Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-12-20
Straps and fatts.

colored, was entered by three men, one of
whom was white, on Sunday night, who
were discovered and put to flight by Smith.
WIN. Butler, of South Carolina, brother
of Senator Butler, has been appointed libra
rian of the House of Representatives, at
Washington, vice w. H. Smith, colored, OF
Washington, appointed assistant librarian.
Typhoid fever is prevalent in the neigh
borhood of Appleton, in Barnwell county, S.
G. DIR. F. P. Walker has had ten cases under
treatment. The disease has never before
appeared in that locality, and its existence
is attributed to the unfortunate melon crops.
The fine barn and stables of representa-
tive Shoemaker, of Orangeburg, S. c., was
burned Just before day on Wednesday morn
ing, together with all his corn and fodder,
four mules and one fine horse. The fire is
believed to have been incendiary. There
was no insurance on the property.
Near Rockville, Illinois, last Friday
night, Bonner locked out his wife because
she refused to supply him with money to
continue drunk. She went to the woods
with her children and while building fire,
her clothing caught fire and she was burned
to death.
On Friday last the Atlantic and North
Carolina Railroad was leased to an Eastern
Syndicate for thirty years. The line eX-
tends from Goldsboro to Morehead. The
Fayetteville within four years. The lease
was made by the directors subject to rati-
fication by the stockholders.
-Sixty-seven moonshiners, captured in
Kentucky during the past four months, were
sentenced on last Saturday by Judge Barr
of the United States Court at COvington.
Nearly all the offences were trivial, and the
sentences imposed were light. The ages OF
the prisoners ranged from Is to 20 years and
they were sentenced in groups Of ten.
A Californian who has returned from
Walla Walla county, w. T., says that in
five months he had only about ten days OF
sunshine. In the summer the smoke from
the unnumbered forest fires Obscured the
sun, and the winter rains which quenched
the fires yelled the sky in Clouds
The Orangeburg Is. c. Times says: "a
colored school opened in one of the school dis
tricts of our county last week with only one
pupil, and continued through the week
with no increase. 1t is reported and gener-
ally believed that the children are not sent
to the school because the teacher, a colored
man, has acted with the Democratic party.
The business failures in the United States,
as reported to R. G. Dun & Co.'s Mercantile
Agency, number for the week, ending last
Friday, 290, Canada and the British prov
inces IS, making the total 325 as compared
with 3O7 the week before, made up of 163
failures in the United States and fl in
Canada; more than two thirds of the whole
number occurred in The Western, Southern
and Pacific States.
The Jury of inquest in the case of James
F. Pitts, who was found lying dead in the
road in Lancaster county, S. c., last week,
with bullet hole in his breast, found YER
dict that he came to his death by pistol
shot wound inflicted by either Thurlow w.
Gardner, James Miller or Columbus Miller
who were with him when he was killed.
James Miller has been lodged in jail in Lam
caster. Gardner and Columbus Miller have
evaded arrest and left the county.
Some grocery clerks in New York have
Just been detected in combination. TWen-
ty-five of these gentry formed union or as
ISOLATION by which they agreed to steal Sl25
each from their employers every three
months. This was thrown into afund which,
under certain restrictions, was to be divld-
ed among the contributors who should hold
out until that time. An accommodating
milk man was seduced from his always
profitable pump to become treasurer of this
fund, and had actually received twelve or
fifteen thousand dollars from the mem
berS.
Cornelius NJ. Krum, of Kingston, n. ",
fled to Houston, Texas, in 1876, after COM
mitting forgery. He then married, but
his crime being outlawed, he visited his
first wife in 1877. He returned to Houston
two months later, but in 1882 his first Wife's
son Sam discovered the bigamous conduct
of his father. Sam threatened to present
the case to the Houston grand jury, but his
father entered the young mans room at
night and shot him six times. The second
wife declared that she had done the shoot
ing to protect herself from an assault, and
shortly after, Sam having recovered, he
was induced to hold his tongue and go to
Florida. Sam returned, however, the faith
er fed, the wife confessed, and the husband
is to be prosecuted for bigamy. krum's
alias in Texas was John W. Rose.
Levi James, the Choctaw Indian con-
victed last November of the murder of James
FulsOn, was shot last Thursday at Scully-
vile Court House, Indian Territory, in ac-
cordance with the Choctaw law. The pris-
oner sat upon blanket and the sheriff held
one hand and deputy the other: Another
deputy took position five yards distant, and
with Colts revolver deliberately aimed
and shot James through the heart. James
died in two minutes. He was educated and
children. Pleasant Hall, colored, was hang
ed at Rolling Fork, Miss, at 3 o'clock P. NJ,
last Friday, for the murder of an old negro,
last November. Several hundred persons,
principally negroes, were present. Hall
made speech, in which he said he was
ready to die and that he was going straight
to Jesus. When the drop fell the culprit
was lifted clear off the platform, and after
hanging eighteen minutes death resulted
from strangulation.
Charles Mclaughlin was shot and killed
at San Francisco last Thursday by Jerome
B. Cox. The tragedy was the result OF sew
enteen years litigation. Mclaughlin was
pioneer, the president of the Central Gas
light Company and a large capitalist and
landowner, ranking among the milliOnaires.
He was the promoter of the old overland
mail route out of which he made consid-
erable money. In 1862 he contracted to
build the Western Pacific from San Jose to
grading and masonry work to Jerome B.
Cox and others for 100000. After twenty
miles of road had been built, Mclaughlin
failed to make payment. Cox, who had
put in $4,000 Of his own money, had to stop
work. Mclaughlin completed the road and
sold it to the Central Pacific Railroad Com
pany, realizing large sum. Cox brought
suit against the Company and Mclaughlin
for $15O,OOO, and obtained judgment, which,
however, on technicalities, the Supreme
Courtreversed. Cox amended his complaint
and again recovered Judgment, which was
again reversed. A third, fourth and fifth
trial resulted similarly. The adverse de-
cision so weighed upon CoX's mind that he
last spring attempted to shoot Justice Nc
Kinstry of the Supreme Court, who, he
uyoc obiof1v instrumental in do