Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-04-05
Scraps and fatts.

Rufus Janman, a Clover Leaf engi-
neer, caught in a wreck near here a
year ago, is wearing a new face as the
result of marvellous feat in skin graft
ings, says a Kokoma, Indiana, dispatch
of Tuesday. In the wreck the engineer
had both ears burned off close to the
head his chin and nose were torn off,
his eyelids cut off and his entire scalp
was torn away, not a hair being left on
his head. After a years treatment he
was released from the hospital last
week. For nearly 200 consecutive days
Janman was on the operating table,
where long strips of skin were cut from
his legs and applied to his face. An
occulist repaired the eyelids, making
them as good as new. By degrees new
chin and nose were grown. The ears
and hair could not be replaced, but
wig was given him. the long flowing
locks of which concealed the spot
where the ears formerly were. The en-
gineer is now in good health and expe-
riences no inconvenience from his mis-
fortune.
Captain Charles D. Roberts, Of the
United States army, has just returned
to San Antonio, Texas, from trip
through Zapata county, and gives a
horrible account of the condition of the
poorer classes there, who, he says, are
on the verge of starvation. He says:
II was on an inspection trip on the
lower Rio Grande and passed entirely
through Zapata county. There has
been no rain there since May, 1901, and
the people are in fearful need. Their
stock is nearly all dead and they are
unable to buy grain for that still alive.
Hay is $27 a ton, and the people have
no money to buy it. The people from
the interior of the county have moved
to the Rio Grande border for water. II
something is not done Immediately to
give relief there will be many deaths
from starvation. Our people are send
ing money to the Beers, to sufferers in
India, and to others in foreign lands,
when we have people starving to death
at our own doors. AS passed Zapata
men and women would come and beg
for wheat which was left from our
meals. The condition is horrible" Ia
pata county Is 200 miles southeast of
San Antonio.
The public debt statement, issued
last Tuesday by the treasury depart
ment, shows that in the month of
March the interest-bearing debt de-
creased s5,950,460. The debt on which
interest has ceased decreased $2.15O; the
debt bearing no interest increased ST.
$685. while the casn in the treasury
increased $2,494, ,422. The debt on March
81 stood: Interest bearing debt, $751;
O7O,7OO; debt on which interest has
ceased, $1,314,12O; bearing no interest,
1898, ,2O3, sol, a total of s1,325, ,5SS,621. The
cash in the treasury is made up Of the
following items: Reserve fund-Gold
coin and bullion, $3.50, 900; trust funds
to redeem outstanding certificates
Gold coin; s334, ,5S1 ,OsS; silver dollars
and bullion, SASS, ,21S,0O0. General fund
Gold coin, bullion and certificates, S94,-
S5S,O5O; silver dollars, bullion and GER
tificates, l9,69S,371; United States notes,
$9,9S7,171 other assets, $20,924,41S; in
national bank repositories, s11S,041 1909.
Total s1,236, ,3OS,4 Against this there
were outstanding: Gold certificates,
1884, ,5S1, ,0S9; silver certificates, s454,255,-
900; treasury notes of 1890, s33, 900;
miscellaneous liabilities, sS5,653, ,O30; re-
serve fund. s15OOO0,OO0; leaving an
available cash balance Of SLIT 1856, ,2S9.
Says a Finlay, Ohio, dispatch Of
Tuesday: The ghost that has made
the Kimmell block ON North Main
street, of this city; almost untenable for
the last six months is laid up with a
broken leg and a. sprained foot as the
result of fall from 20-foot roof, and
the inhabitants of the fiat are rejoic-
ing Last fall mysterious rappings at
the windows and doors, unearthly
means and groans in the dead of night,
interspersed at times with piercing
shrieks in dark Railways set on edge
the persons who have apartments In
the building. Men, whose wives are
hysterical either had to move or be
broken up by doctors bills, so they
moved out. Rent came down because
it was almost impossible to get fami-
lies to remain in the building. To make
matters worse persons residing in the
neighborhood asserted that they saw
uncanny phosphorsescent lights dane
ing about on the roof and side Of the
building on dark nights. Yesterday
morning Mrs. Rose Stahlsmith, a wild
ow living in rear apartments on the
second floor was awakened by strange
rafting at her windows. She stole
stealthily to the window, taking load
ed revolver from her bureau as she
passed The window ratified again, and
she threw up the sash and looked out.
There in the moonlight stood something
in white that was unmistakably man
in bed slippers and a nightshirt, with
a white blanket wrapped around him.
Don't shoot, cried the ghost, beating q
hasty retreat when it saw the flash OF
q silvered barrel. And in its haste II
backed too far and dropped off the roof.
alighting with crash. Fred Peffner,
a young clerk, rooming in the block, is
now confined to his room with badly
broken leg and a sprained foot.
Says a Washington dispatch Of
March 81: The day on which congress
will adjourn has been the subject of