Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-10-31
Scraps and facts.

trating the present condition of th'
financial situation; but the claim die
not 90. Pretty soon regular mob o
Republicans including Grand Army
men, gathered around the place anc
pulled down and destroyed the Brit
ish flag.
Rev. DR.. James Villa Blake of Chi
cago, saved his congregation from the
probable awful results of panic las1
Sunday, by rare presence of mind
When the pastor took his place in his
pulpit, his attention was drawn tc
smoke in the lobby leading to the Sun
day school room. He remained stand
ing until the organist ceased playing
and then requested the immense con-
gregation to retire quietly by way oi
the rear exits. His manner so reas
sured those present that a panic was
averted. The church (Third Unitar'
ian) was almost entirely destroyed
The loss is placed at s25, 5000.
- The Cincinnati Enquirer has in.
formation of still another proposed
leather trust. The present leather
trust devotes itself especially to
sroughs" and hides, and the new
trust proposes to deal only with the
finished product in shoe leather. But in
the proposed agreement, there rs said
to be conditional clause. 1t reads as
follows: "In the event William j.
Bryan shall be elected president OF
the United States in the forthcoming
election to be held on November 8,
this agreement shall be null and void
The reason of this clause is because it
is generally conceded that while Nc
Kinley will not be hostile to combina.
tiops' of this kind, Mr.. Bryan will
rigidly enforce the law against trusts.
- John Null and his son, J. w.
Null, had for years been associated in
the blacksmithing business at Della
ware, Ohio; but now they have dis
solved. Until few months ago, both
were Republicans but then the son
came out for Bryan. The old gentle
man did not like it much; but things
continued to rack along all right until
last week, when he hung out of the
window at which he works a picture
of Mckinley. The son made no OBJ
lection, only announcing that he would
hang out of his window a picture OF
Bryan. But the arrangement did not
meet with favor. There was a quar-
rel, and now the son is arranging to
set up another shop on his own ac-
count.
"A recent dispatch from Canton, O.,
McKinley's home town, says: The
ladies of Canton have organized here
to help fight the battle for free silver,
and will certainly make their influence
felt between this and election day.
They are under the leadership of
Mrs. Kate Brownlee Sherwood. The
following pronunciamento has been
adopted, to which many signatures
were appended and so papers put in
circulation for signatures: awe, the
women of Canton, affiliated with the
Democrats, Populists, Prohibitionists
and Republicans, who have banded
together in this campaign to over
throw the single gold standard, forced
surreptltiously upon the people of this
country through the crime of 1873,
and who propose to restore silver and
gold to their rightful uses as money Of
the constitution, do hereby pledge to
them our confidence and support
against the combined assaults of the
Republican party and its allies and
assistants, by whatever name they are
known"
- Alexander Crow, Jr., is a candid
ate for sheriff of Philadelphia, Pa,
and his method of electioneering is
unique. Some months ago he began to
advertise for dead crows, offering to
buy all that should be brought to him
and pay so cents each. The offer was
bit at by the farmers in the adjoining
counties of Cape May, Gloucester,
Cumberland and Salem, in New Jer-
sey. All of them, or nearly all began
to hunt crows, and they took them to
the candidate to the number of sew
eral thousand. He has been buying
them all, and now in thousands of
shop windows in Philadelphia, are to
be seen stuffed crows to which are at
tached placards bearing the words {:
"For sherti:-vote for me-" Mr.. Crows
strange method Of advertising his cam
didacy is said to have made him quite
popular but if, after the election he
should have to eat all the crows he
has purchased, he would probably have
a case of indigestion.
Chicago miscreants have gotten
even with those of Covington, KY.
When Mr.. and Mrs. Bryan arrived in
Chicago last Tuesday they were met by
thousands ofpeople, and as they moved
along the streets to their hotel the
sidewalks, and also the middle Of the
street was literally jambed with en-
thusiastic Democrats. The demonstra-
tion is said to have been the most re-
markable that had ever been seen in
the city. AS the carriage in which
Mr.. and Mrs. Bryan were riding passed
a commercial college number of eggs
were thrown from an upper window.
Several prominent committeeman were