Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-11-06
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under existing circumstances, is to
compromise the whole thing. Other
wise, it will require 100000 troops to
put the insurgents down, and even
then, rs, 1000 of these men will perish.
-"By a chancery decision handed
down last week." says a Chattanooga
special, "Cross & Tenny, the govern
ment contractors at Chickamauga
park, must refund to their employees,
400 in number, the amount of doctors
fees and rent money, deducted from
their wages, sum approximating
$4,000. This construction of the law
makes it unlawful for an employer to
require employees to sustain a physi-
clan, known as the 'company's doctor,
or live in tenements owned by an en-
ployer, and virtually kills the system
of sIocking,' which is an octopus to
the Tennessee workingmen. Many
cotton mills and mining camps in the
South claim and exercise the right to
employ physicians for their employees,
make them live in the company houses
and dock their wages"
- In this column, not long ago, was
told the story of how an Indian, con-
nected with Buffalo Bills Wild West
show, killed Baltimore boy with a
stone. The boy, with others, was teas
ing an Indian baby. The Indian
threw stone at the boys and struck
one of them over the heart, caus-
ing injuries that afterward pro-
duced death. When the boy died,
the Baltimore authorities sent de-
tectIve after the show TO arrest the
Indian. In Atlanta, last week, the
detective arrested an Indian named
Crazy Bull as the person wanted.
Crazy Bull denied the charge and
fought extradition. He was backed
by the management of the show, and a
writ of habeas corpus was sued out.
Judge Newman, of the Federal court,
heard both sides of the case with great
patience, and finally decided that the
Indian should 60 back to Baltimore to
stand his trial for manslaughter.
- The long and tedious trial of Theo-
dore Durant for the murder of Blanche
Lamont, in San Francisco, last spring,
is ended. The case was given to the
jury on the morning of October 81.
The jury remained out only % minutes,
and returned with a verdict of guilty
of murder in the first degree. The
court room was crowded with people,
mostly women. The announcement of
the verdict was received with storm
of applause, which the court found it
impossible to check. Durant's mother,
who had sat beside him during the trial,
burst into flood of tears and sobbed
aloud. Durant himself was unmoved
at the verdict of the jury. He took his
sobbing mother in his arms and did
what he could to afford her comfort.
The judge announced that he would
pass sentence on Friday, November 6,
and on that day also, the time for try
ing the case of the murder of Minnie
Williams.
- The trial of H. H. Holmes, in
Philadelphia, the many times murder
er, did not last for several weeks as
was expected. 1t was disposed of in
short order. Mrs. Peitzel, widow Of
the murdered man and mother of the
murdered children, gave testimony
that pointed very clearly to Holmes as
the murderer. Holiness alleged wife
went back on him and gave testimony
that showed up for him most darkly.
After the evidence of the prosecution
was all in, Holmes attorneys decided
that it might be good idea to bank
their hopes on case of "not proven"
and they put up no testimony. The
jury remained out only short time
and returned with a verdict of guilty.
The counsel for the defense immedi-
ately gave notice of a motion for new
trial, and the judge fixed Monday Nov
ember Is, as the day for hearing the
motion.
The million cancelled postage stamp
collection which some one is always
trying to make, Notwithstanding the
vehement protest of Uncle Sam that
they are worth no more than any
other waste paper, has led to very
embarrassing international postal COM
plication in Illinois. Some one started
q collection of cancelled postage stamps
by means of that philanthropic black
mail scheme known as the "chain sys-
tenn" II worked so successfully that
the house, the barn, the corn crib of
the crippled girl they were TO benefit
were soon filled with cancelled Ameri-
can stamps. Then the "chain" spread
TO Europe, and the letters continue to
come in by the thousands. So many
of these letters have not the full post.
age paid that it is estimated that it
costs the government $40 day in
losses, as the girl simply refuses to
take such letters as were not fully
prepaid out of the office, and the post
office department can do nothing but
return them to the dead-letter office.
Already 25,OOO,OOO stamps have been
received, and still they come, and no.
body knows how to stop them.
1t is now a settled fact that the
Corbett-F -Filzsimmons prize fight will not
come off in the United States. When
the pugilists were driven out of Texas
hy Governor CulherSon thew went