Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-12-07
Scraps aud fatts.

a certificate to teach school and was
turned down. Then he went to Alaska
as missionary. During his ministra-
tions there he discovered a gold mine
worth 81, 900 900. He sold out, came
back to the state, married nice girl,
gave a fortune to school, and Is now
on a tour Of Europe with his bride.
Except for his failure to get teach
ers' certificate he would no doubt now
be drilling the three RS" into the
thickheads Of Kansas.
-Dun's number, to be issued Decem-
ber Z, will say: IF man purchased
his supplies for one year on December
1st, they would have cost $lO1.37, While
the same quantities Of the same aru-
cles would have aggregated only S'z.45
on July l, 1897, the lowest point on rec
ord, and $121.75 on January l, 1SOo.
These price records are computed by
multiplying the quotations of all the
necessaries of life by the per capita
consumption. Prices are now at the
highest point in many years, and In
fact surpass all records since present
improved methods of manufacture and
distribution have been in use, and ag-
ricultural operations were first begun
on the principle extensive scale with
labor and machinery"
According to Manila newspapers.
copies Of which have been received at
the war department, the massacre ..
Company C, Ninth infantry, at Balan-
giga, Samar, was planned by desert
er from the American army. the
newspapers state that two such de-
serters are known to have acted as
spies two days before the massacre.
It is also said to be q generally under
stood fact that deserters from the
Ninth cavalry (colored), are RESPONSE
BILE for all the trouble the American
troops have been having in Balangas
province. 1t is said that deserters
from this regiment led the fight near
Lipa, in July, in which Captain VIII
helm and Lieutenant Ramsey, Twen-
ty-first infantry, and Lieutenant Lee,
Of the engineers, were killed. General
Smith, in Samar, and the Twentieth
infantry, in Ralangas, are said to oe
hot on the trail of the deserters.
A special from Fredericksburg, Va,
says that a terrible tragedy was enact
ed in Westmoreland county Tuesday
night. One man was killed and two
others seriously If not mortally woun-
ed. The dead man is VIM. P. Taylor.
Jr., and the wounded are ]. Q. Stiff
and Willie Hef1in. From information
now at hand, it appears that Taylor
being informed Of an alleged gross In
suit offered by Herbert Marks to his
cousin Miss Rosa Taylor, endeavored
to have the matter amicably settled.
Failing to do So he, in company with
Stiff, Hef1in, Geo. w. Thompson and
Mr.. Douglass visited the Marks house.
On arriving there they found the house
barricaded, and when they tried to
open the door Marks suddenly began
shooting from a window. Taylor was
shot through the heart and died In
stantly. Stiff was shot through the
neck and Heflin in the stomach.
Marks surrendered to the authorities.
All the parties to the unfortunate af-
fair are prominent.
The Isthmian canal commission
made majority and minority reports to
congress last Wednesday. Both re-
ports favor the construction Of an 18TH
mian canal. Tne majority report
however, is in favor Of the Nicaragua
route, while the minority report is in
favor of the Panama route. The esti-
mated cost of the Nicaragua route is
s1S9S64,062, and the Panama route is
$l14,233,35S. 1t Is claimed, however,
that the Nicaragua route has various
advantages over the other route. 1t is
estimated that the Panama canal can
be completed in ten years and the Mic
aragua canal in eight years. The work
already done on the Panama canal is
worth about $40,000,000: but the gov
ernment cannot acquire the property
and concession for less than $109, H.
900. Two bills were introduced in the
senate, Wednesday, looking to the con-
struction Of canal by the Nicaragua
route. One Of the bills was by Sena-
tor Morgan and the other by Senator
Perkins.
Says a London dispatch of Novem-
ber %: The rapid increase Of territory
affected by the terrible disease called
'"African lethargy," or sleeping sick
ness" is seriously alarming British
colonial officers and physicians. This
disease has existed in Africa nearly a |
century; but until lately it was con-
fined to q limited area. Missionaries
now assert that it is extending into
districts that hitherto have been i'm
mune, and along new trade routes
opened by Europeans. Some doctors
maintain that the disease is caused by
a peculiar blood worm. Cases Of
sleeping sickness are almost invari-
ably fatal. Patients linger from two
months to three years, and even long
er, being in a state Of coma during
nearly the entire period. The Portu-
guese colony of Angola at present rec
ords virulent outbreak Of the disease. |
A special commission Of Portuguese
doctors sent to investigate the matter,
has reported that a bacillus was dis
covered by them which causes the
sickness.
- The statistics Of the department of
agriculture reports 9,674,000 bales as
the probable cotton production of the