Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-05-30

-J.L Odell, boss Of the weave room
of the Southern Cotton mills at Bes-
semer City, was stabbed and almost in
stantly killed last Friday afternoon by
Hope Davis, a discharged operative.
Davis persisted in returning to the
mill and was ordered out by Odell,
whereupon he drew knife and stab
bed Odell in the throat, severing the
iugular vein. Odell staggered few
steps in the direction of the drug store
and fell dead. Davis escaped but was
captured and jailed the same night at
about o'clock.
Saws an indianapolis, Indiana,
dispatch of Saturday: Miss Jennie
Creek, of Mill Grove, who saved a
Worlds Fair train on the Pan Handle
from a wreck in 1898 and who was
made member of the French Legion
of Honor for the act and recently in
vited to attend the Paris exposition as
the guest of the National Humane
Society of France, is financially unable
to pay the expenses of the trip, and
some friends propose to raise the mon
ey by popular subscription and by SELL
ing a small book which contained the
story of her daring act. Editor Bun
dyr of the Marion News, asked Miss
Creek to visit Marion during the Elks
carnival and sell the book from booth.
She replied that she would like to at
tend the Paris exposition, but she
could not consent to appear as
"freak" in order to get the money.
- Charlotte Observer, Sunday Ven
erable Brother Andrew, lay brother
at Belmont, was almost instantly killed
yesterday morning by the breaking OF
a circular saw. Early in the morning,
he and several other workmen had
gone to the sawmill, short distance
from the monastery. About s o'clock,
while saving a heavy log, the saw
broke and part of it struck Father
Andrew under the left shoulder with
such force as to pierce deep into his
body and sever the main artery. Death
was almost instantaneous. The sad
occurrence was a blow not only to
Bishop Haid and his priests; but to
the entire community at Belmont.
The deceased was native of Germa-
nv; but had lived in this country for
the past 20 years. He had been at
Belmont for the past IA years. He
was an industrious, good man whose
death is generally deplored.
- Secretary Hester's statement of the
worlds visible supply of cotton for the
week ending last Friday, shows de-
crease for the week just closed of 3d.
3S1 bales, against a decrease of 1885,
O65 last year. The total visible is q
4S9,52S bales against 2,5S3,SO9 last
year. Of this the total of American
cotton is 1882 ,52S bales, against l.
92S,9O9 last week and 3,260,170 last
last year; and of all other kinds, in
Guiding Egyptian, Brazilian, Indian,
etc., 657 900 bales, against 655, 900 last
week, and 1872, 900 last year. Of the
worlds visible supply there is now
ahoat and held in Great Britain and
Continental Europe 1,592,0o0 bales,
against 2,5S6,0 last year; in Egypt
125,OOO bales, against 161, 900 last
year in India $4,000 bales, against
$4,000, and in the United States 49,
900, against 2,OS6,OO0.
- Mail reports from the Philippines
show that there has been steady in
crease in the number of cases of bu-
bonic plague. There were thirty cases
in Manila during January, 4S during
February, and Sc during March, and
during the three months approximate
ly 100 cases ofleprosy were discovered.
Excellent work is being done by the
Manila board Of health, under the di-
rection of Major Ira Brown, in improv-
ing the sanitary condition of the city
and checking the progress of the
plague. From early in January to the
last of March, in the densely populated
districts of Binondo, Toneo, San Nico-
las and Santa Cruz, 1852 premises
were examined and 162 houses, from
which suspected cases were removed,
have been disinfected, in addition to
which all the houses in the infected
district were thoroughly disinfected.
The work was conducted so quietly
and Systematically that comparatively
little opposition was made by the resi-
idents.
- Chicago Record: The spacious
country house inhabited by Captain
Dreyfus is about two miles from Gene
va, separated from the road to the viii
lage Cologny by high wall. 1t is
only possible to see the roof of the
building. The front of the villa Hau-
terive looks over the lake, with spleD-
did view of the Jura mountains and
the castle of Baron Rothschild. Be-
fore the house is terraced lawn that
runs down to the edge of the lake.
Very large trees surround the villa on
the other sides. On the left is the gar
dener's house, and in the same direc-
ton, about five minutes walk, is the
house which Lord Byron inhabited
while at Geneva. Captain Dreyfus,
along with his wife and his two chill
dren, intends to stay here until Octo-
ber. Since his arrival, with his neph-
ew NJ. Paul Valabregue, two visitors
have dined with him, along with a
gentleman who came the same day as
he did. Nobody knows who this gen.
tleman is. One or two tourists walk
in the gardens on the opposite side of
the lake and with their glasses try
to see CaDtain Dreyfus on his terrace,