Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-01-25
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Charles Parkhurst, while drunk at Sui
livan, Indiana, last Friday, confessed to
having killed the depot agent at Marshall
Ill.,, who was mysteriously murdered two
years ago. Parkhurst was arrested '''A
delegation of fourth class postmasters are
in Washington to urge Congress to in
crease the salary of that class of postmas-
tiers. "."."The operation of removing an
injured eye from Ex-senator Lewis, of
Virginia, was successfully performed at
Washington last Friday.James Ed
ward Nolan was hanged at East Cam
bridge, Mass, last Friday, for the murder
of George A. Goldman, his employer, IN
S%omerville, a little over year ago.'The
American managers of a circus are seeing
a hard time in Monterey. They were ar
rested for misrepresentation, in not perform
ing and showing what they advertised,
and fined $500, and are not out of trouble
yet..The constitutional prohibition
amendment was passed in the Massachu-
sets Senate, last Friday, by a vote OF % to
S..'"Great preparations are making for a
National Exposition at Augusta, Ca,
which will open on the 10th of next o.
tober and close on the 3rd of Novem-
ber..'The residence of Frank Smith,
zeal Lima, Ohio, was burned Thursday
UlOTuluS, duu OClOlO lO ihAAlotSoS IAN
were sleeping, could be awakened, the en-
tire structure was enveloped in flames.
Mr.. and Mrs. Smith and their five chill
dren were burned to death before assis-
lance could reach them. "It is estima-
ted by a st. Paul paper that not less than
235 persons persisted from cold in Min
nesota during the past two weeks. On
Friday last the Postofice Department con-
Guided the opening of bids for Star Route
service in North Carolina, South Carolina,
Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama,
Mississippi and Florida. The total num-
Der of bids was over 81, 1000 against $4,000
in 1887. The awards will be made in
March. "".Frank Irion, clerk and reg
istrar of the city court of Birmingham,
Ala, is short in his accounts $4,000,
and he is also absent from the magic
city..""'On Saturday, Adie Bold, a
Louisville coal dealer who had run out OF
coal, was found frozen in his office neal
the river. Secreted in his office was found
81, 1886 in coin, currency and bank certif.
Gates. "The "Knights of the Switch"
took a Baptist preacher, Wesley Weeks,
out of his bed at Stomar, ten miles from
Shelbyville, Indiana, the other night and
gave him a terrible whipping, after which
he was warned to 60 to work and sup
port his family and allowed to 60 back
home.'.""".Mrs. Garfield, mother of the
late President, died last Saturday morning
at the home of Mrs. Garfield, in Mentor.
Her age was Sc years. She has gradually
been falling during the past two months,
the result Of old age.The Presidents
present to the Pope-an elegantly bound
CODY of the constitution of the United
States-was delivered with solemnity on
Saturday last by a committee OF American
bishops and other American residents in
Rome. The Pope received it with pro-
found gratitude Saturday,, the
Secretary of the Interior sent a letter to
the Speaker of the House recommending
an appropriation of $685. 900 to pay the Red
Cloud Indians for ponies taken by the mil
itary in 1S57.."..":.The Republican State
Convention, of North Carolina, has been
called to meet in Raleigh on the 23rd day
of May. A candidate for Governor, three
Supreme Court judges, and other State Of
ficers will be nominated. "Governor
Martin, of Kansas, authorizes the state
ment that great distress prevails IN the ex-
IRENE southwest portion Of that State, oW-
ing to the failure of the crops last year and
the rigor of the present winter flames
Barrow was arrested in Montgomery, Ala,
last Sunday night, charged with train rob-
berry neal TeXarkana, Texas, on the 18th
instant. His brother Reuben, also charg-
ed with participation in the same crime,
evaded arrest after shooting and mortally
Wounding a citizen who was called by the
police to assist in capturing the GRIMM