Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-08-25
Straps and faets.

lars was COllTlnuleu III d lew uluulcS,
making $4,000 in all. Several ladies
threw diamond rings into the collec.
ton boxes and many men did the same
with their gold watches and jewelry.
"A dispatch of Monday to the AS
sociated Press says: A syndicate of
local capitalists headed by A. S. Emer-
son have chartered a steamship and
will run her from Charleston to Klon-
dixie. She will sail from here Februa-
ry Is, going to St. Michael's by way of
Cape Horn. Her passengers will be
transferred to smaller boats and towed
up the river to Dawson City. Each
passenger will be allowed to carry 1 1000
pounds of freight and tickets will cost
$500. 1t is expected that the "trip will
require 70 days.
- Michael Angiolillo, the anarchist
who recently assassinated Senior Con-
ovas del Castillo, the prime minister
of Spain, was executed at San Sabas-
tian last Friday on the garrote. AS
already stated, Angiolillo was tried
and convicted by court martial.
When informed of the sentence of the
court, he expressed no regret or fear.
Several priests tried to visit him in
prison but he would have nothing to
do with them. To one of them he
said: "Since you cannot get me out of
prison, leave me peacefully to myself
and with my God" He died without
exhibiting any emotion whatever, say
ing only that he was glad he had been
successful in his attempt on the life OF
Castillo.
- There was a tremendous furry In
the wheat market last Friday in all
the leading exchanges of the world.
Wheat had been unusually active for
a good many weeks, and on Friday,
under the stimulus of reports of short
age in the European and South Amer
lean crops, the price went steady
upward until before the close of the
day, September futures were selling
at 81 bushel, the first time that figure
had been reached since 1890. The
market is still very active, and the
bulls are talking wildly, some of them
claiming that before the end is reached,
50 wheat will be witnessed. It's stated
that by far the greater portion of the
crop of the country is still in the hands
of the northwestern farmers, and that
believing prices will 60 still higher,
thew are not in a hurry to let 60 their
holdings. :.
The correspondent of the London
Daily Chronicle, in letter from Cuba,
tells of further cruelty and distress in
the island. He says that the paeificos
are dying by the hundreds, and that
their bodies are tainting the air close
to a Spanish fort. The Chronicles
correspondent, continuing, remarks
that private letter has been received
at Havana from Senor Sagasta, the
Liberal leader in Spain, in which ne
saws: "The atrocities are raising a
thrill of horror in Europe, and l fear
it is impossible to make fresh loans,
without which we cannot retain Cuba"
The correspondent further says: "Ger-
man syndicates are buying the devas-
tated estates at a nominal sum and in
tend to 20 extensively into coffee
planting, abandoning sugar. This will
directly concern the United States and
French sugar trusts and will probably
lead to extensive sugar growing IN
Georgia and Florida"
1t is not improbable, says Wash
ington dispatch, that official announce
ment will he made in few weeks Of
a radical change in the present atti-
tude of the pension bureau toward
pension claimants who had Confeder-
ate war service. Under the present
construction of the laws, any service
in the Confederate cause, irrespective
of later service for the government, is
bar to pensions. Commissioner of
Pensions Evans believes that if
claimant served in any capacity in the
Confederate service but later deserted
or left the ranks, enlisted in the Union
army, served therein and was honora-
bly, discharged, it would be an injustice
to refuse him pension. He believes
that having performed honorable SER
vice in the Union army the past hostile
service should be overlooked. Assis-
tant Secretary Webster Davis, whose
decisions have been in the line of lib
eral construction of the pensions laws,
is understood to have similar views.
The question has been referred to the
president and Secretary Bliss for their
approval.
- The Denver, Colorado, trades and
labor assembly, on last Sunday, adopt
ed sensational resolutions regarding
the great coal strike. After caustic
reference to the growing tendency to-
ward government injunction" and
the "usurpation Of the highways by
the hirelings of capital" the resolution
says: Resolved, that we believe the
time is near when peaceful methods
on the part of outraged labor must
give place to forcible resistance of
armed capital even though badged
with the venal corrupt authority of
plutocratic Judges. Resolved, that
we hereby place ourselves on record
as being to the last extreme against
tolerating the present or any other at
tempt to abridge any of the rights,
privileges and liberties of treemen.
The resolution then pledges the as
sembly in advance to abide by the de-
cision of the st. Louis conference and
calls for mass meeting to be held in
Denver during the present week to
take action on the question of ''gov-