Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-07-23
break occurring at any day the war depart,

mle for Kansas to suppress the CheyenneS
have been retained at those posts. A COL
lision between Mormons and Gentiles is
looked for on the 9th instant, which is a
great day with the Mormons, it being the
anniversary of the settlement of Utah.
They come in by thousands on that day to
Salt Lake from all parts of the Territory to
unite in the celebration. Should they at
tempt to repeat any such performance as
they carried out On the Fourth of July there
will probably be bloodshed.
The Mormons in Salt Lake are all armed.
On the Fourth of July they gave evidences
of this by freely flourishing revolvers in the
faces of Gentiles and defying and insulting
them. Backed by the many thousands who
they no doubt will be inclined to be more
defiant and insulting than before, and will
invite and challenge conflict.
THE NoosE.-Joseph Palmer, colored,
was hanged at Cincinnati on the 18th in
stant, for the murder of William H. Kirk
in his stable on the afternoon of December
oath, 1883, and the object of the crime was
robbery. William Berner and Palmer, both
ned and executed the murder. They were
almost Immediately arrested and both con-
fessed, each charging the other with having
struck the fatal blow. 1t was the verdict in
the Berner case, manslaughter, that was the
chief melting cause OF the rioting in which
the Court House was burned in March, 1884
Berner is now in the Ohio Penitentiary
serving out his sentence of twenty years.
Palmer said nothing an the gallows.
Joseph Taylor, who on May 3lst, 1881,
brutally murdered the keeper, Michael f.
Doran, at the Eastern penitentiary, by beat
! ing his brains out with wooden bobbin
s hor IN fhn
of the Philadelphia county prison at ten
only % years of age. He was of vicious
disposition, and the public records show
that he stabbed seventeen persons and shot
twenty-eight during ten years before the
murder, the crime for which he was exc
cuted. When he killed Keeper Doran it
was committed "a hours after he had con-
cluded term Of three years for stabbing
policeman and special officer. His
crimes began with cutting boy companion
when but fifteen years old, and his vices
date from his babyhood.
On Friday David Ackles, colored, was
hanged at Helena, Arkansas, for numbering
Frank Burrell and Scylla Flannery last
year.
Eaton Mills, colored a noted desperate,
was hanged last Friday ay afternoon, in pub
lie, at Halifax, n. c.. In the spring of 1888,
he waylaid Henry Pouton and shot him in
the head, causing instant death. Mills lied
to Virginia, and after a long pursuit was
captured and put in Jail at Halifax. In
May last he was sentenced to be hanged on
June 26. A petition to Gov. Scales for
communication of his sentence to imprison-
mept for life was refused, but reprieVe
was granted until last Friday. Five thou
sand people, mainly colored, witnessed the
IL rf,,l f0 O OF
He made no confession.
ATTEMPT TO STEAL A PAY TRAIN.-An
Atlanta special dispatch of the 14th instant
to the Augusta Chronicle says This morn
ing when the up passenger train on the
Georgia railroad reached Clifton, four miles
from Atlanta, a service train engine, No. %,
was found off the track, with the pay car of
the Richmond and Danville railroad badly
smashed in on one side. Maj. Greene was
on board the passenger train, and upon ex-
attempt at robbery had been made. The
pay car of the Richmond and Danville
railroad, with $4,000 in the safe, had been
coupled to engine 2G, of the Georgia rail-
road, by parties who had run the car down
the road from Atlanta with the evident in
tention of robbery. The paymaster, A.
Groser, who slept in his car and who was
to 20 over his road this morning, was aWak-
ened about o'clock by feeling his train
move. So soon as he could realize his posi-
ton, he called out to the parties on the
engine, but getting no satisfaction, put on
his brake. Four pistol shots were fired at
him, and he jumped from his car and made
his way to house near by for assistance.
While he was gone, the robbers on the en-
gine smashed in the car by running the To-
comotive against it, but could not get in to
find the money. When the paymaster re-
turned with help they had fled. The pay
car was standing at the time it was stolen
away, in the heart of town, and an engine
that was to leave over the Georgia railroad,
at daylight with the service train, was qui-
etly seized by outsiders and moved quick
ly over the track for the work. 1t was
daring attempt, but not dollar of the $25,-
900 in the safe of the car was stolen. 1t is
believed that the pay car was stolen away
by parties who followed it down the Air
Line railroad, and that they got on the
Georgia railroad track by mista ke. Other
wise the car might have been robbed.
George Rose and Charles Rose are Sus-
pected Of being the instigators of the attempt
to steal the car, and both have been arrest
ed, charged with the crime. George was
found wounded in the leg, supposed to have
been the result of the fusilade during the
attempt to rob the car. His brother Charles,
who is supposed to have murdered his wife
in Atlanta about a year ago, is graceless
scamp. He was captured in the woods on
Monday.
CLEvELAND's PLAIN WORDS TO STATES
MEN.-The Presidents habit of seeking in
formation with regard to men and public
affairs from other than the customary Off
cial sources has already become matter of
considerable comment. Recently promi-
nent business man in one of the middle
States, whose name is entirely unknown in
politics, became personally interested in the
proposed transfer of an official from one
post to another and wrote to the President,
giving his reasons in business mans way
for opposing the change, which reasons were
chiefly personal to the official, the order for
whose transfer had ready been issued. The