Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-04-24
Scraps aud faets.

about seven millions of bushels of
corn from the bears, and at this time 1t
does not appear that they are going
to be able to deliver. The price was
46a cents Monday, and there was no
reasonable way of guessing at the fig
ures that would be reached before the
close Of the deal.
-Egbert Jones camp, United Confed-
crate Veterans, Of Huntsville. Ala,
has forwarded to President Mckinley
a resolution extending to him and his
party an invitation to stop over and
take breakfast there. This invitation
says: 1--WE wish him to be our guest
and to break bread with us not only
because he is our president and fellow
citizen; but, what Is better, because
we recognize in him that highest type
of God-given manhood, which appreci-
ates at it's true worth the heroism and
unfaltering devotion to the principle IL
lustrated in the career Of the Confed-
ere soldier"
One Of the most disastrous floods
in the history of the country swept
the Ohio valley last Saturday and Sun
day, and had not entirely subsided up
to Monday night. There was heavy
fall of wet snow that piled to a depth
of from 1S inches to three feet, and on
top of this there came torrents of rain.
The Ohio and Monongohela rivers rose
rapidly, and soon the stage of the wa
ter was high above the danger point
at Pittsburg, and all Of the other cities
along the route. Railroad traffic was
stopped by high water and landslides,
and hundreds of factories were flood
ed, throwing out Of employment more
than $4,000 men. The property loss
runs up into the millions, though the
loss of life is fortunately very small.
President Mckinley has upon his
table an application for the pardon of
J. H. Wolfsen, a New Orleans bank
employe, who Is under sentence of
eight years Imprisonment for embez-
element. Wolfsen recently returned
broken in health from Is months SER
vice in the Philippines, whittier he
went while on bail, with permission of
the trial judge. During that time he
was in Luzon. According to the tes-
timony of his officers, Wolfsen was al
most continually on the firing line and
performed many exploits of daring.
HE wanted to die" the president was
told the other day by an administra-
ton official, who has interested himself
in Wolfsen's behalf, "but the enemy's
bullets would not touch him. He hoped
that he could wipe out the disgrace by
laying down his life for his country"
If he shall receive a pardon Wolfsen
agrees to enlist for three years and
go back to the Philippines.
-Adjt. General Corbin authorizes the
statement from Washington that no
material changes will be made in the
army in the Philippines until after the
war department has heard from Cen
eral Chaffee on the subject. In accord
ance with orders previously issued,
General Chaffee will relieve General
Macarthur Of the command Of the mill
tary forces in the Philippines on June
80, and the present expectation is that
a general civil government will be es-
tablished in the archipelago by that
time. With view to relieving all the
regular troops who have had a long
period of service in the Philippines,
the secretary of war has decided to re-
place them as rapidly as the circum-
stances permit, with the regiments
now in course of organization in this
country. A plan has been adopted by
which troops will be given one years
service in the United States and two
years service in the Philippines. This
operation will result in each regiment
always having one battalion in reserve
in the United States.
- The composition of the special train
upon which the president and his par
ty will make the 10000 mile trip to the
Pacific and return has been determined.
1t will consist of an engine and seven
cars, including the private car "Olym-
pia,'' which will be occupied by Presi-
dent and Mrs. Mckinley. The "Olym-
pia" will be used only on the trip out.
The return will be made in the private
car "Campania." It will be one Of the
finest trains ever put on railroad
track. The olympia" in which the
president will go west, has been used
by him on several other occasions. 1t
is 70 feet long, has five private rooms
and one sofa section. Two Of the
rooms contain brass beds, large mir
rorS, wardrobes and every convenience.
The dining and observation room is To-
Gated at the rear of the car. 1t is 16
feet long and has an extension table
and contains two cabinets. 1t is finish
ed in vermillion; the private rooms in
maple, mahogany and koko, and the
kitchen in English oak. The car is
lighted with gas and equipped with
steam heat. The "Campania" is al
most a counterpart Of the Olympia" :"
except it contains a parlor, in which is
a sideboard, an organ and a writing
desk.
The arrangements for the exhibits
of the state, war and navy depart
ments at the Buffalo exposition, are
now practically complete, says a
Washington dispatch of Friday. The
navy departments exhibit promises
we'll on account of number Of new
features connected with it. Probably
the most interesting will be the pres
ence at Buffalo during the exposition
of Naval Constructor Richmond Pear
son Hobson, whose daring feat of sink
ing the Merrimac during the Spanish
American war, as we'll as his work