Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-04-20
Scraps aud faets.

tin & Stones museum, Boston, which
measures 21a feet, and is said to be
the largest snake in captivity, has been
off his feed since last July. He has not
once voluntarily partaken of food. He
was given an enforced luncheon OF two
rabbits a couple Of months ago, and
the operation was repeated last We'd
nesday, the quantity being increased to
three rabbits. In all 20 persons were
required to draw him from his lair,
and hold him at distance Of about
four feet from the floor. The hazard
Gus operation was performed without
mishap Of any kind.
Cleveland, Ohio, dispatch of April
16: In the midst of a song at Trinity
Congregational church last night, Mrs.
A. A. Langdon, a noted singer, stop
ped suddenly and left the platform
with tears streaming down her face.
She was assisted to the dressing room
by her husband, where she burst out
into hysterical crying. Something
awful has happened" she cried. Her
husband tried to soothe her and assure
her that there was nothing wrong; but
she was unable to resume singing.
She was taken to her hotel in a car
riage, and there received a telegram
from Asheville, N. c., announcing the
death Of her sister. Mrs. Langdon left
the platform at 9.15 o'clock, the exact
moment her sister expired.
In the park at the Buffalo Exposi-
ton there will be free show by the
United States volunteer life saving
corps showing how to save lives and
to resuscitate persons apparently
drowned. In addition to this SWIM
ming lessons will be given. Besides
this, expert life savers will be brought
on from New York who will be sta
toned at the bathing places around
Buffalo. It Is expected that there will
be great crowds at such resorts during
the exposition, and that bathing and
boating accidents will occur in the usu-
al proportion. In New York last year,
the life saving corps saved 6S4 persons
from drowning, and earned 145 honor
medals for dangerous rescues. At Hell
Gate and at Far and Near Rockaway,
where deaths from drowning were for
merly on an average Of 40 year, there
has not been one in two years. The
corps has established 734 life saving
crews with an enrolment Of 5000
members, who are always on the alert
in the lakes and waterways Of New
York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
The record of the corps is 2,S11 rescues
in ten years.
A wholesale desertion, estimated
at 160, or nearly one-fifth Of the SOL
diers of the new Fourteenth cavalry
regiment, has occurred at Fort Leav-
enworth. The deserters are nearly all
recruits who had gone to Leavenworth
within the last month, and they had
Just received their first pay on We'd
nesday. They went into the city and
in many cases tried to trade their blue
clothes for citizens, and failing in this
took possession of freight trains to
get out Of town or bought tickets to
neighboring cities. The desertion is
mainly due to the fact that most of the
young soldiers enlisted expecting to
cross the Pacific to the Philippines.
Since the capture Of Aguinaldo and
the probable ending of the war, the
work of organizing the regiment has
not been pushed, and most Of them
gave up the hope Of making the Orien-
tai trip. The second reason Is the
scarcity of calvalry horses. Only 40
have been received for the $50 recruits,
and they became tired Of sabre drill,
and had nothing to do to keep them
active. Telegrams and old regular SOL
diers have been sent to neighboring
cities to try to get some Of the re-
cruits to return, promising them that
if they do so within ten days they will
not be tried for desertion.
The display of armor and arma-
ment at the Pan-American exposition
at Buffalo will be more or less joint
affair." and promises to surpass any
thing Of it's kind heretofore undertake
en-. A series of quarrels among man.
uldclureTS ONSE poSllioii diio SoPSit
ority at the Paris exposition resulted
injuriously to all concerned, and it Is
now intended to avert a recurrence of
separating the exhibits according to a
mutually agreeable plan. 1t will be
entirely independent Of the govern
ment exhibit in the same line, and
promises to be the greatest display of
warlike material ever collected under
one flag. But the government will not
be remiss in showing what it has de-
veloped in the way Of defensive and
offensive weapons. All these will be
mounted outside the United States
building. Among them will be the 12-
inch disappearing gun, the 16-inch sea-
coast rifle, the most powerful piece
OF ordinance ever constructed in this
country which is said to have maxi
mum range of 20a miles. This gun
weighs 20 tons, it's jacket weighing 80
tons. 1t can throw a projectile weigh
ing 2,37O pounds-130 pounds heavier
than the gross ton-2,6OO feet per Sec
ond. In length it is 1857 feet, and it is
said to be capable of penetrating 27a
inches of the best steel armor at a
distance of two miles.
- All sort of suggestions have been
made TO the president with regard to
the disposition of Aguinaldo, says a
Washington dispatch. They cover a
wide range of action and are of a most
diverse character. The majority of
them undoubtedly emanate from oppo-
nents of the administrations policy in
the Philippines, and their suggestions
are of a most sarcastic nature. One