Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-03-07


succeed Mr.. Charles H. Treat as COL
lector Of internal revenue for the dis
trict Of New York. If this appoint
ment is made, Mr.. Treat, in all prob
ability, will be appointed to succeed
Ellis H. Roberts as treasurer OF the
United States at Washington, but the
change will not take place until June.
People Of Pittsburg, Pa, are re-
joicing over the action Of Miss Eliza
beth Howe in rejecting an Italian
count she was about to marry. Miss
Howe, who is one Of the wealthiest
young women in Pennsylvania, was
disposed to follow the example set by
so many Pittsburg girls and marry a
: foreign nobleman Of high rank. Count
Charles de Cini, a nephew Of Pope
Leo XIII suited her and her money
suited him. He however, insisted on
$4,000 cash down and an annuity OF
$4,000 for life, and Miss Howe de-
clined to pay the price. Instead she
married a prominent attorney OF Pitts
burg, who had been her lover in
childhood.
In connection with a 100000 fire
in East Liverpool, Ohio. last Tuesday
night a peculiar incident is related by
the members of the family Of ex-
Congressman George P. Ikirt, who
owned one Of the finest Of the many
buildings burned. Early in the week
w. j. Bryan, who lectured there, was
the guest of DR.. Ikirt, who. served
with him In congress. Mr.. Bryan did
not leave town until Tuesday morning,
but then he told the family of dream
which had greatly impressed him. In
his slumbers he had visions Of great
confiagration in which the Ikirts SEEM
ed to be great losers. He saw every
one Of the family in his dream, he
said, and now 1t Is recalled as being
strangely like prophecy.
Rich people who could afford the
luxury of swell rooms on Pennsylvania
avenue during the inauguration last
Saturday paid some high prices for
their accommodations. Cornelius Van
derbilt paid $500 for four rooms on
the Pennsylvania avenue side Of a
leading hotel. William r. Hearst paid
$4,000 for apartments in which to en-
tertain social and political friends.
Clarence Mackey paid $1,700 for
rooms. The landlord Of a modest no.
tel on Pennsylvania avenue sold fif-
teen rooms on the second floor at 5000
each and thirty rooms on upper floors
at $50 each. All along Pennsylvania
avenue windows sold at from $50 to
500. Single window seats were held
at from S. to SO. There were plenty
Of purchasers.
-Greenville News: Any person who
by extreme daring endangers his own
life in saving or trying to save the life
Of another on any railroad in the
country II the railroad is engaged In
interstate commerce is to be awarded
a bronze medal for bravery by the
president. The bill has passed both
houses Of congress and now awaits
the signature of President Roosevelt.
1t is strange that railroads lying
wholly within the borders Of a state
ais are to be Of bronze and will be
worn with a ribbon. A knot of rib
bon will go with the medal to be worn
In place Of 1t on ordinary occasions.
The government has given medals for
many years to life-savers at sea and
on the coast, so the departure is not
a radical one. 1t is not to be sup
posed that such things will make
brave men any braver, but recog-
milton Of their bravery will hardly
tend to vanity.
Secretary Hester's weekly state
ment, issued last Friday, showed that
for the three days Of March the cotton
receipts were 10000 bales in excess of
the same three days of last year. For
the 1874 days of the season that had
elapsed up to March 8, the aggregate
receipts are ahead Of the same days
Of last year by 906, 900 bales, and ahead
Of the same period year before last of
100000 bales. The amount brought
into sight during the past week has
been 225,526 bales, against 1896 for
the same seven days last year and
192,956 year before last. The move
ment since Sept. l, shows receipts
at all United States ports to be 7.151,-
ia, against 6,462,S25 last year. Over
land across the Mississippi. Ohio and
Potomac rivers to northern mills and
Canada 711,67S, against 794,7O5 last
year; interior stocks in excess Of those
held at the close Of the commercial
year 516,S69, against 296.115 last year;
southern mills takings 1,31S,OOO,
against 1,237,S59 last year. The total
movement since September l is s,697,-
661, against S,791,504 last year.
st. Petersburg, March 6: The fate
of General Kuropatkin and his army
hangs in the balance today, depend !g
on the result of the fighting almost in
the outskirts of Mukden. According to
latest reports this morning the fight
ing went we'll for the Russians, who
beat back the wave that threatened
to roll over Mukden as it had over the
Notifications OF Port Arthur; but
nothing is known as to what is going
on beyond the line of breakers. The
imminence of the peril on the west
wing has withdrawn attention from
the operations Of the centre and left,
where the fighting has been extremely
heavy, and on the left especially, where
the Japanese gains are sufficiently
great to cause apprehension to them
selves. Military critics here point out
that the Japanese have put themselves
in a critical position by the extreme
extension of their lines, laying them
selves open as they did at Lao Yang
to the possibility of a most effective
counterstroke and probable defeat II
General Kuropatkin should be able to
launch a column against weak link
in the chain. In other respects the
situation also resembles that at Lao
Yang, the Japanese making a costly
demonstration" to hold the Russians
in their fortificat.ons in the centre and
throwing away the lives Of thousands
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