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

MANY mooushiners, probably, as the
mountains. A dispatch of last Friday
tells of the capture of two Illicit distil-
leries in New York city, during one
day. Both were running in full blast,
and each was turning out whisky at
the rate of about 10 gallons day.
Four distillers were arrested and held
in 50, 800 bail each.
- Wilmington Messenger, January
27: The five compulsory vaccination
doctors continued on their rounds yes
terday, and got in good days work.
In the two days they have vaccina-
ted about 1000 people. At many
houses they received warm reception
and they have some thrilling expert,
euces to relate. One of the colored
doctors was refused admittance 10 a
colored woman's house, and armed
with nothing but his vaccine points,
he was made TO stand hack before d
trusty axe. Another doctor was held
at bay by colored man who got his
gun aud dared him to cross his thresh-
old. Two colored policemen who
started in to arrest him were also
made to stand back. This will be Il
case for the criminal court and the Of
fender will repent his folly when ne is
hauled up for his use of a deadly
weapon.
- The long controversy over the
question as to whether champagne or
Kentucky whisky should be used IN
the ceremony attending the launching
of the battleship Kentucky, has been
settled by an agreement to use the
water from Kentucky spring. Al
the christening, Miss Bradley, the fair
sponsor, will uncork a beautifully en-
bellished silver vessel full of pure
water. On the farm in Larue county,
where Abraham Lincoln was born,
there is an unfailing spring OF cold,
crystal water, where, in his boyhood,
the great emancipator was wont 10
slake his thirst, using gourd or rai
dippers. The idea is to have com
mittee formally visit the spring, fill a
silver vessel with sparkling water aud
seal it with appropriate ceremonies.
Then the vessel will be given to Miss
Bradley, who will guard it as a sacred
trust until the day of breaking the
seal on board the Kentucky.
- Columbia State: For once the
London Times gets u focus ON the h.
pancial situation iu the United States.
The free silver votes in the senate are,
as il SAYS, the more portentous because
Mckinley has just renounced his Sill
yer faith. Those votes were cast, In
fact, in direct reply to the presidents
speech at the banquet of the Manutac-
turers' association in New York, where
at d 5000 table in a 0,000,OOO no.
tel, and in the presence of 1000 men
representing nearly a billion dollars
of capital, he went over finally to the
gold standard. 1t was blow full III
his face that the senate deals, and it
was meant to be such. The assur-
ances of the Hannaized executive will
doubtless fix his own course; but the
uprising in the senate suggests that
the course of The people will be quite
different. Gold was on the banquet
table but silver is in the air.
- One of the Charlotte Negroes who
had "smallpox," died Wednesday but
whether from smallpox or other causes,
has not clearly appeared. The Char
lotte Observer, of Saturday, contains
the following account of a circumstance
growing out of the burial 10. Carter,
Ed DeBruhl, Sam Foreman and Alex
Harris, colored, are sadder and wiser
men than they were Thursday. When
Chief Orr called for volunteers Thurs
day to bury William Jackson, the
smallpox patient, the four men men
toned above responded. DeBruhl, ,
who drives for DR.. J. P. McCombs, was
especially prominent. He sat on the
box which contained the corpse as il
was being hauled 10 the cemetery.
The four acted as pallbearers when
the cemetery was reached. Yesterday
morning early the pallbearers were
called together, and under escort OF
Officer Hall, were taken to East
branch, where the water is about 4
feet deep, and made to undergo pro-
longed ablutions. Dislntectants were
used and the clothes of each burned,
the city furnishing them entire new
outfits. The matter Of quarantining
them was discussed ; but it was deci-
ded that that was not necessary.
- The Spaniards have succeeded in
killing General Nestor Aranguren.
Aranguren is the general who recent
ly killed the Spanish Colonel Ruiz.
Ruiz and Arapguren, it seems, were
personal friends, and ostensibly upon
a mission of friendship, Ruiz paid a
visit 10 the insurgent lines where he
met Aranguren. After an exchange
of conventionalties and general con-
versation, Ruiz began to induce Aran-
guren to accept autonomy. In accor-
dance with fair warning previously
published by General Gomez, Aran-
guren had Ruiz killed on the spot.
Since that tragedy the Spaniards have
been after Aranguren. They learned
that the general was accustomed to
visit the house of sweetheart at a
place called La Pila Eu Elmonte. The
house was visited by large force OF
soldiers one day last week, and Aran-
guren was found there. He admitted
his identity and was promptly shot
down. The bullet did not kill him at
once and a soldier thrust bayonet
through his head. Some accounts say