Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-10-18
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is said to weigh $40 pounds.
sD Six San Domingo dollars are
equivalent to one American dollar.
! p9 J. Frank Skinner, the tallest man
in Georgia, is feet 2 inches in height.
sG~ The enrolment of the Chicago
public schools include 25 Chinese
pupils.
sd A Chicago syndicate will build
the first railroad in the Island of
Hawaii.
R6E The winter and spring corn crop
of Russia is estimated to be below the
average.
H9 Two volcanoes on the west coast
at Alaska have been active nearly all
summer.
nag A new steamship line will soon
be established between Portland, Ore,
and Manila.
aB- A valuable bed of soda is repor-
ted to have been discovered in Dona
Anna county; N. NJ.
s8 The eighth annual session of the
National Irregation congress is being
held at Missoula, Mont.
sd A Bellville, ILL.,, man added $685.
900 to his tax returns because his
"conscience demanded it,"
R9 In New York law case it was
shown that one of the parties had
paid $1,000 for a husband.
BH At Santa Clara, CAL, there is a
garden of 500 acres devoted entirely
to the cultivation of celery.
p@ Range cattle in the southwest
are selling for $40 head more than
they brought two years ago.
p4 A suit to recover 25 cents oc-
cupied the attention of the court of
Gevena, N. Y, for two days.
s@ Senator Hanna says the booming
of Admiral Dewey for the presidency
| is an insult to the naval hero.
p6- The theft of electricity is no
crime at present in Germany, there
being no express law against it.
p@ The cruiser New Orleans arrived
at New York from Santo Domingo,
with her boilers in bad condition.
pD- The cruiser Hartford, flagship of
Admiral Farragut, has been placed in
com mission second time as training
ship.
s9 Two masked robbers held up a
stage near Ouray, Colo, last week, but
overlooked $4,000 in gold in the bag
gage.
s9- An Oriental alliance including
China, Japan and Korea is on the
tapis. Such an alliance is favored by
China.
s9- Only three of the Spanish ves-
sells sunk by Admiral Dewey in Manila
bay and subsequently raised will be of
any use.
a6r The most costly parliament in
Europe is that Of France. The senate
and chamber of deputies eat up an
nually 81, 100000.
Bd- An enactment of the Texas legis.
lature provides for the teaching in
public schools of course Of humane
treatment of animals.
pd- The Chickasaw legislature has
passed the bill raising the liscense fee
from $50 to 81 900 for marriages con-
tracted outside the race.
Bd. Arrangements have been made
for the importation of upwards of 10,-
900 japanese laborers and their wives
for plantation work in Hawaii.
s6~ Hon. w. J. Bryan refused to join
in a petition to President Mckinley
asking him to offer his friendly offices
as mediator in the Transvaal dispute.
pd. Windsor Castle, one of Queen
Victoria's residences, is to be equipped
with so sets of electric bells and fire
alarm boxes of American manufacture.
H6- Ninety per cent. of the zinc pro-
ducers of the Joplin, (Mo.D district
have shut down in order to force the
smelters to pay the associations prices.
s6 The construction of cigar box
may seem to be very simple matter
to the novice; but the box passes
through 10 different processes before it
is ready for the cigars.
p4. A widow of a Pawnee chief in
Oklahoma committed suicide shortly
after the death of her husband because
he had given away their child in dis
posing of his personal property.
a9" A resident of Auckland, n. H.,
claims to have invented an electrical
cannon which is noiseless and smoke
lsss. The weapon is five feet in cir
cumference and will carry five miles.
a9- A law has gone into effect in
Massachusetts, forbidding the perfor-
nance of the marriage ceremony by
justices of the peace, unless they have
been specially designed for that pur-
pose.
p8@ A Chicago paper, having kept
record of crime for 10 days, declares
that the saloon business in the United
States is directly chargable with
total of 53,436 murders during that
time.
HGr Norwegian legislators propose
that girls who do not know how to
knit, sew, wash and cook, should be
refused permission to marry. Daug h.
tiers of wealthy men are not to be
excepted.
s@ Every grower of beets has no.
ticed the small buds that appear near
the top of the root. These are indeed
miniature plants, and, if cut out and
planted, just as potato eyes are, each
will next season produce perfect beet
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