Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-10-29
Straps and facts.

Ill SuDd, VIII iedHe hliahAo pS!>' -'Ao"
day morning for Havana. 1t is com
posed of DR.. l. T. Tichenor, who l.
corresponding secretrry of the home
mission board; Hon. Porter King and
Mr.. Green Adair. In the event that
Mr.. Adair finds it impossible to go,
DR.. E. L. Connolly will go with the
commission.
The Spanish officers in Havana
have been removing guns and selling
government ammunition against the
protests of the American evacuation
commissioners. Let the commissioners
say what they would, the Spaniards
would pay no attention to them. Now
it is reported from Washington that
Secretary Long has ordered several
naval vessels to get in readiness to
sail for Havana, and the probability Is
that hereafter when the evacuation
commissioners make suggestions, those
suggestions will receive due considera-
ton.
- During the course of a trial at
Woodward, Oklahoma, one day last
week, a witness admitted to the pre-
siding Judge that he had revolver in
his pocket, and the court fined him
$25. The local paper says: "When
the Judge fined Tom Word for carry
ing a gun, every other man in the
courtroom sat erect and smoothed his
coattails down to hide his armament.
When a recess was taken every man
made for the nearest outlet and hid
out his battery. Best estimates place
the number of guns in the courtroom
at the time at about two wagon loads"
- Fourteen is the number of Negroes
who were killed as the result of the
Harperville, Miss, race riot, referred
to in THE ENQUIRER of Wednesday.
According to the report at that time,
the number killed was 10. Afterward
four more bodies were found in the
woods and swamps. On Wednesday,
it was reported that the balance of the
Negroes who had fled to the swamps
had made good their escape, and al
though there was still great deal of
excitement in the vicinity, there was
every reason to believe that the riot
was at an end.
4 tragic accident that might have
resulted in the death Of 200 people,
occurred on the Pennsylvania railroad
last Tuesday night. When the train
reached Susquehanna, it developed
that the engineer, Henry Kingsley,
was dead. The fireman had made the
discovery. Although the train had
been making unusual speed for 20
miles or more, the fireman noticed
nothing wrong ultil the engineer failed
to sound his signal for Susquehanna.
The fireman went over to the engin-
eer's side of the engine and found En-
gineer Kingsley with his head crushed.
The engine was stopped at once. II
is supposed that the engineer was kill
ed by projecting timbers at a coal
chute. Fortunately the road was a
double track. Otherwise there would
have heen a disastrous collision with
one of the passing trains.
Old Geronimo, the celebrated
Apache renegade, who up to a dozen
years ago was the terror of Arizona !;
but who has since that time been i'll
the custody of the United States, is at
large. He made his escape last week.
With a dozen or more members of his
band, he had been Oh exhibition at
Omaha, Neb. While being returned
to his reservation under guard of
soldiers, he suddenly broke and ran
for it. The soldiers were afraid to
leave he other Indians, and Geronimo
made good his escape. At last ac-
counts he had not been re-captured,
and there is much uneasiness lest he
get together again another band OF
murderous Apachrs and begin anew
his career of terror Geronna is 70
years of age but is still active in
body and Us full of hate for the whites
in heart as he was in his younger days.
- London Saturday Review: The
facts on which the Fashoda dispute is
based are very much deeper than is
generally supposed. At first sight it
would appear that the French were
grasping at shadow and disregarding
the substance in p-rtinaciously laying
claim to an apparently barren and un-
productive spot while neglecting the
fertile district Of Bahr el Ghazal. But
this is by no means the case. Fashoda
is point of incalculable value TO
France, and it is correspondingly i'm
portant that we should Illustrate her de-
signs in that direction. 1t is her cher
ished project to make railroad from
east to west Africa, in order to divide
the continent and thus prevent the join
ing of two British spheres (north and
south) by direct communication. With
this object in view she has obtained from
Menelik concessions to build a railway
right across Abyssinia, the line being
already in construction. 1t is essen
tial to the scheme that this line should
be carried through to Fashoda. But it
is easily essential that we should re-
tain Fashoda, both for the prevention
of the plan-which would be severe
blow to British interests-and for the
establishment of that Cape to Cairo
communication which will give us
supremacy in Africa. The issues at