Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-10-03


and held for military trial. They will
doubtless abstain from voting for him
in Kentucky this year, and there is no
necessity for an order to that effect.
This is good. Even the wild In
dians would not have done such a
thing. A special from Muskogee, L.
T., says that mass meeting of the
Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw and Semi
mole Indians was held there Monday
night and the following resolution was
unanimously adopted: "Resolved,
That we contemplate with deep regret
the recent insulting treatment of the
Hon. William J. Bryan by the students
of college in the land of the boasted
white mans civilization, and we ad-
monish all Indians who think of send
ing their sons to Yale that association
with such students could not but prove
hurtful alike to their morals and their
progress toward the higher standard
of civilization"
The entire Atlantic coast, from
Florida to Maine, was swept by d
West India hurricane last Tuesday.
The severest damage was Savannah,
Ca, which city was directly in the
path of the storm. Many fine build
ings were damaged, hundreds of trees
were torn up by the roots, and at last
accounts the number of dead footed up
II with more to hear from. Several
large YES sells and innumerable smaller
ones were wrecked. The property loss
is estimated at not less than 81 900, 900.
The damage at Brunswick, Ga, was
great in proportion. Four lives were
lost. The South Carolina coast suf-
fered severely; but little loss of life is
reported. Charleston escaped without
serious injury. Richmond, Va, was
badly shaken up, and the property
loss in Alexandria was up into hum
dreds of thousands of dollars. Apor-
ton of the White House roof was torn
off and many public buildings in
Washington were damaged. Although
the loss of life was not so great, the
storm ives one of the most severe that
has been known for years.
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage, in his
sermon at the First Presbyterian
church, Washington, last Sunday,
made the following allusion to the
presidential campaign: "During the
last six presidential elections I have
been urged to enter the political arena,
but I never have and never will turn
the pulpit in which I preach into a
political stump. Every minister must
do as he feels called on to do, and 1
will not criticise him for doing what
he considers his duty; but all the po-
litical harangues from pulpits from
now until the Sd of November will
not, in all the United States, change
one vote, but will leave many ears
stopped against anything that such
clergymen may utter the rest of their
lives" This statement was followed
by reference to the depression now
prevailing throughout the country,
and he said that never within his
memory had $50 many people literally
starved to death as in the past few
months" He believed the country
was better off after every crisis, and
that the Almighty would settle the
controversy of the metals.
- At Summerville Inn, Tennessee,
last Monday night, J. H. Winfrey, Jr.,
and Miss Sallie Weatherly were mar
ried, and within an hour thereafter
the groom was lodged in Jail on the
charge of murder. 1t was an elope-
ment, and the crime was committed in
furtherance of the young mans des-
perate resolve to secure the girl against
all rivals. The victim was an uncle
of the girl. Miss Weatherly and
Louis Burton were engaged to be mar
ried on October 6, and last night Bur-
ton called upon his affianced bride.
Later Winfrey, who was an old suitor,
also called, and soon thereafter Bur.
ton left. Very soon after he had gone
the girl rushed into her mothers room
with hasty farewell, explaining that
she and Winfrey were going to run off
and marry. The mother attempted to
restrain her, but in vain, and as the
girl fled the mother called to Peter
Crawford, the girls uncle. Crawford
was in the yard and interrupted the
couple at the gate. A moment later
Winfrey fired two shots from pistol
through Crawford's heart, and he and
the girl jumped into waiting buggy
and dashed away in the darkness.
The sheriff and posse took the train
at once, but failed to locate them until
after the marriage ceremony had been
performed.
1t is not often that our shrewd
Yankee neighbors are overreached in
business matters. but the mild and
gentlemanly Russian appears to have
accomplished that feat very easily in
one instance. A dispatch from Pitts,
burg, Pa, says: "Russian spies have
stolen Americas armorplate secrets.
A year ago the Russian government
decided to give Carnegie plates test.
The contract was for l, ,l07 tons. Con
cessions were made, and one of the
most important was clause in the
contract specifying that the Russians
should have access to the plates at al