Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-05-17
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p6- Connecticut lower house defeat.
ed the woman suffrage bill by vote of
10S to 63.
s9- The president is said to contem-
plate an extra session of congress ear.
ly in the fall.
p@ Twenty thousand people were
vaccinated in Louisville, Ky, during
one week of the smallpox scare.
s6- Both the United States senators
from Alabama have reached ripe old
age. Morgan is rs and Pettus 7S.
HS- The tax on coffee amounts in
France to II cents a pound, while in
England it is only 8 cents q pound.
g6- The French commissioners of the
Paris exposition want the famous
American Liberty Bell as an exhibit.
p6- According to careful estimates,
three hours of close study wear out
the body more than whole day OF
hard physical exertion.
p8- A Kentucky woman has secured
a judgment of $500 against a man
who kissed her when she didn't want
him to.
p8- The population of Jerusalem
has been rapidly increasing of late,
and is now about $4,000; of these 2S,-
900 are Jews.
p6- At Roubaix, France, all public
school children, II 900 in number, re-
ceive free food and clothing at the ex.
pense of the town.
p6- We have always had an idea
that the philosopher who takes every.
thing as it comes, without swearing,
has hard time of it.
pa- A claim of $4,000 has been filed
against telegraph company at Gardi-
ner, Me-, for the non-delivery of a
message which resulted in a murder.
~ General Otis reports to the war
department that the Filipino insur.
gents are weakening every day, and
that the end of the rebellion is near.
s@ More than 100000 trees have
been planted along the line of the
Northern Pacific railroad, in Dakota,
to serve as protection from snow drifts.
s6F A New England dictionary offers
the following definitions: Bicycle
pleasures treadmill. Ink-a black
fluid often used to make black white"
D@ Gov. Jones, of Arkansas, is de-
termined to prevent the importation
of miners to take the place of strikers,
despite the order of the Federal court.
p8- Electric wires got mixed up in
the fashionable residence portion of
New Orleans recently and 35 houses
were set on fire. Two were destroy
ed.
n@ One of the new rifles used by
the Italian soldiers sends ball with
force enough to 60 through five inches
of solid oak at distance of 1000
feet.
s4 For Group, while you are waiting
for the doctor, put lard on cloth,
sprinkle with mustard, and apply to
the chest. Give also doses of syrup Of
ipecac.
H@ The National Afro-American
Council of the United States has is
sued a proclamation regarding the "in-
describably barbarous treatment of Ne
groes."
b@ The United States manufacture
more iron, steel, copper and lead than
any other country on the globe, Great
Britain being a little ahead on zinc
and tin.
p@ Powdered charcoal, if laid thick
on a burn, will cause the immediate
abatement of the pain. A superficial
burn can thus be healed in about half
an hour.
nS Rev. DR.. Wesley Reid Davis, of
New York, unwittingly overdrew his
bank account and was arrested in
Washington, charged with passing a
worthless check.
p@ Quito, Ecuador, is the only city
in the world in which the sun rises
and sets at o'clock the year round.
The reason of this is that it is situated
exactly on the equator.
pH A Kentucky farmer owns mule
which has, in some unknown manner,
acquired the tobacco chewing habit,
and it will not work unless it is regu-
larly provided with its quid.
nag The orchestra of the High Street
opera house, Columbus, Ohio, got up
and walked out when the minstrel
cempany's band leader took the baton,
that gentleman being colored.
t4 Sponging the window-panes and
sills and panes with carbolic acid is
said to kill flies in a few minutes.
Apply the acid when the sun shines
and the flies are most numerous.
p@ Last Thursday the Philadelphia
Ledger printed an authorativh denial
of the widely published statement that
marriage was contemplated between
Mrs. George w. Childs and General
Joseph Wheeler.
p4 A Pennsylvania electric railway
company has had to pay a young man
81 200 because its electricity got into q
barbed wire fence near the track, and
when he took hold of the fence to
climb it he was unable to let 60 until
his hand and arm were shriveled.
B@ The Sultan of Turkey has au-
thorized the American minister at
Constantinople to cable to the state de-
partment at Washington that he will
pay the claim of 100000 for damages
to American citizens during the Ar.
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