Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-05-10
Scraps and faets.

Saturday by standing at a "lnulaSS
and raising fifteen men from a mine
while a house was burning from over
his head. A stream of water was
playing on him from a hose all the
while but nevertheless he was blistered
from head to foot by the intense heat,
and when he had raised the last man
to safety he fell exhausted and uncon-
scious.
A Washington dispatch of Monday
reports the finding Of the body OF
E. L. Wentz, near Big Stone Gap, Va,
on Sunday. Wentz, who is the son or
a PHILADELPHIA millionaire, was in Vir-
ginia super attending the operation or
coal mines belonging to his father.
He disappeared on October IA last, and
since then thousands Of dollars have
been spent in trying to get news OF
him, dead or alive. His body was
found within a mile Of where he was
last seen alive. 1t was lying on the
ground in plain view and was In
state Of preservation sufficient for
Identification.
Secretary Shaw on Saturday after
noon, signed a treasury warrant Tor
$4,000, 900, which will be delivered next
Monday to ]. P. Morgan & Co., OF
New York. as disbursing agents OF this
government, on account of the Panama
Canal purchase. The warrant Is many
times larger than any warrant ever be-
fore issued by this government. The
largest sum previously covered by
single government warrant was Tor
$7,200,O00, paid to Russia in 1863 on
account Of the Alaskan purchase. The
next sum was $5,500.000, paid in 1875
to the British government on account
of the Halifax award, under the treaty
of Washington, for infringement OF
fisheries rights in Nova Scotian wa
ters. In 1899 this government paid
Spain, through the French ambassador
$4,000, 900 for the Philippine Islands,
but this sum was represented by four
warrants Of $5,O0O,0OO each. The $15'-
100000 agreed upon as the purchase
price for the Louisiana Territory, was
paid in 1903 by the assumption by the
United States of the claims of citizens
of this country against France,
amounting to $3,750,000, and the issue
to France of certificates Of stock In
Admiral Togo, in an official report
to the emperor Of Japan, claims the
complete blocking Of the entrance to
Port Arthur on Tuesday Of last week.
0f
ate nature. 1t seems that the block
ing fleet consisted of about one dozen
merchant ships ladened with stone, and
backed by a flotilla of torpedo boats,
intended to protect and rescue the
crews Of the blocking ships after they
were sunk. A storm came up just as
the attempt of blocking was to be
made, Commander Hayashi, who had
the direction of the attempt, made
all possible effort to signal the ships
to desist until a more favorable OPP
portunity. The signals were not un-
derstood, however, and the ships went
on to the attack regardless Of the
storm. The Russians opened terri
BILE fire on the advancing ships and
sunk a number Of them; but regard
less of the triple dangers Of the Rus
sian fire, the storm and the sunken
mines, the ships went on. Several
went to the bottom; but others reach
ed their respective destinations and
were blown up. The crews were left
struggling in the water and the torpedo
boats came along to pick them up.
More than half the Japanese lost their
lives. Several who escaped to the
shore committed suicide rather than
fall into the hands of the Russians.
Admiral Togo claims that the entrance
to the harbor is now completely
blocked. The Russians claim that the
attempted blocking was failure.
the sum of $11,250,000.
Says a Toxic dispatch Of May 6:
General Kuroki, in reporting yesterday
tells of a bloody encounter during the
Russian retreat on Sunday last when
a large force Of Russians mistook a
small body of their own men for ia
panese, killing and wounding $50 Of
luclll. NCLCi al INoiONi soy SiAS&S - W.
panese patrol consisting of fourteen
men reached Teng- -Shang- Hong on the
third instant, when Russian patrol
posted on hill south Of the village at
tackled them. The Japanese patrol
thereupon charged them and thereafter
a rapid hand-to-hand affray occurred.
The enemy was driven back in the di-
rection of Feng-Wang- Chang. The
Japanese patrol pIrsl them to
stream three miles southwest of Kaoli-
men, where Russian SentrieS were dis
covered posted on hills on both sides
Of the road. According to information
furnished by natives body Of Rus
sian infantry, 5000 strong, occupying
hill near Teng-Shang Hong, on Sun
day mistook a detachment of their own
infantry, about two hundred strong,
retiring before the japanese troops, and
fought among themselves. In the
scuffle 10 men were killed and 70
wounded and the Russian carts were
stampeded, leaving their loads Of stores
behind. According to the story told
NY d GU 1SQooi1li oiilSCA VIM pei
ticipated in the battle on Sunday last
only five or six battalions. of Russian
infantry and two battalions of artillery
were able to retire in order. The 9TH
er troops ran away in q state Of entire
confusion.
Disgraced and humiliated, the in
sigma Of rank cut from their uniforms,