Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-05-17
Scraps and facts.


as a shipbuilder than as a politician.
1t seems that Mr.. Nixon desired the
continuance of certain man in GER
tain office Of the organization. The
power lay with 13 district leaders. and
at a meeting of IL Of them. the 18th
being absent, there was tie. 1t IS
commonly believed that Mr.. Nixon's s
desires in the matter would have pre-
vailed had he insisted: but instead OF
insisting. he merely resigned uncon-
ditionally, insisting that he could not be
induced to reconsider.
Grave as the fears were when the
first reports came Of the calamity IN
Martinique last Thursday, the reality Is
unhappily far worse than the worst
the imagination could picture. The dis
aster Is without a parallel In human
history. La Pelee sent out a tongue
of fire that in one swift lick wiped out
of existence everything it touched, In
Guiding 10000 human lives. In hall
minute a bustling town was gone. Inc
people died where they were, at thelr
work. in the streets, on the ships, IN
their homes, a crowd at mass in the
cathedral. The catastrophe was typl-
fled in a family Of nine persons found
huddled together in last embrace.
But the suffering was probably short;
death must have been as merciful IN
its suddenness as it was horrible. Ma
ture seems to have wished to remind
man Of his littleness. With one puff of
breath, she wipes out him and all his
creations.
Troy, N. Y. Budget: The other
night at a party in Yonkers some zoo
young persons thought it would be
good Joke to go through a mock mar
riage ceremony. The joke was not sue
cessful because in the state of New
York there cannot be such thing as
a mock marriage. When two nersons
in the presence of witnesses, either by
way of joking or otherwise, take each
other for husband and wife legal mar
riage has actually been contracted un-
less one Of the parties is already mar
ried. In the latter case a prosecution
for bigamy can be maintained against
the party. The Yonkers young people
who undertook to mock at marriage
are simply in a fix. Those who had
been intending marriage have the con-
solidation of knowing that they have
been merely premature; but those who
did not want to be tightly and lawfully
welded will have to go to the courts
for relief. Others may take warming
from their plight and refrain from toy
ing with the matrimonial buzzsaw.
America will have the fastest regu-
lar train for any distance if the new
plans of the New York Central and the
Lake Shore management are carried
into effect, says New York dispatch
of recent date. The schedule will be
based on fast trial run made on Tues
day between Buffalo and Cleveland,
over the Lake Shore tracks to deter
mine the feasibility of installing an 49,
hour train service between New York
and Chicago. The success Of the test
the plan is practicable. 1t will mean
a shortening Of six hours in the rum
ming time to Chicago, practically bring
ing the two cities 300 miles nearer in
point Of time The regular time of the
Empire State Express for the 440 miles
from New York to Buffalo Is 1888 miles
an hour. The Sud" express, on the
Midi railroad. between Paris and Bor-
deaux, has been the fastest train, ac-
cording to it's schedule, but was seldom
on time. and now it's speed has been
reduced to so miles an hour. Cutting
the schedule for long distance runs has
been made possible by the Improvement
in the power and speen of locomotives.
With five cars, locomotive of the new
type has run 140 miles at the rate Of
572 miles an hour.
A cable of Sunday from the island
Of st. Lucia, about IS miles north of
the island Of st. Vincent says: "The
Soufriere volcano on the island of St.
Vincent Is still in destructive eruption.
A terrific cannonade can be heard
one hundred miles away. The re-
ports are followed by columns of
smoke, rising miles in the air.
Immense balls of colored fire also
issue from the crater. Lightning is
playing fiercely in the upper sky and
the whole northern part Of the island
Is one mass of travelling flame. 1t is
impossible to reach the burning district
by land or sea and there are no means
of estimating the destruction wrought
to life and property. Kingstown, the
capital of st. Vincent, is still safe,
though showers of ashes and pebbles are
volcano itself is invisible" There has
been nothing since the foregoing to in
dicate any cessation of volcanic activ
ity in the vicinity. 1t is quite evident
that the eruption of Soufriere has been
more violent than that of Mont Pelee,
and that the destruction of life is less
only because there were not so many
people in the immediate vicinity.
After the last of the Rev. DR.. Tai
mage's Brooklyn churches had been de-
stroyed by fire, says the New York
Times. he started to preach in the old
Fourteenth street Academy Of Music,
in this city, and there became well ac-
quainted with Ed" Gilmore, the man
ager. Mr.. Gilmore's reverence is not
his strongest characteristic, so it was
quite like him to say: Look here, Tai
mage tell me MhY ii is that the AL