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

"A memorial has been presented In the
Legislative council of Utah, addressed to
the Senate and House of Representatives
ofthe United States, protesting against dis
elimination against alien owners OF min
ing property On the ground that foreign
ers are better patrons of the mining IN
dustry than native capitalists. 1t was re-
ferred to q special committee.
"A dispatch from Brownsville, Mime
sofa, says: The people of this valley are
in dire distress. They have had no COM
munication with the rest of the world tor
over three weeks. The last train to arrive
here came in December rs. There Is
not a lump of coal or suck of hreWood on
the market. The people have .confiscated
all the fuel of the Manitoba Company n
torn down and burned their railroad build
ings.
The commission appointed in the Sta5e
of New York to investigate the methods
employed in other countries for destroying
the lives of condemned criminals, has as
certained that the gallows is in great dis
favor. Only three out of thirty-six coun-
tries practice hanging in taking the lives
of those sentenced to death. The commls.
sion recommends to the Legislature that
electricity be made the method of intiict-
ing capital punishment, that executions be
conducted privately, and that the day tor
the execution be not appointed when the
culprit is sentenced.
On Thursday the President sent to
Congress the reports of the Pacific RAILROAD
commission, accompanying them with a
special message on b subject OF the re-
ports. He says 'The exhibit shows such
schemes connected with the construction
and management of the subsidized roaos
to defeat any chance for the Governments
reimbursement, thatany plan Of settlement
should be predicated upon the substantial
interest of the Government, rather than
n forbearance or generosity deserved by
the companies" The President, while not
suggesting any particular plan OF settle
ment, urges upon Congress a prompt settle
ment ofthe troublesome complications sur
rounding the subject.
There has just died in the city of Nor
wich, Conn.,, q man who helped to estao-
lish the first cotton brokerage house IN
America. He was Col. George, Kinney,
and his g was 95 years. About 1920, in
company with his father-in-laW, Col. Kin,
ney began business at the corner OF Pearl
and Wall streets, New York city. HIS
was the first cotton brokerage house estab-
lished in the world. The house continued
in business for upward of fifty years under
IuS SuSE0oSlSC uku4 "" "a
Kinney, Cahoon, Kinney & Co., and Kin
ney & Easton, and built up a large COM
mission trade. In 1860 Col. Kinney re-
tired from business and has since lived in
Norwich. He never speculated, n
through his integrity he acquired a for
tune. Up to within a few months he was
a very vigorous man.
The election of United States Senators
have proceeded quietly this winter, and
have been free from the struggles n bit
terness which marked similar events IN
the past. Virginia has chosen ex-Con-
gresham Barbour, Kentucky and Missls-
sippi have reelected Senators Beck and
Walthall respectively, and Iowa will I'M
doubtedly pay the same honor to Senator
Wilson. None OF the seats become vacant
until March 4, 1889, the need of filling
them more than a year in advance result
ing from the system of biennial sessions
of the Legislatures in these States. In
Iowa the Democrats propose to put on.
record q protest against the legality. OF
Senator Wilson's reelection by claiming
that the ap~portionment under which the
present Legislature was chosen was un-
constitutional.
Train robbers were foiled last Thurs
day night in an attempt to rob an express
train on the Wabash Western Road at
Cooley Lake, twenty-four miles east OF
Kansas City. The county officials had
been warned of the intended robbery, and
they sent an armed posse on the train and
had another posse concealed in the woods
close to Cooley's Lake. The robbers pro-
gramme was carried out all right up to a
certain point. The train vas stopped by
a red light, and three men, armed with
rifles, covered the engineer and ordered
him to dismount. He did so, and as he
reached the ground, part of the posse con-
cealed in the engine gave the robbers a
volley. Others on the train came up, n
so did those in the woods. The robbers re-
turned the fire from repeating rifles, but
did no harm. They ran for cover, firing
when the pursuit became too close. A re-
port has been received that two robbers
had been captured and one killed. They
are known to be farmers living in the
neighborhood of Missouri City.
The Atlanta Constitution, a few days
ago, announced that Gen. James Long
street was in absolute want, and nnoun
ced that it would receive contributions to
q fund for his relief. This has elected a
letter to the Constitution from Gen. Long
streets wife, in which she says: II see
in SUNDAYS issue of the Constitution an
article headed General Longstreet,' which
startled and panied me, not only for some
of its incorrect statements, but as placing
him before the public as an object of chart
ty. With thanks for your intended kind
ness in giving the use of your paper for
the collection of funds to relieve this ne
cessity, 1 beg you will withdraw his name
at once in such a connection, and if any
mite to their old chief, I beg you to re-
turn the same, with many thanks for their
love and devotion, which to him is worth
more than gold or silver. The General,
though far from rich, is able, with what
he owns, to live in comparative comfort
the remainder of his life"
For some time past there have been ru-
mors in telegraph circles that the Bell Tel
ephone Company was preparing to enter
into active competition with the Western
Union for the telegraph business of the
country. The idea was laughed at at first,
but when the affair is explained it appears
perfectly feasible. For six months or more
the Bell Company have been erecting an
elaborate and substantial system of wires
in the Eastern and Middle States. This
was presumably for the accommodation OF
their long distance telephone business. 1t
is said, however, that the real object of
the Bell people is to connect all the dif1er'
.ent cities in which they have telephone
exchanges by overland wires. and when
once the work is completed they will throw
off the mask and declare themselves ready
to handle telegraph business also. 1t IS
said that nearly all the known improve
ments in telegraphy are open to any one
wishing to use them, and as the wires
which the Bell Company are stringing are
of greater capacity than most of the West
ern Unions, and as under recent inven-
tions controlled by the Bell Company the
came wire can he used for either the tele-