Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-03-27
Scraps aud faets.

probability Is GnaG Ine TeSOluGlon VIII
be adopted as it passed the senate; but
not before today or tomorrow. With
the passage of the resolution, some in
teresting developments may be ex-
pected in Cuba, and likely there will
be war between the United States and
Spain.
Mr.. Platt introduced in the senate
on Wednesday, resolution providing
that congress adjourn on May 2, next.
The resolution was referred to the
committee on appropriations, and will
probably not be reported back to the
senate until all of the appropriation
bills have been finally acted upon.
The members are growing somewhat
restless about the condition of their
"political fences" in their respective
districts, and an early adjournment
may be confidently looked for.
On Tuesday, decision was rem
dered by the supreme court OF the
United States in the case of Theodore
F. Brown, involving the right of a
court to compel an answer by wit
ness to questions in interstate COM
merce, Notwithstanding he may plead
self incrimination as the result OF an
answer. The decision was opposed to
Browns contention that he was pro-
tected by the constitution from this
requirement, and the decision of the
court below was affirmed. The opin-
ion was handed down by Justice
Brown. Justices Field, Shiras, Gray
and White dissented, holding that the
constitutional provision was sufficient
to relieve Brown from the require
ments to answer.
The, secretary of agriculture, in
accordance with the mandate of con-
gress, has prepared a circular letter to
be sent Immediately to all reputable
growers of and dealers in seed,
throughout the United States, asking
them to furnish, at reasonable prices,
to the department, 10,000,0 900 packets
of garden, field and flower seed, be.
ginning with asparagus and ending
with wheat. This number of packets
will give to each member and delegate
in the house of representatives and to
each United States senator $4,000
packets for distribution among his
constituents, deducting one-third of
the whole amount, in accordance with
law, for distribution by the secretary
of agriculture. All the seed must be
delivered on or before 80 days from
the 18th of March.
An effort is being made to secure
the cooperation of women's organiza-
ton throughout the country to aid in
a movement for an international peace
tribunal. Petitions are being circulat-
ed both in this country and in Great
Britain by the Woman's international
Press league, and Mrs. NJ. F. Ormsby,
of Washington, president of the Amer
ican branch of the league, is for
warding the petition for signatures to
women in the United States. The Pc
tition expresses hearty sympathy with
the men in favor of the establishment
of q permanent arbitration tribunal
between Great Britain and the United
States. 1t is asserted that such per-
manent court would exert an example
which would be be gradually followed
by other nations, "causing the present
ruinous expenditures in armaments to
cease and permitting the people to
enjoy the fruits of their labors in
peace.
- An American citizen who has for
sometime past been living in Cuba,
has Just written a letter to relative
in Jacksonville, Fla, in which he de-
scribes the condition of affairs preva-
lent in the island. The writer of the
letter lives in the outskirts of town.
He says that Spanish troops have fired
into his house on two occasions while
passing. Fortunately he was not ex-
posed either time. A volley of bullets
struck his piazza, and had he not left
shortly before, he would have been
killed. On one occasion he saw the
bodies of dozen Cubans lying rotting
out in the fields. There had been no
evidence to prove that they ever bore
arms. They were just native Cubans,
and having chanced across the path of
a force of Spanish troops, they were
shot down and left lying. 1t is not an
unusual thing to look out in almost
any direction and see focks of vultures
feeding on the bodies of men, women
or children who have been shot down
by the troops. The writer says that
previous to this time he had often
heard of horrible cruelties that he
had never been able to believe; but
now he is ready to believe anything
that is said of the Spaniards. He de-
sires 10 return to America at the first
opportunity, but feels no assurance
that he will ever live to do so.
A remarkable sensation has just
developed in Atlanta. A man charged
with murder, who has been feigning
insanity for two years with such skill
as to deceive a medical commission
especially appointed by the governor,
has confessed that he has all the while
been acting a lie. In August, 1894,
Alexander Carr shot and killed Captain
H. o. King on account of some real or
Imaginary wrong. Shortly afterward
he began to act the insanity dodge,
and his counsel made insanity the
principal feature of the defense. The
jury did not take much stock in the
plea and rendered verdict of guilty.
The case was carried to the supreme
court which granted new trial.
Then the battle was fought over
again, with the result that there was
another conviction. All the while
Carr persisted in maintaining "a