Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-06-10
Straps and facts.

State House.
- John H. O'Neal, a nephew of Judge
O'Neal, the celebrated jurist of South Car
DINA, has been overwhelmingly nominated
for Congress by the Democrats of the Second
District of Indiana. Mr.. O'Nealis a native
of Newberry county and is forty-eight
years of age.
"A dispatch from Annapolis, Nd, says
the entire class of 1884, thirty-nine members,
was successful at its final examination con-
cluded at the Naval Academy last Thurs
day. Between twenty-five and thirty will
be retained in the navy the others will be
honorably discharged with one years pay.
Business failures occurring throughout
the country during the last week, as report
ed to r. G. Dun & Co., number for the
United States 160, for Canada q. Total 1877,
against 181 last week and 1877 the week pre-
vious. More than half the casualties are re-
ported by the Western and Pacific States.
"A bill has been reported to the House
in lieu of several others or the same sub
ject, in relation to the transmission through
the mails of lottery advertisements, and
under the proposed Act, all papers contain
ing advertisements of lotteries are declared
non-mailable matter, and will not be deliv-
cred from any post office.
AT the recent session of the General
Assembly of the Knights of Labor, a reso-
luton was adopted p%etitioning Congress
for the abolition of the National Banking
institutions and the establishment in their
stead of governmental loan offices and saw
wings banks, where money shall be loaned
at a fixed low rate of interest, the profits
arising from such loans to be covered into
the Treasury of the United States for pub
lie uses.
- A Tucson, Arizona, dispatch of Friday
says: "a courier arrived here yesterday
from Wallis Rancho, East of Fort Lowell,
with the intelligence that the Indians had
killed DR.. Clinton H. Davis yesterday after
noon. He had gone out in that section for
a drive. He was from Iowa, and with his
wife and family was visiting his brother,
w. C. Davis, of Tucson. There were eight
Indians in the party"
- On Thursday, Judge T. w. Hooper, of
Clarendon, Monroe county, Ark, was turn
ed over to the keeper of the penitentiary of
Arkansas, by the Sheriff of Phillips county,
in furtherance of the sentence meted out
to him for having issued some $4,000 spuri-
Gus county scrip during his term as Judge
of Monroe county last fall. The Judge
took q change of venue from Monroe to
Phillips county. The jury found him gull
ty, and the Judge sentenced him to two
years in the county Jail.
The Cook county (Chicago) grand jury
reported last Saturday to Judge Rogers.
The report says that the number of danger
Gus Anarchists has been greatly over-esti-
mated. In reality there are less than one
hundred dangerousch aracters of Anarchistic
tendencies; the remainder are made up of
ignorant men, who implicitly follow the
guidance of their leaders. The report says:
The jury are in possession of facts which
cannot fail to bring these leaders to the
punishment so justly deserved. The jury
decides that the bomb throwing was the
consequence of premeditated conspiracy,
and recommended that the detection of the
leaders be left in the hands of the police.
Near Tyro, ten miles north of Lexing-
night, while A. j. Mcbride and wife were
eating supper, they were murdered in their
seats and the house robbed and burned, to-
gether with their bodies. Mcbride gave
in his taxes on Thursday and stated that he
had two hundred dollars on hand, which is
supposed to have been the cause of the MUIR
der. Alfred Long and Walter Womack,
his brothers.in-law, both colored, were ar
rested on suspicion. On Sunday morning
Long, who had made a full confession of
the crime was taken from the Jail and lynch
ed. Womack was released, it appearing
that he had no connection with the crime.
On the Goth of last March, Allen Herbert
and Henry Edwards were working at a
quarry near Nashville, Tenn. They had a
quarrel which was revived later in the day.
Herbert was abusing Edwards, who told
him if he wanted the drill to come and take
it, adding if he laid his hands on it he would
cut his throat. Herbert jumped at him,
and plunged a knife into him again and
again. Edwards fell, dying almost instant
ly. Herbert fled, but was apprehended,
convicted and sentenced to death. The Su-
preme Court refused to interfere. Gov.
Bate granted a respite of thirty days, and
on last Friday, when Herbert was to have
sentence to life Imprisonment.
There is now scarcely any doubt that
the Senate committee will report favorbly
thews, the colored lawyer of Albany, for
Recorder of Deeds for the District of Co.
lumbia, rice Frederick Douglass, whose
term Of office has expired, and that the
Senate will promptly confirm it during the
present week. Matthews was born a slave
in Virginia. After four years study he was
admitted to the Albany county bar, and is
the first colored man in New York who &C.
quired that distinction. He has been a con-
sistent Democrat, and ably supported Dan
iel Manning, now Secretary of the Treasury,
in his struggles in the local contests. 1t is to
Mr.. Manning's influence that Matthew'S
nomination is attributable.
Jacob Neff, a we'll known farmer near
Lancaster, Pa, died suddenly the other
morning under peculiar circumstances.
He drove to Millersville at six o'clock to
see his son started On a journey and have
some repairs made to his carriage. Meet
ing a friend the subject of sudden death
came up, and Mr.. Nef remarked upon the
large number of such deaths that had &C.
he turned to 90 into the blacksmith shop,
dead at the feet of the smith. His death
was caused by heart disease, and it is a
curious coincidence that the majority of
persons mentioned in his conversation died
from the same cause. He was seventy-siX
years old, and leaves a wife and several
married children.
At Aspen, Colorado, last Thursday even
ing, a party of young ladies climbed to the
top of a fre-beil tower, sixty feet high, to
obtain a good view of the city. Eta Stew
art stepped to the edge of the tower and
was leaning against the corner post, looking
over the country, when the %janitOr, not
knowing of the presence ofthe ladies, seized
the bell rope to call a meeting of the fire
company. The sudden changing of the great
bell started Miss Stewart, and she plunged
from the dizzy height to the pavement.
She was carried into a n%eighboring house,
when it was discovered that both legs were
so badly crushed that the feet had been driv-
en- to within q few inches of the knee, that
the bones of her left arm were broken into
splinters, and that five ribs on the right side
were broken and torn loose from the spine.