Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-12-20
Straps and facts.

According to the announcement the
tunnel will be of sufficient dimensions
to carry telephone and telegraph wires
and a pneumatic tube for the trans
mission of package freight. "Termi-
nails here and in New York have been
constructed" says the report, and
within a short time men will be placed
at intervals along the proposed route
to begin the actual work of eXcava-
tion."
A special dispatch to the New Or
leans Times Democrat from Port Lii
mon, Costa Rica, says that small is
land off the coast of San Salvador dis
appeared last Thursday following Sc
ries of earth shocks and it is believed
that seventeen families, or about nine
ty persons lost their lives. The dis
patch adds that San Salvador was re-
peatedly shaken by earthquakes last
week and the series of Thursday night
was especially severe. THE people on
the little island Ilopango, were observ-
ed giving signals of distress late Thurs
day afternoon" says the dispatch, but
it was out of the question at that hour
because OF the excitable condition Of
the people on the Salvadorean shore
to send them relief. The earth shocks
continued until past midnight Thurs
day and Friday morning the island had
entirely disappeared"
- Colonel William F. Cody. buffalo
Bid. who is visiting Major Gordon
Lille (Pawnee Bid on the latter's
buffalo ranch near Pawnee, Okla,
shot and killed the last buffalo Of his
interesting career early last Wednes-
day morning. The Lille ranch con-
tains five hundred acres and at the
present time $50 buffaloes. For some
time an unruly buffalo bull has been
attacking the other animals. Major
Lille determined to have him killed
for the barbecue feast TO be given for
Colonel Cody and a party of friends
from the east. The privilege of hunt
ing down and shooting the bull was
given to Colonel Cody. He was ac-
companied by all the members of the
party, together with several Pawnee
and Usage Indian chiefs. The colonel
delivered the death sentence with one
shot. Among those in the party
were Charles Schreyvogel and Lewis
E. Cook of New York.
The report from st. Petersburg
that Mr.. Sazonoff had died in the pris-
on at Zavatic has been officially
affirmed. His death has been attribut-
ed to suicide. Sazonoff assassinated
former Minister of the Interior Won
Pleve on July %, 1904. Recently
rumors that the prisoner had been
fatally injured by a flogging had been
in circulation. According to the gov
ernment prison, the officers discovered
a plot to release the political prisoners
en- masse. A large sum of money had
been collected of which sum $3.50 had
been smuggled to SaZonoff. The au-
thorities thereupon reinforced the
prison guards and stopped all COM
munication between the convicts and
the outer world. They also ordered
the corporal punishment of two con-
victs AS a protest against these
measures three of the prisoners sew
cred the arteries in their wrists and
three others including Sazonoff took
fatal doses of morphine.
- The strenuous exercise for naval
officers prescribed under the Roose-
welt administration. has failed in its
purpose is the opinion Of Secretary
of the Navy Meyer and a general or
der was issued last Saturday greatly
modifying the severity Of the physical
tests. Under the old order every Of
ficer of the navy and marine corps
was required to walk fifty miles within
three days every three months, the
actual walking time to be within
twenty hours total. Or he might ride
one hundred miles on a bicycle with
in three consecutive days, the actual
riding tirrle to be within fifteen hours
or he might ride a horse ninety miles
within three days, actually riding
seven and a half hours on each of
two days, and six hours on one day.
The bicycle and horseback rides have
been abandoned and a simple walk
ing test established. This walk is TO
be of twenty-five miles in two consecu-
tive days, five consecutive hours be-
ing allowed for each day and the walk
for each day az 1-2 miles) not to be
completed in less than four hours.
In the tropics the distance and time
required will be two-thirds of those
above mentioned.
- The calendar year 1910 will be the
banner year for the worlds interna-
tional trade, according to the bureau of
statistics. The bureau receives statis-
tics from practically every country
and these show that both imports and
exports are considerably greater than
in 1909. Considering the figures that
are now at hand for any part of the
calendar year 1910, the bureau finds
that in practically every case the rec
ords show the imports in 1910 to be
greatly in excess of any monthly aver
age of the year while the exports are
with few exceptions also in excess OF
those of 1909. The bureau has received
reports from 81 countries which cover
from six to 10 months of the calendar
year 1910. In all OF the - countries the
figures of imports show marked in
crease in the monthly averages as
compared with the corresponding pc
riod of 1909. The exports also are con-
siderably larger except in the case OF
Argentina and Bulgaria. Considering
the countries for which figures are al
hand. the monthly imports and exports
show an increase of about nine per
cent as compared with the correspond
ing month of last year and it is believ-
ed the worlds international commerce
for 1910 probably will show exports
valued at between II and 10 billion
dollars.
Chihuahua dispatch of December
II: The widest rumors are current
today and no doubt they are eXagger-
ated in the absence of communication
with the front. The rumors as usual
relate to insurrecto successes, but there
is no confirmation or any way of get
ting proof The last authentic news
came in over railroad lines from San
Antonio yesterday. The operator said
he could hear the booming of cannon
but could not see the fighting. owing to