Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-02-08
dTausiae Gatherimas.

p6- Artificial whalebone is made OF
leather.
sG- Can you spell consent in three
letters? Yes.
s9- The world uses CSC, 900 tons of
coffee in year.
H~ The doctors motto-Patients
and long suffering,
nag What God establishes is sure to
stand against all opposing.
n6. Russia sells to other countries
1,5O0,000,000 eggs year.
pa Ones success depends very large
ly upon what one does not say.
s9- The men with plenty of fat
mortgages lives on the lien of the
land.
E@ A determined effort is being
made in Indiana for woman suffrage in
that state.
R0- The warships building in Amer
lean shipyards for our navy. are valued
at $42, 1893, 1872.
s6- According to records at Madrid
$4,000 Spanish soldiers died in Cuba,
chiefly from disease.
pH- Customs receipts at Havana have
nearly doubled since the Americans
took possession of the city
s9 A bill has passed the Alabama
senate establishing separate county
control of the liquor traffic.
pd- The congress of Filipinos at
Malolos has empowered Aguinaldo to
declare war against the United States
whenever he sees fit to do so.
p4- Oklahoma will hold constitu-
tional convention in June and a state
election in October on proposal to
get to congress and demand admission.
p9r For the past two years each con-
vict in the Missouri penitentiary has
earned 8 cents day more than the
cost of his keeping.
pas- Mr.. and Mrs. Alex. Baily, OF
Hillsboro, Ind, are the recent parents
of twins. The father of the children
is 80 years and the mother 81.
p8 The Oregon house of representa-
tives has passed memorial to congress
protesting against the seating of Poly
gamist Roberts, congressman elect from
Utah.
n6 Governor Taylor, of Tennessee,
granted 693 pardons, combinations
and respites during his two years in
Office. His record on his last day was
4S pardons.
s4- Premier Sagasta declares that
Aguinaldo has made the liberation oi
the Spanish prisoners in the Philippine
islands conditional upon Spain recog'
nizing the Philippine Republic and al
lying herself thereto.
p9- In an address before the Mon
tauk club at Brooklyn, N. Y, Secreta.
ry of the Navy Long gave to Admiral
Sampson the entire credit for winning
the Santiago naval victory. Admiral
Schley's friends are indignant.
s3 No item of American export is
increasing more rapidly than that o.
agricultural mchinery. The Thresher
mans Review mentions one concern
that turned out last year 100, 900 NOW
ing machines, $4,000 binders and co.
900 reapers.
Rd Oil to calm the waves was useo
successfully during the recent gales II
the English Channel. The water
breaking over Folkstone pier made il
difficult for steamers to enter the
port till some one thought of pouring
few gollons of oil into the harbor
when the sea Immediately became
smooth.
s@ Near Kokomo, Ind, Robert
Parker, a farmer, 6S years old, while
assisting in butchering hogs, slipped
on the wet, greasy platform and fell
head first into the barrel of scalding
water, sinking down to the hips. Be
fore he could be rescued his flesh was
literally cooked and he died in a few
minutes.
s8 A bill has been introduced in the
Connecticut legislature to provide thai
Sunday shall be observed as the indi
vidual shall see fit, so long as he shall
not disturb or interfere with any Other
individual. The measure proposes tc
permit golf, foot ball, horse racing and
other games, the selling of newspa
pers, milk, meat and other necessities
and the blacking of boots:
RH A Boston woman recently wrote
to the agent of the five civilized tribes
in the Indian Territory for half dozer
Indian names, which she wished tc
bestow upon her household pets. The
agent sent her the names of Dennis P
O'Flannigan, John w. Brown, Sila$
Smith, ]. @. Scott. Samuel S. Benton
and Asa p. Longfellow, all prominent
Indians of the region.
p4- The veterans who followed Gen
eral Joseph Wheeler during the civil
war are talking of forming perma
nent organization, to be known as
"Wheeler's Cavalry Society" 1t is
proposed to conine the membership tt
those who were in active cavalry ser
vice in the generals command, and tc
have no honorary members save the
four daughters of Fighting Joe."
sGr "Commodore Philip, the former
captain of the Texas, now the com
mandant of the Brooklyn navy yard
is to be presented with two jeweleo
swords. One of these is to be giver
by citizens of New York city. The
otbar will ba nresented nv the Sunday