Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-11-12
Scraps and faets.
Itis nossihle that after all the Ma

Island, about ~ miles from Wnere tne
vessel is said to have gone down. Un-
der orders from Washington, the
United States repair ship Vulcan, left
Newport News last Wednesday, under
command of CAPTAIN McCalla, for the
purpose of hunting up the Maria Tere-
sa, and recovering her if she is still
afoat.
- "Probably no finer illumination OF
the heavens by the fast-fying, fiery
November meteors has been witnessed
in 80 years." says the New York Her.
aid, ethan that expected by astron-
omers between the night of the 18th
and sunrise of the 18th. The earth
will then sweep through the immense
ring of these small, pebble like meteors,
each of which travels in an orbit ex
tending beyond Uranus (more than
1,78O millions of miles from the earth)
and in a direction opposite to that OF
our motion. But all that enter our
atmosphere seem to radiate from a
small area in the constellation of Leo. u
Charlotte Observer: Some of the
northern and western papers that are
always on the lookout for a lynching
in the south have found it. convenient
to overlook the recent affair in Illinois.
A negro had assaulted miners daugh-
ter, and instead of locking him up to
await the slow process of the law, they
hung him, if not with neatness, with
dispatch. When something's are
brought close home they look quite
different from what they do when
viewed from afar, and when the Negro
ravisher invades the north and is
promptly lynched, it is small wonder
that the press of that section does not
find in it subject to rant over.
- The supreme court of Ohio has
declared. constitutional the law pro-
viding that the county in which a
lynching may occur shall become re-
sponsible in the sum of $4,000 to the
next of kin of the victim, and in the
future it may be expected that the
bloody diversion of lynch law be rare
in Ohio" The Indianapolis News
says "The remedy is strange one /;
but it is Similar to the old Saxon law,
which amerced the hundred that failed
to produce criminal. In many cases
it is not the loafers or idle people who
constitute the lynching committees,
but the well-to.do citizens, each of
whom would feel the burden of part
of the $1,000 fine. Sometimes lynch
ings take place because trials have
been found expensive and the laws
delays exasperating; now it is the
lynchlngs that will be expensive, and
they will be content to await the ver-
dict of the law"
Governor Russell, of North Caro-
lima, went from Raleigh to Whining
ton on election day to vote. There
had been threats that if he tried to
vote he would be killed. He appeared
in the city, however, attended only
by his private secretary, and went
from the hotel to the polls accompanied
by the newspaper reporters who were
watching for developments. About
the only indignity that the governor
encountered was when somebody shout.
ed "souey" at him, as if driving away
hogs. The governor is reported to
have been somewhat nervous; but was
allowed to deposit his ballot without
molestion. On his return to Raleigh,
a party of red shirts boarded the,
train at Maxton and it is said they
pulled his nose and jabbed him in the
abdomen with their fingers; but this
the governor denies. 1t is true, how
ever, that the governor left the pas
senger coach and went to the baggage
coach where he was locked in by the
conductor.
- The Argonaut: A story concern
ming our troops in Manila is told by an
English naval officer, who was an eye,
witness to ,he occurrence. "The city
was quite crowded." he says, with
both American and Spanish soldiers,
and they seemed to be on the friendli-
est terms. AS l was crossing one OF
the numerous bridges across the Pasig
river, saw d HdliSe FHipiuo SplI III
the face of Spanish officer, and then
run to the American sentinel, who was
guarding the bridge, demanding his
protection. 1t was sometime before
the Filipino could make himself un-
derstood, and the sentry took sometime
to catch on to what had been done
but you can imagine my surprise when
he handed his gun to the Spanish Off
Ger and caught the native by the nape
of his neck and the seat of his trousers
and pitched him off the bridge into the
Pasig river. Then he calmly took his
gun from the Spanish officer and began
pacing the beat as if nothing had hap
pened. The American soldiers may
not be so military as his brother OF
Europe, but he is made of the right
stuff"
- Some remarkable details of the
career of Ferdinand Linke, the "King
of the Usurers," who recently died in
Vienna, are given in the London Morn
ing Leader from its correspondent in
the Austrian capital. Linke came to
Vienna from the ghetto of provincial
town in Galicia in the early sixties,
and beuan q money-lendinp business