Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-09-14
Straps and fatt5.

defend it itself.
A Chicago dispatch of Friday
says: Joseph Letter has cleared up his
famous wheat deal. Every creditor
has been paid, obligations to banks
whose assistance was enlisted have
been liquidated since the announce
ment of the voluntary assignment
nearly three months ago. This has
been done only by great sacrifice, in
cluding the giving of mortgages on
property belonging to the Letter es-
tate aggregating nearly S5,500,OO0 in
value.
One can hardly pick up New
York paper these days without seeing
in it an account of one or more MUIR
ders or attempt at murder by poison.
Why are not the laws against the sale
of poisons better enforced ? 1t seems
that people have no more trouble in
purchasing poison than they have in
purchasing liver pills and dovers pow
ders. If there was as much selling of
whisky or bogus butter outside the
terms of the laws as there is of poisons,
the dealers would quickly feel the
strong hand of the authorities.
- According to The Iron Age, the
exports of the United States in the
year ended June 20, 1898, including
agricultural products exceeded the
exports of Great Britain in the same
period by about $S0,000,000. The
outflow of grain in the y months was
extraordinary and broke the record.
1t was the first time that British ex-
ports have been exceeded. In the last
10 years British exports have averaged
an excess over ours of some S7O,OOO,'
600. The United States is evidently
distancing all competitors in the ex
tent of their material resources.
An Erlange, KY, dispatch of Sun
day reports the result of a Kentucky
feud as follows: At Deer Ridge late
tonight an old feud between neighbor-
ing farmers was wiped out in blood.
Two are dead and two are dying. 1t
was father and son on each side, rein
forced by their respective farm hands.
At least 100 rounds of shot were fired.
The dead are: Joseph Michaels, Jr.,
and James McCray. The dying are
James w. Watson and Ben Michaels,
Sr. These two last named men are
the principals. They had been at
swords points for long time. The
dead, Joseph Michaels, Jr., is son of
the dying man Ben Michaels. The
other dead man, James McCray, was a
farm hand. James w. Watson's son
escaped unscathed. Several others
were wounded, but their names are
not obtainable.
- The returns for cotton to the sta
tisticians of the department of agri-
culture indicate an average condition
of 7O.S on September l, as compared
with 91.2 on August 1st, a decline OF
II points during the month. The
average condition on September l,
1897, was 7S.3; on September l, 1896,
64.2, and the mean of September aver
ages for the last ten years is 1914. The
decline during August by states was
as follows: North Carolina 6 points {;
South Carolina s.; Georgia IL; Ala
bama 15.7; Mississippi 10; Louisiana
IA; Texas 16; Arkansas 4; Tennessee
2; Oklahoma S. In Indian Territory
there was slight improvement. Com
plants of excessive rainfall, resulting
in shedding and other uufavorable con-
ditions, are generally east of Mississip-
ri river, while the boil worm and Mex
lean weevil have been very destruc'
tive in Texas. The average condition
in the different states is as follows
Virginia 81 North Carolina "a South
Can olina 81; Georgia so; Florida 73
Alabama so; Mississippi IS; louisa
ma 76; Texas rs; Arkansas SO; Ten
nessee 95; Missouri "a; Oklahoma 80
Indian Territory so.
Texarkana, Ark, says a dispatch
of Saturday, is in state of alarm
over the large number of Negroes who
throng the town, and the citizens are
organizing vigilance committees for
the protection of property. The un-
usual influx recently is due to opera
tions of bands of White Caps in Titus,
Cass, Red River and other counties in
the cotton districts in the north OF
Texas, whence thousands of Negroes
fled on account of notices posted, and
in some cases violence being used to
run them out. These people being
run out of the cotton fields have
sought refuge in the towns, and Tex
arkana has been the refuge of large
number. A Negro from Titus county
SAYS that while a number of his race
were at work in the field a mob OF
White Caps concealed in the fence
corner, opened fire on them. The
Negroes fled, leaving three of their
number behind wounded, if not killed.
They had been warned to leave the
county and had paid no attention to
the warnings. Other similar incidents
are reported by incoming Negroes.
In some localities of Titus county,
which was formerly densely populated
by Negros, not coored man, woman
or child remains, according to stories
told by those who have reached this
place.
- The empress of Austria was assas-
sinated at Geneva, Switzerland, last
Saturday as she was leaving her hotel.
She was travelling in Switzerland in
cognito. On her way to take steam
er, an Italian anarchist approached
her and stabbed her to the heart.
Tho assassin was subsequently arrest