Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-11-23
Scraps and facts.

santiago ana fOnce on d tWo uiohene
cruise. Captain Evans will take the
party to the marine battlefield, where
Admiral Cervera's fleet was destroyed.
Mr.. Cleveland has taken fishing tackle
and expects to catch big tarpon in
Florida waters. Mr.. Benedict will
look out for business interests In our
new territory.
- Charlotte Observer, Saturday: A
funny story came by express yesterday.
Several days ago one of the agents
between here and Columbia, S. c., re-
ceived, with other goods, at Columbia,
a box of bees. Shortly after the train
left Columbia the bees got out of the
box in some way or other, and began
flying about in the car. The agent
commenced fighting them; but the
more he fought the more the bees
increased. Finally he locked up the
car, and took his seat in the coach.
He wired Mr.. Sadler to meet the car
and the bees; that he was coming in as
a passenger with his resignation al
ready written. The curtain drops.
- Macon, Ca, had an incipient riot
last Saturday caused by Negro soldiers.
Some one pointed out to the Negroes
a persimmon tree on which Negro
rapist was hanged nine years ago, and
this excited the Negroes to such state
that they fired thousand shots in the
tree and then cut it down, chopping it
into kindling wood. At this stage of
the proceedings Mr.. David Riley, the
owner of the land on which the tree
stood, came along, and the Negroes
started at him yelling "burn him."
Mr.. Riley was in a buggy and got
away. The Negroes then went to
Crump's park, suburban resort, for
the purpose of destroying it. Henry
Berner, the watchman, attempted to
drive them away but he was assaulted
and his pistol taken away from him.
- Commissioner Evans, of the pen
sion office, notified Secretary Alger on
Friday that Jesse T. Gates, of the Sec
ond United States artillery, who had
lost part of his upper lip in the West
Indian campaign, has been awarded the
first pension on account of the Spanish
war. The president and the secretary
of war each took an interest in this
case. Gates called on them in person
soon after the close of the campaign
and convinced them of the merits OF
his claim. Gates will receive SIT per
MONTH, and this being inadequate, a
private pension bill increasing the pen
sion, probably, will be introduced in
congress. Claims on account OF the
Spanish war are now coming in rapid
ly. The total on file up to date is
l,947 for war service and ITS for naval
service, exclusive of the claims of the
battleship Maine victims.
- Boston Herald: The men who
have come up from South Carolina to
Washington to ask for executive action
against the lawlessness in that state do
not appear to have met with much
announcement at the White House.
This tests the policy of leaving the
south to manage its own affairs, and
it seems to establish that policy in the
nation. The president would have
been embarrassed to depart from it in
view of what has been recently seen
in Illinois. There the governor of the
state has been allowed to direct the
shooting down of black citizens Of
the nation without interference from
Washington. The case in South Caro-.
lima has been hard one; but it would
be difficult to point out where it is more
fagrantly wrong than that in Illinois,
and, indeed, in itself it did not so
strongly present an occurrence that
called for presidential interposition.
A Springfield, ILL.,, dispatch of Sun
day says: Notwithstanding the de-
claration of Captain E. G. Butler, in
command of the National Guards at
Pana, made to Governor Tanner last
night, that he felt able to cope with
the occasion with the troops at his
command, a delegation of about so
business men at Pana, headed by the
former Mayor Huber, visited the gov
ernor at the executive mansion today
and informed him that Pana was in a
state of terror and that Captain Butler
appeared to be inadequate to the oc-
casion, and asked the governor to send
more troops to Pana and take strin-
gent measures to preserve the peace.
Accordingly Governor Tanner ordered
Company c, Fifth Illinois infantry, to
proceed to Pana this evening. The
governor also superseded Captain But
Ter, who has been in command at Pana,
with Lieutenant Colonel Frank P.
Wells, Fifth infantry, of Decatur"
- Wilmington special to Raleigh
Post: Mayor Waddell today receiv-
ed three anonymous communications
threatening him with death if he failed
to leave the city within "a hours.
The incident caused ripple of excite
ment in municipal circles; but the
mayor treated the matter lightly and
stated that it would not cause him any
loss of sleep. Several well-known
citizens who were prominent in the
recent revolution have received similar
letters. All Of these were mailed at
the Wilmington postoffice, and were
written by some ignorant person or
persons, evidently Negroes. None of
the recipients has taken the matter
seriously. Though if the writer of the
missives is found it will prove serious
matter with him. Notices to leave
continue to be served at intervals on
unpopular persons, principally white
"Fusionists" and white-skin Repub-
licans. and several badly-fr frightened