Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-08-12
Straps and faets.

A shoplifter in Hungary, a Jewess
of 40, who, six months before her ar
rest for stealing, had been baptized
into the Roman Catholic church,
pleaded that she was legally an infant,
and, as such, was not responsible be-
fore the law: The rule Of the country
being that the date of birth figured
from the date of baptism, the court
sustained her plea, and the six-months-
old shoplifter of 40 was released.
- Ten cotton picking machines, in
vented by Angus Campbell and made
in Pittsburg, are about to be shipped
to the south for service this fall, says
the New York Tribune. Mr.. Camp
bell has been at work on this inven-
ton for years, making one improve
ment after another, as experience sug-
gested. Last year encouraging results
were attained, and an order for ten
machines was given. If this seasons
tests prove satisfactory it is probable
that his hackers, some Pittsburg men,
will reap a rich harvest in the next
few years.
Aguinaldo has appealed to the
powers for the recognition of Filipino
independence in a document dated
from Tarloa, July 20, and signed by
Buengamino. 1t has been received by
all foreign consuls in Manila with a
request that they forward it to their
respective governments. The Fiiipinos
use the same old argument that they
had conquered the sovereignty of these
islands from Spain before the treaty OF
Paris, therefore, Spain was in no posi-
tion to cede them to the United States.
They point to their possession of 1000
Spanish prisoners as evidence of this
fact. The document closes by an ap-
peal to the powers to influence the
United States to bring to termination
the unjust war which is devasting the
country.
Kansas City Journal: At Wichi-
ia, on Tuesday, a boy was born to
Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander Thompson,
being the seventh son of seventh
son, and the Eagle says: "There are
other peculiarities attending the birth
of the Thompson baby along the line
of sevens. 1t was born in the seventh
hour of the seventh day of the sew
enth month, just seven days before
the birthday of its loving father, who
sits and doddles it on his knee in the
firm belief that he and his wife have
brought forth prophet. Each of the
fond parents believe strongly in the
old tenet which says that the seventh
son of the seventh son shall be a
prophet, and the mother, especially,
who was seen last night, is so strongly
set in the belief that she had about
decided to name her baby Joshua"
- The commercial traveller is natu-
rally opposed to the monopoly corpor-
ations, and we'll he may be, for there
are over 10000 of him in the United
States, making up one of the most en-
ergetic aud indefatigable classes in the
community. Mr.. P. E. Dove, the
president of the Commercial Travel
ers' National league, got before the in
dustrial commission at Washington
and told that body that the 10000
were about to be thrown out Of en-
ployment by the trust movement, and
he estimated the loss in salaries at
S6O,OOO,0O0. He did not estimate
how much the hotels, livery stables
and railroads would lose; but it must
be enormous. He pointed out that
while the trusts were making it appear
that the reduction of salaries would
result in the cheapening of commodi-
ties, it so far had only enhanced the
profits of the monopolies.
- The state department has re-
ceived from the Italian authorities in
Washington, copy of the report made
by the Marquis Romano, secretary Of
the Italian embassy, on his investiga-
ton of the lynching of five Italians iii
Louisiana. The report presents the
affair in serious light and shows that
the Italian authorities view the occur
renee as one Of unusual atrocity. 1t
contends that there were no mitigating
circumstances that DR.. Hodges first
drew weapon, and that the first shot
fired by Defatta was in defense Of his
fallen brother, and no. a wanton at
tack. Describing the affair in detail,
the report points out that sometime af-
ter the first two men were lynched the
mob made a second and then third
visit to the Jail, from whence they re-
moved and lynched the three other
Italians, all of whom, it is contended,
were in utter ignorance of the assault
on DR.. Hodges. Conceding some ex-
tenuating circumstances in the lynch
ing of the two men Immediately con-
cerned in DR.. Hodges's killing, Mar
ouis Romano contends that the lynch
ing of the other three was thing of
particular atrocity.
- The steady westward advance of
the bubonic plague and the conditions
prevailing at its latest point of attack
in Alexandria, Egypt, are discussed in
reports made to the state department
by Consul Robert c. Skinner at Mar
seilles, saws Washington dispatch of