Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-02-15

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The white miners of Pennsylvania are
said to be feeling the effects of negro COM
petition, especially at Pittsburg, where a
large number of colored hands are now
employed in the mills. "A determined
effort is being made in Washington to
secure the holding of the Democratic Con-
~vention in San Francisco. "'A caucus
of Democratic members of the House was
called last Wednesday for the purpose
of selecting representatives on the Demo
cratic Congressional committee. Mr.. Dlb-
BILE was selected as the representative from
South Carolina. .General r. II. An
derson, chiefo police o~fSavannah, died on
Wednesday .At Woodbury., n. j..
last Thursday, George Durham was SEN
fenced to be hanged on March Goth next,
for killing his mother-in-law, Barbara
Kandlew, last November at Unionville.
The prisoner took his sentence very cool
ly.""The high license liquor law at
st. Paul, Minnesota, has reduced the
number of saloons in that capital from $50
on the Savannah, Florida and Western
Railway, has been lynched for alleged
rson."American potatoes are scarce
in Chicago and thousands of sacks are
beingimported from Rotterdam. ARGENT
consignment was $500 sacks. After
thirteen years. litigation an Albany estate
has realized IS cents apiece for the heirs.
The lawyers got about Sill 900 each.'''The
house of delegates of Maryland has passed
resolutions endorsing President Cleve-
lands administration and his recent mes
sage by a vote of SO to 16. "Seven In
dian Territory murderers were sentenced
by Judge Parker in the United States
court at Fort Smith, Ark, last Thursday,
to be hanged Friday, April q. Five are
negroes, one is a Cherokee Indian and one
is white. Tillman, OF
South Carolina, is chairman of the special
committee appointed by the Speakerto in
yestigate the labor troubles in Pennsyl-
vania. Nj Louise M. Royce, aschool
teacher at Plainville, Nebraska, who, dur
ing the blizzard, lay on the prairie while
three pupils died in her arms, had both
feet amputated on Thursday."'Two
men were digging up some dynamite,
which had been buried to protect it until
wanted to use in a gas well near Bellevue,
Ohio, last Friday, when one of them struck
the dynamite with his pick. The ex-
plosion instantly killed the two men and
caused such q shock as to suggest an earth
quake.John ]. Martin, of st. Louis,
attorney for Walter II. Maxwell Brooks,
and Mr.. n. Brooks, the father of Brooks,
were in Washington, Friday, looking over
the records in the Supreme Court with
the intention of trying to get a rehear-
ing.The gubernatorial campaign in
Louisiana between McEnery and Nichols
is waxing warmer every day. Six political
murders have already resulted from the
contest. '''The shooting of young Levi,
at Gastonia, N. c., a few days ago, was
clearly shown on the coroner's inquest to
have been accidental. His brother, who
lives at Palatka, Florida, arrived at Gas
tonia a few days after the burial, and TAX
ing up the body removed it for burial in
the Jewish cemetery at Charlotte, where it
was buried last Friday."'"The midwin-
ter whipping at New Castle, Delaware,
took place last Saturday morning, and
thirteen victims were lashed by the
sheriff. Five were whites and the rest
blacks. 1.-THE railroad tunnel through
the Blue Ridge, near Asheville, N. c.,
has been blocked by a slide and passen-
gers are transferred across the noun
tain.'Wm. Kelly, inventor of the
pneumatic steel process known as Besse-
lner, died at Louisville, KY, last Satur-
day night, aged IS. Bessemer applied for
letters patent on the process in America
and in Great Britain at the same time,
but Kelly was granted the patent on the
ground Of priority. the Goth in
slant, the Government will begin weigh
ing the mails, to determine the compen-
sation of railroads. This is done every
fourth year. Each Congressman appoints
weighers within his district. The work
lasts a month, and the pay is ninety dol
lars.'At L%ynchburg, Va, last Satur-
day the weather was terrible, with a heavy
storm of sleet and snow. Owing to the
situation Of the city, business was almost
paralyzed, it being impossible to get We
hicles up and down the hills."'Business
during last week number for the United
States 237, Canada 80 total 2s9, against 279
the previous week. A feature last week
is the unusual number of failures in the
Dominion of Canada, 50, being nearly
double the usual weekly average.