Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-04-24

session at Montgomery has adopted a
free silver platform and instructed its
delegates to Chicago to hold out for
free coinage until the last. Cleve-
lands position on the Monroe doctrine
was endorsed; but his financial policy
was condemned.
Hon. Thomas L. Clingman, conspic.
uous in public life for over half cen.
tury, contemporaneously in the United
States senate with Clay, Webster and
Calhoun, gallant brigade command
er in the late war and now at the age
of S3, is knocking for admittance at the
door of the Soldiers Home, at Raleigh.
It is q mercy that North Carolina has
such provision for the aged and infrm,
vet touch of sadness comes with the
thought, that this old warrior states
man should at his advanced age find
it necessary to ask the public charity
of his people.
In response to senate resolution,
the secretary of the treasury sent to
that body last Monday afternoon such
information as was asked for concern
ing the recent sale of bonds. In ad-
dition to the printed list of bidders and
the amount of the bids, the secretary
also says that all who made the first
payment have since either paid the re-
manning installments as they fell due,
or anticipated them by the payment of
the full amount at the first payment.
The aggregate amount of money thus
paid up to, and including April Is, was
$96,97S,O50 Of the face value of the
bonds, with grand total of premium,
accured interest and principal, aggre.
eating $107, TIT ,826.86.
The corruption money spent by
the railroads of the United States is
estimated at $50, 900 900 year by the
Hon. Thomas V. Gator, who has made
a thorough study of the subject. 1t is
said that the railroads practically own
the legislatures of New York, Penn
sylvania, Michigan and many other
States. And they do not always stop
with the legislatures. In Pennsylva-
MIA, at least, they have captured the
courts. John D. Lawson, author OF
"Leading Cases Simplified," warns the
student of railway law "not to pay
much heed to the decisions of the
supreme of court of Pennsylvania, at
least during the past 10 or Is years.
The Pennsylvania railroad appears to
run that tribunal with the same sue
cess that it does its own trains"
"A highly sensational tragedy oc-
CURED at the depot in Montgomery,
Ala, last Tuesday night. Mardis and
Percy Wood, two brothers of Selma,
Ala, were waiting for a train. Pres
emily R. H. Kennedy, sheriff of Dallas
county, came up with double barrel
shot gun and without warning fred at
Mardis Wood. Percy Wood drew q
pistol and attempted to fire at the
sheriff; but received load of buckshot
from the gun. Mardis Wood tried to
run away. The sheriff followed him,
loading and firing as rapidly as posi-
BILE, and riddling himwith shot. Percy
Wood is dead and Mardis>is III a criti-
cal condition. The,can of the shoot
ing is said to be alleged intimacy of
Mardis Wood with Sheriff Kennedy's
wife. All of the parties to the difficult
ty stand high in Alabama social life.
The sheriff promptly surrendered him
self for trial.
During the last week or 10 days
most of the gold standard papers have
conceded free silver majority in the
Chicago convention but now they
claim that the situation has put on a
different aspect. Ex-senator Brice
and ex-Secretary Whitney have con-
sented to go to Chicago during the
convention for the purpose of doing
what they can to turn the tide. 1t
used to be that men like Whitney and
Brice could do pretty much as they
pleased with national convention |;
but there is reason to believe that this
time has passed. Most of the dele
gates have been or will be selected by
primary election and pledged to carry
out the will of the people they repre-
sent. 1t is not likely that many of
them can be induced to turn traitors,
and if silver is really ahead now it
will continue in the lead long enough
to dictate the making OF the Chicago
platform.
- The Spanish government probably
feels itself very we'll able to cope with
the Cubans; but it is quite evident
that it is no match for the Southern
Baptist convention. AS soon as the
news of the arrest of the Rev. A. j.
Diaz, the Baptist missionary to Cuba,
reached this country, the Baptists
, went to work to raise big row.
Resolutions were adopted by hundreds
of churches calling on the secretary Of
state to look into the matter instanter,
and the cyclone has been worked up
to such an alarming extent that the
Spaniards have decided to run to COW
er. On last Wednesday, Captain
General Weyler signed an order for
the immediate release of Diaz and his
brother, and providing that they must
leave the country within six days or
take the consequences. The circum-
stance involves the most notable back
down of the Spaniards before public