Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-09-16
Straps and faet5.

- Charlotte Observer: A young man
was recently drowned in mill pond
in Caldwell county. The pond was
drained off for the purpose of recover
ing the body, and its owner has brought
a bill for SIS against the father of the
Young man. The point was made that
it did not cost over SIS to repair the
dam, and the owner, in a card pub
lished in the Lenoir News, says it did
not cost but $12; but that his mill was
stopped while the repairs were being
made, and intimates that SIS is little
enough for the fish he lost and the
other damage sustained. Which goes
to show that it take all sorts of people
to make world and that some of them
are good deal more so than others.
- The kaiser gladdened the hearts
of 500 Lithuanian girls by accepting a
petition which they sent TO him when
thew heard that arrangements were
making for the fall imperial hunt in
the northern provinces of Prussia.
The Lithuanian girls are famous horse
women, and on this ground they petit
toned the kaiser that he accept the
services of 500 of their number as his
guard of honor while he remained in
their province. In offering themselves
for this duty, they stipulated that their
sovereign should rely upon them and
permit no other body guard. The
province of Lithuania is the most
northern of the empire. The women
would make a perfect type of Amazon
and are mostly descendants of the
race that became famous under the
Jagellons.
In letter TO Chairman Dick, of the
Ohio Republican State Executive com.
mittee, the Hon. John Hay, secretary
of state, makes this emphatic state
ment regarding the alleged secret al
lance between England and the United
States: "There is no alliance with
England, nor with any other power
under Heaven, except those known
and published to the world, the treaties
of ordinary international friendship
for purposes of business and commerce.
No treaty other than these exists;
none has been suggested on either side; ;
none is contemplated. 1t has never
entered into the mind of the president
to forsake under any inducement the
wise precept and example of the faith
ers, which forbade entangling alliances
with European powers" Secretary
Hay also condemned in strong words
the men who are criticising the admin
istration's policy in the Philippines.
- Washington dispatch of Wednes-
day: Colonel James H. Tillman, of
South Carolina, a nephew of Senator
Tillman, was at the White House to-
day and asked the president to author
ize the organization of an independent
company of Indian scouts for service
in the Philippines. 1t is proposed to
make Mr.. Tillman, who was colonel
of the First South Carolina regiment
during the Spanish war, captain of the
company and Joseph H. Woodbury.,
"Hole in the Day." the chief of the
Chippewa Indians, of Minnesota, first
lieutenant, and some members OF the
"Rough Riders" second lieutenant. 1t
is said that many more than company
of Chippewas are ready to enlist in
case they are allowed to 60 to the
Philippines as an independent organi-
cation. 1t is understood that the
president referred his callers to the
secretary Of war.
Judge ]. D. Clarke, of the United
States circuit court, which is in session
in Nashville, Tenn, severely condemn
ed pension attorneys in his charge to
the grand jury last Tuesday. He de-
nouuced pension attorneys as mem
bers of trade in which there was
not so much done to aid honorably
and worthy soldiers as to put up
on the government payrolls and
cause to be maintained the grossest of
frauds. Judge Clarke referred to the
recent exposures of pension frauds
made before his committee at Nash
Vile, saying that in some instances
the transactions brought to light were
a disgrace to civilization. He said he
believed it was doubtful if any other
government would suffer such bur-
den of fraud as the people are now
bearing. He said it will be happy
day when the law shall establish COM
nissions and eliminate the vocation of
the pension attorneys.
&C. A. Rictor, of Minneapolis,
Mimi, says a Memphis, Tenn, dis
patch of Wednesday, is now working
in the south to collect as many Negro
girls as he can to take them to Mime
apolis, where there is said to be
wonderful scarcity of servants for
household work. 1t is his intention to
get the most of them from Baton
Rouge, and Saturday he passed through
the city en- route to Louisville, where
he went to interview railroad men on
the subject of cheap rates from Mis-
sissippi to Minneapolis. While in
Memphis, Mr.. Rictor told passenger
officials that it was his hope to get up
at least 1000 Negresses to take north
with him. He says it is almost impos.
sible to secure white servants in Min
neapolis and that those who are at
work command eShorbitant wages