Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-01-25

FAMINE IN \ BORDER FORT.-A dis
patch from Fort Mckinney, Wyoming,
says: \. disastrous fire occurred Monday
morning at | o'clock. The post commissa-
ry building was entirely consumed, with
its contents. The estimated loss is $780,
600. There was no insurance. The build
ing was stocked with cOmmiSSary supplies
to last until May next. The companies at
the post have u supply of rationS to last
ten days, not including food torthe officers
families. The fire originated in some way
from a fire used in the building to keep
goods from freezing. 1t is supposed there
was a defective tlue. The garrison has
been ordered to half rations. Flour, pork
and fresh beef can be purchased in open
market, but sugar, coffee and canned goods
cannot be procured in the country. The
nov both ways, north and south, is drift
ed from five to ten feet deep and it is al
most impossible to run goods into the coun-
try owing to the extraordinary cold
weather.
Water could not be got to eNtinguish the
fire, and for some time the headquarters
buildings and Quartermaster's %storehouse
were in great danger. There was no wind
at the time or the post would have been
entirely destroyed. The post traders store
and merchants in Buffalo have only a
small stock of groceries and canned goods,
and there are prospects of q famine. The
commanding officer Of the post, Gen. Brls-
bine, has telegraphed to department head
quarters for provisions to be forwarded by
fast freight from the nearest post, but OW-
ing to the extreme cold and deep snow 1t
is impossible to say when supplies can get
there. The Wyoming telegraph and tele-
phone wires were burned and Frustrated.
The thermometer at some places is 81
degrees below zero.
MAXWELL TO IIANG.-In the United
States Supreme Court. last Monday after
noon, Chief Justice Waite announced the
decision in the case of Brooks alias Max
we'll from the Supreme Court Of Missouri.
1t is known as the "MaXwell murder case
from st. Louis" The Supreme Court de-
cides that inasmuch as there is no question
involving the constitution of the United
States or any of its treaties, and none OF
the rights and privileges or immunities
guaranteed by any federal law, has been
affected, it has no jurisdiction, and that
therefore the decision of the court beloW
must stand. The Supreme Court OF the
United States having no jurisdiction in the
case, can make no order, and cannot inter
fere in any way with the time liked Tor
the execution. Maxwell, who is an Eng
hlllSp no SlS
Preller, concealing the dead body in a
trunk and escaping to New Zealand before
he was arrested, tried and convicted in
the criminal court Of st. Louis, he appeal
ed to the I. 5. Supreme Court on the
ground that he not being 4 naturaliZed cit
izen, the State Courts of Missouri had no
jurisdiction.
MORE INDIcTMENTS.-The Grcenville
correspondent Of the -NepS md Courier
writes: ut is just learned here that the
grand jury of Pickens at the recent term
of Court, presented DR.. 7. W. Folger n
ID. +. Garvin, of Central, and two negroes
for completely in the recent Waldrop
lynching. The parties, however, have
not yet been arrested. DR.. Folger was
one Of the first men to arrive at the scene
of the lynching, and Garvin was the con-
stable who, together with Gaylord Eaton,
was carrying Waldrop to Pickens, where
the crime was committed.