Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-01-21
Straps and fatts.

the subject of considerable ridicule be-
cause of the high and mighty airs he
assumes: He and his retinue of serv-
ants and interpreters are living in
style at the Arlington hotel. He only
sees newspaper men one hour each
week.
Eight thousand and three hundred
shares of stock, a controlling interest
in the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad
company, parent company of the Sea-
board Air Line, were transferred last
Tuesday by Louis R. McLane and
Leigh r. Watts, pool managers of the
majority stockholders, to the syndi-
cate headed by J. Shelton Williams,
the Richmond banker, and president OF
the Georgia and Alabama Railroad
company. The consideration was $500
per share, as agreed upon several
weeks ago. The consummation of the
deal was delayed by temporary in
junction restraining the transfer, Sc
cured some days ago by Thomas F.
RYAN, of New York, but Judges Wick
es and Stock bridge dissolved the tenn
porary injunction.
A curious case of complicated re-
lationship exists in Oakland, CAL, as
result of a father and son marrying
two sisters. Alimo Tolentino de Fig.
uereda, aged so, married May Carmyn,
an 1s-year-oli girl, and Wilfred A. de
Figuereda, aged Is, married Katherine
Carmyn, % years old. Thus the boy
will be his fathers brother-in-law the
two sisters will be sisters-in-law the
fathers wife will be stepmolher to
her brother-in-law the sons wife will
be the old gentleman's daughter.in-
law as we'll as sister-in-law. II chill
dren be born to the wife of the son, the
grandfather will be their uncle, and
should there be children in the fathers
home the son will be uncle and step
brother. The old mans wife will be
aunt and step-grandmother to her
sisters little ones.
Robert w. Olmsted, of Orange
City, Ia, makes comparison between
the number of trainmen on the rail
roads of the United States who were
killed and injured during the last year
and the number of soldiers who were
killed, wounded, or died of disease
during the war. During the year
ended June 80, 1898, 162,S73 trainmen
were employed. Of these 1913 were
killed while in the performance of their
duty. aud 1886 were injured, which
gives a percentage of .0065 killed and
.O97 injured. The whole number of
soldiers in the army did not exceed at
any time 265,00O. Of these 1924 were
killed or died of disease, which num-
Der was .OO99 per cent. of the whole,
and 1850 were wounded, which was
.OO5S per cent. of the whole. In other
words, one out of every 152 trainmen
was killed and one out of every ten
was injured, while in the army one
soldier out of every 101 either was
killed or died of disease, while one out
of every 169 soldiers were wounded.
- Senator Butler, of North Carolina,
presented to the senate last Tuesday, a
petition from IS ex-Confederates Of
Muscogee county, Georgia, asking him
not to abandon his bill for pensioning
ex- Confederate soldiers. They say
that they are citizens of the United
States, and that while they participa-
ted on the Confederate side of the war
between the states, this war was not
rebellion. They refer TO President
McKinley's recent expressions favor
able TO the care of the southern dead
as the expression of "true patriot" !"
and conclude: "We, therefore, hope
you will press your bill and that con-
gress will pass the same, and by so
doing show the world that we are
reunited people. We desire this, not
as mendicants for a pension but in
response to the grand and patriotic
sentiments of our president, and as
voicing the sentiments of every true
patriot who loves his country and
respects the valor of the dead Confed-
crate soldiers"
- Chicago Chronicle: General Fitz-
hugh Lee, it is quite afe to predict, will
resign his military command if he is
much longer subjected to the bullyrag-
ging of General Brooke and that Of
ficer's henchman, General Ludlow.
Nominally in command Of Havana
province, General Lee has been shorn
of his authority in the city of Havana,
and Ludlow has been installed as lord
high executioner with detachment of
troops which are not subject to Lees
orders. There might be some excuse
for this sort of thing from regular
army standpoint, if General Lee were
"a mere volunteer" as certain regulars
call it. But he is West Pointer, and
so far as military service is concerned
his name is mentioned in every history
of the Civil war. Who ever heard Of
Brooke or Ludlow before they were
pitchforked into publicity by the Span
ish war? General Lee is an even tenn
pered man, as he demonstrated in his
dealings with Blanco; but he would
have to be angelic in order to endure
the nagging and staggering Of the two
dromios whom Major Mckinley al
lows to bungle affairs at Havana.
- Judge Robert Powell, addressing
the grand jury in Jackson, Miss, on
Monday last, said: "Some weeks
since read in a newspaper that the
only thing in Mississippi which was
cheaper than four-cent cotton was hu-
man life 1t was fearful commen-
tary upon the law and order of great
state. We are accustomed to boast