Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-08-30
Straps ana faets.

in a recent address, referred to the
distressing condition of politics in
Kentucky, speaking especially of Goe-
bells tactics. The Sentinel took up
the matter and belittled and derided
DR.. Kerfoot, both as man and as a
minister. On Friday, DR.. Kerfoot
brought suit against The Sentinel and
it's editor, Charles M. Lewis, for $685.
900.
- The Labuan correspondent of the
Renter Telegram company, cables that
reliable news received there direct
from Manila says that an indescribable
state of anarchy prevails. The Amer
leans, according to these advices, occu-
py radius of Is miles there; around
the town of Iloilo they occupy radius
of 9 miles, and around Cebu they oc-
cupy a small radius. The rest of the
country, it is added, is in the hands Of
the Filipinos. The correspondent also
says it is reported the Filipinos have
murdered the crew of the steamer
Saturnus. The steamer Saturnus, of
the Compania Martina, coasting under
the American flag, was beached under
the insurgeant trenches at San Fernan-
do and burned August 2.
There is an old German fable of
man who was carrying lot of cheeses
home in wagon. When on the crest
of a hill, one of the cheeses was jolted
out and rolled down the hill. The
man picked up another cheese and
rolled it down the hill with instruc-
tions to find the first and return. AT.
ter waiting awhile with neither cheese
returning, he rolled another down on
the same errand. This process he
kept up until not cheese was left.
1t looks as if Uncle Sam is rolling
lot of cheeses down the Philippine
hill. The first was the payment of
S2O,OOO,O0O to Spain for the islands,
which Spain could not deliver. Since
then much more has been spent trying
to make the purchase good.
- Charlotte Observer: Arrange
ments are on foot looking toward the
building of million-dollar mill at or
near Gastonia. The main spirits in
promoting the scheme are Messrs.
George A. Gray and John F. Love,
who have done so much for the mate
rial advancement of the town. 1t has
not been decided yet whether the mill
will be an export mill or cotton duck
mill. The cotton duck mills of the
country have gone into combine, and
there is good opening for mill Of
this character outside of the combine.
The demand for cotton duck is great,
and liable to continue so, as there is
no prospect as yet, of the Filipinos
crying: "Hold! enough" and Uncle
Sam must have duck to clothe and
cover his soldiers. The Gastonia peo-
pie have the money in sight, and it is
almost an assured fact that the mill
will be built.
Al party of Kokomo fishermen, who
have returned from trip among the
unfrequented lakes of northern Indi-
ana, ran across the cabin occupied by
Geo. w. Scovile, the lawyer who de-
Tended Charles J. Guiteau in his trial
for the assassination of President Gar
field. 1t is situated near Mud Lake.
Scovllle lives the life of recluse.
From an atfable and influential lawyer
Scoville has grown into morose and
unapproachable hermit. He feels that
he would still be Stunned and despised
by everybody for his part in trying
to save Guiteau on the ground of he
reditary insanity, though he contends
that he did nothing more than his
duty. The loss of his wife and other
misfortunes that seemed to pursue him
added to his melancholy and confirm
ed him in his determination to aban-
don the world.
- Secretary Gage and other officials
of the treasury department think that
the enormously increased expendi-
lures, which will be made necessary
on account of the increase of the army
in the Philippines, will not make it
necessary for the government to in
crease the war taxes or to issue bonds.
The only possibility of this kind that
any treasury official is willing to ad-
nit, is that it may be necessary to Sc
cure a small loan by issuing certificates
of deposit, according to the provisions
of the war revenue act; but ever this
contingency is not expected to arise.
The paymaster general of the army
has as yet made no estimate Of the ad-
ditional expenditures to be made nec-
essary for the army in the Philippines; ;
but the treasury departments opinion
as to the ability of the government to
meet the expenses without embarrass-
ment is based on fairly accurate idea
of what will be demanded in the way
of funds. Secretary Gage believes
that the expenditure will not be more
than $1,000 man. If, therefore,
every soldier allowed by the army act
of the last congress should be enlisted,
the cost would be 100000, 1000. The
cost of maintaining the regular army
in time of peace was about S25, 100000
for $4,000 men. Secretary Gage thinks
that the income from the war revenue
act will be sufficient to meet the in
creased expenditures on account of the
army.
New York Herald: Arrangements
are maturing for the organization of a
S5O,OOO,OOO dry goods corporation in
this city, to control and operate dry
goods and department stores through
out the country. The Mercantile
Reorganization Company has recently
been incorporated in Trenton, n. j.,
as a preliminary to creating the big