Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-05-31
Scraps and fatts.

Is counties.
Tennessee now has 1,445 names on
it's state pension roll of old soldiers
and the total amount paid to them IN
the last year was $149,220. No more
names can be added unless the legisla-
ture increases the appropriation. The
pensioners are divided into three class
es; the first receive $500 year each,
the second 5000 and the third S1OO
"A petition to the president and
congress of the United States asking
for an appropriation of s5OO,OOo'oOO TO
assist Negroes to leave the United
States has been prepared by the Inter-
national immigration and Commerclal
association, an organization Of Negroes,
in session in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
The petition recites a long train OF
abuses to which it is claimed the Ne
groes are subjected. 1t is claimed that
in many of the states the Negro is de-
MED all social and political recognition
and that his constitutional rights are
constantly violated. The leading spir-
its in the convention are Bishop Tur-
ner, of Georgia, and ex-Minister to Ii
IBERIA Heard.
News and Courier: I'm his life of
Thomas H. Benton" says the Memphis
Appeal, Theodore Roosevelt wrote
that the United States government
should have enforced the demand,
'Fifty-four or fight with reference to
the northwestern boundary line of the
republic. In other words, he contend
ed that we should have fought rather
than have allowed England to get
seaport on the Pacific. England has
now set up an impudent claim to
section of Alaska-which happens to
be full of gold-and has now actual
possession of it, and is enforcing Cana
dian law there, piece of territory
about which there Is not shadow OF
doubt. What, then, does our strenuous
president propose to do about it?' 1t
is not we'll to stir him up unnecessarily
in this way: but then it Is to be remem-
bered that he is not writing about Ben
ton now. There is a good deal in that.
WI Ting Fang, the Chinese minis
ter to the United States, delivered the
commencement grafton to the gradua-
ting class of the Georgia Military acad-
emy at Milledgeville, last Wednesday.
After the grafton the distinguished
Chinaman was taken about the quaint
old Georgia city to see the sights.
Among the places visited was the state
lunatic asylum, and while he was pass
ing through this institution, one of the
inmates, moved by an unexplainable
spirit of mischief, seized hold of his
long cue, wrenching it violently and
holding on like grim death. Mr.. Wu
yelled with pain. while those who were
with him struggled with the lunatic
until they broke his hold. Then the
minister ran with all his might to the
carriage in which he had gone to the
asylum and demanded to be driven
away. 1t was with considerable diff
ficulty that the committee was able to
reassure him and calm his shattered
nerves.
The famous St. Clair county, Kan
sas, bond case, for which several coun-
ty judges have served Jail sentences,
because of their refusal to order pay
ment of 100000 of bonds issued in 1868
to build a railway across that county,
Is to be compromised Representa-
tives of the bondholders who now have
a claim against the county for $780,
000 including principal and interest for
"a years. and the present judges are to
meet at Osceola, the county seat. to
consider a proposition from the bond
holders, which, it is stated, will prove
acceptable to the county officials and
taxpayers. Judge Thomas Nevill, who
has been in Jail at Maryville for a year
for contempt in refusing to order pay
ment Of the bonds will be taken to the
conference by United States marshal.
Judge Nevill has wearied of Jail life
and apparently is willing to give in.
s. D. Paden, another of the judges, Is
serving a sentence in the Warrensburg
Jail. Deputies have been unable to
capture Walker, the last of the trio,
who has lived in the brush since he
was elected.
The most dreaded spot on the
American coast to mariners will proba-
bly, be marked with a light house cap
able of casting rays visible 80 or more
miles out on the Atlantic. Diamond
Shoal, off Cape Hatteras, covering a
stretch about II miles long and whose
outer edge is 13 miles from the coast
line, has claimed more wrecks than
any portion of the Atlantic seaboard.
a bill providing for a gigantic light
house on the edge of the shoal has al
ready passed the senate and will prob
ably be favorably reported to the
house next week. 1t provides a light
house on the shoals, built upon designs
of Captain Albert F. Eells, Of Boston
The light house is to be in 80 feet of
water, the concrete base to extend not
less than 20 feet above the water at
high tide. A circular steel scructure
for keepers and store rooms, about %
feet high, is to be above the water.
On Top of all this is to be steel tower
or mast containing a spiral stairway
extending to a height so that the light
shall be at least 200 feet above the
water line. The bill appropriates $780,
900 for the light house and provides
that after two years operation an ad-
dtional sum of s275.00O be paid Eells.
During the course of his speech at
Fang. the Chinese minister, said that