Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-04-15
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

w. d. Powers, drummer for an Allan
ia candy.house, was run over by a train at
Lula last Saturday night and killed.
The $4,000 forfeited bail Of George @.
Cannon, the Mormon elder under indict-
ment for bigamy, has been paid.
The bill to increase the rate of postage
on fourth class matter to two cents an ounce
has been reported adversely by the Senate
Committee having it in charge.
1t is now claimed that evidence has re-
Gently been unearthed that will prove Gu
verius' innocence of the murder Of Lillian
Madison.
- 1t is wisely calculated that the farmer
who sells a pound of cotton for a pound Of
meat will lose just three cents on every
pound sold.
"A bill was recently introduced into the
Iowa Legislature which provides that, be-
fore a man can marry in that State, he must
prove his ability to support a wife.
- Reports of distress from the overfiowed
districts in Alabama continue to come in.
Fully two thousand sufferers are daily ra-
toned by the city authorities OF Montgom-
cry.
- The Shelby New Era says that track lay
ing will be commenced at Blacks, on the
new railroad, about the 1st of June, and
fifteen days later its first locomotive should
be in Shelby.
The hostile Apaches who surrendered to
Gen. Crook on the Goth of March, and who
arrived at Fort Bowie, Arizona, on the lst
instant, are to be sent to Fort Marion, st.
Augustine, Florida, as prisoners of war.
- DR.. Hamilton, the attending physician
of Secretary Manning, says that no particu-
lar change has occurred in the Secretary's
condition during the past few days, and all
that can be said of his condition is that he
is just about the same.
In the trial of DR.. VIM. White for the
assassination of Judge Ward in Abingdon,
Va, last fall the jury found the prisoner
guilty of a misdemeanOr, and fixed the line
at 1915. The Danville Register terms it a
mockery of law.
A riot occurred at Laredo, Texas, last
Thursday over the local municipal election,
in which five men were killed and twelve
wounded. 1t became necessary to order out
a detachment of United States troops to dis
perse the rioters. All is now quiet, though
bitter feeling exists between the two politi-
cal parties.
- Business failures occurring throughout
the country during the last week, as report
ed to r. G.. Dun & Co: Fol the United
States lI3; CaQaQa IL. 1Otdl -lo, aSdluoG
2l4 last week and 22l the week previous.
Failures are light in every section of the
country except in the Western and Pacific
States and in Canada where the number re-
ported is above the average.
- Andrew Brown, the President of the
knights of Labor at st. Louis, says the ma
tional treasury of the association is located
in New York, and they have S $4,000 900
tbarn which iS 6eDOSited in various nation
al banks. Besides that they have money in
the local treasury and at a moments notice
could raise $1,000, 900 simply by issuing a
call for it.
- The Boston Globe says: Jay Gould
should take care how he sanctions what
seems to the public to be something very
like duplicity in dealing with the knights
of Labor. The New York millionaire
should recollect his experience in 1854, du-
ring the period Immediately following the
election. The people would not tolerate
any manipulation of returns then they
would not tolerate anything which has the
appearance of bad faith now.