Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-11-16
Scraps aud fatts.

dations for a new Federal building at
Helena, Montana, last Saturday, the
Chicago Construction company ran up
on a rich gold vein that shows free
milling ore that will yield $2o a ton.
BY the terms Of the contract all mine
rails discovered on the property, pelong
to the government. The find Is consld-
cred to he very important, as the vein
is evidently a continuation OF one on
which Is located the mine that Colonel
Thomas Grouse, a few years ago, SOLO
to the Rothchilds for $2,5O0,OOO.
New York dispatch 18th: AS soon
as new trunnion hook can be received
from the Bethlehem Steel company,
work will be resumed at the United
States arsenal in Watervliet on the new
16-inch gun which is to be made Tor
Fort Hemilton, in New York harbor.
This gun will be the largest ever
made in the world. 1t IS TO pc "a a
breechloader and the breech will be SO
constructed that a child can open and
fire it. The gun will shoot 21 miles; but
in order to do so the shot will reach
an altitude as great as that OF Plkes
Peak. which is $4,000 feet. After the
hook has been placed in 1t, the gun
is to have another jacket shrunk on IL.
Military men the world over are mucn
interested in the mechanism OF TINS
gun, as it will be an innovation Tor
coast defense.
Says a Washington special to the
Baltimore Sun: Army officers consloer
II as probable that the ornate sWoros
worn in the service at no distant oay
will be discarded as q part OF So,- a
dier's equipment. The sword Is De-
lieved to be Of little use in these days
of long distance fighting and serves
now little other purpose than as an
emblem of authority. British omcers
in the South African campaign nave
found the sword often hampered them
in battle, and there have been 1e", IL
any, occasions where it was used as
weapon Of attack or defense. HAND
to-hand encounters are thought to
have passed away with the advent OF
smokeless powder and modern small
arms. Cavalry may continue to use
the sword; but there are so few reasons
for retaining 1t as an implement OF
warfare that it is regarded as likely to
be the next arm rejected as obsolete.
New York Times, 11th: A young
woman has just been inoculated with
virus from a cow suffering from tuber-
culosis by DR.. George D. Barney, OF
Brooklyn. The solution OF bovine tu-
bercule bacilli was injected on each
side of the woman's neck just above
the clavicle, the quantity of the 1n1ec-
ton being about one and one-half
drains. The woman was Miss Emma
Fl. King, Of Brooklyn. She offered to
submit to the experiment, it was said
in order that the medical procession
might know whether or not Professor
Koch's theory that the bovine tuber-
cule bacilli cannot infect human beings
was correct. The COW from which the
virus was taken was inoculated with
virus Of a consumptive person some
time ago by DR.. Barney. DR.. Barney
said he was also anxious to prove that
the persons suffering from consumption
in it's early stages can be cured by the
inhalation of a compound or the
phenol-group. Should Miss King be
stricken with consumption as result
of the experiment she will undergo the
inhalation treatment.
The daily papers are giving con-
siderable amount of space to an at
tempted insurance swindle, the details
of which are developing. On Thursday
of last week, the dead body of man
was found in bed in hotel at Jeffer-
sonville, Indiana. When the face be-
came sufficiently advertised, the hotel
people received telegram from Little
Rock, Arkansas, signed by Mrs. Neweli
c. Rathbun. It stated that the BODY
was that Of her husband and directed
that it be shipped to Little Rock. The
body was shipped, and when the coffin
was opened, Mrs. Rathbun Identified
the body as "her darling" Other peo-
pie who knew her darling" said there
was a mistake, and further investiga-
ton aroused grave suspicious. After
it had become known that Rathbun's
life was insured for $4,000 there COM
menced a search for him and he was
finally arrested in Louisville. Later 1t
came out that the dead man was
Charles Goodman, and Rathbun was
accused of numbering the man with
opium or some other poison. AS YET
there is no proof to sustain this charge.
Rathbun has made an alleged confess
sion in which he acknowledges an at
tempt to swindle the insurance COM
pany, and duplicates his wife whom
he married for the express purpose Of
carrying out the scheme. He main
tains, however, that Goodman died
from natural causes and that no muir
der was committed.
-Asheville Gazette: Right in front
Of one Of the most aristocratic resi-
denceS on the Biltmore road, which Is
inhabited by a family who say they
are just as aristocratic as people can
be and live, the electric company put
up sign which read, "the electric cars
will stop here" mo they won't-not If
we know it," said the aristocratic
daughters of this aristocratic house:
this place is no bloomin' street car
station for the bloomin' common people
to get on and off at" and they
straightway tore down the sign. Then
one day these daughters Of the house
wanted to come to town in hurry, so
they walked haughtily out to where
IL L. rrnl fr,
the conductor to stop: but the base
ton signalled full speed ahead" with
out batting an eye. Therefore the
daughters had to walk TO the nearest
station and wait for the next car. The
father Of the family, coming home, was
carried by and had to walk back from
the next station, and reached the house
exceedingly mad. On learning what
had been done, he waxed madden. He
said he was as anxious to be ariStocrat-
ic as anybody; but he would be ever
lastingly dad gummed If he would pay
car fare and then walk home. The
daughters finally went to the office Of
the street car superintendent to have
him discipline the conductor. When
they came away they had the superin-
tendent's promise to put back the sign.
The conductor is still on his run.
Lieutenant F. P. Allison, Of the
United States navy, who arrived at
Victoria, British Columbia, last Wed
nesday on board the steamer Empress
of China" on the way home from Ma
Mia, gives some interesting details of
the recent massacre of the members Of
the Ninth infantry at Samar. Lieuten-
ant Allison says the natives had grown
TO like the colored troops, who had
been stationed there and when the
Ninth arrived it was thought by the
American troops that the same friend