Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-02-01
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pairing for another fight two years hence.
While waiting for the next election they
will devote their resources to educating
public sentiment up to the standard of
prohibition. They propose to establish q
weekly newspaper that will be devoted
entirely to the cause of prohibition.
james johnson, of Atlanta, sued Brad
streets mercantile agency for defamation
of character in publishing him to the trade.
He lost his case in the lower court, but by
an appeal to the supreme court he obtain
ed a decision to the effect that Bradstreet's
business is not a privileged one. Under
this ruling the jury gave him a verdict
against the Bradstreet company for S5,0O0.
The tide of immigration is again at
flood. During 1887, sos, 2S1 human beings
resolved that they would rather live in
the United States than anywhere else IN
the world. The population of the United
States has been more numerously recruited
in earlier years, but not often. In lsSO,
720,045 Immigrants arrived, and IN 1851
there 73O,459. That was the top figure
since 1873.
- Hugh NJ. Brooks, alias Maxwell, the
Young Englishman convicted of the muir
der of Preller and now awaiting execution
in the st. Louis Jail, is not at all cast down
by the refusal of the United States Su-
preme Court to interfere in his case. He
characterized the actions of the Courts as
infamous and travesties upon justice.
He says that he has reason to hope for Ex-
ecutive clemency, and that is all that can
now save his neck.
- The Central and South American Emf
grafton Association was formally organized
at Topeka, Kansas, on Thursday, with
John NJ. Brown, president, S. W. Vim,
secretary, and James P. Berry, treasurer.
The work of the meeting, beyond the
election of officers, was kept secret. 1t IS
said that the object of the association is to
colonize the negroes of the Southern States
in South America.
Some legislators are more favored than
others. Each member of the Louisville
legislative delegation received by express,
q few days ago, a case of fine whisky and
a box of cigars, with the compliments OF
the Mutual Protective Association of
Louisville. Each member was also in re-
ceipt of a letter which advised him that
the executive committee of the association
would be in Frankfort shortly to see the
members.
The wife of J. R. Howard, of Morley,
Michigan, left him recently to follow a
Mormon missionary named Smith. How
ard organized a tar-and-feather brigade to
decorate the missionary, who appealed to
the Howard City officials for protection.
"a notice was served on Smith advising
him to leave the district within twenty
four hours or take the consequences. He
showed some hesitation and was ridden
on a rail half mile. He then concluded
to 60.
The Court of Appeals of Texas, sitting
at Austin, has affirmed the verdict of the
lower Court in the noted Thumm murder
case. Thumm, who was sheriff OF Medina
county, was convicted last fall of the MUIR
der of j. w. Hildebrandt, a young attor-
ney of San Antonio, and sentenced to
twenty-five years in the penitentlary.
Hildebrandt was Thumm's third victim,
one of the others being Fred Niggli, a dep
uty United States marshal, and locally eel
ebrated for his bravery. Thumm's fame
as q border sheriff was widespread. tie
will be taken to the penitentiary lmmedl-
ately.
Three years ago Joe Reed, colored, was
beating his wife when officer Frazier un,
dertook to arrest him. Reed shot and
killed the officer. That same night a mob
took Reed from the Jail, and fired a bullet
into his head and swung him from a rope
over the suspension bridge. The rope Ell
Their broke or was cut and Reed fell into
the river. Duncan R. Doris, a Journalist,
has now put together ample evidence to
show that Reed survived both the bullet
wound, the hanging and the fall, swan
ashore, was attended by q local physician,
and was subsequently, struggled away.
The doctor who dressed Reeds wounds
confirms the story.-Memphis Appeal.
The two legal luminaries of the village
of Medina, n. ", are having a fine run OF
luck. A sporting man, who had been
fined by the village justice, kicked the
latter into the street. The justice had the
offender arrested and also sued him civil
ly for $4,000. The sport brought a coun-
ter suit for false imprisonment. Two
redress in s., 1000 damages each. The two
local attorneys-counsel for the respective
litigants-are suing each other for SANDER.
The wives of the witnesses have been ar
raigned for libeling the Justices spouse.
They have retaliated with q civil suit for
false arrest, and still more litigation is
threatened. Such jollity is unprecented
in Medina's history.
AN amusing decision has recently been
rendered by the County Court Of Webster
county, Ga. Mr.. Elijah Carnes was SELL
ing out for the purpose of moving to Texas,
and among his stock was a fine herd OF
cattle. Mr.. Carnes owed considerable to
the merchants in Preston, and one OF them
attached the cattle. 1t was here that Mrs.
Carnes appeared as the claimant of the
cattle. She said that while Mr.. Carnes
was paying court to her, he was not able to
present her with an engagement ring, and
in lieu thereof he presented her with a
yearling heifer. This engagement Offer
ing grew and multiplied, and the result
is the herd of cattle which is the bone OF
contention. The Judge awarded the cattle
to the lady.
"A Santa Anna, California, dispatch OF
Friday says: G. B. Hitchcock, an old citi-
zen, and his wife, were murdered on Mon
day night by two Germans named Aush-
lag Dyker, and the murderers were hanged
by vigilants on Thursday night. Hitch
cock had sold his farm to Aushlag, and the
deed was acknowledged and the money
paid on Monday. Aushlag and Dyker &C.
companied Hitchcock and his wife home,
and that night murdered the couple and
buried them. Their disappearance awak-
ened the suspicion of the neighbors, who
made search, and found the bodies and
sufficient evidence to convince them thai
Aushlag and Dyker had planned every
thing beforehand, so they strung them up
to a tree and they were still hanging this
noon.
So much suffering and death has been
reported among teachers and pupils in
Nebraska, in the late storm, that prom
inent people and papers have advertised
for public contributions to the heroic
teachers and to aid those who have been
crippled through losing limbs by freezing.
10 secure accurate data, the State Super
intendent has issued a circular calling on
all county superintendent to forward
at once the names of teachers and pupils
in their locality who persisted in the