Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-02-08
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mittee from some fifty journals scattered
all over the country, and by letters from
private citizens which are daily received.
"A prominent railroad official says that
fully $4,000 tramps continually infest the
railroad lines of the country. They are a
constant menace to the safety of travellers
as we'll as to the property of the compan-
les, as many of them do not hesitate to
cause accidents by turning switches, burn
ing bridges and other devices. 1t is esti-
mated that 5000 of them are killed annu-
ally while attempting to steal rides or
walking on the track.
A Washington dispatch of Saturday
says: Owing to the alarming frequency of
the attacks of robbers upon mail trains on
sparsely settled routes in the far west,
and the almost constant peril in which the
lives of the postal employees are placed
by these marauders, the postottice depart
ment has determined to arm, at the eX-
pense. of the Government, every, postal
employee on these exposed railroad routes
with weapons of the latest and most effect
i've kind.
The Washington Post prints a long ar
ticle on the prospects of the South, ana
closes by saying: ITO the we'll timed Ell.
forts of the South to draw the attention OF
Immigrants, nature has recently added one
of the strongest argume nts possible. the
terrible billiards. thata few days ago ragged
in the West, destroying hundreds of lives,
inlicting more suffering than would result
from a great battle, is kind of logic that
cannot be resisted. The tide of migration
from the older States must inevitably be
affected by this fearful occurrence, and a
diversion from the Northwest to the South
will be the result"
Jim Cornelius, q colored boy OF four
teen years, was hanged at Minden, La,
last Friday for the murder, a year ago, OF
Ernest Wren, a 4-year old son of G. P.
Wren, q member of the Legislature from
that parish. The negro boy wasin Wren's
employ, and the little child was playing
around the negro, who pushed him down
and made him bite his tongue so that his
mouth bled. The little fellow cried and
threatened to tell his mother. The negro
begged him not to tell, as he did not want to
be Whipped, but the little fellow persisted.
The negro then struck him with an axe
handle, crushing in his skull and mang-
ling his head so that he died almost In
stantly.
-Colorado, which was admitted to the
Union about fifteen years ago, reports over
$23, 600, 900 of production Of the precious
metals in 1887. The Territoriesand States
west of Kansas and Minnesota produced
$780, OO, 900 in gold and silver last year.
San Francisco shipped S14, Ass, 900 in silver
to the East, or two thirds as much as
London. Since 1870 the precious metals
have never yielded less than S54,OOO,OOO IN
this country, and the yield of 1887 exceeds
that of any other year, so that we have
taken in seventeen years about Sl,5CO,oO
600 out of the earth-which probably rep
resents all of the national debt we have
paid off.
The Dodge county Journal publishes a
story of a horrible triple murder at Long
view, near Eastman, Ga. According to
the Journal, Hubbard Harrell, a l0-year
old negro boy, was made drunk last FIJI
day at a hog killing. From the butcher
ing scene he went home, filled a cauldron
with water, built a fire under it, threw a
6-year old nephew into the boiling water,
and then knocked a year-old CIR! IN me
head with a bar and threw her into the
water. He was trying to killa third child
when caught. The last one was so badly
injured that it died. The story seems
almost incredible, but is vouched for by
the paper publishing it.
In Baker county, Ga, last Friday, a
young man went to the house or Amos
Grant, a colored farmer, and finding all
quiet and the house closed, ne looked
around for the cause and found the body
of Grant hanging from a rope thrown over
q projecting ioist in the rear OF the house.
Inside he found Grants wife in bed, her
head crushed into a jelly as If done 6y
clubs. On the floor was found the body
of her sister. By its side was the dead
body of Grants 1~5-year-old son. The
theory is advanced that Grant was a hard
taskmaster, and his wife was about to
leave him, and that Grant, frenzied by
the thought of her desertion, Drained
her and her sister and child while they
slept, finishing his crime by self murder.
John D. West, a young man who was
wounded in a street fight in knoxville,
Tenn, last Wednesday, by James F.Rule,
associate editor of the Journal, died on
the following morning. He made an
ante-mortem statement in which ne SAID
he did not intendt to hurt Rule. lie claim
ed that he was killed by Rule. The latter
who was also seriously wounded, is rest
ing easy, and will be out in a few days.
West called his brother to his bedside just
before he died and made him promise that
out on Thursday against Rule, charging
him with murder in the first degree, and
he was put under bond. There is still
considerable excitement.
"a ALL the counties in Michigan which
have held elections under the new local
option law, fourteen in number, have been
carried in favor of prohibition. There IS
said to be q strong probability that at
least twenty more will declare in the same
way as soon as elections in them occur.
This is a similar result to that which has
been attained in other States, notably
Missouri, Illinois and Ohio, by the appli-
cation of the local option principle. 1t is
a curious fact, however, that the probes
sional Prohibitionists oppose the local
option principle almost as bitterly as they
do liquor license or tax laws, probably
because of the increasing tendency to use
the two in conjunction as furnishing the
surest mothod of restriction.
The bill appropriating fifteen thousand
dollars to every State, for the current fs-
cal year, for the maintenance of agricultu-
raj experiment stations, under what is
known as the Hatch bill, passed by the
Forty-ninth Congress, has : passed the
Senate. An amendment was adopted
which removes the provision restricting
the fund to the proceeds arising from the
sale of public lands, and making avalla-
BILE any moneys in the national treasury
not otherwise appropriated. This change
makes the money safe, and frees the meas
ure from its single point of weakness. The
House promptly concurred in the Senate
amendment, and the measure now awaits
only the Presidents approval to become .
law. The commencement of the appro-
p~riation dates back to the first day of July
last, so that the sum of 81 1900 will at once
be payable to each of the colleges entitled
to the benefits of the Act. Among these
is the University of South Carolina.