Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-06-14
at'ausiae Gatheriags.

aE The United States treasury sur
plus for May was over S4,000,0OO.
p@- George Ray, of Columbia, Mo-,
aged 1O2 years, is suing his wife, aged
81, for divorce.
r9 There are 81 ports in the island
of Cuba, but only Is are open to the
worlds commerce.
p9 In New Haven, Conn.,, two boys
branded the back of a five-year-old
girl with red hot poker.
sg- A Methodist Episcopal church
building in Baltimore has been con-
verted into a synagogue.
p9 The attorney general of Ohio is
about to begin legal proceedings to
suppress the trusts in that state.
p6 Japan has considerably more
than half as many inhabitants as the
United States, though our country IS
% times its area.
p6- Mrs. Sam T. Jack, of New York,
has ANNOUNCED that she will carry out
her late husbands request by marry
ing his brother.
p6r From January l, to March 81,
1899, beet sugar of the value of S3,-
739, ,934 was exported from Germany
to the United Stated.
ear One of the largest steel works in
the world is being built at Ensley, Ala.
Part of the equipment will consist OF
ten 5O-ton basic open-hearth furnaces.
r@ During the last 20 years the
American Bible Society has put into
circulation in Mexico 600,S7O Bibles,
Testaments and portions of the Bible.
s9 For several years the Church
Extension society, of the Methodist
Episcopal church, has furnished aid
for the erection of two churches day.
pdr Judge Reagan, of Texas, the
only surviving member of Confederate
cabinet, made a patriotic address at a
monument ceremony at San Antonia
recently.
tag Herr Karwiese, the German en-
gipeer who constructed the Suez Canal ,
has made proposition to cut ship
tunnel through mountains on the 18TH
mus of Panama.
a9 A mans ledger does not tell
what he is or what he is worth. Count
what is in man, not what is on him, if
Won would know what he is worth,
whether rich or poor.-H. W. Beecher.
s@ A detective employed by color
ed people of Chicago to investigate
the lynching of Sam Hose at Newman,
Ga, reports that the burning was pre-
meditated and was actually advertised
by a railroad company.
a@ Any one can distinguish pois-
onous serpent from a harmless one,
for a venomous snake invariably pos
sesses a traingular:shaped head and a
blunt nose, while its tail is correspond
ingly blunt and stubby.
B@ Ex-senator German, of Mary
land, declared, in an interview, that
"militarism and trusts would be the
issues of 1900, and that the question
of silver would be overshadowed.
German is opposed to the free coinage
of silver.
e9r Several anonymous letters have
been received by United States mill
tary officers at Santiago, Cuba, threat
ening an uprising unless certain pre-
posterous concessions are granted.
June 20 is the day fixed for the out
break.
s~ A Denver (Colo.) church orgsni-
cation, which is without building to
worship in, the one it occupied having
burned, has leased a gold mine and
will run it for the money that is in it
until enough profit is made to erect
new building.
a0H The report of the Nicaragua
Canal commission, which has just been
made public by the state department,
estimates the cost of the canal at S11S,-
1880. The channel will have an
average depth of 80 feet, which is
more than the depth necessary for the
passage of our largest battleships.
s9 Dixie Thompson, the "Bean
King" of Ventura county, CAL, plant
ed 10000 acres in beans last year.
The crop was 1900 car loads, en-
bracing more than 100 varieties. The
beans were sown and cultivated in the
same manner as corn, and were har-
vested by special machinery.
a9~ The Ministerial Association at
Fort Wayne, Ind, has issued pro-
signed by all the Protestant
ministers of the city, calling attention
to the loose divorce laws of the state,
and publicly agreeing to marry no per-
son who has been divorced unless the
cause was unfaithfulness or willful
and then only the innocent
party.
s9- The gun now being built at the
Watervlient arsenal, which will be
mounted at the Sandy Hook defenses
after it's testfrings in September, will
be the largest service gun in the world,
and it will have muzzle energy equiv
alent to the ramming power of the
battleship Oregon going at a 14-knot
speed. The steel ingot from which the
main tube was constructed weighed
ILLS tons.
p@ c. A. Dewey, hardware mer-
chant at Kenosho, Wis, recently Or
dered ladder of a Chicago firm, and
failing to receive it, wrote an inquiry
if it had been shipped. He was in
formed that the ladder had been sent
by mistake to Admiral Dewey at Ma