Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-05-17
Scraps and faets.

mills begging a chance to buy 1t back
AS many as three paintings, made
necessary by the phenomenal rains in
some sections, have brought planters
to the verge of n seed famine. Sew
eral cotton seed oil mills have closed
because of scarcity of seed.
The information that Governor
Magoon of Cuba, has decided to start
a system of internal Improvement In
the island is peculiarly interesting in
view of his recent effort to loan TO
Cuban banks a large part of the mon
ey in the Cuban treasury. The banks
are so prosperous that they immediate
ly refused the offer. Under American
administration of Cuban affairs the
income of the island has exceeded the
expenditures by $500,000 more per
month than under President Palma.
The sum Of s16,O00,OO0 is now lying
idle in the Cuban treasury. About
S4,OOO,O 900 will be expended on the i'm
provement of public roads, principal
ly in the Pinar del Rio Province, the
great tobacco producing region, and
about $4,OO0000 more on construction
and repairing of buildings.
Confluence, w. Va, May 10: A lit
the child belonging to d. NJ. Riffee, a
merchant of Braxton county, was
nearly carried away by a large bald
eagle. The child was playing in the
doorway of its home, when the i'm
mense bird swooped down catching the
child about the shoulders and waist
with it's claws. The screams of the
little one attracted its father, who
came out of his store just as the bird
was rising with the child. Mr.. Riffee
Immediately seized one Of the rakes
which he had on display in front Of
his store and with it literally raked
down the bird and child. The child
was injured but little, while the pa
rent managed to deal the bird several
telling blows with the rake. Despite
this it managed to fly to some tall
trees nearby, where, while nursing its
injuries, it was killed by rifle ball.
The eagle is one of the largest ever
seen here.
In a decision handed down by the
United States supreme court last
Wednesday in the case of Lewis r.
Brown, a lieutenant of volunteers dur
ing the war with Spain, it is held that
a regular officer cannot sit on a court
martial organized to try a volunteer
officer. This is the case in which Gen.
eral Leonard Wood, who was then in
command of the department of San
tiago, ordered the reconvening OF
court -martifl with the result that the
verdict of the second trial was against
Brown, whereas that of the first was
in his favor. Brown was dismissed
from the service February is, 1899, on
a verdict by a court martial of which
the president was a regular officer.
serving with the volunteers. He in
stituted a suit TO recover his salary
from the time of his dismissal to the
beginning of the legal proceeding. The
court martial to be illegal because of
the presence of the regular army ofi-
Ger as a member of the court, and
awarded pay for the time intervening
between Browns discharge and the
mastering out of the troops of which
he was an officer.
Manufacturers Record: The south
has now 64,O35 miles of railroad, ex-
of oil cid fro OH M
terminal Implications. Since 1880
there have been built in the south 49,
423 miles of new railroads or eXten-
sions of existing lines, the rate of in
crease in that period having been
210 per cent in the south, against III
per cent. in the rest Of the country,
and the south's added mileage alone
is greater than the total mileage in
the whole country in 1860. The mile
age in the south has been increased
during the past ten years at the rate
of nearly 1000 miles annually, and
during the past five years at the rate
of more than 1000 miles annually. The
cost Of this building and these i'm
provements during the 26 years has
approached a total of more than ST.
750,000,000. AS in other parts of the
country, this investment of cash and
the coincident enterprise of railroad
managements have not been suffi-
cient to meet the calls of the south
for internal transportation, or to al
or Of
sentiment, more often unreasoning than
reasonable. finding expression in leg
islation, national and state, tending
to cripple still further the efforts of the
railroads to serve the section in whose
prosperity they are vitally interested.
The whole membership of the first
battalion of the brigade of ridship
men, says an Annapolis dispatch,
has been restricted for an indefinite
period to the confines of the institu
ton as a result Of its members having
given the silence" to Lieut.. COmman-
der c. B. McVay, Jr.. one of the disci-
pline officers. A member of the bat
TALON had taken exception to McVay's
mode of investigating their actions
and had determined to administer this
form of rebuke to him. The ''si-
lence" is as old as the navy itself.
1t is in the nature of a boycott. At
the time agreed for its application
those participating in it keep absolute
ly silent during the whole of some
meal at which the officer is present in
the midshpmen's mess hall. Ordina-
rily this dining room at meal time is
a very noisy place and silence when
the 500 midshipmen are assembled
there is decidedly noticeable. When
it was directed against Lieut.. Com
mander McVay. that officer withheld
the order for the first battalion to
leave the room at the end of the meal,
having dismissed the second battal-
ion. He sat quietly at the table for
nearly two hours. attempting by this
means to force the remaining midship-
men to break their silence. but with
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