Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-02-21

Cne OtQeT udy, luo JULIUS auu SohioiS .
got into a fight over class hats and
class colors. The girl seniors and girl
juniors rushed to the aid of their
respective classes and began to pull
each others hair out. In view of this
infor nation, the refinement argument
appears to be a little hazy just at
present-at Wesleyan at least.
eff you tell on me, I will kill you"
is the motto of the Georgia moonshiner.
One night last week, Joseph Crumpton
and his daughter Sallie, were standing
up before a window in Crumpton's
house. Suddenly a rifle ball crash
ed through the window. 1t struck
Crumpton in the side, passed through
his body and lodged in the heart of the
young lady. The young lady died
with scarcely a groan. The father
fingered for some time and also died.
1t developed shortly afterward that
Crumpton had reported Andrew Will
born for running moonshine still and
it is credited that Wilborn committed
the murder. Wilborn has not been
seen since.
An Asheville dispatch of Wednes.
day says: Edgar w. Nye, the "Bill"
Nye of the world of humor, whose
writings have made the world laugh,
is seriously ill at his home at Buck
Shoals, eight miles south of Asheville.
About two weeks ago Mr.. Nye was
taken i'll and since that time the troub-
le has been slowly progressing un-
til now his condition is very serious.
He is suffering from a stroke of apo
plexy. Misses Winnie. and Bessie
Nye, his daughters, arrived at Ashe-
vile today, and took a train to Arden,
the nearest station to the Nye resi-
dence. Tonight Mr.. Nye is much
worse and it is thought he can live
only few hours.
- The house seems to be disposed to
rather rub it into Secretary Morton, of
the agricultural department. 1t will
be remembered that Morton tried to
put stop to the time honored custom
Of distributing seeds through congress
men. The law requires the secretary
to distribute ''rare and uncommon
seeds" and Morton was disposed to
claim that this kind had about run out.
The house has increased the appro-
priation for seed from $1S0,000 year,
to $150,00O, and made it mandatory
upon the secretary to make the dis
tribution. The secretary in his report,
made several recommendations looking
to what he considered improvements
in the service but congress has refused
to accept any of them, giving the Sec
retary a direct slap in the face.
- According to the treasuary esti-
mate the American cotton crop of last
year amounted to 8, ,769, ,3s1 900 pounds,
of which amount 2,62S, 100000 pounds
were exported to Europe. Of the to-
tai European exports England took
1,4S5, ,451 90 pounds, or more than
half. According to the English esti-
mates the value of the total English
consumption of raw cotton was $685.
100000, or over S150,000,000, repre-
senting at least the average earnings Of
10000 laborers for year of 800 work
ing days, and the support of about g.
100000 people, including the depend
ents of these laborers, but not mer-
chants, factors, railroad employees or
others whose livelihood depends on
handling the trade and feeding and
clothing the labor engaged in it.
"A frightful catastrophe, which was
attended by a great loss of life, occur
red in Troy, N. w.. last Monday. The
great collar factory of ]. Stetheimer &
Co., which employees 800 girls, caught
fire at about 5 o'clock in the afternoon.
The building is FIVE stories high, and
the fire originated in the lower story.
A boy lighted the gas and threw the
burning match into a pile of scrap
cambria, and within few minutes the
room was in a blaze. The employees
did not pay much attention to the
matter at first, and when they realized
that the fire was beyond control, it
was too late for all of them to save
themselves. Five girls jumped out
of fourth story windows. Four Of
these were killed and one was caught
in the net by the fireman. A large
number tried to reach the streets by
running down the narrow stairway.
They were in panic and not less
than 20 of them were killed. The
total number of deaths is estimated as
being between 80 and 40.
- Compulsory education does not
seem to work very satisfactorily in
New York. Mrs. Josephine, Hines Of
Spring Valley, is respectable widow
with two children. Some ago time one
of the children fell i'll and the other
had to stay at home to help its mother.
The officer who looks after truant
children went to investigate the matter,
and would take no excuse. He insist
ed that the we'll child should 60 to
school. Mrs. Hines protested, and
the officer, after abusing her brutally,
arrested her and dragged her through
the streets to the Office of a magistrate.
There the woman demanded the privi.
ilege of consulting lawyer. This
caused the judge to propose a compro-
mics, and he offered to dismiss the
case, provided Mrs. Hines would agree
tn send the children to school. AL