Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-10-04
Straps and faets.

ed repairs which are to he made at the
Boston navy yard. Then, it is under
stood that the admiral will be allowed
an indefinite leave Of absence in order
that he might secure a well-earned
rest. What his future duties are to be
has not yet been definitely decided !;
but it is expected that he will be sta.
toned in Washington, where he can
be of assistance to the secretary of the
navy and to the president. All that,
however, is matter for the future.
A show man the other day pre-
sented to Admiral Dewey q lion cub.
The admiral accepted the present, and
he has named the cub captain
Chichester" after the British officer
who told the Germans to ask Dewey
what the British might be expected to
do in case of an outbreak between
Germany and the United States. The
pet of which the admiral is more
fond than the lion cub, however, is a
dog named bob" This dog came
from Manila, where it had been left
by the captain of British ship who
was unwilling to pay the duty that
would have been imposed on him in
England. The admiral is very fond of
"Bob," and claims that the animal has
almost human intelligence. At present
Bob is in very poor health on account
of his long sojourn on ship board and
his inability to get grass and exercise.
1t has now developed beyond a
doubt that it was Governor Roosevelt
then assistant secretary of the navy,
who selected Admiral, then Commo-
dore, Dewey, for the command of the
Asiatic squadron. This was at least
three months before the breaking out
of the war; but at that time the ad-
miral knew to a reasonable certainty
that the war was coming. This fact
developed during the official visit of
Governor Roosevelt to Admiral Dewey
last Thursday. The admiral said in
the presence of a number Of witnesses
that he owed everything to Roosevelt.
Furthermore, it was made clear that
the old story about Dewey having
been sent to the Asiatic station in Or
der to get him away from opportunities
for distinction, was bosh. The ad.
miral had asked for that very assign
ment, because of the very opportunity
that afterward materialized.
- The London Times of last Friday
published long extracts from a pri-
vate letter from Manila, dated August
81, whose writer asserts that Aguinal-
do is getting the best of it; that the
Americans are making no practical
progress that Aguinaldo has regained
his Influence over the villages, and has
lately obtained a lot of money, with
which he is endeavoring TO foment dis
turbances in Manila. "Aguinaldo," !"
says the writer, offers double the amount
of the rewards for American rifles and
arms that General Otis offers for
Filipino weapons. The result is that
the Americans get none of the latter,
while their own are being constantly
stolen. After calling General Otis
"good intentioned, but sluggish and
extremely parsimonious," the letter
attributes the difficulties of the Amerl-
cans "very largely to this false econo-
N.Y." Manila is inadequately policed
but the officers know it would be use
less to ask for more. The hospitals
are inadequately stated but General
Otis declares, according to the writer,
that half the men in the hospital are
not sick, and that to increase the
hospitals would only result in an in
crease of pretended invalids.
- President Mckinley has approved
the court martial sentence of Captain
Oberlin NJ. Carter. The action was
announced last Saturday. Captain
Carter, it will be remembered, was
convicted of swindling the govern
meut out of more than 800, 900, 900 in
connection with the river and harbor
improvements at Savannah, Ga. He
has influential friends and plenty of
money and the case has been bitterly
contested from the start. Although
the public has been thoroughly con-
vinced of the justice of the conviction
and sentence, it was believed by many
that there would be an attempt to
prevent the proper operation of the
law. The sentence of the court mar
tial was that Carter pay fine of So
600, that he be imprisoned for five
wears and that he be published as a
thief in the newspapers of the town
from which he came or in whatever
town he might be residing at the time
of the approval of the sentence. He
was arrested in New York last Satur-
day, and will be taken to Fort Leaven-
worth, Kan. While awaiting the
review of the testimony in the case,
Carter has been living luxuriously in
the clubs of New York city. 1t is
said that the pressure of public opinion
had much to do with the action of the
president in finally approving the
sentence of the court martial.
- There was a wild panic on the
New Orleans Cotton Exchange last
Friday. The New York Exchange
was closed on account of the Dewey
reception. The people of the south
were thinking more Of the excited cot
ton situation than they were of Dewey,
and New Orleans being the next larg-
est exchange in the country was, for
the time, the most important. Liver
pool time is several hours ahead of
New Orleans time, and some sharp
scoundrels who have not yet been
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