Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-01-09
Wjauside Gatheritlgs.

AZ Maine has ITS factories in which
fish and vegetables are canned.
az Cotton seed oil is shipped to
France, and then shipped back to this
country as olive oil.
SSJ In 1890 the mineral product OF the
United States amounted to s619,OOO,OOt
and in 1899 to 1916, 100000.
8S5 A test has just been made which
shows that rook can fly 60 miles an
hour. The hawk makes $50 miles in
the same time.
Sg Sugar City, Colo., is seven months
old and has a population Of 1000. A
new sugar refinery costing sSO0,0OO, has
just been opened.
s1r The Philippines are known to pos
sess over 400 species of trees, and
more careful survey will bring the
lumber to nearly 500.
ar Jenner's famous discovery that
persons who contracted cowpox, while
engaged in milking, never had small
pox, dates from 1896.
az A curious criminal law exists in
Greece. A man who is there sentenced
to death waits two years before the
execution of the sentence.
SBr In California they want every
country road named and every farm
house numbered. This will all come
with free rural mail delivery.
SaT The Rio Grande del Norte, between
Texas and Mexico, is 1900 miles long,
but in many places during the dry sea-
son, can easily be forded by footmen.
aa The New York Journal says there
are five millionaires in New York who
should pay taxes on s234,00O,0OO. The
amount they now pay on is s5,S50,OOO.
39' According to a recent consular re-
port from Magdeburg, Germany, the
production Of beet sugar in the world
is now twice as great as that Of cane
sugar.
4aT Nearly $11, 100000 Of fruit Is sent
from this country to England every
year, yet we buy vast quantities OF
Jam and preserves from London manu-
facturers.
"a John D. Rockefeller, Jr., son Of the
Standard Oil magnate, has subscribed
s25O,OOO for the founding of New York
institution of learning for poor boys
and girls.
sg A woman in Fort Hamilton, N. Y,
has filed a petition praying the court
to enjoin her son from counting a GER
tain Young woman who lives in near
Dy town.
sg Robert Wilcox, delegate to the
house of representatives from Hawaii,
has received $1,000 mileage, the largest
mileage claim ever paid to a member
of that body.
5s 1t is now claimed that the Missouri
river is fully 200 miles longer than the
Mississippi. The only way 1.-THE Father
of Waters" can now claim pre-emin-
ence is on it's volume.
sS A Scottish soldier says that on en-
tering q captured Boer laager he saw
a girl about 1S or 10 years old, lying
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bullet through her head.
"a Since the treaty of peace was sign
ed in 1871, Germany has not extended
her territory by a single acre on the
continent of Europe; but she has In
creased her population by 16,OOO,OOO.
sg John Craig, Of Covington, KY, a
mere lad, became so much addicted to
cigarettes that he would steal other
goods, sell them and invest the pro-
ceeds In his favorite smokers. He
would smoke from 40 to so cigarettes a
day.
aa' Alfonso Stanley, a native of Porto
Rico, has been detained by the New
York immigration officials. He came
to this country in search Of employ
ment, and his detention again raises
the question of the relation of the ma
tives to the United States.
ar Governor Roosevelt refused to
grant an application for the extradition
of John D. Rockefeller and other
Standard Oil officials to Texas. He
said he would do so, however, should
it be shown that they were in Texas at
the time that the alleged antitrust law
violations took place.
ar A report from Gen. Macarthur, re-
ceived by the war department, says
that there are 10000 lepers in the Phil
ippine islands. He says the seeds OF
leprosy were planted in the archipelago
when the Japanese emperor sent ship
load of lepers to the Philippines to be
cared for by the priests.
az AS the result Of an election bet
two black bears will march in the inau-
gural parade in Washington next
March. W. M. Hoey and William Tag
CART, Of Nogales, Ariz., made the bet
The former won and by the terms OF
the wager will lead the bears, which
were captured in the Santa Rita
Mountains. After the parade they will
be given to the Washington geological
gardens.
AZ One of the busiest men In Kansas
Is Elihu webster, or Comancne couil'
ty. He Is under bond charged with fel'
ony, has been attached by creditors
has been summoned into bankruptcy
court, and is defending divorce suit.
a. Both Arkansas and Mississippi
which are to have new state houses
to cost about a million dollars each
have, by a singular coincidence, select
ed as the sites for these buildings those
formerly occupied by penitentiaries.
88' Experiments are being made on the
Wannsee railroad between Berlin ant
Zehlendorf, Germany, to determine the
exact value of electric propulsion as {
substitute for steam. The train usec
consists Of eight ordinary cars, and /:
Dro,,;dad with on e1optrip motor car a