Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-01-10
Straps and faets.

have promised TO dlVlue q certain pOr
ton of these spoils among their troops
when Kimberley falls, and that this ac-
counts for the rush of volunteers from
all quarters of the globe for the Trans
vaal. 1t is believed in Paris that the
inspiration of the military generalship
of the Beers emanates from Berlin.
"A London dispatch published yester-
day morning tells of terrific assault
that was made by the Beers on Lady
smith last Tuesday. Although there
are but few details, the fighting seems
to have been the bloodiest and most
desperate that has occurred. The
Beers captured an important British
position in the morning and held it
nearly all day but were finally driven
from it. Other positions were several
times taken and retaken. The Beers
were finally repulsed, at about dark,
at the point of the bayonet, and dur
ing heavy transform. General White
reports that the Boer loss is heavier
than his. On account of the tremend
Gus expenditure of ammunition that
must have been necessary by the La
dysmith forces, London fears the re-
suit of the next attack.
BY the will of Caroline Brewer
Croft, who died in England nearly
two years ago, says Boston dispatch
of January 2, a sum amounting to
nearly 100000 has been placed in the
hands of the corporation of Harvard
University, to be used in the investiga-
ton of that still mysterious disease,
cancer. Mrs. Croft was the daughter
of the late Gardiner Brewer, success
fGl merchant, and man of much be-
nevolence and public spirit. Her first
charitable efforts impressed upon her
the horrors of incurable disease, and
for many years before her death she
privately appropriated large annual
sum TO the treatment Of cancer. her
aim was to discover the cause of the
diseases and provide some remedy.
AS the wife of Arthur Croft, we'll
known English artist, she had been
absent from this city for many years
previous to her death.
A Lincoln, Neb., dispatch of the
3rd instant says: Colonel Bryan re-
turned today from his six weeks rest
in Texas fully restored to health. He
paid compliment to the active imag-
inatlon of the Texas correspondents
who depicted him as hunting tame
panthers and riding ostriches about the
streets of Austin. He said he had heard
nothing of any rupture between him
self and National Chairman Jones, and
declined to discuss the gossip regarding
a probable change in the craftsmanship.
He said he believed that the Financial
policy of the administration, as out
lined in the house currency bill, and
its fiatfooted declaration for the gold
standard meant the alienation from
the Republication party of thousands
who had hoped for the redemption OF
the party pledge to restore bi-metal-
lism, as we'll as many whose business
interests are menaced by the bank
trust"
"A Mafeking dispatch of December
26 to the London Times, tells of ter
rible fight that occurred about two
miles from the town on that day. 1t
seems that the Beers were giving a
great deal of trouble from a strong
position at Gametree, and it had been
determined to try to dislodge them.
Every arrangement was made during
the night for a sortie, with the help
of an armored train, and the attack
was made at daybreak. The Beers
were found to be ready. The British
advance was met by storm of Mauser
aud Martini bullets that literally swept
the ground. The charging British
suffered terribly. More than twenty
were killed outright within few mo-
ments, and many others were wounded.
But Notwithstanding this, the desper-
ate valor displayed was something re-
markable. Several officers actually
went forward and stuck their revol-
vers into the port holes of the Boer
fort, and were killed there. With all
this, the attack was a failure. The
Boer losss was but slight, while that
of the British was very heavy.
- Chicago Tribune: 1t is not gener-
ally known that Uncle Sam furnishes
his legislators with bath tubs and other
accessories of cleanliness but it is
nevertheless a fact. In the basement
of the capitol are located the congress
ional bathrooms, where the statesmen
cleanse their cuticle at the expense of
the people. On the house side there
are fifteen tubs, while on the senate the
number is somewhat smaller. They
are patronized by the statesmen at all
hours of the day. Attendants are pro-
vided at the expense of the govern
ment. The fact that the bathrooms
are almost constantly occupied indi-
Gates the extent to which the privilege
of the free bath is appreciated. Sena-
tors and members who live at hotels,
where an extra charge is made for a
bath, usually wait until they reach the
capitol to enjoy this luxury. Not only
are the statesmen furnished free baths,
but barber shops are provided for their
use. These are well patronzed, as no
charge is made, and the BARRIERS turn
many an honest penny. They receive
good salaries from the government, and
at the same time get tips from their
patrons.
- Lieutenant J. G.. Gilmore, of the
Gunboat Yorktown, who was captured
by the Filipinos at Baler, in April last,
and was rescued last week by a detach-
ment of picked men under Col. Luther
u Hare Of the ThirtV. third YOlun.