Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-08-12
Straps and faets.

States on Saturday, Sunday and Mon
day was something terrific. In New
York, Chicago, st. Louis and other
large cities, there was an aggregate of
several hundred prostrations, and
scores of deaths. Hundreds of horses
fell dead on the streets and many
people are reported to have been
driven insane. Reports from all parts
of the country characterize the wealth
er as the most unbearable that has
been experienced.
- The Georgia Populists have nomi-
mated Hon. Seaborn A. Wright for gov
ernor on a platform that declares for: /:
l. Abolition of the saloon and govern
ment control of the liquor business. 2.
Abolition of the convict lease system
and the employment of convicts on the
public roads. 2. Free school books for
the children. 4. No more free passes
for executive, legislative or judicial Of
icers. 5. Lynch law must be sup
pressed. 6. All officers, including
judges, must be elected by the people.
7. No more fees where it is practicable
to pay salaries. 8. Proper pensions for
needy and deserving Confederate vet
Grams. The st. Louis platform is adop-
ted in full. Nominee Wright is reputed
to be worth about $3.50, 1000.
The Washington Post says it has
positive authority for the statement
that Hoke Smith, sometime ago, sent
in his resignation as secretary of the
interior to President Cleveland. While
Smith was making speeches in Geor-
gia sometime ago, Mr.. Crisp made
him promise to accept the Chicago
platform whether it be for silver or
gold, and on the same day that Mr..
Smith instructed his paper, the At
lanta Journal, to declare for the nomi-
nees, he also sent in his resignation.
Mr.. Cleveland has not yet acted on
the resignation and may not do so.
1t depends on whether he proposes to
express himself as in favor of or op-
posed to the Chicago platform. 1t is
reported that Secretary Lamont will
also come out for the Chicago plat
form and nominees; but this is rather
improbable.
Congressman Joseph G. Sibley,
who could have, in all probability,
gotten the Democratic nomination for
vice president had he not said that
he would not serve if elected, is a can
didate for congress from the Erie
district of Pennsylvania. He has the
endorsement of both Democrats and
Populists and although it is understood
that the Republican executive COM
mittee will make special effort to
secure his defeat, it is altogether prob
able that he will 60 in. The Populists
of Pittsburg, Pu., are proposing that
the Democrats and Populists get TO-
gether, agree to take down both Sewall
and Watson and put Sibley on in their
stead. The idea is quite popular with
the Populists; but there is very little
probability of its being carried into
effect.
- Isaac Harpster, a well-to-do far
mer, went to the banking house Of
J. & G. Adams, in Millersburg, Ohio,
a few days ago to draw out some
money with which to pay taxes, which
amounted to about $500. Mr.. Adams
jokingly asked Mr.. Harpster if he was
a free silver man, and was told he was
a genuine one. He was then given
all silver, and Mr.. Harpster carried it
off: Today Mr.. Harpster wanted to
lift $1,5O0 note at the same bank.
After making inquiry whether silver
was legal tender or not, Mr.. Harps.
ter went to the county treasurer and
exchanged $500 in currency for
like amount in silver, and borrowed
a wheelbarrow and wheeled his load
to the bank and lifted his note. The
occurrence caused considerable merri-
ment, and Mr.. Harpster is still a red
hot free silver man.
1t is announced that State Auditor
Parks of Colorado, is about to spring
a surprise on some of the leading in
surance companies. Some of the
companies, it is said, have recently
been sending circulars to the policy
holders containing the assertion that
if the Democratic party is successful
at the coming election their policies
would be worth half the amount on
which the premiums have been paid.
1t is said that NJ. Parks has been
quietly pursuing collection of these
circulars, which he says are evidence
of insolvency on the part of the COM
panies, and he now proposes to can.
eel the licenses of all such companies
which are now doing business in his
state. 1t is claimed that the auditors
judgment in such cases is final, and
that if he insists upon this course, the
companies will be debarred from
doing business in the state.
- Federal detectives have arrested
Henry Wells, an attorney of Girard,
Kan, and Tom Hobson, also of that
place, charged with completely in a
gigantic swindling scheme by which
they and their confederates are said
to have realized 100000. They are
said to have operated in Kansas, Mis-
souri, and the Indian Territory, pre-
tending to be personal representatives
of President Cleveland, who, they
said, proposed to buy third term.
This he would do by obtaining mill
lions of dollars in Cancelled greenbacks
froD, tho ITp;tod Storac traasury mt
ting from $4,000 to $4,000 in the hands
of appointed agents. These agents
were to spend the money to buy sup
port as they thought best, but must
themselves put up $3.50 in cash as a
guarantee of good faith. The two