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

A piece of granite weighing ton fell
from the third story of the capitol building
at Atlanta as it was being hoisted on Mon
day of last week. Superintendent Larkin
was under the stone and it fell on him,
crushing his body into pulp and killing
him instantly.
= The president of the National Cotton
Planters Association has addressed circu-
lar letter to the Governors of the cotton
secure the return Of sixty odd millions OF
dollars, collected illegally directly after the
war and known as the "Cotton tax"
- Two squirrel hunters wantonly fired in
to the packing house of the Ditmar powder
works at Barlow, New York, on Thursday,
causing q tremendous explosion. -Four
workmen were blown into fragments. The
shock of the explosion was felt at towns
many miles away causing much alarm from
the impressions that it was an earthquake.
= The Wilson and Fayetteville branch of
the Wilmington and Weldon railroad, sew
enty-four miles in length, is completed and
was opened through to. Fayetteville for
freight and passenger traffic last Friday.
which, when completed through to Flor
! ence, s. C., will shorten the time by the
Atlantic Coast line several hours:
= The number of business failures for the
quarter ending September 80, as reported to
to r. G. Dun & Co., is 1882, as compared
with 2,173 for the third quarter of 1885.
The liabilities, however, show a considera-
BILE increase, amounting, in the quarter just
closed to $S,75e, 900, as against s., 1887 400 in
the corresponding quarter of '85. For the
nine months concluding with the 18th, the
failures numbered 7,0S8, as compared with
8,162 for the first nine months of last year.
- At Romney, w. Va, last week, John
81. C. Bowen was convicted of murder in
ment for life, for killing Frank Heatwale
on April % last. HeatWale was killed by
mistake, Bowen having intended to take
the life Of one Harvey Barr, of whose atten-
ton to married woman in the neighbor-
hood he was jealous. Barr, who was en-
poyed as watchman in mill, induced Heat
vale to wait for him that night, and the
latter lost his life in doing favor for his
friend
- B. G.. Cole, the white man sentenced to
be hanged at Carthage, Moore county, N.
c., has been taken to the penitentiary.
Cole killed his wife some eighteen months
ago in the most systematic manner. Each
day he put small quantity of poison in
by enraged people. He was convicted and
appealed, and finally his mind failed. He
is partially idiotic. He is seventy years
of age. His sentence was commuted to i'm
pris0nment for life because of his partial
insanity.
A dispatch from Steelville, Mo-, says
that at II o'clock last Thursday night body
of men went down to the Jail where Wal
lace, the alleged murderer OF the Logan
family, was confined, broke down the doors
in spite of the resistance of the sheriff, took
IL1 o,,k opA hopro6 him m q tree
After few minutes they let him down,
thinking he would confess, but he continued
to protest his innocence, and leading citi-
zens finally persuaded the lynchers to sur
render the victim to the sheriff and let the
law take its course.
The indications are that the State cleo
ton to be held to-day will be one of the
auietest ever held in Georgia. No opposl-
tion has been developed to the Democratic
State ticket, and there seems to be none to
the constitutional amendments, the one
cal bills to originate in the House of Rep
resentatives, and the other enlarging the
power of the General Assembly with regard
to providing for disabled Confederate
soldiers. A small vote is expected, though
local contests for members o. the General
Assembly will probably swell the total vote
of the State, and make the election in many
counties something more than formality.
= Four tons of giant powder were explod-
ed in well sunk thirty-fve feet deep into
the solid granite of Stone Mountain, Ga, at
4 o'clock Saturday afternoon. After the
powder was stored away in the chambers at
the bottom of the well, the we'll was filled
up to the surfarce and ignited by means of
electricity. A person at the foot of the
mountain would probably have heard the
explosion, but as a sensation the blast was
failure. Whether it was success in break
ing up the stone it will take several days to
determine. Slight cracks were discovered
here and there. Quite number of persons
went from Atlanta to witness the blast.
Future blasts will be made at a depth of
from one to two hundred feet, in wllch from
thirty to fifty tons will be employed.
AN earthquake at africa, il Peru, is
thus described by Gen. Pleasor ton: "The
shaken up so often that they Lave no ditti-
Guilty in recognizing cn earthquake by
sight. But the last ore was recognized long
before it could be ssen. It came more slow
ly than any of it's predecessOrs-sO slowly
that all the people had time to run out of
their little one-story adobe houses Into the
plaza, where they fell prone on their faces.
When the earthquake got there it carried
the ground up just like wave. The people
lying in the plaza felt just as you do when
a big wave rolls under you on the beach.
Those who lay in the trough of the wave,
so to speak, were all right; but those who
went up on the crest of the wave fell into it
where it broke and were buried alive under
it. It>Was all over in minute"
On the morning of September 30th, the
Supreme Court of Virginia, sitting at Staun-
ton, handed down the papers in the case of
#. J. Cluverius, who stands convicted of
the murder of Lillian Madison at the old
reservoir, in Richmond, with the indorse-
ment that the petition for a rehearing is de-
MED. This remands the case to the Hust-
ings court of Richmond, by which the time
will be fixed for the death penalty by hang
ing unless executive cemency interpOses.
It is not considered at all probable that the
executive will interfere with the sentence
of the court. AS soon as the record in the
case is certified by the Court of Appeals
down to the Hastings court, the latter tri-
bunal will re-sentence the doomed man.
The date of the hanging will probably be
fixed at sixty days from the time of the
prisoners arraignment.
Advices from the southwestern coast of
Texas, particularly in the region south of
the Rio Grande and from some interior
points, give accounts of great rain storm
and much destruction of property. From
September 81 to % a tremendous rain storm
and hurricane swept over the vicinity OF
Brownsville. Texas, including Matamoras
TWenty-six inches of rain fell up to the
night of the 23rd and the wind is said to
have reached velocity of nearly one hun
dred miles per hour. Over two hundred
houses in Brownsville were blown down and
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