Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-09-27
aTausiae Gatherinas.
r6 Denmark has about 100000

all of the lesser known parts of Siberia.
s@r King Menelik, of Abyssinia has
sent two zebras as present to Queen
Victoria.
Sag Commissioner of Persons Evans
has gone to California on trip of sew
eral weeks.
B~ Disastrous floods are reported in
Austria. Much damage has been done
to property.
pG- Mrs. Anna Duling, of Whining
ton, Del, committed suicide be eating
ground glass.
s6- Thomas A. Edison has purchased
a part of the Ortiz Mining grant in
New Mexico.
sdT The king of Italy has appointed
the Italian Ambassador Baron Fava, a
senator in the kingdom.
R8- The annual reunion of the Ma
tional Association of Mexican veterans
was held Wednesday in Indianapolis.
B6- The president, Unexpectedly,
summoned Philippine Commissioners
Worcester and DENLY home from Ma
Mia.
R6r Seymour Garner, of Wilcox
county, Ala, is 10S years of age, and
claims to be the oldest Confederate
veteran.
p@ The opponents of vivisection
have ARRANGED for a special exhibit of
instruments of torture during the Par
is exposition.
n6r The British association for the
advancement of science has granted
$4,000 toward the expenses of an ant
arctic expedition.
a6 The vertical tide Of Cook Inlet,
Alaska, was reported to be responsible
for the deaths of many prospectors
during the summer.
paT From 1875 to 1895, $4,000 Jew
esses were married in PEI ia !; 5000 OF
these-that is, 10 per cent.-took for
husbands non-Jews.
p@ The Penn forest trout hatchery,
near Mauch Chunk, Pa, is said to be
the most complete propagation plant
of the kind in the world.
p8 Secretary Root has approved the
action of General Ludlow in suppress
ing The Reconcentrado, paper for
merly published at Havana.
g6r Prince David Wawanakoa, neph-
ew of ex.Queen Liliuokalani, said in
sn interview at Seattle that Hawaii
was never so prosperous as now.
H% The secret service has discovered
a new counterfeit 81 silver certificate.
1t is of the series of 1896, check letter
&C." Bruce register, Roberts treasurer.
s@ Asparagus is so plentiful on the
Russian steppes that the cattle eat 1t
like grass. The seeds are sometimes
dried and used as substitute for
coffee.
p8- Until 20 years ago the statutes
of Massachusetts imposed fine of $40
on every one found travelling on the
Lords day, except for necessity or
charity.
s@- The Pope is said to be suffering
from cold, unaccompanied by fever; (;
but as a precautionary measure his
audiences have been temporarily sus-
pended.
s9- Austrian returns indicate that
there are in that country 1,101 persons
whose income exceeds 10000 forms
year, and who are, therefore, rated as
millionaires.
s8- At Munich there is hospital
which is entirely supported by the sale
of old steel pens and nibs collected
from all parts of Germany. They are
made into watch springs, knives and
razors.
s6- A large aerolite fell near Syca-
more, O., recently. 1t weighed over
500 pounds and burst into many pieces.
The light of the meteor was binding
and its roar in passing through the air
was deafening. 1t made the earth
tremble when it struck.
p6r The first silkworms raised in the
west have been produced by Mark
Chiesa, an Italian, at Des Moines, Ia,
fiom eggs imported from Italy. From
10 silk-moths he got 5000 eggs, and of
these 1000 hatched. 1t lis his intention
to produce silk on large scale.
p@ The report of the British consul
at Manila on the state of trade there
says: "There is abundant evidence
that when peace and settled form of
government are we'll established the
future prosperity of the Filipinos will
far exceed the past"
p@ Compared with the enormous
capital of some of the English banks
the largest American institutions dwin-
die into insignicance. The National
Provincial Bank of England has &c.,
100000; Bank of England, $73, ,000,-
600; London and Westminster bank,
$7O,OOO,OOO.
s6 The colossal statue of Ferdinand
de Lesseps, which the French are 60
ing to erect at Port Said, is ready to
send out, but no French navigation
company appears to be capable of trans
porting it to Egypt, and so an English
or Belgian vessel will have to be en-
ployed.
D8 General J. Warren Kiefer, of
Ohio, has been elected commander-in-
chief of the Spanish-American War
Veterans association. Lieutenant Co.
lionel James f. Barnett and Captain
Charles S. Wood, of Pennsylvania
were elected senior vice commander
and judge advocate general.