Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-08-11

found, so they say, that the business
of this character is not a profitable
one. The action taken by the Trav.
elers' is similar to that taken by the
Provident Life and Trust and many OF
the smaller companies.
- Birmingham, Ala, wheel riders are
up in arms over an ordinance before
the board of aldermen of Birmingham
to compel them to have lighted lamps
on their bikes after dark. They are
working against the ordinance, which
is now in the hands of the judiciary
committee of the board, and have Sc.
cured attorneys. The wheelmen aver
that the lamps will put them to trouble
and expense and will reduce the mum.
ber of wheel riders. 1t will cause
hardships on people who do not ride
the wheel for the pleasure there is in
it, but for business purposes. There
are over 1900 wheel riders in Birming-
ham, and several petitions are being
signed up. Mayor Evans is opposed
to the ordinance, though not wheel
rider. Several members of the board
ride wheels and are fighting the ordi-
nance.
Danville, Va, Register: 1t is not
surprising that men should thus fall out
with newspapers over political differ
ences, when old friends are estranged
by them and families and homes divi-
ded. The intense nature is nearly
always excitable, violent in its preju-
dices and quick tempered, but this soon
cools, the prejudice disappears and the
fierce intolerance SINNERS down. The
quick and intense nature is not ending
in its anger or its prejudice, and where
no real wrong has been done him per-
sonally, he repents of his folly and be-
comes ashamed of himself, whether he
admits it or not. Honest differences
of opinion on great questions should
inspire mutual respect rather than pre-
iudice, for it is out of these differences
that the truth is evolved. AS soon as
time or experience vindicates the hon
esty and wisdom of newspaper, the
preiudices of intense over-enthusiastic
men disappear.
- Senior Canovas del Castillo, prime
minister of Spain, was assassinated at
Santa Agneda, a noted watering place,
last Saturday, by an anarchist who
gave his name as Rinaldi, but who is
supposed to be Michele Angino Coli.
The prime minister was taking three
weeks course of treatment at the
springs. The assassin had been seen
lurking about the corridors of the
baths in a suspicious manner for sew.
eral days; but his intention, of course,
was unknown. When his opportunity
arrived he fired at his victim three
times. One shot took effect in the
head and the others in the breast. The
assassin was Immediately arrested and
it was with the greatest difficulty that
a lynching was prevented. Senor
Canovas died within two hours and
his last words were "Long live Spain"
He was nearly 70 years of age and has
been the leading statesman of Spain
for period of about As years.
Last month the North Carolina
railway commission issued an order
which has attracted widespread atten-
ton, making Is cents the day rate for
a Western Union telegraph message
from point to point in North Carolina.
On last Friday, the company filed ex-
ceptions, to be heard August 16. The
contention of the company is that the
rate is not just or reasonable that it
will cause the company to operate at
loss in North Carolina that at the
old rate, 25 cents, business in this
state was done at loss, and that the
commission has no power to make tel.
egraph rates. 1t also files petition
for removal of the case to the Federal
court, alleging that the order of the
commission violates the fifth amend
ment of the United States constitu-
ton, in that the enforcement of the
said rate would be taking the COM
pany's property for public use without
Just compensation that it violates
section one of the fourteenth amend
ment, section eight of article one Of
the constitution, and the United States
act of 1866 to aid in the construction
of telegraph lines; that the company
is New York corporation and not
resident citizen of North Carolina.
- Washington Dispatch : The sui
eide of "Jack" Sheppard, of the
Georgetown Shephards, formerly in
the district attorneys office, and for
merly attorney of the Southern rail
way here, was caused by his losing
$4,000 in funds of an estate of which
he was receiver, in poker game at
one of the most fashionable houses in
Washington. The hostess was the
widow of man whose services for the
country had won him fame. The
young men Of the legations were al
ways welcome. One evening Sheppard
introduced into the game a newspaper
man. Sheppard lost heavily; the
other won. When they left, the news
paper man stole one of the cards. He
found that it was marked. Sheppard
had been robbed by marked decks.
The next morning he committed sui
eide. For the following Sundays
n,ner the newspaper man wrote q