Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-05-28
Straps and fatts.

duce over 100000 bushels of wheat this
year, against 7,0O0,0 600 in 1884.
Papers on which to base the demand for
the extradition of Maxwell, the supposed
murderer of C. Arthur Preller in st. Louis,
Missouri, who is now under arrest at
Auckland, New Zealand, have been signed
by Governor Marmaduke, of Missouri, and
forwarded to Washington. He names two
men as the States agents to bring the MUIR
derer back.
The seventeen-year locusts, predicted
by Prof. Reilly, the government entlmolo-
gist, seem to have made their first appear
been found in large numbers close to the
surface of the ground, and are moving up
ward. The indications are strong that an
unusually large swarm will appear in a short
time.
Captain Polk Cole, wealthy merchant,
of Spring Place, Ga, met with tragic and
awful death Friday. He was prospecting
for gold on Port Mountain, and wandered
near precipice to examine an opening that
had been made by some miners. Hemissed
his footing and fell over the precipice dis
tance of 200 feet. His body was crushed
literally into a Jelly, every bone being
broken.
At Erie, Pa, last Friday, the jury
awarded L. Rosenweig S4S, 200 damages for
being elected from Lake Shore passenger
train. The train was a limited express and
the conductor refused to accept regular
ticket or money from Rosenzweig, who was
a passenger from Cleveland to Erie. Ros-
enweig fell in pile of stone when he was
put off the train, and paralysis is the result.
He sued for 100000.
- Two Mormon elders, Christian and
Gamer, have been arrested and imprisoned
at Elizabethton, Tenn. They made many
converts in that section last year before the
passage of the Anti-Polygamy law, and
their converts state they will protect them
at all hazards. State Senator Simmerly's
father has been converted, and the former
is working up public sentiment against the
Mormpns The Sheriff refuses to release
the prisoners and the Governors attention
has been called to the matter.
- Prof. Odlum, a professional jumper,
from England, who had jumped 10 feet into
water, eluded the police and undertook to
Jump from the Brooklyn bridge on Tues
day of last week. His body turned 35 feet
above the water and he struck slantingly.
He was taken out alive, but soon died IN
horrible commissions. The jump was lao
feet. James Haggard, who accompanied
leap, has been committed to Jail without
bail.
"A Danbury, Conn.,, dispatch says: Ben
jamin Hawley, q farmer aged fifty years,
buried his wife, who had long been an in
valid, on Saturday. On the return from the
funeral he stopped at town with his house
keeper, who was one of the mourners, and
they were married. Soon after the newly
married couple reached home crowd gath
cred and Hawley was dragged from the
house. A barrel of tar and feathers had
been prepared for him, but he begged so
piteously that he was spared the torture:
He was, however, placed astride a rail and
ridden from one end of town to the other.
From the report of the executive relief
committee at Plymouth, Pa, the following
summary is made: On the 5th of May there
were s41 cases of typhoid fever. Since that
date sixty-four new cases have been report
ed, making 905 in all. The deaths in the
past two weeks have numbered So, which
leaves $50 cases, 1874 being cOnvalescent.
The majority of the sick are reported to be
on the mend, Jut many are still in critical
condition. The number of destitute fami-
lies now receiving aid is reported to be 246.
The total disbursements to-day reach 50, lOO.
Two hundred of the marines sent by
this government to Central America during
the recent disturbances there, have return
ed to New York. They say all is quiet at
Panama and that the isthmus canal is a fail
ure and gigantic sWindle, all the agents
being engaged in pludering the company.
It is common thing to allow workmen SIS
a day of which $40 goes to the agent as re-
bate The principal part of the working
force consists of Jamaica negroes who are
leaving as fast as possible because tt hey are
robbed and shot like wild beasts by the
natives. Only two of the United States
force were killed, both by their comrades
for infractions Of discipline.
Some persons think that natural ice pu-
rifles water, but, in the report of the Ply
mouth plague, it is shown that last winter
the drainage of a farm house in which one OF
the typhoid patients lived ran into the snow
surrounding the house. When the snow
melted, the germs contained in the snow
ran into rivulet which emptied into one of
the reservoirs which supplied the town
with water, which was then covered with
ice On account of the freezing Of the wa
ter the reservoir had. remained unused dur
ing the winter. When the ice broke up
and its use was resumed, the water had
phoid fever germs.
The worlds exposition at New Orleans
will be closed on the last day Of this month.
The friends of the exposition have raised
500, 900 by subscription to meet the expenses
of carrying it over until next November,
when it will be reopened. Superintendent
Jeffrey, of the Illinois Central, has telegraph
ed that the railroads and car companies
reaching New Orleans will subscribe $780,
900 toward the expense of reopening the
exposition next winter. The citizens COM
mittee is still receiving subscriptions, and
the sum required will be made up. The
board of management has paid off fifty per
cent. of it's Indebtedness and believes that
the exposition can be reopened next winter
free of debt.
The crimes of Ferdinand Ward, the
flash banker of New York, are to be pre-
sented to the grand jury this week. a large
portion of the machinery of the District
Attorneys office is engaged on the case,
and it is expected to present the facts clear
ly and fully at the start. W.S. Warner and
]. H. Work, into whose hands many of
Wards stolen dollars have passed, will also
be prosecuted if indictments can be secured.
The District Attorney finds great difficulty
in getting at the facts in the case, and there
is lingering suspicion that Ward can new
er be made accountable for his sWindling in
a criminal case, and the most that can be
done with him will be to keep him in Lud-
low street Jail for life under certain pro-
ceSSeS."
The Hon. F. It. Frelinghuysen, Secretary
of State under Mr.. Arthur's administration,
died at his home in New Jersey on the Goth
instant. Mr.. Frelinghuysen had occupied
many positions of prominence both in State
and national politics, being at one time ap-
land, but declined for the reason that he had
a controlling conviction that if he ever un-
dertook an ocean voyage he would surely
narish on the wav He served his State in