Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-04-26
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rescue Of Spanish prisoners near Baler.
The admiral says he is still endeavor-
ing to ascertain the situation of the
lieutenant and his party.
The trial of Senator Matthew S.
Quay, who was conspiring to use, for
his own unlawful gain, funds of the
state of Pennsylvania deposited in the
Peoples Bank of Philadelphia, was
concluded last Friday with verdict
of not guilty. The specified charge
grew out of an allegation that Quay's
son secured loan of 100000 on the
strength of deposit of state funds to
that amount, the deposit having been
made at the instance of Senator Quay.
The political interest in the trial was
very great and it is probable that the
political influence on it was great also.
The jury cast four ballots for verdict.
The first stood 10 for acquittal and two
for conviction. Immediately after the
verdict was reached, the governor of
Pennsylvania announced the appoint
ment of Quay to succeed himself in
the United States senate.
"A Richmond special to The News
and Courier says: There are now
movements to erect three memorials
here to President Jefferson Davis and
his daughter, Miss Winnie; the bronze
statue, which Mrs. Davis proposes to
place over her husbands grave in Hol-
lywood, is one of these. The Jefferson
Davis Monument association, which
has collected about $4,000 for that
purpose, is to erect handsome men,
orial in Monroe Park, of which the cor
ner stone was laid at the meeting of
the United Confederate veterans here
three years ago. A sufficient sum Of
money has also been collected by the
Daughters of the Confederacy to erect
a monument over the grave of Miss
Winnie Davis in Hollywood cemetery.
This memorial will probably be ready
to be placed by the time the bronze
statue which is to be raised over her
fathers grave is completed. The an
nouncement that the statue to the dead
president of the Confederacy is to rep
resent him in the garb in which he was
attired when captured by the Federal
cavalry, has called forth a number OF
letters of inquiry. 1t is Mrs. Davis's
purpose to have her husband thus rep
resented in this statue that it may be
an enduring denial of the old story Of
President Davis being captured in his
wife's clothes.
- Salt Lake City dispatch of the 21st
says: State Senator Matte Hughes
Cannon, who received votes of several
of her fellow legislators for the high
position of United States senator, has
demonstrated to the anti-polygamists
that Mormons can practice polygamy.
Last Saturday she presented her hus-
band, president Angus NJ. Cannon, with
a little daughter. She is the fourth
wife of the great ecclesiastic, the three
former ones being alive, her husband
having six wives in all. DR.. Matte
Hughes, as her professional sign reads,
is the most prominent woman political
ly in Utah. She has served the state
for two terms as senator, and during
the session just adjourned occupied
her seat every day and voted for the
millionaire candidate, A. NJ. McCune.
Toward the close of the term she talk
ed of taking trip to Honolulu for her
health, and three weeks later notified
her friends that she was about to leave
for San Francisco. Her plans miscar-
ried and she found it impossible to go
into hiding. Her little girl was born
right here in Salt Lake City. The
story became public, and President
Angus NJ. Cannon is receiving the con-
gratulations of his friends. There is
great Indignation breaking out all over
the state as one prominent church Off
cial after the other comes out in this
barefaced way and serves notice on the
public that he intends to live his reli-
gion.
- Sam Hose, the Negro who, ten
days before, murdered Farmer Gran
ford, at Palmetto, Ga, and ravished
Mrs. Crawford, was burned at the
stake at Newman, Ga, last Sunday at
about noon. Hose was captured on
plantation near Macon on Saturday
and delivered to the sheriff of Camp
bell county on account of rewards
aggregating $1,250. Before the for
mality of delivery was completed, a
mob Of 1900 people had collected
about the Jail. In order to avoid
bloodshed, the sheriff surrendered the
prisoner. Hose was then started in
the direction of Palmetto; but on the
strength of a story that 1000 people,
supposed to be militia, was on the way
to Atlanta, it was decided to 60
through with the work in short order.
Ex-Governor Atkinson made speech
to the mob in Newman, begging that
the law be allowed to take its course.
He said that he knew some of the men
who had the Negro in charge and de-
clared that if called upon he would
certainly testify against them. Some
one pointed revolver at the ex-gov-
ernor but a bystander caught the arm
of the man who held the weapon.
The Negro was chained to tree.
Then members of the mob cut OFT his
ears and his fingers and otherwise
mutilated him. After that there was
a call for the kerosene, which was
poured over his head on to the pile of
faggots that had been collected at his
feet. A match was set to the oil, and
the shrieking, struggling Negro was
burned to death. Before his death he
confessed to the murder of Mr.. Gran
ford but claimed that he did not as