Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-04-22
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- Cu w ol " = al iaSS, ShiSoSoS . 81 Sos u
wheat speculator, died last Friday ofI
Bright's disease. He was the boldest
operator Chicago has ever known. He
has been known frequently to deal in
as much as 100000 bushels of wheat
a day. On one occasion he was short
of the market to the amount of $15,-
100000. The bulls thought they had
him. They managed to steadily push
the market up 5, Sand even 10 cents.
Still Partridge held out. His oppo-
nents, however rejubilant. Itlook-
ed as if his days were numbered.
Suddenly there came a change and the
market lost all that it had gained at
single slump, before the bulls had time
to cover. Partridge realized several
million by the deal. His losses have
often gone up to something like ST.
100000 in a day; but his estimated
profits were about 81 100000 a year.
He leaves an immense estate.
Bob Fitzsimmons, the prize fighter,
came near losing his life at Cleveland
Ohio, on Friday night. For some time
past Fitzsimmons has owned pet
lion, of which he is very fond. On
Friday he chained the animal on the
roof of building and left it there
until about IL o'clock in the night
when he went with some friends to see
how it was getting along. AS Fitz-
simmons got to the roof of the house,
he called to the lion. Recognizing the
voice of its master, the animal joyfully
sprang forward. Across the roof Of
the house there were some electric
light wires. These had not been
thought of before. When the animal
jumped, the chain by which it was
fastened fell across the wires. There
was shower of sparks and howl of
pain from the lion. Fitzsimmons tried
to get near enough to release the lion.
The lion jumped toward him and bore
him down with the chain across his
thighs. The chain was still in direct
connection with the electric light
wires and Fitzsimmons also received
a terrific shock. The friends pulled
the lion off of Fitzsimmons. The
animal made another frenzied leap
and fell from the roof the length Of
chain, where it was suspended by the
neck. Fitzsimmons was dazed for an
hour or more. When the lion was
drawn back on the roof it was dead.
- Only few weeks ago it was an
nounced that a German professor
named Roentgen had discovered a
method by which Opaque objects could
be penetrated by rays of light and their
contents photographed with distinct
ness. When it was first stated that
the bones of the human body could
be photographed from the outside and
negatives could be made Of he con-
tents of an iron safe, even the
most liberal-minded scientific men in
the world were skeptical. 1t was not
long, however, until the remarkable
discovery became so widely. known
that there was no longer any room for
doubt. But science has not been
willing to stop there. Thomas A. Ed
ison and Nicholas Tesla, two of the
most famous electrical wizards in the
world, have been working for weeks
on the clue furnished by Roentgen.
Edison not long ago, succeeded in doing
away with the necessity of photograph
ing, and now comes Tesla with re-
markable contrivance by which he is
able to look directly through the
bodies of three men standing one be-
hind the other. When looking at only
one man he can clearly see every bone
and every organ, and it is now an
nounced that there will be no further
occasion for doubt in the diagnosis of
different diseases or uncertain slashes
ia surgical operations. The physician
or surgeon will be able to see at a
glance, from the outside, any trouble,
and what was once matter of doubt
now becomes as clear as day.
- General Weyler has run afoul to
the Southern Baptists of the United
States. 1t is all on account of the
Imprisonment of A. ]. Diaz, a native
Cuban Creole; but naturalized
American citizen. In the last Cuban
revolution Diaz was an insurgent. At
the windup he avoided capture only
by jumping into the sea. That was
20 years ago. 1t was his purpose to
drift out some distance and return
after nightfall. He was carried
further away than he calculated,
however, and was picked up by a
passing American vessel and carried
to New York. Then he took out
papers and afterward became natur-
allied. About this time he was
converted and became member of
the Baptist church. When things got
quiet in Cuba he went back to that
country as missionary, and for years
he has been in close connection with
the Baptist foreign mission board. A
few days ago he was arrested under
the orders of General Weyler and
thrown into prison. 1t was known
that his sympathies were with the
insurgents and it is claimed that
compromising letters were found on
his person. The news of his impris-
onment was cabled to Rev. I. T.
Tichenor, corresponding secretary of
the home mission board of the
Southern Baptist convention on
Thursday of last week. Rev. Mr..
Tichenor Immediately telegraphed to
Secretary Olney and then called a
meeting of the board to see what
could be done for Diaz. 1t is known
to be the custom of the Spaniards
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