Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-11-22
a'aysiae Gatherings.
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will be organized into s2,500,000
combine.
e6r During the last fiscal year, ID, GOA
pos,masters were appointed, 1888
being of fourth. class.
p@r Bremen took 100000 of the
II, 100000 bales of cotton raised in the
United States last year.
ag- The operating expenses Of the
great steamship Oceanic, are between
$50, 900 and $4,000 month.
@ United States Senator Carter, of
Montana, was arrested in Helena and
fined 81 for splitting on the sidewalk.
pH 1t is said there is more "cham-
pagne" drunk in one year than the
champagne districts produce in seven.
s@ Americas, Ga, is having lots of
trouble on account of the refusal of
many people to submit to vaccination.
n6- Berlin newspapers have revived
the prophecy of Napoleon that South
Africa will be the grave of the British
Empire.
s4r The secretary of agriculture is
considering the advisability of trying
to develop the cultivation of the rub
ber tree in Porto Rico.
sH- Major Won Reitzenstein, winner
of the long.distance military ride from
Berlin to Vienna, has gone to the
Transvaal to join the Beers.
p9e Last Fridays dry goods market
report indicates that the general ad-
vance is still on. Print clothes are
rather weaker than other standard
goods.
tag An epidemic of dengue, dis
ease closely allied to the yellow fever,
is prevalent in the Island of Luzon.
Many American soldiers have been at
tackled.
R9- There was a fire aboard the
steamship Patria, in the English chan
mel, last week. Many of the passen-
gers were severely burned, and some of
them died.
p6y- The board of naval inspection
and survey has reported that the re-
cent tests of the Holland submarine
boat show that the invention comes up
to all requirements.
sd- The secretary of the treasury
has ordered the premature redemption
of $50, 100000 bonds to relieve the f.
nancial stringency in Wall street
caused by over speculation.
sd General William Ludlow, mill
tary governor of Havana, who is at
his home in Flushing, L. l., says the
greatest drawback to the improvement
of the Cubans is their illiteracy.
s4 Two masked men broke into
bank at Parker, Arkansas, last Friday,
bound and gagged the cashier, opened
the safe with dynamite and stole 81 800
in cash.
B6y Some students of the Chicago
university are going down into the
mountain regions of Kentucky to stu
dy the peculiar sociological conditions
that prevails there.
sdF A Cuban anarchist, who tried to
assassinate Senior Garcia, the governor
of the province of Santa Clara: in
January last, has been sentenced to
IL years. Imprisonment.
sa 1t is proposed to import several
thousand Chinese direct from China to
work on the coffee plantations of South
ern Mexico. The crops are suffering,
owing to lack of labor.
s6 ]. Morgan Smith, who says he isa
nephew of ]. Pierpont Morgan, squan-
dered $9OO,OOO, and then shipped on
whaler to the arctic sea, has deserted
and is waiting to hear from wealthy
relatives.
p@- A Los Angeles judge has con-
demned coursing. He admitted that
rabbits, in their wild state, may be pur-
sued and killed with dogs; but not
rabbits kept in confinement and re-
leased for the dogs.
a6r Gambling in France is said to
have reached such proportions that the
government has begun to study the
question seriously. 1t is estimated
that half of the suicides in Paris are
due to the loss at the races.
a@ A girl who came from SaXony
two years ago, and knew only her ma
tive language, has taken first honors
in public school in New York, with
an average of 94.S. She ranked third
among all the grammar school grad
yates in the city.
B9 A Missouri couple were married
the other day after weeks acquaint-
ance. The Kansas City Journal ad-
mits that there was nothing precipitate
so far as the bridegroom was concern
ed, as the bride possessed property
valued at $4,000.
nag New York City, Brooklyn and
Jersey City milk dealers have formed
a gigantic milk trust, under the law of
Delaware. Articles of incorporation
were filed at Dover by the Pure Milk
company, whose capital stock was
represented at sSO,OOO,OO0.
pd" The New York papers figure up
a state inheritance tax on the late Cor
nelius Vanderbilt of over 81 200, 900
and federal inheritance tax, under
the war revenue act, of over $2,7OO,-
900. The total sum is three times the
amount of Mr.. Vanderbilt's public be-
quests.
p~ Captain Lewis McNabb, of COM
pany K, Forty-ninth United States
Volunteer infantry, colored, recently
promoted from being first sergeant in
the Twenty-fourth regiment of ipfan-
try committed suicide at St. Louis.