Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-05-01
Straps aud faets.

/Says: After being officially dead for
81 years, James Foust, formerly of this
place, now living on a farm adjoining
that of General Frederick Funston,
near lola, Kan, is here collecting evil
dence to prove himself alive. In the
Civil war Foust had all the back part
of his skull torn off by a shell and was
thrown on the dead heap" He was
supposed to have been with dead COM
rades; but he recovered consciousness,
and pulling himself out Of the pile of
dead, crept beyond the lines in the
darkness and became lost. He was lis
ted with the dead, and the record
dead" still stands opposite his name
on the military rolls. Foust has been
trying for several years to get pen
sion. Gen Funston's father has taken
up the case.
st. Louis Republic: A peculiar af-
Fiction has affected the thousands of
Virginia crows that make their home at
Arlington, and which fly over this city
every morning on their way to the feed
ing grounds on the banks of the Potom-
&C. An eye disease has broken out
among the birds and has blinded hum
dreds of them. They are unable to
search for food and are starving to
death in large numbers. The boys OF
the city have picked up several Of them
in the streets here, and have offered
them for sale to the various bird fan
ciers and bird stores. At the famous
crow rookeries over at Arlington the
poor feathered animals are dying by the
hundreds. The disease resembles the
common cataract, which often attacks
the human eye. A number Of birds
were found to have skinlike cover
ing over the pupil.
The last issue of the London Satur-
day Review says that "the expansion
of the German navy is more in prepar-
alton for a contest with the United
States than with Great Britain. The
readiest cause for future national con-
ficts will be found in the struggle for
the partition of the exploitation of the
great South American Continent.
The Review devotes page to the de-
scription of the resources Of South
America and Germany, the hundreds
of thousands of settlers in Brazil and
Chilli, and the inability of Germany to
pursue her designs in South America
without a conflict with the United
States The article concludes with the
statement that it would not be good
policy for Great Britain to oppose Ger
manys legitimate aims, and that an
alliance with the United States that
had for it's purpose the maintenance OF
the Monroe doctrine would not only be
ludicrously in opposition to our own
interests; but it would rightly arouse
every other nation to a death struggle
against a genuine Anglo-Saxon men
ace"
=. Miss Dora B. Peters, Of "a Walton
place, Chicago, saw her own heart beat
last Thursday, and was convinced she
was not suffering from fatal malady.
Miss Peters is 1S years old, and has
strong constitution, according to her
IL.
ing attacks and felt sure that at such
times her heart ceased to beat. She
visited DR.. j. G. Message, who saw that
her heart acted regularly. The diff
Guilty was to convince the girl. Finally
the physician adjusted an X-ray tube,
darkened by a cloth behind her back.
The Horoscope was placed over her
heart and a heavy blanket thrown
over her head to shut out any light
that might find it's way into the room.
The girl then held mirror in front
of her heart. AS her eyes became &C
customed to the darkness, she began to
discern the outlines Of her heart. Grad
ually it developed until she saw it clear
ly. For several minutes the girl watch
ed the pulsating organ and then turn
ing to DR.. Message, she said: II guess
after ALL it is not my heart that both
/ers me-
~ Henry Huffman, well-known ami
NAL trainer with the Wallace Shows,
met horrible death at Peru, Indiana,
last Thursday, being killed by big
Charley" a monster elephant, while
the animal was bathing in the Missis-
sane river. Charley wound his trunk
about Keeper Huffman, and hurled him
far into the stream. The man was un-
injured and when he returned he said:
why Charley, didn't think that of
you; arn't you ashamed of yourself?"
The next instant Huffman was grab
bed by the big elephant and thrown to
the bottom Of the river and held there
by the forefeet Of the animal. Then
with a great roar the elephant ran
away. Several showmen shot at him
with no effect. He broke down fences
and roamed about in a big field, keep
ing everybody at a distance. Apples
loaded with strychnine were thrown
near him and he ate one. An hour later
he laid down and was in terrible ago.
ny. A rifle shot finished him. big
Charley" weighed over three tons, was
valued at $4,000 and in his lifetime
had killed four men.
Sioux Falls, South Dakota, dispatch
to Chicago Inter-Ocean: Former Sem
ator Richard Pettigrew Is said to have
cleaned up fortune of s25O,0OO by pro-
fitting by tips" given him by J. ].
Hill, the railway man. This snug sum
of money has been Won since the ad-
journment of congress. Mr.. Pettigrew
has returned to South Dakota fairly
we'll pleased with his ventures. When
he walked out of the senate chamber he
is said to have been practically without
a dollar. Every cent that he could