Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-10-25
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graph line has been completed to
Dawson, Alaska.
a6E The New England Beet Sugar
company will erect $3OO,OOO plant at
North Judson, Ind.
a6r A British and French man-of-
war are suppressing bands of brigands
in the New Hebrides.
aaS Canada will furnish 1000 picked
troops for service in South Africa, and
will put them on a transport within
10 days.
s@ A band of escaped convicts from
New Caledo ia have been killed at
Segon, where they had been robblng
and raiding.
s@- The native villages of Lepers'
Island, whose governor was recently
murdered, have recently been destroy
ed by war-ships.
n6 United States Senator Mason, of
Illinois, says he will introduce reso-
luton in the senate, expressing sympa-
thy for the Beers.
nag The sultan of Turkey has issued
decree promising reforms to Armen.
ians and exercising clemency toward
sentenced prisoners.
p6r The army officials are watching
the test of the automobile as an engine
of war with great interest. Opinion
favors its adoption.
n9r Official denial has been made to
persistent rumors that Prince George
of Greece, and Princess Victoria, Of
Wales, are betrothed.
p4 The use of serum for treating
bubonic plague victims in Oporto,
Portugal, has been so effective that
confidence is restored.
pG The first woman's congress on
record was held at Seneca Falls, N. Y,
in 1S4S. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was
present at the meeting.
shS Three of the Union Pacific train
robbers who, in July last, stole an iron
box containing over $685. have
located in Seattle, Wash.
s8 Linz, the capital of Upper Aus
tria, is in a state of terror over a series
of Jack the Ripper crimes, five wo-
men having been murdered.
s9 Six widows and 1913 children and
grandchildren attended the funeral of
Conquering Bear, an Indian killed by
street car at Omaha, Neb.
a4r Reports of consuls from various
places show that Americas competi.
ton in trade lines is giving English
manufacturers much uneasiness.
s9 Horatio Tennyson, the last sur
viving brother of the late poet-laureate,
died suddenly few days ago at Bright
lingsea. He, too, had written verse.
R4" General Grenville M. Dodge, Of
Iowa, has been rejected president OF
the society of the Army of the Tennes-
see. The next reunion will be at
Detroit.
s6s- The Croker faction of the New
York state Democratic committee
routed the Hill party and passed a
resolution indorsing Bryan for the
presidency.
R9 Serious labor troubles are re.
ported from various sections of Texas.
In some places, rangers have been
called upon to keep the lawless ele-
ment in check.
nay The town of Pullman is now
merely geographical expression, the
city of Chicago having taken formal
possession of its streets, sewers and
public buildings.
pH Lieutenant Colonel Helm, COM
mandant at West Point, makes re-
port in regard to the stricter repres-
sive measures against hazing that have
become necessary.
s6- A young woman jumped from a
train near Waseca, Minn., and several
other passengers, not knowing the
cause of the excitement, also jumped.
None were badly injured.
e6~ Canadian concessions of a tenn
porary character made at London on
the Alaskan boundary dispute will
avert friction with the United States
until the subject can be finally dispos-
ed of.
s@ Archbishop Ireland says he is
in sympathy with the policy now be-
ing pursued in the Philippines, and
thinks in time it will work out salts
factory solution of the questions in-
volved.
H@ Cuba and Porto Rico used to
buy annually $5,OOO,O 900 worth of shoes
of Spanish manufacture, and a clumsy
article they were. A much better
grade of American shoes is selling in
the island now for so per cent less.
D6- Mayor Lacoste's order forbid
ding the display of the Spanish flag in
Havana, except at the consulate, is
causing much bitter feeling among the
Spaniards. The Spanish consul gener-
al, as a protest, refuses to hoist his
flag.
nag. The school authorities of River
side, CAL, are much disturbed by the
discovery that a man who has been
teaching in one of the public schools
for several years has done so under a
certificate obtained, as they say, by
the use of fraudulent diploma.
pd- In Kansas persons convicted of
murder in the first degree are senten-
ced to be hanged whenever the gov
ernor shall sign their death warrants.
No governor has ever signed death
warrant, and so the penitentiary con-
tains many prisoners under sentence