Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-11-29
atjausiae Gatherings.

s4- The opening of the drainage
canal at Chicago is set for sometime
between December to 4.
p9- 1t is estimated that 1000 barrels
of apples will be shipped out of Huron
county, Ontario, this year.
pa- The whaling fleet now on its
way to Victoria, B. c., will bring
revenue to San Francisco of 81 $780,
900.
s@- In the last $50 years, 1900, 900
unfortunates have been condemned to
exile in Siberia by the Russian govern
ment.
s0r Fort Caswell, at the mouth of
Cape Fear river, N. c., was damaged
to the extent of $500, 900 by the recent
hurricane.
s6 A correspondent points out that
President Kruger's ultimation is the
first that has ever been received by
Great Britain.
s6r The American Public Health as
sociation has declared emphatically
against the use of food preservative
preparations.
a6r 1t is very probable that Admiral
Dewey and Lieutenant Brumby will
attend the Confederate reunion at
Louisville next May.
pI In Posen, according to Cologne
paper, seamstresses earn maximum
of $3.50 per month, and that only after
10 years. experience.
s~ A new sign has been added to
the German railway time-tables-a
picture of a bicycle indicating which
express trains carry wheels.
sde Baptist factions at war in Texas
over the control of the Baptist general
convention, will carry the fight into all
the $500 churches in the state.
E4 German commercial men travel
ing in Russia are oblighed to pay
tax of 500 rubles, in default of which
s fine of 1900 rubles is imposed.
s~ Governor Murphy, of Arizona,
states, after an investigation, that there
is not the slightest danger of an up
rising among the Navajo Indians.
a@ A natural gas explosion at the
residence of Mrs. Elizabeth Russell, in
Springfield, O., blew the house to
pieces, and nine inmates had miracu-
lous escape.
sas- 1t took 20 years to build the
statue of Victor Emmanuel, recently
unveiled at Turin, and the frequent
disputes over it have made it by
wood in all Italy.
nag The war department has ordered
that the remains of Major Logan,
killed in the Philippines, shall be dis
inferred at the end of. two weeks and
shipped back to this country.
BT The Ontario interior department
has received information that at the
smallest computation Is, 900 Finlanders
will arrive in Canada next spring.
The majority of the immigrants will
be from South Finland.
B9~ A friend of Admiral Dewey has
offered to refund the subscriptions Of
dissatisfied subscribers to the Dewey
home. Dewey has also said that he
will return the subscriptions of those
who request such return.
p@ Japanese citizens have made a
great fuss over the American volun-
teers who have stopped in the country.
This is great contrast to the senti-
ments they show toward the soldiers
and sailors of other nations.
s@- All effort to ascertain the depth
of the famous Pitch lake of Trinidad
has been unsuccessful. At the sides Of
the lake the pitch is hard and cold I;
but at the center it is hot, and almost
continually boiling in liquid state.
p@ A recent government census of
India contains remarkable statement
in reference to youthful marriages.
There are in that country 6,061, ,759
girls between 5 and 9 years of age
who have been or are wives. Over
17O,O 900 of them are widows.
ed- At the Pasteur institute in Paris,
1,465 persons were treated in 1898, and
all but three were cured. For the 13
years from the foundation of the in
stitution to the end of the year 1898,
49, ,181 persons were treated in Paris,
and out of this number only SO died.
nay Lieutenant Hobson has been Or
dered from Hong Kong to go to the
north coast of Luzon, to see what he
can do about raising the cruiser Char
lesion recently sunk there. The latest
news from the Charleston is to the
effect that it has disappeared in deep
water.
p@ The Spanish government has the
floating dry dock at Havana on its
hands, the Vera Cruz syndicate having
decided not to take it. 1t has been
offered for sale three times without
finding buyer, and will now be towed
back to Spain. 1t is worth about
S5OO,000.
RB The fastest cruiser in the world
has been recently completed for China.
The new cruiser is to be known as the
Hal Tien, of 4,4OO tons, and, under
natural draught, will have speed of
1876 knots an hour. At this rate she
could cross the Atlantic in about four
and half days.
Ra% Milan intends to have a worlds
fair in 1904 by way of celebrating
the completion of the Simplon tunnel
One plan is to have the exposition in
four cities, giving the industrial section
to Milan, the agricultural to Florence,