Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-06-19
Straps and fafts.

A cablegram from London, under
date of June II, announces that the
British steamship Drummond Castle
went to the bottom on the coast Of
Brittany, France, on the 18th. There
were on board about $50 persons, in
cluding men women and children, and
so far as is known only one escaped to
tell the story.
A Kingston, Jamaica, dispatch, OF
Wednesday, says: According to ad'
vices received here, that territory in
dispute between Great Britain and
Venezuela has been entered by force
of troops of the latter country. The
Venezuelan soldiers compelled par
ty of British surveyors who were at
work in the district to suspend opers.
tions. The surveying party retreated
and appealed to the authorities for
support.
= Sebastian Laurent, who fought
with Napoleon at Waterloo, lives iu a
farmhouse in Marshall county, Kan,
with a widowed daughter. He was
100 years old January last. He was
born in Paris and entered the army
at II. He was a private in Lobau's
Sixth army corps, and was several
times wounded. He bears the scars
yet and is proud of them. The one
regret of his life is that Napoleon did
not win the victory at Waterloo.
- In the Florida Democratic State
convention, held at Ocala last We'd
nesday, the Free Silverites were beat
en- on every point, though by a mar
row margin. The committee on reso-
lutions voted % to % against free
silver, and in favor of referring all
financial questions to the National con.
vention for determination. Subse.
quently, in the convention, a motion
was offered to instruct the delegates
to Chicago to vote for free silver, but
it was defeated by vote of IT'S to III.
Senators Call and Pasco, both candi-
dates for delegates to Chicago, were
defeated.
The game of baseball will be 80
years old this week, the first match
game having been played at Hoboken,
n. j., on June 10, 1916, between the
Knickerbocker and New York clubs.
Previous to that time townball had been
the great game, but some of the devo.
tees got their heads together and
evolved series of rules which changed
the sport 80 materially that they deci-
ded to call it baseball. The first team
Yves organized on September %, 1S45,
but it was not until the following June
that a match game was played. Itcon-
sisted of only four innings, the rules
providing that the side being first to
score 81 runs should win the game. 1t
was not until 15years later that town.
ball was superseded by baseball.
Senator Jones, of Arkansas, who
heads the Arkansas delegation to the
Chicago convention, and who is one of
the leading men in the silver movement,
has invited each silver delegation to
the convention to send one representa-
tive to Chicago to meet in conference
there on Tuesday, June 30lh, one week
prior to the assembling of the Demo
cratic National convention. This body
of men will be in the nature of a ''steer-
ing committee" will meet delegates
upon their arrival and have general
charge of the interests of the silver
forces at Chicago. One of the objects
of the early meeting of this conference
is to watch the action of the executive
committee of the National Democratic
committee and the full committee it.
self so that no action may be taken
adverse to the interests of the silver
forces. Senator Jones purposes to
leave no point unguarded by which the
silver forces may receive setback by
any action of the anti-silver contingent
of the party.
George II. Wycof, president of the
New Amsterdam bank, N. Y, was
sitting in his Office last Tuesday. With
previous announcement, a stranger
whose name was afterwards ascertain
ed to be George D. Clark, entered, and
presented note which read: "We
want $4,000; five $1,000 and two $500
bills. will shoot you if you make a
false move; so be careful. My part
ner is outside and has you covered.
Make an alarm within three minutes
after leave and he will throw stick
of dynamite through the front en-
trance. Put the money in an envelope,
don't talk" After reading the note,
the banker said he could not comply
with the demand at once, and, arising,
started to 60 into the counting room.
Just as he turned his back, the stran-
ger fred, and the bank president fell
to the floor with bullet in his abdo-
men. Then Clark shot himself twice.
Both men were carried to hospital.
Upon returning to consciousness,
Clark admitted that he had under
taken the job alone and claimed that
he was prompted to it solely by the
fact that his wife and children were
starving. The doctors think that both
men will recover.
The record of the Republican con-
gress during its first session is not
creditable. It was elected by politi-
cal tidal wave and was provided with