Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-07-10
Scraps and faets.

about $50 whites. During the present
month the line reached a point 2,016
miles from Capetown.
Chicago, July 6: Fifty-one lives
were thrown away and 1851 cele-
brants MANNED or injured, some of
them fatally. is the record of this
years GLORIOUS Fourth" as compiled
by the correspondents of the Tribune
at an early hour today. The loss of
life almost equals that of last year
when fifty-nine persons were killed,
while every record for the number of
injured was broken. Almost one thou
sand more persons were in the hos
pitfalls Yesterday or swathed in band
ages than last year. That the death
list will continue to grow for several
days Is indicated by the large number
of dispatches recording the injuries
believed to be fatal. The deadly toy
pistol was responsible for a big per-
centage of the injuries and six of the
dead How many of the injured are
infected with the germ of tetanus
cannot be estimated.
Congressman Hearst has given out
the following: II would like to state
very positively that I am not candi-
date for the Democratic presidential
nomination in 1908. Mr.. Bryan said
the other day in London that there
were others besides himself who had
claims on the nomination, through
services rendered the Democratic
party, and mentioned pleasantly Mes
srs. Folk, Bailey and myself. While
appreciating Mr.. Bryan's compliment,
l must decline to be considered a
candidate. Let the list stand If Mr..
Bryan pleases, Bryan, Folk or Bailey.
For my part l would substitute Stew
enson for Bailey. Mr.. Bryan's SER
vices to Democracy are too we'll dag
nosed to be rehearsed. He has led
the party conspicuously in two pres
idential campaigns and one senatorial
campaign. In the national house of
congress he has made issues himself
and expounded them with brilliancy,
unapproached."
The military appearance of the
American soldier was surprise TO
George V. Winter, who came to Wash
ington from London on invitation OF
. the war department to design GER
tain improvements in the uniforms of
the service, which would bring them
in line with the acknowledged supe-
rior fit and makeup of the British
AnnariNQn soldier
has the best build and bearing in the
world" declared Mr.. Winter on the
eve of his departure for New York.
"I thought Tommy Atkins was the
best in line, so 1 am surprised at what
l have seen here. While the Ameri-
can soldier is not so beefy as the Brit
isher, he is smarter and better set
up. He is the best looking soldier in
the world, superior to the hghting
men of Germany, France or England.
The only improvement in the uni
forms is to give him a better fit, giving
full effect to his fine qualities" The
pattern submitted by Mr.. Winter in
dicates various minor changes in the
uniforms, but no radical departure
from existing styles.
- Lincoln, Neb., dispatch to the
New York Sun: The value of w. j.
Rryan's possessions as fixed by the
county assessor for taxation, is $751;
225. This does not include $4,000
in government bonds, in which the
proceeds of his first book were invest
ed and which are not assessable. In
1896 Mr.. Bryan paid taxes on $3.50
worth of property. His total taxes
this year will approximate $l,25O.
The home property at Fairview is as
sessed at $24,150 and the adjoining
tracts of land bring the farm up to
$40,025. Mr.. Bryans personally is
fixed at $10,950. He reported $4,000
cash. Other items OH his personal list
are sixteen head of cattle, $500;
hogs, $3.50; bees, $685.; corn, So; hay.
$40; jewelry, diamonds and silver
ware, $500; household goods, $4,000;
firearms, $3.50; dogs, SO; watches
and clocks, $500; carriages and wag-
ons, 500. Aside from this property
Mr.. Bryan owns the Commoner, which
is on the assessment rolls at $22,25O.
Mr.. Bryan's six head of horses on the
farm were returned at $1,000, or 5000
apiece. c. w. Bryan, his agent, call
ed on the county board to explain that
this was too high, and it was cut to
$500.
- Washington, July 6: The navy de-
partment has completed arrangements
for the adoption of the finger print
system of Identification. This is a
system which has been adopted for
the army and will go into effect in
September. The navy department is
not able to go into the matter so thor
oughly as is proposed in the army,
but every man accepted at a recruit
ing office will be required to leave his
finger and thumb prints. Records Of
these, taken from the usual glass
slides, will be sent to Washington and
classified in the bureau of navigation,
where two civilians will be employed
at a specially authorized salary of
$500 each, to develop and maintain
the system. 1t is apprehended that
men, already in the navy will have
a prejudice against submitting to
this means of identification, and it has
been decided to subject only new re-
cruits to the process, although the
record would be valuable as a means
of identifying the dead or badly in
jured where there was no other way
of recognition. In the army no such
prejudices seem to exist, and the rec
ords will be completed as soon as it is
possible to obtain them. In the navy,
of course, the system will eventually
be completed with the re-enlistment
of men who are not now to be requir-
ed to leave their finger print records.
- Standing on the scaffold at Will
mington, y. c., last Friday afternoon,
Henry Scott, the negro seaman, whose
home was in Philadelphia, read his
sworn statement cOnfesSing that he
alone committed the wholesale butch
cry of human life last October aboard
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