Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-01-08

tells of serious fire at Rutherfordton,
N. 1t began after II o'clock We'd
nesday night, and was finally checked
at 4 a. m. next morning. The follow
ing building were burned: Cowan
& Grayson, loss $1,000; Washburn's
storehouse, loss s4,5O0; Davis & Car
sons storehouse, occupied by Twitty
& Thompson, druggists, and T. B.
Walker, groceryman the drug firms
loss is $4,000; the law Office Of S.
Gallert; the Hardin building and the
one occupied by E. Love, besides a
number of small wooden buildings be-
longing. to Colonel G. l.. Harris, whose
loss is 81, 500. The cause of the fire is
not known. 1t began in a restaurant:
: - New York World: The Dwight
Manufacturing company, at Chicopee,
Mass, started its Southern mill at
Gadsden, Ala, the other day by cleo
tricity. A young woman at Winona,
Mimi, touched the button that started
the machinery at l o'clock. She
christened the $1,000 horse power
engine Maybienne. The Western
Union Telegraph company arranged
the electrical apparatus by straight
circuit of $500 miles. 1t is of 10000
spindle capacity and is the largest in
Alabama. The electrical arrangement
was fixed 80 as to break a bottle of
champagne over the engine at the
moment of christening. The mill en-
ploys 800 people, and $50 cottages are
now being completed by the Dwight
company.
- There has been a sensational
development at Roseboro, N. G. One
morning, not long ago, Express Agent
Grier showed up with some apparently
severe wounds about his head and
body. He said that he had been
attacked in his Office by Negro
during the night, and, after desper-
ate struggle, he had been robbed of
some $3.50 in cash. A few days ago
he made confession to the effect that
the alleged robbery was no robbery at
all but that it was conspiracy that
had been entered into between himself,
DR.. F. ]. Cooper, coroner of the county,
and Redflen Butler, mayor of the town,
and that the three shared the stolen
money equally. Cooper and Butler
say GrieIs story is a lie; but Grier
persists in it, and all have been held
for trial.
"A cablegram has been received in
New York from the British alliance
requesting that Christians throughout
the United States be invited "to join
British Christians in a fervent prayer
next week, especially on Wednesday,
that Christlike counsels may prevail in
the present crisis" In response to
the above, the executive committee of
Evangelical alliance for the United
States has passed the following resolu-
ton. "Resolved, That in accordance
with a cablegram from the Evangelical
alliance of Great Britain, the Evangel-
ical alliance ofthe United States invites
the Christians of America to unite in
prayer with their British brethren on
Wednesday of the week of prayer,
that in the relations of their respective
governments pacific counsels may pre-
vail"
Secretary Hester's. weekly cotton
statement, issued last Saturday, shows
the amount brought into sight 210, Ala
bales, against 30S, ,320 same period last
year, 249,l05 year before last, and
190,172 in 1898. The movement since
September l shows: Receipts at all
United States ports, 1924, ,3S2, against
5,424,5 ,54S last year, 4,260,670 for the
year before last and $780, ZIP in 1898.
Overland to Northern mills, 551 ,245,
against 766,7l5 last year, 585, ,2S4 year
before last and 565, ,135 same time in
1898. Interior stocks in excess of
those held at the close of the CONNER
cial year, 530,625 against 524, ,429 last
year, 3SS,643 year before last and
37,615 same time in 1898. Southern
mill takings 39S,2l9 against S2,945
last year, 34O, ,5l9 year before last, and
325,746 same time in 1898. Northern
mill taking, 1,O61, 1920, against l, ,454,-
366 last year. Total movement, 5,004,-
AL, against 1898, ,6a7 last year, $685.
116 the year before last, and 4,459, ,20S
in 1898. Foreign exports for the
week, 175,774, against 261, 1868 last
year. The supply to date is 1914, 425
bales, against 7,334,667 for the same
period last year.
Upon hearing of the discontinue
of DR.. Jameson and party, the Rt.
Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, the British
colonial secretary, cabled to President
Kruger, of the Transvaal, asking for
clemency for the prisoners. In reply,
President Kruger cabled the following :
II have not ordered the freebooters
who are prisoners to be shot. Their
case will be decided strictly in accord
ance with the traditions of the republic,
and in sharp contrast to the unheard