Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-07-05

Croatan named Oxendine and his mule
were killed by poison last week. Paris
green had been put on some tobacco to
Kill worms and the man was plowing
it. The mule, it is said, bit some OF
the tobacco and died from the effects
of the poison in few minutes. The
man in handling the tobacco in some
way got enough of the poison In bis
system to cause his death during the
night.
y Mrs. Emma D. E. n. Southworth,
the authoress, died at her residence in
Washington at $50 o'clock last Friday
night after an illness of several weeks.
About month ago Mrs. Southworth
was Frustrated by the heat and the in
trinity of advanced age, she being in
her 10th year, rendering her unable to
recuperate from the attack, she grew
rapidly worse until a few days since it
was seen death was inevitable. She
was attended by her son, DR.. Sou tn
worth. She had lived for many years
a retired life in picturesque mansion
of the old-fashioned type, located on
hill in west Washington, overlooking
the Potomac and hills of Virginia.
- Charlotte Observer: The forma'
ton of a combine to operate the tobac-
CO sales warehouses of Danville, Va,
is one of the latest things in the way
of a trust. The combine has been
chartered in New Jersey, where every
thing shady is chartered, with capi-
tai of $1,OOO,O0O, and eight of the
nine warehouses in Dantille are in the
deal. The American Tobacco com.
pany, otherwise the cigarette trust, is
probably at the bottom of this busi-
ness, though it denies it. This is like
ly its final step in destroying competi-
ton in the sale of leaf tobacco on the
Danville market, which is very large
one, and it looks as if it should be en-
tirely effective. This step will likely
be followed by the building of few
more churches, new gifts of money to
colleges, and enlarged contributions to
orphan asylums.
- A statement prepared in the
Office of the adjutant general of the
army shows that with the departure
of the Pennsylvania from San Fran
cisco about $50 reinforcements were
dispatched to the Philippines last week.
There are about 5000 recruits at San
Francisco which are also intended to
recruit the regular regiments in the
Philippines up to their maximum
strength of 1913 men to company.
Including the Nineteenth infantry un-
der orders for Manila and troops at San
Francisco there are 1000 ready to
start for Manila as soon transportation
can be provided. The war depart
ment is awaiting advices from General
Otis before proceeding activity with
the enlistment of volunteers under the
recent decision of the administration
to organize nine regiments into three
brigades, including three skeleton regi-
ments in the Philippines, amounting
in all to about 1O,0O0 volunteers.
- Since the announcement that
about 10000 volunteers were to be
mustered into the army for service in
the Philippines, the president has been
deluged with applications for commits
sions. Almost every congressional
caller has one or more applications
whom he presses upon the presidents
attention. The president requests all
his visitors to file their applications
with Adiutant General Corbin. AT
the same time he makes it clear in a
general way that the policy of the ad,
ministration in granting commissions
will be to give preference to the vol.
unteer officers who showed ability and
who performed valuable service during
the Spanish war. Some regular Off
GERS are also to be given volunteer
commissions, in the belief that one or
two regular officers in regiment will
be of great advantage. The number
of officers to be commissioned is being
carefully guarded to prevent a scram'
BILE.
- The remarkably heavy rains Of
the past four days in Texas did dam
age which will amount to hundreds OF
thousands of dollars, says a Houston
dispatch of Saturday. Railroad traffic
is suspended in south Texas because Of
the numerous washouts, and many
bridges are gone. Every stream in
this section of the state is above high
water mark, and the angry waters
have destroyed thousands OF acres Of
cotton, corn and cane, besides houses
and cattle. At Calvert the rise was Sc
sudden that when the river went
through the town several Negroes
were drowned, and five bodies have
been recovered. 1t is reported that
manv farmers, white and colored
living in the Brazos bottoms have been
drowned; but neither names nor par
ticulars are yet obtainable. The Big
and Little Brazos rivers have Joined
the Navasota where they are ordina'
rily three miles apart, and the whole
country between, mostly cotton and
corn land, is ruined. 1t is reliably
stated that one family of six persons
nerishei. The loss in cotton and corn
alone will reach a million dollars,
while another million will not cover
the loss to railroads and other proper
ty.
Discussing the banking aspects OF
the wear just closed, Comptroller OF
the Currency Dawes said last Satur-
day: "The condition of the national
banks of the country during the year
has been one of progressive prosperity.