Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-11-03


at Richmond, Va, on December 10 for the
murder of Lillian Madison, is cheerful and
still hopeful of averting this fate.2 Two
petitions for the communication of his SEN
tence are now in circulation for signatures.
Until that is submitted to the Goveror and
acted upon it is not believed that the con-
demned man will make any statement OF
his connection with the death of Miss Mad
ison.
john M. Thompson, of South Carolina,
has been appointed a copyist at 5000 per an
mum in the Indian Bureau under civil ser
vice rules. Mr.. Thompson is son OF AS
sistant Secretary Thompson of the Treas
ury Department, who dissuaded his son
from entering the government service as an
employee of the Treasury Department, al
though he had passed civil service ex-
animation.
- The limited passenger train on the Chi
cago, Milwaukee and st. Paul Railroad
was ditched at an early hour last Thursday
morning and thirteen persons on board are
known to be dead, though it is impossible
to obtain complete list on account of the
charred condition of some of the bodies, the
wrecked cars taking fire Immediately. The
disaster occurred, about thirteen miles from
Portage, Wis, and is believed to have been
caused by the neglect of brakeman to
close switch.
"A man named Hamilton fell from the
top of a car at Barabo, Wis.,, Friday and
broke his neck. He was removed to his
home in Evansville and is still living.
The case is attracting the attention of the
medical fraternity throughout Wisconsin.
The shock from the fall paralyzed his whole
body from the neck down, yet he has the
power of speech and converses with all
visitors. This is supposed to be the tirst
case on record where person has lived 80
long with broken neck.
"A steamer which arrived at New Or
leans last Friday frana Puerto Cortez, Guate-
acter from that country. The greatest ex-
citement was caused in the town of Guate-
mala on the 10th ultimo by the exposure
of an attempt to poison the president by
two brothers, druggists, in the city. They
prepared the poison and gave it to SER
want of the presidents, with bribe OF two
thousand dollars to administer it. But the
servant proved honest, and handed over to
his master both the money and the poison.
The druggists were arrested and put to
death.
An exhaustive official report upon the
phenomena of the recent earthquakes has
Washington from Earle Sloane, of Charles
ton, who was employed by the Survey to
continue the work begun by Profs. MCGEE
and Mendenhall. 1t is mass of tabulated
statements measurements and technical de-
tails, possessing in its present form little or
nothing of popular interest, but is spoken
of by the scientists of the Survey as mas
terly evidence of patient laborious and
intelligent research, promising results,
when digested with the materials gath
cred from other sources, Of great scientific
value.
Robert Evan Sproule, an American sub
ject, was hanged at Victoria, British Colum-
bia, last Friday for the murder of Thomas
Hammil in June, 1885, in Kootenay mines.
The condemned man ascended the scat
fold without tremor and made short
speech protesting his innocence. Efforts
were made by the United States authori-
ties to secure reprieve for Sproule, and
the Canadian authorities postponed the ex-
ecution three times upon the request of the
American Department of State; but on
Thursday evening the sheriff was notified
that no further leniency would be extended
and that the law must take its course.
= The steamship British King arrived at
Philadelphia from Liverpool last week,
having among its six hundred passengers
three hundred and seven Mormon inlmi-
grants, in charge. of John Greenwood, of
Utah, who has spent the past two years in
Great Britain doing missionary work for
the Mormon Church. Of the total num-
ber 2e4 are from Scotland, England and
Wales, the rugged Scotchmen predominant
ing. There were 100 Scandinavians and
three from Germany and Switzerland,
about one-third Of the number, but there
are quite a number of pretty, bright and
neatly dressed young women, who are per-
haps attracted to the New World by the
nS of froo nfQ
husband.
1t is possible that gold may ere long be
as cheap as silver. Marvellous accounts are
given by the Engiish papers of the richness
of 1.-The gold mines In South Africa. The
Sheba mine apparently is enough to supply
the world with the precious metal forever.
The formation on one side of 35-foot reef
has been carried away, leaving exposed a
mass of gold quartz which, at rough cal
culation of sixteen cubic feet to the ton, will
yield million tons of "payable" stone
without sinking one inch below the level
of its exposed base. Visible gold shows
freely wherever the quartz is Clipped; and
it is asserted that nowhere in the whole of
the known mining world can such mar
velous deposit be matched.
=, "A Charlotte, n. c., dispatch of Thurs
day says: One hundred adult negroes, be-
sides large number of children, have
started out on pilgrimage to Liberia. For
some time the Rev. r. A. Massey, plausi-
| BILE colored preacher, has been preaching
up Liberia in the two Carolinas, represent
ing it as land of milk and honey. AS
result he has secured the first shipment.
The negroes will take the steamer at Nor
folk and thence depart for the African para
disc. The scene as the train pulled out with
! the pilgrims was a remarkable one. The
travellers were crying and singing such
songs as "De Promised Lam" while those
left behind set up terrible lamentation.
The emigrants are mostly from Lancaster
county, S. c., and Mecklenburg county,
NC.
Six United States prisoners were SEN
fenced last Saturday to be hanged at Fort
Smith, Arkansas, on the 18th of January
next for murder committed in Indian Fezss,
ritory. They were: Pat Mccarthy, for
the murder Of Maloney Boy, in the Chero-
kee Nation last February; Albert Odell,
and James Lamb, for the murder of Ed
ward Pollard, in the Chickasaw nation last
December; John w. FARRELL for the muir
der of John w. McAdams, his son, in the
summer Of last year; John F. Echals, for
the murder of John Penneyage in the Cher
okee nation, and John Stephens, for the
murder of DR.. j. IT. Pyle in the Cherokee
nation last winter. All are white men, but
Stephens, who is negro. They were tried
and convicted at the August term of the
United States Court.
- The new two-dollar silver certificates, it
is expected, will be ready for circulation
about the 1st of next month. The vignette
of Gen. Hancock is said to be the best like
ness of the great general ever engraved.
The adoption of the vignette of Martha