Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-10-03
Scraps and facts.


10 minutes. the attending physician re-
quested to place him on the gallows
and drop him again, as life might be
more quickly ended, as otherwise he
might remain struggling for sometime,
The moose had slipped to his chin when
he first fell, tearing open the wound
made when he attempted to take his
own life with a knife on the 14th of
September. severing the arteries, from
which blood flowed profusely. He was
placed on the gallows a second time
at 1 o'clock and the trigger sprung.
Life was pronounced extinct in eight
minutes.
Charlotte Observer, Saturday: Rev.
]. E. Austin, of Randleman, the state
lecturer for the National Textile Work
ers' union and the American Fedora
ton of Labor, has brought criminal
action for libel against Mr.. c. M. Ray,
one of the editors of the Mill News
published in this cit. Mr.. Ray was
served with a warrant yesterday by an
officer from Randleman. He gave bond
in the sum of $500, and october sth
was fixed as the date for preliminary
hearing at Randleman. This action
arises from a publication in the Mill
News, on August 31st, headed Dan
gerous Leaders," in which certain
charges are made against Mr.. Austin's
reputation as a man and a clergy
man.
In reference to Mark Hanna's
charge that Bryan has promised the
naming Of cabinet officer to Richard
Croker, the Democratic candidate
says: II have not given to any one,
either verbally or in writing, a prom
ise of a cabinet position, and shall
not, during the campaign, make any
such promise. have not authorized
and shall not authorize any one, YER
bally or in writing, to promise any cab
met position or any other position to
any one. If am elected I shall be alb
solutely free to discharge all the du-
l,es of the Office, accorolng to my plat
form, as far as the platform goes, and
according to my own judgment in all
matters not covered by the platform.
Fred J. Pope Is home after Is
months Of private investigation in the
United States for mining house in
New York, says Kingston, Ontario,
dispatch Of September 2Sth. He has
been in 80 states and Mexico, travelling
$1,000 miles. He says: More Ameri-
can capital is going into old Mexico
. than into any other place outside of
the United States. Companies are get
ting concessions for mining, railroad
ing and everything else Of profit. I
venture to prophesy that because of
this there will eventually be the same
trouble between Mexico and the United
States as there was between the Trans
vaal and Great Britain. AS soon as a
more extravagant government gets the
reins Of power, it will put the burden
on the Americans, for the Mexicans
are already overtaxed. Then the
Americans will appeal to Uncle Sam
for protection"
After a quarrel which has extended
over two weeks, two young men Of
prominent families of East Port, a su-
burb Of Atlanta, met this evening and
fought with pistols, says an Atlanta
dispatch Of Friday. One Of the men,
Sheffield Harrington, was shot in four
places and the other, Walter Hudson,
was wounded once. Both are believed
to be fatally wounded. 1t is asserted
that both Walter Hudson and another
man fired at Harrington. AS result
of the meeting George Hudson is in
jail. The specific charge against him,
however, is not made public. Four
bullets struck Harrington, one enter
ing the thigh. Harrington tried time
after time to fire a second shot; but
each time the hammer of his revolv-
er failed to explode the cartridge.
Hudson, it is alleged, was in love with
Harrington's sister and there were re-
ports that they were to be married.
These reports were accepted as true
for long time; but finally Hudson de-
MED the truth Of the rumor. A few
days ago the young lady left for
Waynesboro. Harrington, it is said,
stated at that time If Hudson did not
go there and marry his sister he would
kill him. Matters stood in this position,
as far as reliable information is OBJ
tanned until today.
Secretary Hester's weekly New Or
leans cotton exchange statement, issued
last Friday, shows the amount of cot
ton brought into sight for the week
ending that afternoon to be $780, ,222
bales, against 339,729 for the corre-
spending time last year, and 1868, 593 the
year before that. This brings the to-
tai Of the crop moved into sight for
the % days of the new season to S12,222
against 995,S59 last year, and S30,270
the year before. Receipts at all Unit
ed States ports since Sept. were 561,-
S43 bales, against 691 ,259 last year; over
land. across the Mississippi, Ohio and
Potomac rivers to Northern mills and
Canada, 1882, against 5O,173 last year;
interior stocks in excess Of Sept. 1st,
123115, against 132,S01; southern mill
takings 109,372. against 121,616. Foreign
exports since Sept. have been 23O, 424,
against 394,971 last year. The total
takings of American mills north and
south and Canada thus far this season
have been 161,1 against 215,600 last
year. Since the close of the CONNER
cial year, stocks at American ports and
the 29 leading southern interior centres
have been increased 44O654 bales.
against an increase for the same period
last season Of 32O,269. Including the
amounts left over from the last crop
the supply to date is 934,756, against
1,614,757 for the same period last year.
General Macarthur cabled from Ma
Mia last Friday, that on September II,
Captain Shields and 81 men of company
II, Twenty ninth infantry, left Santa