Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-08-02
Scraps aud fatts.

WO0nQeQ the latter SliSnCly. ne tileN
went to a livery stable and at the point
Of a revolver secured rig. AS he was
driving on a constable and several citi-
zens tried to arrest him. He opened
fire, wounding four Of the party, and
escaped. Two years ago Mckinley kill
ed man at Bakersfield, but was exon
Grated. VIM. Lynn, whose abdomen
and legs were filled with buckshot, sue
cumbed to his wounds. Mckinley also
filled the right arm Of George Barrows,
a printer, with shot and sent bullet
into the mouth of Deputy Marshal Will
lis, another in the arm Of Deputy Con-
stable Tompkins, and load of shot In
to the arm Of w. D. West. Mckinley
Is headed for Fresno county, and it Is
believed he will make for the noun
tains. He has shotgun, rifle and
revolver, and said before leaving that
Tracey would not be in it with him.
A San Luis, Cal, dispatch of July
81, says: A strip of country fifteen
ted in Los Almos valley, in the north
ern part of Santa Barbara county, has
been rent with gaping assures and
dotted with hills and knolls that sprung
up during the night, as if by magic. A
village Is in ruins and hundreds of peo-
pie are fleeing for their lives. During
the last four days that section Of the
country has been shaken by series of
I'll hof ic nrppp6ant m
the history Of tradition Of the Pacific
coast and the continuance of the dis
turbances and the increasing severity
Of the shocks have so terrorized the in
habitants that they are leaving for
other parts as rapidly as possible, and
even now the village is almost entirely
deserted. The disturbances began on
Sunday evening with a shock which
caused several thousand dollars dam
age to property in the village and the
sugar country. being more and more
disastrous in the vicinity of the West
ern Union Oil company's wells on Car
riaga ranch. The shock was followed
by a number of disturbances less Sc
we're and less disastrous, continuing
through the remainder of Sunday night
and Monday. No lives were lost.
A copy Of Manila paper has been
received at the war department, giving
information concerning the trip of the
teachers who were murdered in the is
land of Cebu some time ago. According
to a report made by Inspector Ross. Of
Cebu, to the chief constabulary, the
four lost teachers were warned by him
not to go into the interior, but they in
sisted that it was safe and took the risk.
The article continues: "They talked
with the inspector about their expedi-
ton and he advised them If they went
too far in a certain direction they
would be likely to run across an hon.
bro called Adoy, a member Of the no
torious Cabel family, much feared by
the natives. A member Of this family
had been killed a week or two prior to
this conversation and this was not sup
posed to make it any more desirable
for any white person to fall into Adoy's
power. The teachers answered that
they thought that they would be all
right as the division superintendent of
education had told them that he went
without a guard everywhere. The in
spector inquired if any Of the party
had pistols. They answered in the
negative. He repeated his warning to
them not to attempt their proposed
journey under such conditions;. but
they went despite his warming"
- Says a Washington dispatch Of July
2s: The life of Russell Wilson. of Ohio.
who was captured with a revolutionist
party in Nicaragua, has been saved,
through the representations Of Minister
Corea, Of that country. A cablegram
was received at the state department
today from Chester Donaldson, United
States consul at Manauga, Nicaragua,
dated the 26th instant, as follows:
LAS a courtesy to the United States
and sympathy for the mother, the pres
ident will commute Russell Wilson's
death sentence" Wilson was one of
several Americans who joined f1libus-
tering expedition which landed at Mon
key Point. near Bluefields. The party
were captured or killed. Wilson would
have been summarily executed, but for
the interposition Of Senor Corea, the
Nicaraguan minister here. Having Sc
cured a stay of proceedings and a guar
antee of a legal trial, the minister has
now induced President Zelaya to COM
mute the death sentence imposed upon
Wilson by court martial. Before the
receipt Of this message it was not
known here that the court-martial had
been held. 1t is presumed that the
commutation is to Imprisonment for
time and then expulsion from Nicara-
qua.
- Says London special of July 29: In
it's issue Of this morning the Daily
Mail declares there is no longer any
doubt that the three monster oil in
terests of Rockefeller, Rothschild and
Nobel have entered into a working
agreement. This" says the paper
without any publicity the greatest
trust the world has ever seen has
sprung into being" This combination,
says the paper, has been hinted at in
messages from Batoum and Moscow,
and it has been more clearly shown in
the offers made to Russian oil exporters
by representatives of the Nobel and
RuthSchld interests for the absorption
for the whole of their output. The ex-
pOrters have been bidden to sell through
the agencies of these interests at a
nrice arranged by them or to fight the