Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-04-30
Scraps and faets.

divided among those who, notwith-
standing the loss Of the 300 marks, at
tended his funeral. Hence the house.
keeper gets all; but the heirs threaten
to dispute the will.
1t Is disclosed, says Charlotte dis
patch, that Mr.. F. L. Underwood, OF
New York, will ask 11a per cent. COM
mission for effecting the merger OF
southern yarn mills. His plan for per-
sonal profit operates as follows: II
mill in the big merger be appraised at
100000 valuation, 100000 preferred and
100000 common stock will be issued,
and 10 per cent. OF the stock will De
watered, making $220,000. Then Mr..
Underwood puts into the mill $4,000
as working capital, receiving $4,000 In
preferred and $4,000 in common stock.
This makes a total Of s264,OOO in stock,
and it is on this amount that Mr.. Un-
derwood levies his liz per cent. COM
mission, receiving payment In one
half preferred and one-half common
stock.
The Charlotte Observer of Sunday.
tells an interesting story of how an un-
accommodating lady held out for GER
tain rights against the Southern rail-
way between Birmingham and Wash
ington and got them. The lady took
sleeper at Birmingham and had the
car to herself to Atlanta, because
there were no other passengers. The
sleeper was intended for Washington;
but as there were no other passengers
the railroad people decided to stop II
off at Atlanta, and asked the lady 10
transfer herself and baggage to an
other Pullman. She refused to change,
holding that her ticket guaranteed her
passage through to Washington with
out change of cars and she would IN
sist on the fulfillment Of the contract.
The railroad people coaxed and pur-
suaded; but the lady held out stub
bornly, and won. She had the car all
to herself on through to Washington.
Greenville News, April 26: Three IL
licit distilleries destroyed by pastor
and members of his congregation Is
record recently recorded in Transylva-
MIA county, N. C. Distilleries in the
Dark Corner section and other sections
of the state have been destroyed by
revenue agents and state constables,
but never has it been known for e. pas
tor to assist in the destruction OF Whis-
ky mills in South Carolina. On this
point, the neighboring state is lone on
South Carolina. Revenue Collector Al
ken returned to Greenville yesterday
from Pennsylvania county, and he says
that local officers of the revenue SER
vice reported to him that Rev. ]. F.
Jordan, pastor of a well-known coun-
try church in Pennsylvania county, In
company with some of the best people
of the community, had recently de-
stroyed three Illicit distilleries. Mr..
Aiken did not know it to be positive
fact, but says that it was a thorough
ly reliable party who reported the oc-
currence to him. 1t has been suggest
ed that it would be we'll for the pas
tors of the Dark Corner section of this
state to follow the example of their
Tar Heel brothers. =: :.
emperor William, says Berlin dis
patch, is bitterly criticised in aristo-
cratic drawing rooms because untitled
business men constituted the majority
of his guests during his recent excur-
sion in the North sea on the North Ger
man Lloyd steamer Kronprinz Will
helm. So significant is the emperor's
graciousness toward these men regard
ed by the old aristocracy that news
papers all over Germany with aristo-
cratic leanings, have, during the last
two days, begun regular editorial
campaign against the new policy intro
duced into court life. While the Ger
man nobility have long noted with ap-
prehension his majesty's liking for the
company Of the men who are making
industrial and commercial Germany,
his public entertainment of so many
business men is accepted as delib-
crate recognition Of that class in court.
In this connection the Grand Duke of
Hesse, a brother-in-law of Admiral
Prince Henry of Prussia, has been
much criticised for sitting at table
and drinking beer with a prominent
Socialist, Deputy Ulrich of the Hes
sian Diet, with whom the duke had a
long conversation on public questions.
The dukes apologists cite the fact that
;eta Nf
commerce, was decorated by the car
and that Prince Henry shook hands
with laborers while in the United
States.
Mr.. Joseph Sibley, the eloquent
Pennsylvania, who is sometimes a
Democrat and sometimes a Republi-
can, made a scorching attack last
Monday on the alleged atrocities OF
General Smith in the Philippines. Mr..
Sibley said he has always defended the
cause of the administration and had
believed in expansion: but when it
came to orders such as had been issued
by General Smith, humanity seemed
to have marched backward. II have
heard of 'Timour, the martyr, and the
Saracen scourge,' but thank God, 1t
took IS centuries after Calvary to pro-
duce a General Smith," He declared
that General Smith should be dis
charged in disgrace. "He admits that
he issued the order to make Samar a
bowling Wilderness" said Mr.. Sibley,
"and to kill all over 10 years Of age.
Such man should not be permitted to
stay in the army until the sun goes