Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-04-19
Straps and faets.


deal of talk in the newspapers about
the secretary's intended resignation,
etc. Secretary Alger, however, says
he has no notion Of resigning. He de-
nounces all reports to the contrary as
unqualifiedly false.
- Washington correspondence Brook
lyn Eagle: "From inside official Cir
cles comes the report that before long
the country may be treated to another
sensational story in connection with
the late war. 1t is said that proof will
be forthcoming to show that at the
battle of Cardenas the shots that struck
the Winslow and killed Ensign Bagley
were fred, not from the Spanish fort,
but from the United States gunboat
Wilmington, the fire of the latter being
too low to reach the Shore" The cor
respondent says he is unable to obtain
any detailed statement in regard to
this extraordinary report; but what
has been written above comes from a
reliable source.
- The secretary of state has decided
to return to their posts in Spain the
consuls Of the United States who were
obliged to leave on account of the war.
Two of these officers, Consul Bowen,
at Barcelona, and Richard M. Bartle-
man, at Malaga, are now in New York,
The third, J. Howell Carroll, consul at
Cadiz, is now at Gibraltar. The de-
partment has determined that they
shall all be retained in the consular
service, there being no evidence of any
personal i'll feeling incurred by them.
The sub-consular officers mostly re-
NAMED in Spain throughout the war,
and were undisturbed, some even con-
tinuing to discharge a part of their
official duties. They will also be con-
tinued in the service.
- Baltimore Sun: Ensign Monaghan,
who lost his life in Somoa, was from
the state of Washington. He was
graduated from the Naval Academy
in 1895, completing his final examina-
ton in 1897. In his class, which en-
tered the academy in 1891, were "a
members. Many members of this class
performed good service during the
Spanish var, but a fatility seems to
have marked it. Cadet Darwin R.
Merritt, of Iowa, lost his life by the
blowing up of the Maine in Havana
harbor; Joseph c. Breckenridge, Jr.,
from Kentucky, was drowned from the
Cushing Worth Bagley, of North Car
olina, was the first American officer
killed in the Spanish war.
"A Camilla, Ga, special of Friday
to the Atlanta Journal says: Amanda
Smike, an old Negro woman who lives
with her husband, Moses Smike, near
Baconton station, this county, mysteri-
ously disappeared last Saturday night.
Jim Rem bardt, a nephew of Moses
Smike, was suspected of having MUIR
dered the old woman. Jim was arres-
ted and carried before justice; but,
after investigation, was discharged.
Yesterday Jim Rembardt and some
other Negroes called at the house of
DR.. Posy, a mind reader, to ascertain
the facts in the case. Jim was identi-
fed rs the murderer. He confessed
and designated the place of burial,
where the body has since been found.
Jim is now in Jail awaiting the action
of the court.
The government bureau of statis-
tics, in an article just furnished to the
press, says that the expectation OF
manufactures in the fiscal year 1899 is
likely to show an increase of more
than $50, 100000 over that of last year,
and that iron and steel alone will sup
ply more than one-half that increase.
In the eight months of the fiscal year,
for which the treasury bureau of statis-
tics figures are now available, the ex-
ports of iron and steel are nearly S16,-
100000 greater than in the correspond
ing months of the preceding fiscal year,
showing a gain of Sc per cent. over
those of last year, and nearly 70 per
cent. over those of the preceding
year. In importations of iron and
steel there is reduction as compared
with last year, though not in so mark
ed degree, the falling off in imports
for the eight months being 10 per cent,
while the corresponding period of last
year showed a reduction of 20 per
cent. Nearly all of the great classes
of iron and steel manufactures, in
cluding wire nails, bars or rods of steel,
steel plates and sheets, wire, railway
engines, electrical and metal working
machinery show an increase over last
year.
A petition, signed by parents Of
several hundred members of the First
Nebraska regiment, was forwarded to
President Mckinley last Friday. 1t
says: ave firmly but respectively de-
mand, not as a favor, but as right,
that no political policy or sophistry or
legal subterfuge can deny the immedi-
ate return of the entire regiment. We
deny the right of the government to
compel them as volunteers and as
members of regiment that has given
longer, more continuous and valuable
service than the majority Of regiments
in the Philippines. We honor them as
the best type of American soldier the
nation has yet produced. They have
accomplished more than was asked OF
them. Their valor and the sympathies
of their relatives have been made the
prey of political sycophants, and they
have been refused the meagre compli-
ment of official recognition by the exc
cutive of our own state. With all due
respect to your high Office, we, as SOW