Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-05-03
Straps and fatts.
= Seven wears ago. saws a Montreal,

- Seven years ago, says Montreal,
Canada, dispatch, Thomas Stewart,
then 10 years of age, lost the sight OF
one eye, the blade of a pen knife
having been accidentally run into it.
DR.. Alexander Proudfoot attended him
Recently DR.. Proudfoot advised the re.
moval of the useless eye as the only
means of preserving the other intact.
This was agreed to and the delicate
task was entrusted to DR.. Proudfoot,
who is assistant occulist and aurist at
the general hospital. The operation
took place at the family residence, and
at the conclusion it was found that a
terrible mistake had been made. On
recovery from the effects of the anes-
thetic the patient found himself blind.
- Reports received by the paymaster
general of the army indicate that
United States troops in the outlying
possessions of the United States are
making practical demonstration OF
thrift and economy. From July, 1898,
TO February, 1899, the sum of s76S, ,554
was deposited by the soldiers, and, un-
der the law, will draw interest at the
rate of 4 per cent. This is S15O,OOO
more than was deposited during the
entire previous year. Of the total de-
posits, $173, $40 belongs to soldiers in
the Philippines, S216, 900 to soldiers in
Cuba, and $54, $50 to soldiers in Porto
Rico. These amounts do not represent
only the savings of soldiers from their
salaries, but also their profits from va
rious outside speculations and enter
prises.
A verdict of "not guilty." delivered
to the court in Canton, Ohio, last Fri
day, acquitted Mrs. Anna E. George of
the murder of George D. Saxton, and
ended her seven months confinement
in Jail. The verdict was reached after
trial of % days of actual sessions OF
court and 223 hours of deliberation in
the jury room. In less than an hour
after the verdict had been announced
congratulatory kilograms were received
by Mrs. George from sympathizers in
all quarters of the country. Most OF
them were addressed to her attorneys
and were congratulations on profes.
sional victory. During the afternoon
and evening Mrs. George has been
kept busy receiving her friends.
As solution of the race problem
some of the colored leaders of Kansas
are pushing a scheme to colonize the
colored people of this country in Cuba
and the Philippine Islands. The move
ment was started as result of the
race troubles in the south, over which
there is much feeling manifested among
the colored people here. AS part OF
the colonization scheme President Nc.
Kinley will be urged to recruit 5000
colored men for military service in the
islands, including the families of the
soldiers. 1t is argued this would take
about 100000 colored people out OF
the country at once. Then would start
an exodus of colored people, which, it
is said, would eventually result in
practically all the Negroes leaving this
country. President Mckinley has been
asked what he thinks of the plan, but
has not yet replied.
- The warships authorized by the re-
cent naval appropriation bill have
been named by the secretary of our
navy as follows: The three battle.
ships, which are to be of 13, 500 tons
displacement and 134 knots speed, are
to be known as the Pennsylvania, the
New Jersey and the Georgia; the
12,OOO.ton cruisers will bear the names
of West Virginia, Nebraska and Cali.
fornia, while the six 3,000-ton protect
ed cruisers will be known as the Den
yer, Des Moines, Chattanooga, Calves.
ton, Tacoma and Cleveland. 1t is pro-
vided by law that the battleships shall
be called after states and the cruisers
after towns. 1t was in accordance
with this provision that our first two
armored cruisers, the Brooklyn and
the New York, were named after cities
but it will be noted that the new crui-
sers of this class are to take the names
of states. This is more agreeable to
the size and fighting power of these
vessels, which actually have more in
common with the battleship than with
the cruiser.
- President Mckinley attended SER
vices in New York last Sunday at the
Calvary Methodist Episcopal church,
One Hundred and Twenty-ninth street
and Seventh avenue, of which the Rev.
DR.. VIM. P. O'Dell is pastor. Twelve
policeman were on hand to see that
there was no crush. The church was
prettily decorated in the interior and
a large American flag foated from the
flag pole on the roof. The pulpit was
draped with a silk flag, and there were
numerous clusters of lilacs and other
flowers about the platform. The SER
mon of DR.. O'Dell was purely doctri.
nal, as the president had signified his
desire that no reference to him or pol
itics be made. At the conclusion of
the service there was rush on the
part of the congregation for the pew
occupied by the president. Many wo-
men struggled in through the crush to
shake hands with the president. On
leaving the church President McKin-
ley was again greeted by large crowd.
The crowd cheered as the carriages
drew away from the church on the
return to the hotel.
- The American army in the Phil
innines cantured the city of Calumnit