Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-06-10
Strips and faets.

were hued last tuesday 1or conCempl
of court. The insurance companies
had violated law that did not meet
with the approval of the people, and
the prosecuting attorney handed in
bill of indictment to the grand jury,
as was his duty. Numerous citizens
of the town signed petition asking
the grand jury to return "no bill" and
the grand jury did as requested. The
prosecuting attorney then held that the
citizens were in contempt of court and
asked that they be punished. The
judge fined them one cent each.
- The Cubans got even with one
Jose Labregat, a notorious Spanlard
last Sunday. Labregat was Weyler
agent during the Spanish regime and
by his treatment of women and chill
dren made himself especially odious.
He had the hardihood last Sunday to
show himself in the town of San An
tonic de Los Bauos, and the Cubans
quietly collected lynching party.
Labregat tried to defend himself with
a pair of revolvers. He emptied the
weapons in the crowd, killing two per
son but it did not stop at that. The
people were determined and before
the military could reach the scene the
fellow was lyncbed in the public
square of the town.
- What will be the population of
the United States according to the
twelfth census? The official guess is
something more than 1900, 900, or an
increase of about 100000 in 10
wears. DR.. F. H. Wines, the assistant
director of the census, sounds note
of warning to those who look for a
population of S0,000,000 or more in
1900. s'It will be nowhere near that
figure" he says. "The public is in
clined to overestimate the population,
not only of particular neighborhoods,
but of the whole country, the result
being disappointment when the facts
become known. Seventy-Gve millions,
more or less, is about what the twelfth
census will show the population OF
the United States to be-"
The German Insurance Bank, OF
Louisville, was victmized out of S., 900
Monday afternoon by two we'll dressed
young men who worked a neat game.
Just before the hour for closing the bank
the assistant cashier of the German
Insurance Bank was rung up by tele-
phone and asked if he could accommo-
date the Citizens National Bank with
$4,000 in currency. On being answer
ed in the affirmative, the inquiring
party said he would send two men
around to get the money. Shortly
afterward two young men appeared at
the bank with a check for $4,000,
bearing the supposed signature OF the
cashier of the Citizens National Bank.
The assistant cashier, suspecting moth
ing wrong, counted out the money to
the young men, who were profuse IN
their thanks as they accepted It,.
When the check reached the clearing
house Tuesday it was discovered to be
forgery.
- The monthly comparative state.
ment of the government receipts and
expenditures for May, 1899, shows the
total receipts to have been S44, 1856 ,Ol3,
as against S3O,O74,S1S for May, 1898.
The disbursements amounted to S4O,-
$4,000, as against S47,S49,9O9 for
May last year, leaving surplus for
last month of S4,273,OOO. The re-
ceipts from customs last month
amounted to $1S,367, 1906. gain, as
compared with May, 1898, of nearly
Sl,OOO,OOO; from Internal revenue,
$3S, ,72O, ,729, a gain of about SO, 200, 900;
miscellaneous, S2,607, ,377, a gain of
about 50, ,2O0O; miscellaneous, S2,6O7,-
377, a gain of 1851, 900. For the IL
months of the present fiscal year the
receipts were S450,0S9,S29, gain, as
compared with the corresponding peri
Cd last year, of over $50, 100000. The
disbursements during the last eleven
months amounted to S573, ,709,972, as
against 1896, ,523,1O5 for the CORES
poudiug period last year.
A unique feature of Oklahoma is a
town of considerable size in Logan
county settled exclusively by color
ed people. 1t is called Langston, in
honor of the John NJ. Langston, Of
Washington, who was an orator and
scholar, for two terms member OF
congress from Virginia, and for several
years dean of the law department of
Howard University. Although Mr..
Langston passed for colored man,
and his life was spent in promoting
the welfare of that race, it is true that
he had very little Negro blood in his
veins and was descended from the In.
dams of Powhattan's tribe, who met
the first English colonists that landed
in America. His hair was straight,
his features were more like the Indian
than the African type, and he took
great pains to trace his lineage back to
the aboriginese, "the first families
of Virginia." as he used to call them.
The town of Langston is prosperous,
we'll behaved and has new school
house, of which it is especially proud.
Governor Barnes says it is one Of the
model communities of the territory.
- Frank Neval, an employee at the
Sidney Novelty Works, Rochester, n.