Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-04-29
Scraps and fatts.

- Two DrOtherS named weaver were.
lynched in Anthony, Kansas, on Sunday of
week for fatally wounding a man in a fight.
The mother of the two men and the wife
of one of them were present and saw the
tragedy.
On the first Tuesday in November next
elections are to be held in North Carolina
for nine members of Congress, three SUI
preme Court Judges, twelve District Solic-
itors, members of the State Legislature and
all county officers.
The Mexican Congress is considering
favorably bill providing for the penalty of
death for all offences against railways and
trains. Even the cutting of railway tele-
graph wires, tampering with switches or the
placing of the slightest obstruction on the
track will be visited with the death pen
atty.
The Supreme Court of Georgia affirm
ed the decision of the court below in the
case of Eugene Beck, who murdered his
wife and sister-in-law, and who was SEN
fenced to Imprisonment for life. 1t was
urged by his counsel that Beck was insane
when he committed the murder.
- A wrecker placed a cross-tie on the
East Tennessee road track near Silver creek,
Ga, Tuesday night, and then stepped back
to watch q freight train strike it. The train
rolled down a ten foot bank, killing Thorn
as Sheenan, who was firing for his Transport
tation, and fatally injuring the engineer,
Jack Wright.
"A prominent photographer in Washing
ton is taking a vote from all his customers
as to the personal appearance of Senators
and Representatives. Senator MaXey has
the largest vote as the ugliest member of
the Senate and Senator Butler leads in the
handsome column. Gen. Logan comes next
to Butler.
This government will have to pay $780,
600 indemnity for outrages committed upon
the Chinese in Washington Territory.
Every man participating in these acts OF
murder and violence wa a foreigner. The
letter written by the Chinese minister to
Mr.. Secretary Bayard expounding the moral
law of all nations, is calculated to make
Christians blush for some Of their so-called
brethren.
AGAR load of seventy-siX Indian prison.
ers of the Apache tribe, among them three
native chiefs, who had been implicated in
the railway and coach robberies in Western
Arizona and recently captured out there,
have arrived at St. Augustine, Fla, under
guard of sixty United States soldiers, and
will be held until disposed of under orders
from the President.
The first Bessemer steel converted in the
South was made at Chattanooga on Wednes-
day of last week by the South Tredegar
works. The experimental cast of two gross
tons proved excellent steel on the rolls and
under all tests applied. The material used
wa pig iron from the Cranberry ores OF
North Carolina and shows that ore to be
excellent steel material. The plant has a
capacity of eighty-five tons per day. The
success of the experiment has caused much
qualification among southern iron masters.
Favorable reports are received from the
wheat cropgenerally in Virginia and North
Carolina, and the yield of this important
cereal promises to be good this year through
out these States, while intelligence from
the Northwest is to the effect that the wheat
seeding is progressing and the outlook for
the farmers encouraging. In Nebraska
Dakota, Minnesota, Manitoba and Iowa the
acreage set apart for grain is fully up to
that of last year, and in some localities
greater. =
The President has sent a message to
Congress, calling attention to the gravity of
the situation of the labor question through
out the entire country and expressing the
to proceed is that of voluntary arbitration
as a means of settling the difficulties de-
scribed and suggesting that there be created
a Commission of Labor, consisting of three
members, who shall be regular officers Of
the government, charged, among other
duties, with the consideration and settle
ment when possible of all controversies be-
tween capital and labor.
- Robert Fowler was hanged at Morgan
field, KY, last Friday for the murder of
Miss Ida Burnett. On the same day the
death sentence was executed at Fort Smith,
Ark, on James WATSON and Joseph Jack
son for murders committed in the Indian
Territory. Anticipating a respite, United
States Marshal Carroll postponed the hour
of execution-10 o'clock-to the afternoon.
At 2 o'clock the prisoners were dressed and
the death warrants read. They were then
ironed, and after bidding their fellow-prison-
ers goodbye were taken to the scatfOld at 3
O'clock. Before being handcuffed, Jackson
attempted to cut his throat with a bottle
that some prisoners used as a flower vase,
but was prevented by the guards.
Jay Gould-quiet and cool when he
scored a point in his favor, evasive when
closely pressed, a little hot-tempered when
describing alleged wrongs, good-humored
when it suited his purpose and keenly as
tute a~lways-was for over five hours on last
Thursday a witness before the House COM
He appeared at the committee room at IL
o'clock, attended by his lawyers and with his
regular body-guard, REINFORCED by several
of Inspector Byrnes' detectives, and took
a seat at the table, opposite Mr.. POWderly.
Despite the precaution which had been taken
of stretching a barrier across the hall the
room was crowded almost to suffocation.
George Gould sat near his father and one of
Mr.. Gould's trusted attorneys sat immedi-
ately behind him. The New York million
aire made a fine impression on those who
heard him. He says he is in favor of arbi-
~tration, but it must be between the employ
er and the employed and it must be before
the latter quit work.
nation a good deal of money. It is estimat-
ed that the expense of the burial of Senator
Miller of California will reach 5000, since
q committee went with the remains to San
Francisco, and committees are VIGOROUSLY
extravaganza. When a Congressman dies at
Washington, says hes leveland Leader cor.
respondent, he is buried in the richest style.
The p~all-bearers and other dignitaries con-
nected with the ceremonies must each wear
silk scarfs which cost 50 and more a piece,
and though a dozen funerals should occur
during the same session, you will never
hear of the same scarf being used more than
once. They must have Embellishments
half gloves, and the undertaker's bill seldom
runs at less than $500. The casket in which
the dead Congressman's corpse reposes is an
expense to the Government of at least $500,
and sometimes more. So that there are few
funerals of Congressman which cost Uncle
Sam less than 81, 900, while many run up
high towards such bills as that of Senator
Miller.
A San Antonio dispatch of Saturday
says: A. n. Towns, whose extraordinary
arrest on Tuesday almost at the same mo-