Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-02-22
aTausiae Gatherings.
n@ In 1898 the Alabama coal output


and could practice in the courts.
paS Alabama Negro miners who went
to Virden, Ill.,, are freezing and starv-
ing in camps.
s@ Andree's brother discredits the
story of the finding of the balloonist's
body in northern Siberia.
p6 Among the entries found in the
Spanish accounts at Havana was one
for $40, 900 for secret service expenses
at Washington.
p8 In Boston Edward T. Lennon
refused to pay SIS fine for expectorat-
ing in a street car, and was sentenced
to serve 80 days in Jail.
p9 Secretary of War Alger reports
the organized militia force of the Unit
ed States 1O1, ,536; total unorganized
and available, S,999,S25.
p6- According to careful estimates,
three hours of hard study wears out
the body more than a whole day OF
hard physical exertion.
p6~ If we could see in ourselves that
which we see in others, as others Can
see in us that which they do not see in
themselves, where would be at?
sas- So many cattle died in the In:
dian Territory during the recent cold
spell that laborers have been hired at
good wages to skin the dead animals.
e8r The loss of live stock in Wyo'
ming, Montana and the Dakotas by the
blizzard will be about 80 per cent
Northwest Texas will lose about sc
per cent.
s6- Nine. Candelario Villenueva,
known as the only survivor of the
massacre of the Alamo, died in San
Antonio, Tex, last week at the age o1
ia years.
s6- The cost of administering the
Cuban government under the United
States military control will not be more
than one.quarter of that under the
Spanish management.
p6 Congress is to be appealed to by
Sandwich Island natives to grant an
annuity to Princess Kaioulani, who has
been receiving $4,000 year from the
Hawaiian republic.
p@ A bill creating the Office of ad'
miral of the navy has been passed by
the senate. Rear Admiral Dewey, il
is understood, will be nominated by
the president for the position.
s@ In Cumberland county, Pa.
quail are starving, owing to the heavy
fall of snow, and sportsmen are trav
cling through the fields and woods
scattering grain for their birds.
p9 Doctor-Of this medicine I want
you to give your husband spoonful
every four hours. Rich Patients
Wife-O, doctor, we are sufficiently
we'll off to let him take one every
hour"
s6. Fifty walnut trees in Cass coun
ty, Mich, were recently sold for Sl0,'
900 cash. These trees have now beer
felled and shipped to English buyers
The largest tree was seven feet in di
ameter at its base, and will yield lum
ber worth from 500 to 1000.
H8- Thomas Osborn, of Economy
Ind, began a weather record 60 years
ago, taking a register of the thermom
eter three times day, and the custom
has been followed by his son, Elan
Osborn. According to the this record
Thursday, February 9, was the coldes'
day in go years.
s9- Bernard Carter, of Allensville
KY, says he is the champion long-dis
tance rider of the world. Every day
in the last 20 years he has ridden 81
miles on business, and hunting anc
other pleasure trips have brought hi:
average up to 12,400 year. Up tt
date Carter claims to have Travelled
24S, 900 miles on horseback.
s6' William Dickerson, of Chester
Pa, has been treated by physicians fol
bronchitis and other ailments; but witt
little relief. Last Wednesday nigh
while lying on lounge, he was seized
with fit Of coughing, and elected 6
live lizard from his mouth. He thinks
that the reptile was taken into his
stomach when he drank water from 6
spring while cunning.
g1- A man is in custody at Fort Scott
Kan, on the charge of making and
passing counterfeit nickels. 1t is said
that he travelled all over Missouri anG
"broke" every slot machine he came
across, playing spurious coins in them
1t is not certain, however, that he car
be convicted, as it is doubtful whether
playing spurious coins against an lille
gal device constitutes passing" in the
eyes of the law.
s6. William Johnson, of Bradenburg
KY, claims to own the longest shotgun
in the country. He made the weapon
himself for the purpose ofkilling ducks
but found when it was finished that al
ordinary range it would blow duck
to atoms. The barrels are 6 feet long
and measure 4 inches in diameter out
side and II inches inside. The weap
on weighs 1872 pounds and carries
1900 yards.
p0 What is described as a "typica
mountain wedding," took place neal
Batesville, Va, few days ago, wher
Miss Estelle Clemmons became Mrs
Ben Luther. About 100 guests were
present. A rejected suitor of Miss
Clemmons was among the guests, con
spicious by broad band Of crepe worn
on the arm. During the ceremony the
Tilted man and his sympathizers e1.
pressed their sense of bereavement
hu low snrroMfIll moaning