Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-04-03
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sia and China. There has been fric-
tion along the Manchurian border
for some time, and the opposing ar
mics are now represented as fronting
each other in battle array. News or
fighting is momentarily expected.
The story is that the japanese are at
the bottom of the trouble; that they
have melted the Chinese to provoke
the Russians and that the Japanese
are expecting to derive benefit to
themselves on account of the out
come. The matter may be settled
without actual war; but 1t is hardly
to be denied that the situation Is quite
serious.
Gregory D. Mclean, a farmer. tes-
tilted in circuit court Saturday, that
i'm the last four years he had spent
every cent of his fortune of $4,000
trying to recover the value OF six
steers worth $3.50, says Kansas CITY
special. Now he is seeking permts-
sion to continue the suit as a pauper'
the SIdlS lO pay NAO SS'
McCune has denied his petition.
Four years ago neighbor OF MS
shipped a car load of cattle to Kan
sas City, and six Of McLean's steers
were by accident included in the
bunch. Mclean followed the cattle
to the stock yards here and recovered
three head. Then he sued the neigh
bor and recovered the value OF the
other three, SIS. Later he brought
suit against, the Chicago, Milwaukee
and st. Paul railroad for damages
and expenses incurred in making the
recovery. He asks for $1,000.
While Judge Adam Bede, the
recognized jester of the house, was
telling his funny stories I'm the he
publican cloak room last Friday, ac-
cording to a Washington dispatch,
carboy of overcharged mineral water
exploded, and for few minutes there
was as much scrambling and hust-
ling to get out as there might have
been had a dynamite bomb exploded
In fact some Of those on the moor
thought for a moment that such a thing
had happened. Members rushed out OF
the cloak room and several attempted
to leap through the open WINDOW
which leads to the corridor OUTSIDE
of the house. When quiet had been
restored, investigation was made,
and It was found that the carboy had
been placed too near the steam pipe
and becoming heated, exploded. NO
one was injured, but half dozen
members were as badly frightened as
II they had received unfavorable
reports from districts. Only damage
done was to cloak room carpet.
New York World, Monday: Zone
of the largest merchants in New YORK
said last night, that arrangements
are being perfected here and in Paris
and London for a revolution in Vene-
zuela, which will annihilate Castro
and open up that country to Amer
lean capital and enterprise. num-
ber of rich New York merchants are
said to be interested in the move
ment, which the promoter declares
will involve the employment of l5,-
900 soldiers and the expenditure or
100000 in the campaign. Presl-
dent Castro, II the plans do not go
astray, Is to be either expelled or de-
stroyed, and a native Venezuelan
statesman to be installed as his sue
cessor. In this connection 1t is said
that Castro, anticipating a successful
revolution against him sooner or Ia
ter. has converted some Of his alleged
$40. 900, 900 fortune into cash and has
sent IL to America and France. Car
los B. Fergueredo, Venezuelan con-
sui in New York, said last night at
his home that he had heard such
an expedition was being organized or
promoted, but had been unable TO
learn anything definite about it. He
said he understood shares in the
scheme were being sold. would
like to get hold Of some of those
shares he said; I'll buy all that are
offered The expedition is to set out
shortly from Europe in three large
steamers, which are already under
contract. They are to carry about
5000 volunteers, with the following
quantities of arms and ammunition:
8. 900 Mauser rifles of the latest pat
tern; 100000 rounds of cartridges,
900 shells, eight rapid-firing guns,
5000 army belts, 1000 officers
swords, 1000 officers revolvers, g.
600 machetes and swords, together
with other supplies"
The disaster at the Courrieres,
France, coal mines, had a startling Sc
quel Friday, when the thirteen min
ers were taken out alive after having
endured unspeakable horrors during
twenty days of entOmbment. The
story of the survivors disclose that
they lived for many days on putrid
horse meat amid total darkness, and
in the stencil from scores of decaying
corpses. The presence of human
flesh would speedily have forced the
starving men 10 TeSOTl W lile last
desperate extremity if they had not
been rescued. The survivors were
sturdy young miners from seventeen
to twenty-five years of age, except
their leader, Henri Nemy, who is
thirty-eight years old. All show the
terrible effects of their experiences,
being emaciated, exhausted and
blinded. Their rescue caused a tenn
porary nervous lucidity during which
they greeted their relatives and
graphically related their sufferings.
The doctors then enforced quiet upon
them, fearing the results of fever and
poisoning from their having eaten
decayed horse flesh. There were
touching scenes as wives and mothers
greeted those whom they had long
given up as dead. Crowds besieged
the hospitals to which the men We're
taken. cheering the survivors and
imprecating the ineffective nature Of
the salvage work that followed i'm
mediately after the disaster. The
rescue of these thirteen men revived