Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-05-08

department should be authorized te
proceed with the construction OF foul
more ships forthwith.
Representative Cummings, of New
York, has introduced a bill to prohibit
the Offering of gifts, or prizes in con
nection with chewing or smoking to
bacco or cigarettes. 1t is made unlaw
ful to brand or mark these articles
with q promise of this kind or to place
in a package in which they are con-
tsined q certificate offering a prize
gift, premium or reward.
Atlanta Constitution Senator
Stewart, of Nevada, is 16 to I free
coinage man Of the most pronounced
type. He thinks of nothing else and
will talk of nothing else. Everything
with him must have q 16 to ratio
and he has gone so far as to carry
it into his daughters marriage, which
is fixed for May Is, at l O'Clock
There. are to be Is attending couples
to the bridal couple, and various other
16 to 1 ratios are to be added To
the ceremony.
- The quadrennial conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church, which is
In session at Cleveland, Ohio, this
week, is considering, in addition to the
Interesting subject ofwomen delegates,
the more practical question Of abolish
ing the limit hitherto set to every pas
torate by this denomination. If the
new plan Is adopted the Methodist
church will have dropped one of its
distinguishing features, and the last
yestige of itineracy will be removed
from its clergy.
An expert accountant has found a
shortage Of $13O,0OO in the accounts
off. J. Keichofer, until recently dis
bursing officer of the State department.
Mr.. Keichofer's friends claim that
there is nothing criminal about that
shortage; but that it is merely due to
the careless manner in which the af-
fairs of the State departments are run.
The defaulting official has made no
effort to leave Washington. He says
that he is ready and anxious for I'm
investigation.
- James Creelman, the famous war
correspondent, has been expelled from
Cuba. He has been on the island for
several weeks as the representative OF
the New York World. His letters
show that he has been careful and
painstaking in his work. Among 9th.
er things he has ferreted out dozens OF
cases in which innocent, non.comba-
tants were murdered in coldblood,
and cabled to his paper names and
dates. General Weyler finally got tired
of this kind of thing, and last Wednes-
day ordered Creelman to leave Cuba
by the first boat. The charges against
him are to the effect that he has cal
umniated Weyler, the Spanish army
and everything Spanish. The proba-
bility is that Creelman will leave &C.
cording to orders, for to remain now
would be to court death at the hands
of a file of soldiers. When he gets
back to the United States, however, ne
will probably be able to tell good
many things that he was afraid to even
try to cable from Cuba.
Mr.. Pefer's resolution. to investi-
gate the recent bond issues came up in
the senate again last Tuesday and was
opposed, as usual, by Hill. Senator
Pettigrew, of South Dakota, however,
got in some telling remarks on the SUBJ
iect. He asserted his belief that re-
cent financial scares had been purpose
ly worked up by the present admins
tration in order to force congress TO
pass administration measures, and af'
ter that to compel financial transactions
"to enrich the favorites of the presi-
dent, if not the president himself" "
There had been, he said, deliberate
conspiracy on the part of the admins.
tration to break down the govern
ment's credit. Mr.. Pettigrew spoke
of the part taken by ''former law
partner of Grover Cleveland" in nego'
tiating the bond contract with the
Morgan syndicate. The senator said
that if some mayor, or governor, or less
favored individual than a president
had acted in this way, "impeachmen'
or criminal prosecution would have
followed at once" Mr.. Pettigrew be-
lieved in seaching investigation
which would clay bare" the secret fea
lures of the bond transactions.
The Zeigler brothers, who murder
ed the sheriff of Screven county, Ga.
sometime ago and who have since beer
at large defying the authorities to efec
their arrest, have been heard from
again. Mr.. Frank Morris, the wei
known Georgia detective, made an eft
fort few days ago to capture them
He went to Zeigler's station disguised
as telegraph lineman, with view o
getting lay of the land preparation!
to making a raid with posse. HI
met the Zeiglers and had some conver
sation with them. The brothers wer'
armed to the teeth. Afterward Nor
ris went down the railroad, and oh
served that he was being followed, hi
climbed telegraph pole ostensibly tt
examine an insulator.. Presently thre'
men came up. They were the tw'
Zeiglers and the telegraph operator
The Zeiglers presented their pistol