Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-04-12
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BH A bill has passed the Missouri
house making the operation OF slot
machines felony.
H4r Among recent presents sent to
Admiral Dewey is an annual pass to
theater named for him.
B@ Mount Vesuvius is covered with
deep snow, while at the same time Its
volcanic activity is on the increase.
n6T The Chinese cooks with the
American army in the Philippines have
been fighting in the trenches when not
cooking.
gBr Nearly 300 Spanish merchants
sailed from Havana on the steamship
Montserrat for Spain, to avoid outrages
by Cuban soldiers.
e@ A Chinese patient at Bellevue
hospital, New York, accepted the
Christian faith in his dying moments,
despite the protests of two of his coun-
trymen.
s~ Competent judges of the growing
wheat crop in Indiana say that it Is
badly damaged by recent rains and in
many localities there will not be over
half crop.
n6F A New York man has recently
bought the match factory at Calabazar,
village about IL miles from Havana,
and will soon be turning out real
American matches.
H6r A conviction in a pension fraud
case at Washington revealed the fact
that during 80 years three women had
drawn pension as the widows OF
man who had never been married.
a@ Soldiers mustered out of the
United States service in Cuba, Porto
Rico, Hawaii or the Philippines will be
allowed to remain one year in those
islands to try their fortunes.
p~ Lieutenant Bill, British officer
with the Belgian troops in the Congo
Free State in Africa, recently captured
by the natives in a fierce fight, and
was afterward killed and eaten.
s@ The agricultural department has
invited proposals for furnishing field,
flower and vegetable seeds to the gov
ernment for the fiscal year, ending
June 80, 1900, all bids to be filed not
later than April 20.
H@ A Mexican professor of physics
proposes to foretell earthquakes hy
connecting telephones to the pipes OF
deep artesian wells and to metal plates
sunk in deep mountain crevices. Any
unusual noise in the bowels of the
earth would indicate trouble.
s@r A bicycle ambulance is one of
the latest inventions, and consists of a
bicycle with an ambulance attached.
The stretcher is fastened to the top of
the bicycle, and the wounded or sick
person lying on the stretcher can then
be rolled along in gentle and safe
manner.
eB A curious artifce of war was
adopted by a Chinese junk when at
tackled by a man-of-war. The crew
threw cocoanuts into the sea, and then
jumped in among them. Nearly all
escaped, for it was impossible to tell
which were heads or which were nuts.
p6- At New Britain, Pa, Sebastian
Whitman, a schoolboy, fell heavily Oh
his face, and bit off nearly two inches
of his tongue. A physician sewed the
severed piece on, and says the wound
will heal and the tongue will be able
to perform its function in a few
months.
g6 On account of the ravages Of
caterpillars on the foliage last summer,
it is believed that this years maple
sugar harvest in Vermont will be a
total failure. The maple sugar season
has begun, and the makers find the
trees are sapless. Some think the
trees are dead.
s6 The beef court of inquiry will
probably not sustain General Miles's
charges as a whole, though it is be-
lieved that they will find some grounds
for his statement concerning the un-
wholesome character of the beef issued
to the army during the Santiago cam
paign.
p4 A "patent egg" compound is
used largely in hotels and bakeries.
1t is obtained from the eggs of fish
eating sea-birds, which can be found
by the million on the low, uninhabita-
BILE islands of the Atlantic coast. A
pound costs As cents, and is equal TO
70 hen eggs.
pG- The Missouri house of represen-
tatives has passed bill which practi-
cally abolished department stores in
the state. 1t applies to cities of TO-
900 inhabitants; it divides the goods
into 73 classes, and plans a license
tax of $500 on each class. Any store
to carry all classes must pay tax of
$50, 900 year.
ga- At Mount Vernon, N. Y, Thorn
as Manning, after an illness of two
weeks, apparently died. For % hours
his family believed he was dead. He
heard the professional comments of
the undertaken, and only regained the
use of his faculties when that person
was about to prepare him for burial.
Bg Statistics show that the demand
for American manufactures is steadily
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