Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-03-07
Scraps and fatts.

rlty. UnQer Cne contract all tue mou'
ey is to be spent with American ship
builders, iron and steel and other man
ufacturers. Not q dollar of it will &c
to Russia.
- Commissioner of Agriculture Ste
vens, of Georgia, says the department
has sold, on reasonable estimate, l
100000 more fertilizer tags this yeal
than last. "This indicates" said the
commissioner, "that the farmers are
planting every available piece ofground
they have in cotton. In a few days
they will be plowing up the oat fields
where the crop appears to be injured
and will plant it in cotton"
- Says Frankfort, KY, dispatch o.
last Friday: The committee appoint
ed by the Republican legislative
caucus to arrange for convention o.
the Republicans of Kentucky, Virginia
Missouri, Mississippi, Alabama and
North and South Carolina, to inaugu'
rate movement against the election
laws now in force in these states, or
ganized tonight. Senator n. L.
Howard, of Butler county, was elected
chairman. The Kentucky state con-
vention this month at Louisville, will
issue an address, calling q convention
for this purpose at Nashville.
A dispatch of February % tells OF
hot fighting at Colenso on the day be-
fore. A force of Beers held their
trenches against repeated assaults by
the British and were at length forced
to surrender on account Of continued
bombardment with lyddite. When
the British advanced they found the
trenches full of dead and wounded,
many of the wounded being yellow
from the fumes of lyddite. Over 100
prisoners were taken. The Boer
women had remained in the trenches
until about three hours before the
surrender, when they went away. In
one of the trenches was found two
women, one dead and the other fatally
wounded. Before the latter died, she
said that her husband had kept her
with him because she was an excel
lent shot. She was only 19 years OF
age.
- Says Topeka, Kansas, dispatch
of Saturday: At the close of business
in the Capitol counting room last
night, the subscriptions for the Sheldon
edition, beginning with the edition OF
March Is, passed the 100000 mark
with basketful of letters unopened.
Today an express wagon hauled to
the Capitol office load of letters which
will require the services of a dozen
extra clerks tomorrow morning to open
and put on the mailing list. 1t is
thought the rush has only commenced.
This venture in business way is sur
passing the fondest hopes of the origi-
nators, and to handle it The Capitol
needs the facilities of the largest met
ropolitan daily newspaper in the
United States. Subscriptions are CON-
ing in from every civilized quarter OF
the globe. The mails have appalled,
the postal authorities.
Washington special to Baltimore
Sun: Such members of the national
Democratic committee as are in Wash
ington are disgusted and indignant at
the outrageously extortionate rates OF
the Kansas City hotels for the period OF
the Democratic national convention.
There has always been more or less
complaint in connection with hotel
charges for national conventions but
the Kansas City people, in the charges
which they are quoting for applicants
for accommodations, have gone to a
length which is almost incredible. For
instance, a single room without bath, is
put at $50 per day, and with bath S36
per day. With naivette which is ex-
cruciating, it is said this room may be
occupied by either six persons or one
person. Those who know the area OF
the average single room in hotel can
have lively appreciation of how pleas,
ant it will be for six people to sleep and
breathe in such space in the intense
heat of Kansas City in July.
- The United States court of claims
has at last handed down the decision
by which the glory of Dewey's victory
is to be reduced to an estimate in cold
mathematics. 1t was on suit for the
money due the admiral and his men
for sinking the Spanish fleet, and
mirable dictu-the admiral was turn
ed down and the splendor of his con-
quest partially dimmed. His conten-
ton was that the forces against which
he was engaged were superior to his
own. If the contention could be sus-
tanned, the bonus that he and his men
would receive would be twice as large
as it would be otherwise. The court
has decided that the mines and land
batteries of the enemy could not be
included in estimating the relative
strength of the two forces engaged
consequently the hero of Manila bay
gets $4,000 instead of $4,000 and
the men under him get 800 each in-
stead of 5000. Thus passes the glory
of the world
- Washington Star, Thursday: The
Democrats in the house were disturbed
this morning with vague premonition
of something strange and uncaany.
AS a rule, perhaps, members of the
house are not superstitious; but the
croaking of raven over the chamber
door, or the beating of the black clouds
ofdiscord are things calculated to excite
the imagination. A thing as startling
and strange as this happened this morn
ing to Representative Richardson, OF