Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-07-21
Straps and fatts.

If their decision is adverse, as it now seems
sure to be, Judge Adkins, of the Richmond
Hastings Court, will appoint the day of ex-
e%cution.
In Petersburg, Va, last Saturday, while
an iron dealer was unloading a wagon filled
with old artillery material, which had been
purchased from the government, a nine inch
shell which the dealer supposed to have
been properly unloaded, exploded among
the group of workmen and others. Sixteen
persons, including four children, were killed
and several more injured.
An ~extradition treaty between England
and the United States has been signed. In
addition to the customary clauses the treaty
provides for the surrender of dynamite
miscreants. At the foreign Office on We'd
nesday it was stated that the whole matter
was ripe that a communication would be
made to the press in the usual way and that
the treaty would doubtless be ratified at
Washington after the customary routine.
Col. Charles R. Jones, editor of the Char
lotte IN. c. Observer, announces himself as
"a candidate for representative in the Con-
gress Of the United States from the Sixth
Congressional District of North Carolina in
the fftieth Congress-" and closes his an
nouncement by saying that in due time he
will make announcement of his views on
public questions, and he proposes to canvass
every square mile Of the District, and meet
the people face to face.
A Columbus, Ohio, dispatch of the 14th
says: Ohio may furnish some instances of
the laws delay, but to-day it has furnished
one of the sWiftest visitatiOns of the penalty
of the law on record. On Saturday Charles
Gray made an assault upon Miss Anna
Bleistle at Upper Sandusky. On Sunday
he was arrested. On Monday he was tried
and convicted. Yesterday he was SEN
fenced to five years imprisonment, n to-
day he was brought to the State prison here
and placed behind the bars.
ILL.,, q man named Fred Hollar was arrested
on the charge of stabbing Mrs. William
Mclaughlin and her sister so severely that
they nearly lost their lives. A party of dis
guised men broke open the Jail and shot
Hollar through the abdomen. Before Hol-
lar died he insisted that he did not COM
NIT the deed. William Mclaughlin, who
had deserted his wife, died recently in
q Western State, confessing in his last mo-
ments that he was the author of the crime
for which Hollar lost his life.
The tremendous volcanic explosion in
New Zealand recalls the similar one which
occurred in Java a few years ago. There
may be an opportunity furnished by it to
NGTlly Glt prevailing llSOly Ill lSSolo W
the red sunsets about which there has been
so much discussion and which, it is claimed,
were caused by the dust thrown up by the
Java eruption. If reports are true there is
also a practical illustration given of the
manner in which Pompeii met its fate,
which was not by flowing lava but by show
ers of dust and ashes.
George w. White, of Oswego, was at
Niagara Falls a few days ago studying the
rapids and the whirlpool. He proposes to
make the swim in a cork suit if the authori-
ties do not prevent him. If he does he will
probably not live to tell his story. The
swimming and rowing craze is now on, and
from all quarters come reports of men who
are to attempt feat of some sort or another
in connection with the falls, the rapids and
the whirlpool. Two men in Buffalo, n. Y,
are now building a balloon boat in which
they intend to 20 over the falls, through the
rapids and all in August.
- William R. Smith of Richmond, Va,
was on Wednesday sentenced by the Hust-
ings court to the penitentiary for two years
for embezzeling State funds while a clerk in
the auditors office. There are a number of
other indictments pending against him.
Judgment has been suspended until the
next term of the court, in order to give his
counsel opportunity to apply to the court of
appeals for a writ of error. The prisoner IS
very much emaciated from his close con-
finement. The amount of his defalcations
is over one hundred thousand dollars. The
pected to live very long.
Silver is now so cheap a metal that the
bullion in a Bland dollar is worth To- d
less than seventy five cents there is
no reason whatever to suppose that the de-
cline, Whhffch has steadily continued for eight
years, will stop now. The products of our
American mines promise to increase rath-
er than diminish. The mines of Mexico
and South America are still so rich in ore
that schemes are in preparation for work
ing them with American machinery. The
French have ceased to coin silver, and
there are apparently well-founded rumors
that Germany is endeavoring to sell out the
remainder of her stock of the metal. Ev-
cry indication points to a still lower price
for the metal, and consequently a still great
err robbery and disaster from the operation
of the Bland law if it is not repealed at the
next session of Congress.
james Moore, an engineer on the West
ern North Carolina Railroad, who was ar
rested on the 9Th instant, has had his pre-
liminary hearing on the charge of murder.
1t appears that on 9Th of July, Moore's
train, coming west. four miles from Nor
canton, was running at the rate Of twenty
FIVE milesan hour. The engineer saw, about
one hundred and fifty yards ahead, a mar
walking on the track. He blew for brakes
and reduced speed to twenty miles per hour.
The man on the track, however, continued
his perilous walk, and the witnesses, the
prisoner and brakemen, who testified be-
fore Esquire Tull, at M%organton, said that
Engineer Moore then reversed his engine, a
process very dangerous at that rate of speed;
but the train was too near the unfortunate
man to be stopped before it had struck and
instantly killed him. The dead man was
recognized as Clinton Dobson, a deaf mute
who lived near the point of the accide, t.
After a full hearing of the facts, Justice
Tull found the case lackingin probable cause,
and discharged the warrant against the
prisoner. The defendant was formerly of
Greenville, S, c., and is said to be one Of
the most reliable engineers on the road.
- While there has been a s~uperabundance
of rain in the Southern States the present
summer, New England is suffering from a
drought, the disastrous effect of which has
rarely been witnessed in that section of the
country. For nearly two months, except in
local instances, little or no rain has fallen,
and from all directions reports have been
received of the great damage that has been
All through Massachusetts the grass is per-
fectly dead, while the leaves on the trees
nave turned yellow and are falling from the
boughs. All the rivers are low, especially
the Connecticut and Merrimac. In both
these valleys the rivers have dwindled to
mere ribbons, while most of their tributa-
ries have gone dry, causing a large number
of mills to shut down and throwing an army
of hands out of work. Along the C0nnecti-