Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-03-29
Straps and faets.


ern part OF European Russia. The ef-
forts of the Red Cross society have
STAYED off the horrors of actual starva.
ton; but the society's funds are al
most exhausted, and the dire distress
compelling the consumption of all
kinds of garbage, has produced an cpl
demic of terrible mortality, with ty-
phus, scurvy and other pestilential dis
eases. The peasants are compelled to
sell everything and are living in cold,
damp and filthy cabins. Weakened
by hunger they fall dead victims OF
typhus and acute scurvy. Unless the
government gives prompt aid, the Vol
ga provinces appear doomed to a repe-
tition of the horrors of 1891 and 1892.
1t is understood, says Washing
ton dispatch, that General Otis has so
far matured his plans of campaign that
within a week or ten days he will be
able 10 begin a movement which is ex-
pected to mark the destruction of
Aguinaldo's army, although stragglers
and fugitives may infest the island OF
Luzon for sometime. 1t is believed
that after Otis has delivered his next
blow the insurgent army, as an organ
ization, will have ceased to exist. The
new movement will be, it is under
stood, by a combined land and water
attack, though it is not expected that
the paVy's part in the program will be
particularly prominent. Otis has pro-
cured Is of the gunboats formerly
owned by the Spanish. government,
and these are to play an important
part in the development of the cam
paign.
- Mr.. Carnegie, when poor work
ing boy, borrowed books from an own
er of them who took pleasure in lend
ing them, and such was the pleasure
he derived from them that the now
multi millionaire determined if he ever
had any surplus money he would lend
books to others. He is keeping his
promise, and has already given &c..
100000 to establish free libraries and
is still giving. Atlanta and Richmond
are to receive of his generosity, and
may be other southern cities. Here is
what he says on the subject of giving
III believe that no man should hoard
money in his life and die rich. 1t is
my faith that every man should be the
administrator of his own estate and
dispose of his wealth in useful way
before he dies. believe be ought to
put his surplus wealth out where it
will make the world better"
II New York Sun: All the commit
tees in charge of the Dollar Dinner on
April 10, which Bryan is to attend,
will hold a meeting this afternoon at
81 Centre street to perfect the arrange
ments for the feast. Already more
than 1000 men have applied for tick
cts to the dinner, and Eugene V. Brew
ster, who is the treasurer of the scheme,
is sure that it will be great success.
Mr.. Brewster said yesterday that he
was not surprised that some persons
denounced the Dollar Dinner as an at
tempt to split the Democratic party,
and that be thought such a split as
would result from the separation of the
true Jeffersonian Democrats and the
plutocrats would be extremely beneh-
cial. This is the view which most of
the silver men take, and they are not
afraid of any clash that may come be-
tween themselves and the Ten Dollar
Democrats.
- The monthly statement of the COL
lections of internal revenue shows that
the total receipts for February, 1899,
were $19, 9,64S, 1896, an increase, as CON-
pared with February, 1898, 81, 1862, AS.
The receipts from the several sources
of revenue are given as follows, togeth-
er with the same month in 1898
Spirits, sS,O23, ,767; increase, 81, ,OS4,
500; tobacco, S4,94S,233; increase,
$1,6s6, ,499; fermented liquors, So, 1877,
531; increase, s1,625, ,253; oleomarga.
rine, s159,7 increase, $49,5S7 ;
miscellaneous, S29S, ,492; increase, S3,-
236,377. Of the first amount So, ,211,
4S4 was received from the sale of doc
umentary and proprietary stamps.
Mixed -four, S57S; bankers, $6,6 ;
billiard rooms, $4,03S; stock brokers,
$9,966; commercial brokers, S2,730 ;
aggregate of special taxes, $50, ,246.
For the eight months of the present
fiscal year the total receipts from in
ternal revenue sources were S17S, 1885,
6S5 increase, as compared with the
same period in 1898, $6S, ,299,05S.
- Gastonia Gazette: Rev. P. R.
Elan, of Kings Mountain, claims to
have discovered flow of natural gas,
which is conclusive evidence of the ex-
istence of coal deposits. Our sanctum
was honored by visit from MIR. Elan
last Monday, and we asked him many
questions concerning his discovery.
He said the gas was flowing out of the
earth on the Cherryville road, about
two miles from Kings Mountain. 1t
makes its way through apertures vary
ing in size from that of goose quill to
that of your finger. Touched with a
lighted match the jet will burn. Mr..
Elan said he had not applied this test,
but that others had. Children living
near had, on hog.killing days, taken
bladders to the gas vents and had them
inflated by simply inserting the quills
in the gas orifces. When rainy
weather causes the water to stand in
puddles or pools, the gas bubbles up
through it. An old darky, who own
ed land near by, was so afraid of this
boiling of the water, that he sold his
possessions and left. The phenom-
enon has been known by the neighbors