to Captain Good
rich. The captain says that the raising
of the Spanish crusier Maria Teresa,
on which the wreckers are working,
did not come off yesterday as was ex-
pected, but that she surely will be
raised successfully. No word has come
to the navy department of late respect
ing the result of Constructor Hobson's
efforts to float the Colon, and some
apprehension is expressed that the
ship will 60 to pieces in the heavy
weather that is now due along the
south coast of Cuba"
- Baltimore Sun: "Perhaps the
most remarkable primary election ever
held in Alabama, if not in this coun-
try, was the one held Saturday last in
the Eighth congressional district of
that state. 1t was the primary OF the
Democratic party of that district to
select a nominee for congress, but
most of the Republicans and Populists
of the district participated in it, and
every man voted for the return to con-
gress of the hero of Santiago, General
Joseph Wheeler. Free silver and gold
advocates, free traders and protection
lists, territorial expansionists and con-
tractionists, rich and poor, black and
white, regardless of past, present and
future party affiliations, all united on
one proposition to send General Wheel
er back to congress. Not vote was
cast against him in the district. A
very heavy vote was polled throughout
the district. In thus honoring General
Wheeler the people of his district have
honored themselves. He is an able
representative, gallant soldier and a
loyal American"
1.-The main reason advanced against
a revision of the Dreyfus trial, accord
ing to the Paris press" says the Phil
adelphia Telegraph, "seems to be, as
heretofore stated, that retrial will
unquestionably result in the acquittal
of Dreyfus, which is equivalent to a
condemnation of the army administra-
tors who secured his conviction on
false testimony. 1t is hardly to be
conceived by the Anglo-Saxon mind
that such should be the case ; but it is
gravely stated as sufficient reason for
refusing to sanction a retrisl that 1t
would throw burden of responsible
ty on the shoulders of General Mer-
cier. who was minister for war when
Dreyfus was convicted. Dreyfus is
the innocent victim and Mercier is the
guilty conspirator but for the honor
and glory of the French army, .Drey-
fus must perish under unjust 'condem-
nation and Mercier must escape un-
scathed." The formal acquittal of the
prosecuted man is not to be expected,
of course, in such conditions, but the
end of all his hopes is achieved al
ready. The world believes him to be
innocent, aud will never accept the
verdict of any French court to the
contrary.
- Work has begun on the first large
government powder mandatory for
the navy, about two miles from the
naval proving station at Indian Head
and within % miles of Washington.
The new factory is being built under
an appropriation of $4,000 secured
last session, and when in operation
will have a greater capacity for smoke
less powder than any private concern
in the country. With that at New
port, which delivers about l. 900 pounds
Of powder day, the navy department
should have within less than six
months two factories capable of sup
plying practically all the smokeless
powder that it may require On peace
basis. The construction work will be
in charge of Lieutenant Bernadou, an
expert on the development of smoke
less powder. He commanded the
Winslow in her fight off Cardenas,
where he was severely injured at the
time Ensign Bagley was killed. Lieu
tenant Bernadou will begin his work
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