Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-04-12
Scraps and facts.

re-inState General MaXlmo Gomez as
commander-in-ch chief. They also de-
cided to appoint an executive board OF
three generals to assist General Gomez
in distributing the $3,O0O,0O0 allowed
by the United States to the Cuban
army, and also to help in the work OF
disarmament and the organization OF
rural police. The developments OF the
past few days makes General Gomez
the supreme representative of Cuban
authority.
- Mrs. Lease has given up politics
for spiritualism, it appears, says the
Richmond Dispatch, and at recent
spiritualistic meeting in New York an
noupced, among other things, that Jay
Goulds spirit had appeared, through a
medium, to his daughter Helen, and
that the millionaire had come in pow
erty and clothed in rags, bewalllng the
fact that he was doomed forever more
to hear nothing but the clink of gold.
His fate, she said Jay Gould had con-
fided to the medium, was to 60 on
through eternity clipping coupons from
railroad bonds, boarding his money
and treasuripg up his stock and mort.
cages. This is pretty good story, OF
course, but it is hardly reasonable to
suppose that the medium made any
such revelation to the very rich Miss
Gould. Spiritualistic mediums have,
as a rule, much better idea OF "busi-
ness" than such pecuniarily reckless
course would indicate. Mrs. Lease
must have been deceived.
- The Railway Age publishes the
following in its last issue: There is
eyery indication that not less than s.
900 miles of new railway will be built
in the United States in 1899, repre-
sentinp an investment of about $780,
100000. At the present time over
1000 miles are either under contract
or actually under construction. The
following states now have over lOO
miles of line under contract or under
construction Pennsylvania, 16O miles /;
West Virginia, l4O miles; Virginia,
100: North Carolina, 1872 miles; Geor-
gia, 146; Florida, 1853; Alabama, lO9 ;
Louisiana, 144; Michigan, III; llli-
nois, 1856; Minnesota, 1856; Iowa, 29l
Indian and Oklahoma Territories, 2O4 ;
Arkansas, ZIG; Texas, 1OS, Gncluding
80 miles of grade, most of which was
completed last year California, l75
Idaho, 2O6; Oregon, 1877; Washing
ton, $50. Statistics of the new rail
roads built in 1898 show total OF 81
OS2 miles of track laid on 236 lines in
46 states and territories.
The secretary of state has an
nounced the construction of the United
States delegation to the disarmament
congress, which will meet at The
Hague, in the latter part of May.
The delegation consists of Andrew
White, United States ambassador at
Berlin Mr.. Newell, United States
minister to the Netherlands; Pres
ident Seth Low, of the Columbia
University, New York Captain Cros.
ier. ordnance department, United
States army, and Captain A. T. Mahan,
United States navy, retired. Mr..
Frederick Hollis, lawyer of New
York, will be secretary of the delega-
ton. The American commission, as a
whole, is regarded as an exceptionally
strong body, being made up of men
we'll known, not only in public and
political life; but in the world OF let
ters and international affairs. They
are all men of scholarship and fine
linguists and of those attainments
helpful in congress representing the
the nations of the world conducted
under the diplomatic usage, which
makes French the accepted language.
A Little Rock, Ark, dispatch of
the 9th instant, says: The new anti
trust law which caused the withdrawal
of foreign insurance companies from
the state, continues to be the subject
of concern among all classes of people.
A new feature of the farreaching effect
of the law is the probability that it
will destroy all labor organizations in
the state. The attorney general has
already been approached on the subject
by coal operator and is said to have
expressed the opinion that the law can
be applied to the united mine workers
of America. That organization inau-
gurated and is maintaining strike in
the coal mines of western Arkansas.
Although the union has no assembly
and no headquarters in the state, it is
said the leaders can be mandamused
aud the organization, as such, out
lawed. Should the law be found oper-
ative against the miners in this in.
stance it will affect thousands of men
of all organizations, whose members
may be employed under an agreement
or contract in the state of Arkansas.
- Secretary Hester's analysis of the
cotton movement for the seven months
of the season, from September l to the
close of March, inclusive, shows that,
compared with the crop movement last
year, Texas, including Indian Terrific
ry, has brought into sight this season,
in round figures, $4,000 bales more,
while other gulf states, which include
Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ten
nessee, Missouri and Oklahoma, have
marketed 4S6,OOO less. The group Of
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