Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-11-04
Straps aud fatts.

was a great deal of damage 10 tele-
graph and telephone and electric light
poles in Charleston and also to win
dow shutters. A Negro cabin in the city
was blown down and small Negro
boy was killed. The damage at vari-
Gus points along the South Carolina
coast, foots up many thousands of dol
lars. Damage is also reported from
Virginia, North Carolina and Florida
coast towns.
Admiral Dewey has given it out as
a fact that he is engaged to be married
to Mrs. w. B. Hazen, of Washington.
Mrs. Hazen is the widow of the late
General Hazen, who, when he died
about 10 years ago, was chief of the
signal service, and is also a sister OF
John R. Mclean, the Democratic can
didate for governor of Ohio. Mrs.
Hazen has no children but has quite
a large property IN real estate and
securities. She is about 40 years OF
age, quite pretty, and popular in the
best social circles of Washington.
- New York dispatch, October 20 :
Michael Hatal, professional magician,
gave an exhibition up town last night,
in which he duplicated Herrman's
feat of catching in his teeth bullets
fred from a rife on the other side OF
the stage. One shot was fired and he
produced bullet in his mouth. Then
the assistant again loaded the rifle ;
but instead of using a dummy bullet,
he, in his nervousness, used one OF
lead. Hatal gave the word to fire,
and simultaneously with the report he
fell to the stage. The ball entered bis
breast just above the heart. The as.
sistant, Frank Benys, was arrested.
u The United States supreme court,
on last Monday, heard an argument in
a case involving the right of the board
of education of Richmond county, Ga,
to establish high school for whites in
Augusta without also establishing a
high school for colored children. The
case was based upon the petition of a
number of colored people of the coun.
ty, who asked that an order be issued
either compelling the board to give
their children the advantages of a pub
lie high school, or to compel the board
to refrain from carrying on white high
schools, for the support of which the
petitioners are taxed. The case in
wolves the construction of the federal
constitution, aud has attracted consid-
erable attention. Former United States
Senator Edmunds appeared for the
colored people, and Messrs. j. Ganahl
and F. H. Miller for the board of edu-
cation.
Governor General Brooke has re-
ceived a petition, signed by number
of Cubans farmers, urging protection
against American corn. The farmers
say they have no money to buy ma.
chinery but have to plant by hand
and to carry their produce on their
backs to market, where they obtain
little for it, owing to the fact that
there is scarcely any duty on foreign
grain. The petition goes on to say
that this condition of things greatly
handicaps the Cubans in their attempts
to recover a degree of their former
prosperity. Incidentally the farmers
protest against the protective duties on
oil, alleging that these are in force
solely to protect one American refine
nv, whereas protective duty on corn
"would mean the welfare of thousands
of small farmers whose only source of
revenue is what they make by grow
ing corn"
- Mail advices from the Congo re-
gion of Africa to London, announce
that. Captain Mohun, formerly United
States consul at Zanzibar, who is COM
mandiug the Belgian Tanganyika-Con-
20 telegraph expedition, has reached
the Congo Free State and was engaged,
at the end of July 9, in fierce battle
at Sanguli, where the force consisted
of 10 Europeans, with Captain Mohun
commanding. Shortly after the attack
commenced, Baron Dhamis, the Bel
gian commander, dispatched three com
panies of soldiers to assist Mohun, aud
the enemy, consisting of cannibals,
who horrible torture their wounded,
were finally routed. Captain Mohun
did great execution with Winches-
ter repeater. 1t is estimated that the
enemy numbered 1900 men and lost
300 killed and 600 wounded. The Bel
gian force lost nine men killed and Al
wounded. The enemy fled to Tan
ganyika.
- Although the story has not yet
been told in satisfactory detail, it
seems that the stampede of the mule
teams used in connection with Battery
No. TO-, had something to do with the
capture of the Irish Fusiliers and the
Worcestershire regiment, near Lady
smith, the other day. These three
organizations comprised the force that
was sent out at midnight to make an
attack against the Boer left flank on
Monday morning. Soon after the tr-
ing commenced the mule teams stam-
peded and carried away the guns.
One or two statements gave the i'm
preston that the stampede was in the
direction of the Boer position and that
,,.oco rtnroA wit hnnt