Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-08-28
Straps and faets.

lecture platform pretty much all over
the south, was killed at Greenville,
Ala, last Wednesday, by John Gafford.
The account says he was brutaliy
assassinated, the weapon used being
a double. .barrelled shotgun. Mr.. Lloyd
was a member of the legislature and
had achieved considerable reputation
as newspaper man.
j. Pierpont Morgan of United
States bond fame during Cleveland's
last administration, is reported by the
New York Journal to have made
100000 on wheat during the recent
advance in that product. Philip D..
Armour, Chicago's multi-millionaire
packer, is also reported to have made
a barrel, and has also Ex-Governor
Roosevelt P. Flower and John Cudahy.
But wheat is going down now. After
running it up as high as they dared
and harvesting their enormous profits,
thew turned it loose. The decline since
the highest price was reached has been
8 cents a bushel, and the tendency is
still downward.
There is not much change in the
coal strike situation north. The prin-
cipal developments of interest is in
the Pittsburg, Pa, district, and in
West Virginia. Most of the West
Virginia miners have gone out, and ia
the Pittsburg district the strikers are
doing all they can to harrass the men
who are standing by the mine owners.
For the past few days the wives and
daughters of the strikers have been
marching the roads leading to the
mines and taunting and jeering the
non strikers as they 60 to their work.
The manner and nature of the ridicule
is such as to make many of the miners
hang their heads in shame, and the
women say they will continue to pur-
sue the tactics they have inaugurated.
The publication of the mortuary
statistics for the past month OF num-
ber of the leading towns of North Car
olina reveals a remarkable death rate
among Negroes, as compared with the
whites. In Raleigh, for instance,
where there are 1000 more whites than
blacks, during the month of July there
were two and half times as many
deaths of Negroes as of whites. In
Wilmington, where there is only a
small excess of black population, there
were IA deaths of whites and of Ne
groes 3S, or nearly three to one. In
Winston, where there are considera-
bly, more whites than Negroes, the
Negroes dying numbered more than
two to one, the ratio according to race
population being much greater. 9th
er towns show a like record. The
unusual mortality among Negroes is
not due to any epidemic disease, and
certainly is not due to exposure, or
lack of nourishment, as has in some
few isolated instances been the case in
winter.
- The steamer Portland is due to
arrive from the mouth of the Yukon
river tomorrow, and it is expected she
will bring several tons of gold from
the Klondike gold fields, says an Asso-
ciated Press dispatch of Wednesday,
from Port Townsend, Washington.
Great excitement was caused last night
by the receipt of message from the
mouth of the strait that vessel was
passing in and it was believed to be
the Portland. Three tugs left imme-
diately down the straits to meet her.
The Associated Press tug, after steam
ing 40 miles, spoke the steamship
Willamette from Skagus and Dyea,
which was the vessel reI orted. TIE
tug Will lie in the straits till the Port.
land is sighted. Special lookouts have
been placed at every telegraph station
on either side of the straits and there
is little probability that she can slip
by without being sighted, although
weather in the strait is thick, and
is likely to remain so in this season OF
the year. While officials of the North
American Transportation and Trading
company look for the Portland tomor-
row, they say it may be three days
before she puts in an appearance.
- New discoveries of valuable de-
posts OF pearls III lakes anu rivers in
Arkansas says Little Rock dispatch
of Tuesday, have added greatly to the
excitement already existing over SINH
lar discoveries, and today thousands
of people are wading through the wa
ter in different parts of the state search
ing for the precious gems. The latest
and most sensational discoveries were
made in the Arkansas river and the
creeks, lakes and bayous near Little
Rock, where pearls have been picked
up ranging in value from $500 to
$1,000 each. Hundreds of people
are working the Saline, White and
other rivers and many valuable finds
have been reported. Additional dis
coveries were made on the Fourche
river yesterday and hundreds Of peo-
pie are swarming to that stream. A
reporter of The Gazette, who spent
much time investigating the matter,
says there are 81 streams in the state
that are rich in pearls of large size.
1t has now developed that in the
course of survey of White river in
1895, $4,000 worth of pearls were COL