Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-11-01
Straps and faets.

Crothers, Of Connecticut, read a paper
in which he said he had learned by
careful inquiry that from to 10 per
cent. of the doctors in the country are
victims of the opium habit and that the
percentage is increasing.
- The cotton convention at Atlanta
fzzled out. On the last day, when D.
A. Tompkins, of Charlotte, and John
Barnett, of Oregon, invited speakers,
went to the coliseum to deliver their
addresses, they found nobody there but
the janitor. The president, L. F. Liy-
ingston, was out at the fair grounds.
The speakers had come all the way
from Dallas, Texas, to address the con-
vention.
"A special dispatch to the Balti-
more Sun from Raleigh, N. c., says:
Money is being raised by the Daugb-
tiers of the Confederacy and by camps
of veterans in aid of Mrs. StOnewall
Jackson, who is needy, in very poor
health and almost blind, at her home
at Charlotte. She is said to be suffer-
ing from an incurable disease. One
chapter of the daughters has already
raised $500 for her.
- An interesting incident in connec-
ton with the Elandslaagte fight is re-
ported from Durham, Natal. When
the fire of the British guns became too
hot, eight Beers ran forward out OF
cover and, standing together, coolly
opened fire at the Imperial Light Horse
with the evident purpose of drawing
the latter's fire while their comrades
retired. Seven out Of the eight were
killed.
- Rev. G. E. Morrison was hanged
at Vernon, Texas, last Friday, for wife
murder. 1t seems that Morrison had
been married II years. In 1897 he
met in Kansas City, Mo-, Miss Whit
tlesey, a former sweetheart who was
still unmarried, and who was possessed
of a large fortune, $4,000 of which
was in cash. Scheming to get the for
tune, he told Miss Whittlesey, his first
love, that his wife had been dead for
number of years, and that be had
abandoned the pulpit and established
a prosperous cattle ranch in Texas. II
was arranged that the two former low
ers should be married. Morrison went
back to Texas and gave his wife dose
of strychuine. Then he went to To-
peka. On his return he was arrested,
and all the facts were developed at the
trial. Miss Whittlesey was the princi-
pal witness against him. On the scat
fold, Morrison claimed that he was
innocent, and said that the fact would
come out in the course of time.
- Major Dick, chairman of the Re-
publican executive committee of Ohio,
has hit Jones, the "Golden Rule" In
dependent candidate, a pretty hard
lick. Jones is a millionaire, having
made his money by the invention Of an
improved pump used in oil wells.
Major Dick writes him as follows {:
SIN your letter you admit that you are
one of the so-called privileged class,
for you subscribe your name S. M.
Jones, president Acme Sucker Rod
Company This is to protect monop-
oily. By virture of privilege that
you own exclusively, you exact from
every family in the state of Ohio, who
uses oil, an additional revenue. The
poor people of the states have made
you rich yet you prate about and seek
to make political capital by your love
of the poor. Why not give up your
protected patent and thus practice and
not simply preach your doctrine? No
more transparent humbug was ever Of
fered to the people than the peculiar
notions which you are advocating in
the present campaign"
- The situation in Basutoland is an
interesting phase of the South African
troubles. About $500 Orange Free
State soldiers are said to be on the
north side of the Caledon, looking
across the river into Basutoland. They
can plainly see the chief town Maseru,
the seat of British rule. The British
resident commissioner brings his spy
glass to bear daily upon the Boer camp
and reports what he sees by telegraph
to Cape Town. Fully half of the more
important Basuto settlements are on or
near the Free State border, and the
Beers are watching them all. They
are trying hard, according to the Brit
ish resident, to induce the quarter of a
million Basutos to side with them.
They would not dream of attacking
the British at Maseru, only mile or
two away, for the Basutos might resent
the invasion and cast their lot with the
British, where, politically, they seem
to belong, as their country is part OF
Cape Colony. The Boer leaders are
eager to get away to the east, where
their comrades are fighting every day ;
but they dare not leave, because, if the
Basutos should decide to take the field
against them, all the south part of the
Free State, with the women, children
and cattle of the absent burghers,
would be at the mercy of the blacks.
- Secretary Hester's weekly Cotton
Exchange statement, Of last Friday,
shows decrease in the movement
into sight as compared with the seven
days ending the same date last year, in
round figures, of 10000; a decrease
under the same days year before last
of $1,000. For the 81 days of the
season that have elapsed, the aggre-
gate is behind the 81 days of last year
$4,000, and behind the same days
year before last 100000. The total
movement for the 81 days from Sep
tember l to date, is 2,612,4 AL, against
2,95S,S ,S32 last year, and 2,75S, ,74S year