Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-06-26
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q shortage on his books OF ABOUT S4,-
500. It has been made good by Mr..
Brady's relatives. He has been re-
moved as cashier and the solvency of
the bank is not affected in the least.
james J. Corbett, the ex-cham-
pion pugilist of the world fought Tom
Sharkey four round contest in San
Francisco last Wednesday night.
Corbett has agreed to knock Sharkey
out in four rounds. He failed to do
it; but from some cause the contest
was declared q draw. There is no
doubt, however, that Corbett showed
himself to be the better man.
- Internal Revenue Collector Bryan,
of Richmond, has just returned from q
visit.to Cuba. Among other things he
makes the startling statement that he
saw the insurgent general, Maceo, in
the city of Havana and says that Ma
Geo goes to Havana whenever he wants
to do so. He DISCUSSES himself in q
manner, of course; but runs only a
small risk. The Spaniards are so
careless and incompetent that they are
unable to catch anybody except occa-
sionally some inoffensive wretch who
does not amount to anything
Mr.. James Creelman, of the New
York World, characterizes Mckinley
as incompetent as an executive OIL
Ger, says he almost bankrupted the
State of Ohio when governor, allowed
the treasury to be robbed and pill
LACED, was Hanna's tool when he was
lobbying at Columbus against street
railroad taxation, and will be no more
or less than the tool, of Hanna and
others who paid off his 100000 of
debts two years ago, if he reaches
the White House. Creelman shows
the Ohio candidate up in a very bad
light.
President Cleveland is on another
alleged fishing excursion, and the news
papers are all agog as to what it means.
He left Washington several days ago
ON the light house tender Violet, and
has not been heard from since. He is
accompanied be Secretary Carlisle, and
as it is a very unusual thing for the
secretary to leave Washington under
such circumstances, the situation is all
the more mysterious. Some of the
papers have suggested that the coun-
try is about to hear deliverance on
the Cuban question, others think that
there are going to be some startling de-
velopments in politics, and others think
that the president is merely trying to
get rid of the prevailing heat.
- In order to give the Confederate
veterans visiting Richmond during the
sixth annual reunion of the United
Confederate Veterans sufficient time to
visit the Virginia battle6elds before
returning to their homes, the commits
sioner of the Southern Passenger as
sociation has authorized its members,
composed of the various roads in the
south and southeast, to extend until
the 18th of July the limit of snch tick
cts as expire on the 10th of July, upon
surrender of the same not later than
the 5th of July to the ticket agent of
the line over which the holders arrive
at Richmond, such tickets to be re-
turned to the holders properly extend.
ed for return passage until the 18th
of July, after their return from the
battlefelds.
"A big sensation was caused few
days ago by the publication of an out
line of a report that was alleged
to have been made by Consul General
Lee on the Cuban situation. The story
was that General Lee had confirmed
the reports of gross outrages and bar
barities by the Spaniards and that the
Cubans have the upper hand through
out the island. 1t was claimed that
the information about the report came
from a private letter that General Lee
had written to friend in Washington.
1t caused an angry discussion in the
Spanish cortes, and several excited
senators demanded the immediate sew
erance of diplomatic relations with
the United States. The excitement
has been somewhat allayed by cable
gram from General Lee to Secretary
Olney, denying that he has said a
word on the subject of Cuban affairs to
anybody either officially or unofficially.
The Indiana Democrats held their
State convention at Indianapolis
on Wednesday and declared for
silver. The Illinois Democrats held
their convention the same day and
did the same thing. They also re-
nominated John P. Altgeld for gov
ernor and propose to re-elect him as
we'll as carry the State for the Demo
Gratis in the national election. The
New York Democrats adopted cum
ningly devised straddle on the money
question. They declared for both
gold and silver; but claimed that this
country could not maintain the parity
alone. Consequently they want in
ternational agreement. Ohio and
Texas both declared for the free and
unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio
of 16 to /. That the free silverites
will control the Chicago convention
by something close to two-thirds ma
jority, there is no longer any doubt.