Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-02-26
Straps and fafts.

is no clue u tHe perpetrators lloT W Vic
motive.
1T is reported that the Southern Tele-
graph Company is to be consolidated on
March 1st with the B. & 0. Company, and
that it will be placed upon permanent
foundation. The recent lawsuits over the
Southern have not affected its business in
the least.
Some idea of the intense cold weather
experienced in the Northwest last week
may be formed from the fact that Lake
Michigan is frozen over, from shore to shore,
the ice ranging in thickness from nine inch
es to three feet A number of vessels are
frozen in far out from land.
The famous Shields-Sitton murder case,
after having been removed from Char
lotte, terminated at Statesville on Tuesday
of last week, in verdict of manslaughter
against Shields, who was thereupon SEN
fenced to the penitentiary for five years.
On a previous trial Shields was found guilty
of murder and sentenced to death.
The quiet little town of Lula, Hall coun-
ty, Georgia, is disturbed to her very centre.
Mr.. J. P. Echols having discovered that no
State grants had ever been issued for some
800 acres of land, embracing the very heart
of the town, has taken legal steps to possess
himself of the same. Both sides have en-
ployed council, and excitement is at fever
heat.
In the law and chancery court of Louis
vile, KY, on the 10th instant, Judge Sim
rail-, in the case Of the Supreme Lodge of
the Knights of Honor against its eX-treasu-
rer, Judge r. J. Breckenridge, asking that
a receiver be appointed to take charge of
the funds, refused to appoint receiver, say
ing that the plaintiff has no legal right to
bring suit.
In alectlre in New York, Tuesday even
ing, about Alaska, Lieutenant Schwatka de-
clared that the Alaska Fur Company, the
great monopoly that controls the Territory,
twill have made 100000 per cent. profit be-
fore 1890, when it gives up it's charter" He
added that the whale fisheries alone are
worth 81 100000 annually, and thereis good
grazing there for cattle enough to feed ten
San FranciscOs.
The business failures occurring through
out the country during the week ending
last Friday, as reported to the commercial
agency of r. G. Dun & Co., number for the
United States 253 and for Canada 37-total
300, against 270 the week pevious. Near
ly four-fifths of the business casualties OF
the week are furnished by the Western,
Southern and Pacific States, the failures in
the Eastern and Middle States being COM
paratively very light.
From London the statement comes that
an Arabian paper publishes an extract from
letter from Ell Mahdi to Osman Digna,
stating that two attempts were made to
cross the White Nile and attack khartoum
in the rear, but were thwarted by the deep
ness of the water and the want Of boats.
Therefore he is quietly awaiting at Omdur-
man the arrival of the English army. He
leaves to Osman Digna the defense of the
route from Suakim, thus enabling them to
cut off the retreat of the English by either
route.
In the superior criminal court at East
Cambridge, Mass, on Tuesday of last week,
ex-Gov: Moses, of South Carolina, charged
with obtaining $34 under false pretenses
from COL T. W. Higginson, of Cambridge,
came up for sentence, the defendant having
pleaded guilty. Moses made an eloquent
appeal for mercy, reviewing his past career,
and stated that his mind had given way
under his troubles, instancing the paltri-
ness of the crime in proof thereof. He was
sentenced to six months in the house of cor
rection.
On Tuesday evening of last week, Thomas
Womack, workman employed in the shops
of the Western North Carolina Railroad at
Salisbury, was found dead in we'll on lot
adjoining his premises in that town. WO-
mack had left his house about dark on
Monday evening to get a bucket Of water,
and never returned. Search was instituted
for him the next morning, and it resulted
as stated above. Womack's neck was brok-
en- and his skull crushed in. 1t is believed
that he got on top of the we'll curbing to
arrange the pulley, and the curbing being
covered with ice, his foot slipped and he
was precipitated into the we'll.
-Seventy-fve Mormon converts left Chat
tanOoga, Tenn, last Friday night for Salt
Lake City, Utah. They were from East
nd h roll
ma. The Mormon church has been making
such rapid headway in the South that the
elders have decided to have spring and
fall hegira. Heretofore the converts have
emigrated only in the fall. Elder John
Morgan, the head of the church in the South,
states that the elders are meeting with great
success in their prcselyting. Churches are
being established in all sections Of Virginia
and North Carolina.
"A fire in Charlotte, last Sunday morning,
destroyed Schitf Bros, building on Trade
street, also the adjoining building. The
fire communicated to the rear rooms of the
Central Hotel, but was extinguished with
little damage. Grace Howard, disreputa-
BILE woman, was fatally burned. The losses
and insurances are: Schiff Bros, on build
owner of the building, occupied as drug
store, $4,000, insurance $1,000; Schif & Co.,
$4,000, insurance $500; William Wilson
$1,000, insurance 81, $50; Thos. Reese & Co.,
$4,000, insurance $1,000. Sam Richardson,
a colored fireman, ran against Isaiah Bron-
son, also colored, and broke two eggs in
the latter's pocket. Bronson thereupon
cut Richardson's throat. Richardson walk
ed across street to drug store and fell dead
in the doorway. Bronson was arrested.
Both had been drinking.
B. Allen Freeman, the Charlotte gun
smith, who, as stated in these columns last
week, was found in his shop on the night
of the 18th instant with bullet hole in his
head, is dead. The indications now are
that he was shot by person who was seen
to run from the store when the report of the
pistol was heard, as the appearance OF the
wound was such as to make it almost i'm
possible to have been suicide. The jury of
inquest is puzzled over the affair, and after
taking such evidence as could be obtained,
adjourned for two weeks, hoping for further
ried to his house, Ed. Williams, painter,
who was profuse in his expressions of SYM
pathy, stole the dying mans watch. 1t was
found in his possession, and he was commit
ted to Jail, and day or two later tried in
the inferior court for the theft, found guilty
and sentenced to the penitentiary for ten
years.
Among the nominations in the South,
made by the President last Friday, were
James f. Boyd, e. S. Attorney for the
Western district of North Carolina; T. b.
Keogh to be Marshal of the United States
for the same district; and Patrick II. Win
ston, Jr., of North Carolina, to be Registrar