Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-12-07

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all other kinds, including Egyptian,
Brazilian and Indian, etc. 2l4 600
bales, against 2O9, 1000 last week and
10000 last year.
- At it's last session held in Havana,
the executive committee of the Cuban
Assembly, agreed to make it compul-
sorry upon the part of any Cuban Off
Ger who might be insulted by Span
ish or American officer, to challenge
such officer to fight duel. Accord
ing to the Cubans this measure has two
aims. One is "to maintain the dignity
of the Cuban army, and the other is to
check the inpudence and insolence OF
the many so-called Cuban officers who
have Joined the army after the estab-
lishment of peace, and who are now
trying to impress the Importance Of
their positions on others by making
themselves generally disagreeable.
Boston Herald: From the reports
that one receives from Washington it is
pretty clear that Mr.. Mckinley has
not succeeded in building up in the
minds of the leaders of the Republican
party, a strength in popularity which
vol make him strenuously desirous
of seeing a presidential denomination
given him. If the presidential election
were shortly to take place and it were
found desirable at the present time to
canvass for delegates, we imagine the
man who would be looked upon as
possessing the highest degree of availa-
bility would be Admiral Dewey. 1t
may be that in the spring and summer
of 1900 the wise and valorous deeds
of Admiral Dewey will be looked upon
as a Renaissance in consequence of
the coming to the front of new issues
and new men. Still, if Judged by pres
ent appearances, he is more likely
than Mr.. Mckinley to be inaugurated
president on March 4, 1901.
- w. E. Curtis in Chicago Record
There will be several resolutions intro
duced in both houses of congress for
an investigation of the recent race riots
in North Carolina. An attempt is be-
ing made, however, to suppress the
Republican resolutions and allow the
Populists to take the lead, on the
theory that such an inquiry would
haye less political significance. Sena-
tor Butler, of North Carolina; Senator
Allen, of Nebraska Senator Stewart,
of Nevada; Senator Kyle, of South
Dakota, and other Popullsts are willing
to take the initiative, and the Repub-
lican leaders think it is desirable for
them to do so. The more information
that comes north the more evident it
seems that the race war, as heretofore
suggested, was premediated political
measure TO drive the gold Democrats
and other business men back into the
Democratic party, and inquiries that
are now being made regarding the
number of Negro Office holders, already
show that the agitation was based
upon misrepresentation and misappre-
hension.
New York dispatch of December
8: Six members of the crew of the
Mallory Line steamship Alamo were
killed tonight by the bursting of a
steam pipe, while the vessel lay at her
pier in East river. The dead are
Patrick Murphy, second engineer !;
Thomas McHugh, fireman Patrick
Farrell, oiler; Frank McMahon, fire.
man L. Connel, fireman ]. Ryne,
coal HEAVIER. John Stoneman, pas
senger, from Albany, was scalded, not
seriously. The Alamo has only recent
ly been discharged from the transport
service for the government and is fresh
from Roach's yard, where she received
a thorough overhauling, including, it is
said, new steam pipes and boilers. She
was scheduled to sail at 1.30 p. M,
Yesterday for Galveston, via Key
West; but was detained in order to
place on board an unusual quantity of
freight. She carried 80 passengers.
At the time of the accident, about Z
o'clock, the ship had cast off her lines
and tug had line taut to assist the
Alamo in midstream. Her engines
had made but two or three revolutions
when the explosion came.
Chicago Times: Sarah Terry is 10S
years old, and she has just celebrated
the anniversary of her birth by joining
the Daughters of the Revolution.
She is the only member of that honor
able body who is not alone daughter
of the Revolution; but wife Of the
Revolution as well. Mrs. Terry lives
with her granddaughter at 545 North
Sixtieth street, Philadelphia. She per-
sonally knew George Washington and
Lafayette, and says that the father Of
his country had twinkling eyes and
that Lafayette had rosy cheeks. She
remembers very distinctly when Queen
Victoria was - years old, and recalls,
as if it were yesterday, the return of
the heroes from the war of 1912. She
lived in Philadelphia at the time that
Benjamin Franklin lived there, and
she has seen the city grow and develop
as no other person. Mrs. Terry sits
up in large rocking chair and talks
clearly about matters which she her.
self saw more than century ago.
And although her hair is as white
as it used to be black and her form
bowed, her appetite is good and her
brain clear. The Quaker City chapter
of the Daughters of the Revolution is
to be congratulated on having acquired
80 very distinguished member.
- a Santiago dispatch of Friday
says: The opening of the recently
reorpaniZed supreme court this morn