Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-07-01

General John B. Gordon, recently de-
stroyed by fire.
A race riot occurred at the Cardiff
and Blassburg, Alabama coal mines
last Tuesday. 1t was conflict be.
tween white and colored miners. Two
Negroes were killed and several were
wounded. The trouble has not yet
auieted down. Both sides are armed
heavily, and a serious conflict is ex-
pected.
Charles F. Collier, once, president
of the South railroad, committed sui
eide at his home at Petersburg, Va,
last Thursday by shooting himself in
the head with a pistol. He was II
years of age, and was ruling elder in
the Presbyterian church. He had no
business troubles, and his probable rea-
sons for self.destruction are unknown.
The bean king of Ventura county,
CAL, looms up larger every year. His
name is Dixie Thompson. He raised
and harvested last year 300 carloads
of beans. He says the bean is the
true American crop; that it is to take
the place of corn. 1t makes bigger
returns, is surer, more hardy, more nu-
tritious and less perishable. 1t will
feed man and beast and is not easily
destroyed by drought or insects. Mr..
Thompson thinks that if California will
only take to the bean she will in time
drive all famine from the face of the
earth.
- The production ofgold in the Trans
yaal for the current year is breaking
all previous records. Nothing equal
to it has ever been known in any
country. The March yield was al
most 100000 ounces, and 25,OO0
better than last December, which was
one Of the best months on record.
The March yield this year was almost
double that of March two years ago,
and $4,000 better than March year
ago. The value of this immense out
put for a month is $500. Official re-
ports say that the average weekly
gold output from South Africa is now
over 100000.
The president has at last found it
necessary to call for volunteers for
service in the Philippines. The regu-
lar army has been recruited to the full
limit of $4,000 men, and still General
Otis is sadly in need of troops. The
$4,000 volunteers allowed by the re-
cent congress have therefore been
called for. The volunteers are to be
enlisted for three years, although the
law provides for such force only un-
til 1901. In one respect at least the
volunteers will be on the same footing
as regulars. They will not be allowed
to come in as state organizations; but
only as United States volunteers, and
will be oficered through war depart
ment appointments. Men and officers
who volunteered for service in the re-
cent Spanish war will have the pre-
ference.
- Washington dispatch of June "a:
An chronological mystery is puzzling
the city, and the identity of the bug
which is devastating the beauty of
Washington faces is being sought ca
gerly. The new bug was first heard
from few days ago, when news.
dealer applied at a hospital for treat
ment, his face was so swollen that his
nearest friends did not recognize him.
Since then dozen similar cases haye
been treated. None of the victims
saw the insect, because the attack is
always made when the person is
asleep. The lips seem to be the favor
ite point of attack. The victim wakes
up in the dead of the night, suffering
the most intense pain in the face, and
finds his lips and other features pulled
up to an enormous size. The swelling
is bright red, and lasts from 4S TO n
hours, accompanied by almost con-
slant pain. Entomologists at the agri
cultural department are anxious to Sc
cure one of the bugs.
- The water question in the west is
always of supreme Importance, be-
cause the people either bave too little
or too much. 1t is an old story that
the man who builds a saw mill on a
western river waits until spring to get
water enough to turn his wheel, and
then he suddenly gets enough to take
him and his saw mill into the next
county. But even this old and famil
lar experience does not match that of
Mr.. Maynce Myers, at Whttiers, in
California. He was suffering for the
want Of water, and he bored an arte-
sian well, in the process Of which he
struck all ocean stream that shoots up
500 feet into the air and threatens TO
wash his whole ranch into the Pacific.
This ranch consits of 1900 acres, and
half of it has been overhowed, destroy
ing 10 acres of grain. Trains are now
running to the vicinity crowded with
sightseers. 1t is a free show, as
there is no way to hide the display,
though it is probable that Mr.. Myers
would be glad to give the thing to any
one who would take it away. One Of
the California papers says that the
state authorities are getting ready to
add new river to their map.
- An investigation is under way by
Al. 1 1.