Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-10-02
Scraps aud faets.

and the state officials of South Carroll
ma, over the shipment of liquor into
the latter state, has reached novel
climax, says an Atlanta dispatch OF
Wednesday. Under the ruling OF
Judge Simonon as to what constitutes
an original package, the railroads have
been sending large quantities of liquor
across the line, and the dispensary
business has ceased almost entirely.
Last week the Southern railroad re-
fused to continue the business and has
a big law suit on in consequence. The
Seaboard Air Line notified the dea' 4rs
that they would continue to carry IL
uuor until midnight last night, when
the traffic would cease. In the scram.
BILE to take advantage of the limited
time, carload after carload of strong
drink has been shipped from this city,
ore firm alone sending seven cars.
The result is that in Atlanta liquor is
at premium.
Otley Waite and FIVE children,
and G. w. Farmer and wife, all col
ored, who belong to a party OF 3l5
emigrants who left Savannah for Lii
IBERIA, by the steamer Labrador, in
March, 1896, have just arrived here
from Liberia, says a Liverpool dispatch
of Tuesday. The Farmers are desti.
tute and the Waites have only enough
money to enable them to reach the
United States. All the adult members
of the party described the conditions
of those whom they left in Liberia as
being most pitiable. They say the
land promised them by the Liberian
agents in the United States turned out
to be absolutely no good. They claim
there is no gold or diamonds there
They assert that more than half the
Labrador's party are dead, and that
the rest of them are trying to reach
the United States. The Waites and
Farmers say, in conclusion, that the
Liberian government did nothing for
them, and that the climate of the Re.
public of Liberia is most unhealthy.
- The facts of a recent attempt to
assassinate the czar of Russia have
just developed at Warsaw, Poland.
It was prearranged affair upon which
the plotters had been working for
months, and its success was only
frustrated by accident, says the dis
patch which brings the news. The
intention of the czar to visit Warsaw
had been given out som etime before.
A few days before his arrival, the
police became aware that one of the
principal streets over which he was to
pass had been undermined. 1t seems
that the work had been done by an
oathbound band of conspirators. Be-
fore it was completed, the situation
threatened a premature cavern. TO
make it secure, the services of expe-
rienced brickmasons became necessary.
These were procured with great eau
ton, and were taken to the desired
place at night blindfolded. One OF
them, however, gave a hint of the
matter to the police and the whole
scheme was uncovered. 1t was the
intention of the conspirators to fill the
excavation with powerful explosives,
and as the car and attendants passed
along above the mine, to blow all to
eternity together.
- The builders of ocean craft who
have been striving to turn out ves-
sci which will make the trip between
New York and Southampton in five
days, have almost reached their ideal
in the new steamship, the Kaiser Will
helm der Crosse. The record of this
swift vessel on her maiden trip is 5
DAYS, % hours and As minutes, and
when her bearings are worked down
smooth and she is in perfect running
order, it is to be expected that she will
shorten the time. The Kaiser Will
helm is now the fastest vessel afloat !;
but she may not hold the record long,
for the fastest ship is always destined
to be succeeded by one still faster,
and the Kalser's outrurner, it is said,
will be found in the Oceanic, White
Star Line steamer now being built, n
vessel with tonnage of 1900, which
will exceed that of the Great Eastern,
the largest thing afloat since the days
of Noah. That steamer will be
built to make the trip in five days there
can be but little reason to doubt, and
that accomplished, the shipbuilders
will 60 to work to construct a vessel
that will show its heels to the fve-day
flyers. The climax in speed of ocean
craft has not yet been reached.
- For many weeks past, the papers
have been containing daily reports of
the proceedings of an unusually sensa.
tional murder trial. A German sau-
sage manufacturer named Lurtgert, is
accused of having killed his wife,
ground her body into sausage meat,
and dissolved her bones with potash.
The police found some partly dissolved
bones in a vat at the sausage factory,
and these were identified by DR.. Dor
sey, of the Columbian museum, as the
bones of a woman. The defense is
now presenting its side Of the case, and
DR.. Allpat, of the Northwestern uni
versity, swears positively that the
bones in question are those of an
ordinary hog. 1t is a fact that the
woman disappeared on certain night,