Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-01-31
atausiae Gatherings.

B6 Chairman Jones approves vi
holding the Democratic national con-
venlion on July 4.
Gag Illinois monument dealers want
a law enabling them to seize tomb
stones for bad debts.
a1 The British war office is sending
every available gun, no matter how
ancient, to the front.
sdT The Bubonic plague was intro
duced into Honolulu by means OF mer-
chandise from the Orient.
e1 Germany ordered Herr Krupp
to furnish no more war supplies 10
England or the Transvaal.
p@ A postage stamp of the first is
sue of British Guinea, in 1850, sold for
,7lO at auction in New York.
pg There are increasing indications
that the Democratic national head
quarters will be moved from Chicago.
p8- A system of preventive inocula.
ton against typhoid fever is under
extensive trial in India and South
Africa.
nag A fee of 25 cents will be charg-
ed to see criminal shot at JaureZ,
Mexico, the proceeds going to his
widow.
s@- 1t is reported that the sugar and
coffee war between the Arbuckles and
the American Sugar Refining company
has been practically settled.
sa. A British agent stationed at New
Orleans has been notified to cease at
once all purchase and shipment OF
mules for his government.
BH~ japanese at Vancouver, b. T.,
have organized corps which has Of
fered its services to the British govern.
ment to fight against the Beers.
s9. In future, vessel captains arriv-
ing at Pacific ports from the Orient
will be fined $500 unlesss they can
show properly vouched bills of health.
pH- At a recent reception in New
York, Mrs. Henry Havemeyer had for
decorations for one room 200 dozen
roses, which were bought at $50
dozen.
a@~ Twelve pounds is the weight of
the new automatic machine gun under
experiment in the United States army.
It fires $50 shots minute, and can be
carried by one man.
R6- Junius Robinson, a North Caro-
lima Negro, who has returned from
Liberia, says the scheme to colonlze
the southern Negroes in that country
is rank failure and robbery.
pB- A general sentiment prevails on
both sides of the house of representa-
tives that General Joseph Wheeler
has forfeited his right to a seat. He
must be reelected at a special elec'
ion.
a6F Colonel De Vlllebois Mareuil,
the French tactician with the Beers,
announces that an official Boer an
nouncement recognizes him as the vic,
tor of Colenso, he having prepared the
battle.
sd Baroness Suttner, at Vienna, has
given to the press an appeal prepared
by the international peace committee,
which will be sent to President Nc
Kinley, begging him to offer arbltra'
ton between Great Britain and the
| Beers.
s9 The government is said to have
received information that a fiibuster.
ing expedition to aid the Beers is
being fitted out at Cincinnati and that
it will try to sail from Philadelphia.
Extreme vigilance will be exercised to
prevent the departure.
p6- One of the queerest corners of
the earth is Chatham Island, off the
coast of Ecuador. The island abounds
in cats, every one Of which is black.
They live in the crevices of the lava
near the coast, and get a living by
catching fish and crabs, instead of rats.
R@ The refusal of the Transvaal
government to allow the United States
consul at Pretoria to represent the
interests of Great Britain during the
war is regarded at Washington as a
violation of civilized custom and will
probably be made the subject of vigo.
rous protest on the part Of this gov
ernment.
R@ The American officials who have
been engaged in making a census of
Cuba report having found in the noun
tains of the interior tribes of Indians
whose existence was unknown, and
they ran across intelligent white per-
sons who were unaware that the Unit
ed States government had taken con-
troll of the island.
aas- Lieutenant Romanoff, Of the
Russian navy, predicts in an inter-
view, at Chicago, that war is fast ap-
preaching between Russia and Japan.
Both countries are pushing work on
their navies. He thinks England will
back Japan, while Russia will have
Germany's support, and that all Of
Europe will be involved.
p9 Admirals Dewey and Sampson
and their officers and men cannot get
their naval prize money for the cap
lures of Spanish vessels at Manila and
Santiago without fully and in detail
proving their claims. Attorney Gen
eral Griggs has thus ruled, and has
filed his ruling in each case in the
supreme court of the District of Co
lumbia.
ads- Mrs. Leland Stanford has now
disposed of all the great fortune be-
queathed to her by her late husband,
having recently signed deeds transfer
ring all of her real estate to the trus-
tees of Leland Stanford University.
She had already given to the universi'
ty all the personal property of the
senator's estate, the value of it being
l. 81 nOn OOO J1ndor a nontrunt