Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-02-09

plot OF ground that IS supposed 10
be the same on which stood the house
in which was located the supper
room" in which the Last Supper was
eaten. During. the past 1000 years
or more, many Christians sought to
to get possession of this site in various
ways, and in the last generation the
Turkish sultans have refused offers Of
large sums of money for it. The un-
derstanding is that Emperor William
will now, in turn, present the property
to the Roman Catholic. missionaries in
the Holy Land.
Philadelphia Record: A petition
has been presented to the Rhode Is
land legislature by number of clergy
men requesting reduction of the fees
for marriage licenses, which are larger
in that state than in neighboring COM
mouwealths. As result of this condi-
tion of affairs, licenses are obtained and
marriages contracted by many thrifty
Rhode Islanders out of the state, to
the detriment of the petitioners, whose
incomes have been greatly lessened in
consequence of the practice. This
seems to be another instance where a
high tariff fails to protect home in-
dustries.
- The Populists and Silver Republi-
cans held conference in Washington
on Saturday, which conference was
generally attended by members OF
parties in both houses of congress, says
a dispatch. After discussion of the
present situation in politics it was de-
termined that the two parties, while
maintaining separate organizations,
would work together in the coming
campaign, and endeavor to avoid NOM
nations which would conflict. Both
organizations will endeavor also to
work with the Democrats in order
that a solid combination of all organ
izations may be made against the
Republicans.
- Says the New York World: "Leit-
er has mortgage on most of the
wheat in the country, and his friends,
including young John A. Logan, own
most of the rest. They have fixed
upon $1.25 bushel as the price at
which they will sell, and if their bank
credits hold out they can enforce their
will. This will benefit the wheat
grower very little, for he has mainly
marketed his wheat long ago. II will
mean higher priced bread to all the
rest of the people, tribute that they
are forced to pay to this young specu-
lator and his associates, and for which
they get nothing whatever in return" !"
- A cablegram of Saturday from
Athens, Greece, to the London Times,
says that fighting has again commenced
between the Greeks and Turks 10
Thessaly. The cablegram gives the
following details: "The Turks, after
severe fighting, have occupied and
burned four villages in the Agrapha
district, in the the north of Acarnia,
about midway between Arta and Do
moko. Eight thousand Turkish troops
were engaged in the conflicts. 1t is
reported that in the neighborhood OF
Palaeokastron the Turks were repul-
sed. A panic prevails among the in
habitants of the neutral zone. The
Greek outposts have been strengthen
ed and the situation is ominous. 1t
is probable that the Cretan question
will be dropped until the evacuation
of Thessaly has been secured"
Representative Parker, of Cleve-
land, Ohio, has introduced in the leg
islature bill which entirely changes
the manner of regulating marriages.
1t provides for the appointment by
the probate court of each county of
a board of marriages composed Of ply
sicians. To this board, consisting of
three members, persons who wish to
marry must make application. The
board will refuse to grant license in
case either party to the proposed con-
tract has dipsomania, kleptomania, in
sanity, true or hereditary or resulting
from vice; certain blood diseases or
tuberculosis. 1t will charge $3.50 for
each license, and. out of the funds
from marriage licenses the members of
the board shall receive a salary of
$1,000 per year. There is provided a
method of appeal to the state board of
health in case of any refusal to grant
the license.
"A Fort Scott dispatch tells an in
teresting story of George w. Finch,
recently convicted and sentenced to
be hanged for the murder of man
named Frank Swifford. Finch escaped
from Jail, and for several days was so
completely lost sight of as to lead the
authorities to believe that he was gone.
On last Friday Sheriff Wheeler was
called up to the long distance tele-
phone, and to his surprise it developed
that the party who called him was
Finch, at Lamont, Mo-, a 100 miles
away. Finch said that he had only
escaped in order that he might 60 and
see his mother one more time before
he died, and would be back on the
next train. The sheriff had no conf
dence in his offer to return and tele-
graphed the authorities at Lamont to
arrest him. The authorities tried to
make the arrest, but failed, and Finch
got back to Fort Scott on the next
train according to promise.
The prosperity Of business house
may be pretty accurately gauged by the
amount of advertising it does, says the
New York correspondent of the Char
lotte Observer. 1t is, therefore, posi-
BILE, he continues, that ex-Postmaster
General Wannamaker is making