Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-10-20
Scraps and faets.

weston relief fund, makes the follow
ing statements Of receipts from Octo-
ber 1 to October Is inclusive: Received
from Governor Sayers, $4,000; received
from Mayor Jones, $16,063.S1; received
from all other sources, $5,65O.32; pre-
yiously acknowledged, 1913, ,59S.6S; total,
SLOTS, ,3Os.1S.
General William l.. Wilson, post
master general under Cleveland, died
at his home in Lexington, Va, last
Wednesday morning. General Wilson
was a member Of congress, and was
the author Of the Wilson tariff bill; was
postmaster general in Cleveland's cab
met and was afterward elected presi-
dent of Washington and Lee univer-
sity at Lexington, Va, where he died.
e. B. Baldwin, an ambitious ex-
plorer of the artic regions, has secured
from the state department passports
and letters to consuls at the northeast
points of civilization in Europe and
Asia for use in his proposed expedition
to the north pole next spring. NIB AID
win says it Is his desire to place the
American flag as near the north pole as
possible, and hopes to be able to reach
point further north than any other
explorer, including those now In. the
field. This expedition is backed finan-
cially by William Zeigler and, other
capitalists in the scientific work.
The great strike Of the anthracite
coal workers Of Pennsylvania, which
commenced on September IS, came to a
close last Wednesday. The mine-own-
ers agreed to the abolition Of an OBJ
jectionable system known as the Slid
ing scale, and also agreed to allow a
net increase of 10 per cent in the wa
ges paid to miners. 1t Is expected that
all of the miners will be back at work
by next Monday morning. The deter
mination of the government to give out
large contracts for the furnishing OF
coal to the naval coaling stations IN
South Atlantic waters, has, no doubt,
had something to do with the adjust
ment.
The New York Herald says that the
first consignment of South African gold
since the outbreak Of the Transvaal
war, is now in transit to New York.
The sum aggregates s2,500,0OO and 1t
will 20 to the National City bank.
This statement is of more significance
than appears on its face. 1t means
that the South African mines have re-
sumed activity after having been shut
down for more than a year. The South
African gold output in 1899 was $75,5T,-
40, or one-fourth of the gold output OF
the world. At the rate Of operations
Just before the war broke out, the out
put promised $10O, ,O0O,O0 for the year.
The probability is that this pace will
have been resumed again before the
end Of many months. With new gold
being injected into the financial arter-
les of the world at the rate Of 100000
900 a year, all kinds of industries will
hum.
1t is probable that at least two
plans for the reorganization OF the
army will be submitted to congress at
its next session. One is being prepar-
ed under the supervision Of Secreta-
ry Root, and contemplates an army OF
100,O0O men on the same general basis
as the plan submitted to the last con-
gress, one of the features Of which was
the interchangeability Of line and stan
officers. It was the strong opposition
to this particular feature that killed
the measure at the last session. The
other plan is that Of Lieutenant Gener-
al Miles, who proposes an army OF
about $4,000 men, including 36 regi-
ments Of infantry, Is regiments of cav
airy, about 20 batteries Of artillery and
a coast artillery Of about $4,000 men.
This Is a slight increase over General
Miles ratio of one soldier for every
I 1000 inhabitants. General Miles also
favors a reorganization Of the staff
and an ninterchangeability OF duty.
Washington is rapidly becoming the
center Of Catholicism in America. The
apostolic legation is located here. In
addition to the ancient Jesuit univer-
sity, which was established at George
town during colonial days. we have
University Of Washington, a more ex-
tensive and wealthy institution, whose
faculty represents the liberal elements
in the church. A year ago an enormous
monastery of the order Of st. Francis
was occupied by several hundred
monks, and is now the headquarters Of
the greatest foreign missionary agency
of the Catholic church, the Franciscan
Brotherhood. All their missionary
work for the continents of America,
Asia and Africa is directed from here.
The monastery, one of the most impos-
ing ecclesiastical edifices in this nation,
is situated a mile or two beyond the
Catholic University, near the Soldiers
Home. There is q good deal of mystic
ry about the institution, which gives
it additional interest. The monks are
seldom seen. except when they come or
go through the little village Of Brook
land, which is their railway station.
- Chicago dispatch, 14th: Abdel Ka-
rim, Prince of Egypt, and high priest
of the cult of Truth Knowers," has
disappeared. After a brief sojourn at
Kenosha, Wis, where he had come all
the way from Egypt to found his Sect
he has suddenly left, supposedly for
Egypt, with his Golfers enriched to the
extent of many thousands, of dollars,
which it Is rumored he will use to prop
agate his religion in the Orient. Hun
dredS of sane perSOnS in the United