Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-07-27
Scraps aud fMtts.

first and was confirmed by Drs. Ged-
dings and Roseneau, Of the Marine
hospital service at Washington. All
of the crew of the Hohenfels will be
held at Swinburne Island for observa-
ton; the vessel will be thoroughly dis
infected. The cargo will be discharged
into lighters at quarantine and sui
phur will be burned in the hold to Kill
the rats, which, it is said, carry the in
fection.
The Sante Fe railroad department
has been furnished the particulars of
a prehistoric city of immense proper
tions on the Navajo Indian reserva-
ton between Durango. Colorado and
Pennington, n. NJ. The Hyde Mer-
camille company, of New England, mas
been exploring the territory for the last
month and has found palace of pre-
historic age containing. 1t is said, about
1000 separate apartments, some OF
them in an excellent state Of preserva-
ton. A second castle Of stone con-
tains 100 apartments. In some of the
rooms inspected were found the finest
of woods and other relics of an almost
invaluable character They have been
sent to the Smithsonian Institution, at
Washington. The government has or
dered experts to the scene. The buried
city is supposed to antedate the time
of the Aztec occupation of the coun-
try.
At $50 o'clock Wednesday evening a
number of the vertical supporting ca
bles of the Brooklyn bridge, pulled out
of their sockets and fell dangling in the
air. The accident happened at the
north side Of the New York end Of the
bridge and that end sagged from to
inches. This completely stopped all
street traffic over the structure, but af-
ter temporary delay pedestrians and
wagons were allowed to proceed. The
vertical cables which pulled out were
imbedded in the great cables upon
which the bridge is hung. The acci-
dent caused great excitement and the
police reserves were called out. When
the Bridge and Brooklyn Rapid Trans
it company authorities found how
greatly the damage had been exag-
gerated, traffic was partially resumed.
By s o'clock the bridge cars were run
ming, and the work Of repairing the
damage has since been completed.
George A. Groot, of Cleveland, Ohio,
who has been most active in inaugu-
rating the movement to hold an lnde-
pendent Democratic state convention
owing to the failure of the regular con-
vention to stand by the Kansas City
platform, said, last Monday, that
neither he nor anyone else interested in
the matter had been discouraged by
Mr.. Bryan's letter bearing on the sub
ject. Mr. Groot declared that as a
matter of fact. Mr.. Bryan did not ex-
press disapproval Of the movement.
"At any rate" said Mr.. Groot, 1--WE
shall go right along with our arrange
ments for the so-called bolt convention,
to be held at Columbus on July 81. We
are receiving a very large number of
letters every day from Democrats all
over the state, expressing sympathy
with the movement. AS a result we
look for a largely attec:ied convention.
A preliminary mee.;ng will be held
here within day or two to select tenn
porary officers for the convention
An encounter between Mrs. Gold
ing, wife of a stage keeper, and two
eagles on a mountain so miles north of
this place. has just been reported, says
a San Barnardino, Cal, dispatch. The
woman was sitting outside of the stage
house by a cradle, in which lay her
6-months-old baby, when suddenly an
eagle Swooped down and seized the in
FAINT The mother rushed to where a
mule was tethered and, pulling up the
stake pin, followed after the huge bird,
which found flight difficult with its
heavy burden. The chase continued
for a long distance, when the eagle
alighted on it's nest in the mountains.
seen the eagle alight, fought the bird
and killed it. Before she could escape,
the eagles mate appeared and the
mother had another encounter, but
drove the bird away. Mrs. Golding ar
rived at the stage house late at night
and in a pitiable condition. The infant
escaped injury.
- General MaXlmo Gomez, in the
course of an open letter, setting forth
the objects of his recent trip to the
United States, asserts that he went to
New York with a view of impressing
upon I. Estrada Palma the necessity
of coming TO Cuba to be the first pres
ident of the Republic: "Senor Palma
has shown capacity for governing, as
witness his course in the war OF '6S
and also as chief of the delegation dur
ing the last war; says General Gomez.
His official purity. while occupying
those positions, places Cuba under OBJ
legations to him. Not one of US has
such a standing as he has with the
American people and their prominent
men. Taking into consideration the
fortuitouS relations which the Cuban
Republic will bear TO the United
States. Senor Palma is the most avail
able. and is the only candidate. AS
real Cubans we ought to make him ac-
cept. l shall turn all my energy to-
ward this end, and when it has been
accomplished I shall keep apart from
politics.
The weather bureaus weekly sum-
mary of crop conditions. issued last
Tuesday, says: The outlook for corn is
less favorable than at the close of the
previous week. In Illinois, Indiana,
Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, mnre
particularly the western portions Of
the two last named states, corn is now
seriously in need of rain. Moisture has
caused considerable injury to winter
wheat in shock in the Middle Atlantic
states. Harvesting continues where un-
finished in the more nOrtherly sections
east of the Rocky Mountains and is in
general progress on the North Pacific
coast. Spring wheat harvest has be-
gun over the southern portion of the
spring wheat region where, as a result
of premature ripening, the yield and
quality is much impaired. Over the
northern portion, where the crop is
now ripening. it's condition continues
promising. In portions of Mississippi,
Alabama. Georgia and Florida the con-
dition of cotton has improved, but in
the two last named states and in the
CarolinaS it has suffered from lack of
cultivation. Fruiting at the top con-
einues to be reported from the central
and western cotton districts and