Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-06-01
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by the Cuban constitutional convention
last Tuesday by vote of Is to IA. The
actual vote was on accepting the ma
jority report Of the copmittee on re-
lations, which embodies the amend
ment with explanations of certain
clauses. The Radicals made hard
fight at the last moment, and Sen
ores Portuondo, Gomez and Tamayo
bitterly arraigned the conservatives.
Senior Tamayor was particularly vim
iictive and declared that everybody
who voted in favor Of the Platt amend
ment was a traitor to his country, and
the convention compelled him to re-
tract this.
A leading feature of the suffrage
clause offered to the proposed new
constitution of Alabama by ex-Govern-
or Jones, last Tuesday, is that which
denies the right to vote of amy person
who shall hereafter be guilty and con-
victed of selling his own vote or buy
ing or barterng the vote Of another, IN
any legal election or in any primary,
caucus or convention held to nominate
persons or public officers or to elect
delegates to any primary, or conven-
ton, or who shall make or aid in MAX
ing any false count. certificates or re-
turns as to the result of such election,
primary, caucus or convention or who
shall hereafter carry concealed weap-
ons, and be convicted thereof.
News and Courier: Second Assis-
tant Postmaster General Shallenberger,
it is noted, has incurred the enmity OF
the "star route" mail contractors by
requiring that they shall reside in ter
ritory contiguous to the routes ror
which they contract. The ruling is In
accordance with law; but the prac-
tice has been to permit a ring OF con-
tractors in the large cities to farm out
the routes to sub-contractors, and so
make a large profit without themselves
rendering any service. Finding them
selves deprived Of this privilege, the
contractors, it is said, contemplate
getting even by securing Mr.. Shallen-
berger's dismissal from office at the
expiration Of his present term.
DIR. Willoughby Gardner, a British
surgeon, argues in favor Of liberal
sugar ration for soldiers. Just In pro-
portion as the races become great sugar
eaters. he says, they excel in stature.
The Americans and English surpass all
other peoples as sugar eaters, and they
have in late years made the most sur
prising gains in stature. They are the
tallest of white races. In Great Brit
ain during the last fifteen years, the
consumption of sugars per capita has
trebled, and it is DR.. Gardner's opinion
that the increased height and weight,
and the improved health Of the English
people in the last half century have
been due to the increased consumption
Of sugar. This, the New York Mail and
Express thinks, accounts for that MOD
ern phenomenon, the tall girl" She
;v, n0ln-
try and in England. She is much taller
than her mother. She is the product of
much candy and ice cream.
The Boer General Schoeman and his
daughter have been killed and his Wlfe
and two others have been badly IN
jured by the explosion of a shell, says
a Pretoria dispatch. General Schoe-
man, his family and some friends were
examining a Al inch lyddite shell which
they kept in the house as curiosity,
when the shell exploded, killing the
general on the spot and mortally
Wounding his daughter and severely
iniuring his wife and two other per-
sons. General Schoeman was a great
Krugerite. He led the commando or
Colesburg and surrendered on the occu-
patton of Pretoria. He was afterwards
captured by the Beers and released
when the British occupied Barberton.
The general then went on peace mis-
sion, and was retaken by the Boers,
and was again released when the Brit
ish took Petersburg. Since that time
General Schoeman has resided In Pre-
toria.
Swift punishment is being meted
out to train robbers in the states of
Coahuila and Durango, Mexico, accord
ing to an FL Paso. Texas, dispatch OF
Nav IS. In those states the highway
men became so bold that they would
stop Mexican Central freight trains.
break open cars and load their wagons
with whatever freight they wanted and
drive away to the mountains. The
late Diamond Dick" an ex-Texas
Ranger, was employed by the Mexican
Central road to capture the robbers.
Diamond Dick" killed several of them,
but was not able. single-handed, to
cope with the situation. Recently the
railroad officials appealed to President
Diaz for relief, and he ordered soldiers
to exterminate the robbers. The SOL
diers were empowered to act as sheriff,
Judge, ttfry and eXecutioner. Last Sat-
urday. near Yerro, four out of band
of eight robbers were captured while
in the act of robbing a freight train.
The soldiers. who had been concealed
in a freight car to trap the bandits,
lined up the prisoners and riddled them
with bullets.
Jake Mcdowell. aged about 16
years, was on Monday shot and killed
by his father. Mack Mcdowell, at their
home near Marietta. this county, ac-
cording to a Rutherford. n. c., dis
patch to the Charlotte Observer. The
father claims that the shooting was in
Self-defence. 1t is said that the dead
boy had driven his brother from the
field in which they were working and
beaten him until he was almost uncon-
Scious. Later, when they met at their
home second attack was made upon
the boy by Jake, when a third brother
interfered. When this occurred, Jake
demanded that his father give him his
pistol: that he intended to kill the
brother who had interfered. The faith
er refused to let him have the weapon.
whereupon Jake secured an axe and
followed his father, declaring that he
would split his head open if he did not
give him the pistol. The father. fear
ing that the son would fulfill his threat,
pulled the pistol and fired one shot at
him. the ball taking effect in the right
lung. While the father was gone after
a physician to attend his son he was
arrested and brought here to Jail. He
says he saved his life by taking that
of his son. Mack Mcdowell is about As
years old and farmer.
New York Times: On Monday last
we published a very interesting and