Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-06-30
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be in keeping with us WORK 10 nave
readings from the Bible as prelimina.
ry, and 80 requested District Attorney
John B. Merrill to open business every
day in that manner. The practice was
begun yesterday when Mr.. Merrill
read the first six verses of the fifteenth
chapter of Proverbs.
-Upop what is said to be the highest
authority, it is reported that William
Jennings Bryan will not attend the
Democratic convention on July 4th.
The colonel refused to permit the use
of his name during the election OF
delegates, and on more than one oc.
casion he has declined the invitations OF
admirers to be their guest. Two let
ters recently received in Washington
from him say positively that he will
remain at his home at Lincoln during
the week of July 4th. Just why Mr..
BRYAN is wanted in Kansas City can
not be understood. He will be nomi-
mated by acclamation and will be in
close and constant communication with
the party leaders, so. that his wishes
can easily be made known at any
time it should be necessary to consult
him. It is expected, however, that
the reports of his intention of showing
up at the convention will continue to
be circulated.
Saws a Londan dispatch of Wed
nesday: Louis Klopsch, proprietor OF
The Christian Herald, of New York,
after spending a week in Paris on his
way home from India, sailed for New
York yesterday on board the Ham
burg-American line steamer Pennsyl-
yania. In an interview previous to
his departure, Mr.. Klopcsh said the
mortality during the wet season in
India was just commencing and must
assume stupendous proportions, out
numbering the total of the deaths
during the past six months from all
causes. Unless 100000 blankets
are quickly provided, the monsoon,
India's greatest blessing, will prove ap-
pallingly disastrous, and Mr.. Klopsch
also said the mortality will exceed q
100000. He further stated that 80
DER cent. of the cattle in the richest
farming districts had perished. MIR.
Klopsch is thoroughly satisfied with
the method adopted in the distribution
of the American relief. One of his
last acts in India was to buy lO0,oOO
hlonkets for the sufferers.
The Shanghai Mercury says that a
member of the Boxers society, who
saw the murder of Rev. Mr.. Ellis, OF
the London mission, and a Chinese
missionary at Kupg Tsu, gave the fol-
lowing account of the tragedy to a
friend son the 18th day of the fourth
moon the Boxers, numbering 81, cross
ed the river Use Tsun and met the
two missionaries in boat. They
knew the Chinese was Christian and
at once attacked him, wounding him
with their swords. Then they dragged
him out of the boat and tied him to a
tree at the river side. Then Ellis was
tied with him and Chao, another
Chinese missionary, was found. His
toes were bound together and he was
carried to a tree near where the others
were hung up. The arms from the
missionaries were cut off, their heads
hewn off, and after the bodies had
been disemboweled they were cast into
the river. The chapel of the mission
was demolished and the crowd went
on their way" This is but one OF
many such outrages.
- Chicago Times: If any one had
predicted generation ago, that the
dashing and dreaded cavalry leader,
"Fighting Joe" Wheeler, would live to
be brigadier general in the regular
United States army and to command
a department with headquarters at
Chicago, the prophet would have had
a short shrift. Gen. Wheeler himself
would probably have been the last man
to credit any such prediction. The
fact that these things have actually
taken place is the most tangible proof
of the unifying effect of the Spanish
war. That war has worked many
wonderful and surprising changes in
the nations affairs; but none more
gratifying than the whipping out OF
traditional enmities between the north
and south. With one of the most de-
termined of all the Confederate lead
ers now an honored department COM
mander in the heart of the north,
there can no longer be any question
that the dead past has buried its dead
issues. Gen. Wheeler's qualities as a
soldier and as man have fairly won
for him the esteem of the reunited ma
ton, and when he goes into retirement,
next September, he will take with
him the enthusiastic good wishes OF
everybody and especially of Chicago
ans.
The first expedition of Information
ais to Pekin, consisted of $50 men,
including Sc Americans. tits believed
that they got through. The next ex.
pedition of $500, men under Admiral
Seymour, was forced to turn back and
got back to within twelve miles OF
Tien Tsin, where it was surrounded by
Chinese forces, and hampered with sick
and wounded, was unable to move.
The first expedition of 400 men against