Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-17
Seraps aud faets.

and city council. The report OF Grand
Secretary Schell, showed 17,756 local
chapters and $500 Junior leagues, with
a membership of 100000. The OH
cial organ of the league, The Epworth
Herald, was shown to have 10000
subscribers.
The mercantile establishment of
D. II. Baruch, one of Charlotte's lar
gest stores, has been closed by ipjunc'
ton. The complainant is the Mercan-
tile National Bank of New York. 1t
alleges that Mr.. II. Baruch, some two
years ago, made an assignment for the
benefit of his creditors, and that about
80 per cent. of the amount due the
bank was paid but the bank alleges
that the property was conveyed to
Mrs. d. H. ,Baruch in trust to pay of
all the Indebtedness of the late firm OF
81. Baruch. The defendant denies all
the allegations.
A mysterious killing occurred, as
the result of sham battle, participa-
ted in by the Governors Guards, at
Raleigh, N. c., last Wednesday. The
victim was George N. Banks, private
of the company. He was struck by a
bullet and almost Instantly killed. 1t
afterward developed that before being
given out by the officers, the cartridges
had been carefully examined, and it is
claimed that none of them were with
ball. The most plausible theory in
connection with the killing, is that it
was probably done by some enemy IN
the ranks and with murderous intent.
- The police department of Kansas
City b ,s begun working women pris.
oners at breaking stone, the same as
male prisoners. The police commits
sioner adopted this rule upon recon.
mendation of Chief Quarles, who ar.
gued that women prisoners kept in
idleness we're not sufficiently punished.
They do not object to going to Jail at
all ; in fact, they seem to like it, the
chief said. The police commissioners
have adopted regulations for the in
noyation. The women will wear
coarse overalls, the same as the men.
They will have no skirts to impede
their work. The working of the wo-
men prisoners will be he first effort OF
the kind ever made in Kansas.
The portrait of Jefferson Davis
now looks down from the wall of the
large Office room in which Secretary
Alger receives visitors. 1t has been
brought from an obscure place, busted
and cleaned, and given its place with
the sixty other distinguished men who
have filed the Office Of secretary of
war. The appearance OF the por-
trait of the president OF the Confed-
eracy on the wall is the result of an
order given by General Alger. Until
recently the only portraits displayed
in the Office were those of secretaries
who have served since the war period.
General Alger made some inquiries
about the portraits of secretaries pre-
ceding the war, and found them strung
along a wall in dark corridor. He
directed that the whole lot be cleaned,
that of Jefferson Davis included. and
be hung in his corridor. The portraits
are in oil and of nearly uniform size.
The date on the frame of Jefferson
Davis's portrait shows that he entered
the cabinet of President Pierce, March
Z, 1853.
- Bones of soldiers buried nearly IS
wears ago, near the battlefield of NAL
vern Hill and Fort Harrison, are, by
some subterranean phenomena, being
forced from the shallow earth in which
they were buried, says Richmond
dispatch of Wednesday to the ST..
Louis Globe Democrat. Robert P.
Bennett, of Malvern Hill, came here
today 10 tell about them, and the
strange occurrence. He says, in one
field bones are sticking up through
the ground like growing plants. At
the same place short time ago none
were to be seen. This field was the
scene of some hot fighting, and both
Union and Confederate soldiers were
buried there. The strange role nature
is playing, that of a resurrectionist,
has excited intense interest in the
county. Bennett says there are
enough bones in sight to make 600
skeletons. The keeper of Washing
tons old headquarters here, a few
days ago, went to the battlefield and
secured a bag of human bones to be
exhibited as war relics.
A special to the Terre Haute, Ind,
Express from Danville, Illinois, says
Strife between the miners commenced
in this district tonight. About 400 or
500 Belgian strikers and other foreign
ers gathered at the Pawnee mine, and
when cage full of colored miners,
who had been at work, reached the
top of the shaft, they were assaulted
with different kind of weapons, some
using knives and others slaves. One
of the colored miners took a bar OF
iron and revolver and defended his
life. Shots were fired, iDjuring several
strikers. This infuriated the striking
miners, and they retaliated by an ex-
change of shots, at the same time
retreating to the woods. Later the
strikers attacked train on the Chica-
90 and Eastern Illinois railroad carry