Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-03-27
Scraps and facts.


of the firm, and, Immediately after
failure, depositors commenced iuu
on the bank. The bank stood the run
for day and was then forced to closed
its doors. The panic is spreading to
other financial institutions, and serious
consequences are threatened.
"A large Mexican buzzard, wearing
q silver collar and little bell on its
neck, was caught near Appalachicola,
Fla, last week says q dispatch. On
the collar were the words "Juan Gar
cia, 1885," and on the bell, $50 spread
the Gospel" The buzzard was thin
and worn aud evidently very old
Under the collar, the flesh was cal
loused and scared, and the collar itself
was worn thin. The same bird was
caught near New Orleans last year,
and in Texas in July, 1895.
A delegation of Cinnamon, from
San Francisco, arrived in Washington
last Wednesday on a business visit to
Yang Yu, the Chinese ambassador, and
afterward called on President McKin.
lev. Their actions showed marked
contrast of manners in vogue in dem,
ocratic and despotic governments re-
spectively. At the residence of the
ambassador, the Chinese lay upon
their faces two hours before they were
accorded hearing; but, at the White
House, they were received st once and
each of them was accorded hand
shake with the president.
Senator Quay, of Pennsylvania,
had an exciting experience down in
Florida last Tuesday. He had been
tarpon fishing and was returning
through the woods to his hotel with q
big fish. He was accompanied by
guides. Suddenly, with an unearthly
scream, a panther dropped from an
overhanging limb upon the bearers of
the fish and began taking huge mouth
fulls of the tarpon. The senator used
q revolver, and the guides knife and
club. The panther was killed after a
sharp struggle, and Senate: Quay has
announced it as his intention to have
the animals skin stuffed for the adorn-
ment of his library.
The cotton mill proposed to be
built here, to be operated exclusively
by Negro labor, and which will be the
first of its kind in this state, is now
assured, says Concord, N. c., special
to the New York Evening Post.
About $4,000 in subscriptions having
been secured the directors have issued
a call for the payment of 10 per cent.
within 80 days, and work of construc-
tion will begin at once. All the off,
GERS of the company, save one, are
Negroes, and probably majority OF
the stock subscribed is pledged by
members of that race. Warren Cole
man, the chief promoter, yesterday
gave bond as general manager and Sc
cretary and treasurer of the company
in the sum of SO, 900, several of the
leading white cotton manufacturers
here going on his bond.
Woman suffrage counts for some
thing out in Kansas. The women are
learning something about politics, and
they are making use of that informa-
ton. A case in point is illustrated by
q story from Kansas City. There was
an election in Kansas City few days
ago for mayor, and Mr.. B. L. Short
who, it was generally supposed would
win hands down, was defeated by less
than 80 votes. The reason of his de-
feat is said to be his alleged treatment
of Miss Sadie Parsons. He had been
engaged to Miss Parsons for II years.
Finally he agreed with her as to the
date upon which the marriage was to
take place, and within two days af-
terward married another woman who
had but recently been divorced from
her husband. Miss Parsons told all
about the affair at the time, and when
the city election came on the story
was revived and iEdu>tious!y circula-
ted among the women Of Kansas City.
The women did not vote against Short
solidly, but enough of them voted
against him to ensure his defeat, and
his treatment of Miss Parsons is the
only reason that is assigned.
- There was a remarkable legal
scramble down in Macon, Georgia, re-
Gently over a dead body. Not long
ago there was an accident on the Geor-
gla Southern railroad, as the result
of which several people lost their
lives. One of the injured passengers,
before dying, said that his name was
George Bellows and that he was from
Elgin, Illinois. Several letters were
found in his pockets, postmarked al
Elgin and addressed with the name he
gave. Shortly after, Mrs. Terry, Of
Macon, claimed the body as that oi
her grandson, Hugh Collins, and a
woman from an adjoining county also
set up claim for the body as that Of
her husband. This woman also claim
ed that the dead man was Hugh Col
Inns. Mrs. Terry denied the claim oi
the other woman on the ground that
her grandson, Hugh Collins, had never
been married. The matter was taken
into the courts and only settled upon
the arrival of relatives of the dead
man from Elgin, Illinois, who com
pletely established the identity of the
body. 1t developed that the claims Of