Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-12-25
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"A New York newspaper published
a story last Saturday, to the effect tnat
an assassin made an attempt on the
life Of the president on the streets OF
Washington during the morning, ana
that the president knocked the 1eiio"
down with his fist. There was no foun-
dation for the story further than that
man supposed to be drunk, stumoieo
against the president, and was arrested
by one of the presidents body guards.
Chile and the Argentine Republic
have been carrying on threatening
diplomatic controversy for seVeral
weeks past about a piece Of territory
to which both countries are laying
claim. The latest news is to the erect
that diplomacy has failed and has been
abandoned. Argentine has requested
King Edward to act as arbiter OF the
DISPUTE. In the meantime. both coun-
tries are putting themselves on the
most effective war footing possible, ana
it looks as If the difficulty Is not to De
settled without bloodshed.
The owners Of the Panama canai
property have evidently become very
much alarmed at what seems to be the
settled purpose Of congress to dig the
proposed isthmian canal by way OF the
Nicaragua route. 1t will be remember
ed that the Panama people recently
made an offer Of their property at quite
q handsome figure and that the offer
was rejected. Since then the company
has held another meeting and has voted
to sell the property to the United States
on the best terms obtainable. 1t Is pos
sible that they will name price SO
low as to make its acceptance desira-
BILE.
TO increase the salaries Of certain
government officials is the object OF
two bills which have been introduced
in the house, one by Representative
Loudenslager and one by Representa-
tive Brownlow. The first provides that
the vice president shall receive in full
for his services during the term for
which he shall have been elected, the
sum Of $25,OO0 a year, to be paid
monthly; that the heads Of depart
ments snail receive salary OF $l5,OOo
- year, to be paid monthly. The
Brownlow bill provides that the chief
Justice Of the Supreme court Of the
United States shall receive s15,5O0
year, and each Of the associate justices
$4,000 a year. The circuit judges are
to get $1,000 a year, the district judges
and the judges Of the court Of claims,
$500 a year. No payment shall be
made to any of the judges mentioned
for expenses. To the vice president Of
the United States is given $4,000 year;
to each of the senators Of the United
States, $500 a year; to the speaker OF
the house of representatives, $4,000
year; to each Of the other members OF
the house Of representatives and to
each of the delegates. $500 a year.
Says a Welsh, w. Va, dispatch Of
December 20: Wayne Demon, an 1S-
year-old boy, shot three Negroes to
death in a saloon at the mining town
of Davy, this county, this evening.
This was pay day at the Davy mines
and the Negroes had begun their holi-
day celebration. Drunkenness was WIS.,
ible on every hand and when about
dozen of the big blacks entered Eugene
Dyes saloon, on the leading street,
revolvers in hand, and demanded that
all the whites within retire, the trou-
BILE began. The barkeeper stepped into
an adjoining room for his pistol, and
all other whites made a run to get
away, except Demon. Demon, al
though being almost a total stranger
in the town, was nervy and refused to
obey the command to depart. Instead,
he pulled his revolver and in twink
ling he had shot three Of the Negroes
to death and the others were falling
over themselves to get away. Those
dead are Lem Rooton. "Frick" Watts
and Harry Good. all residents Of the
coal fields. Demon. whose home is in
Catlinsburg. KY. left the saloon by
rear door and up to late hour tonight
had not been captured. In fact. but
very little effort Is being made to ap-
prehend him.
Washington correspondence, Phila-
delphia Record: Senator Penrose be-
lieves that silver, having been practi-
cally demonetized, is now nothing more
than a commodity. and, being extern
sively produced in this country. like
other similar commodities. should be
protected from foreign competition. To
extend such protection to the product
Of American silver mines the senator
Of 25 per cent. ad volorem on all i'm
ports Of unmanufactured silver into
the United States, such duty to be cal
culated on the value as metal Of the
silver imported, whether in the form of
bullion, ore or partially smelted mass.
The bill provides that the new tax
shall be imposed on July, 1902. The
senator, in talking Of the bill. said 1t
was measure that might, with great
er propriety, have been introduced by
senator from some western silver-pro-
ducing state. But he found that the
western senators were unwilling to
father a proposition to impose duty
on imported silver, for the reason that
they felt. by so doing. they would be
acknowledging that the white metal
was no longer to be regarded as any
thing more than mere commodity.
This was a point the western senators
were NOT willing to concede Senator