Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-07-05
Scraps aud fatts.

shotgun guard. They have made SeVe-
raj attempts to escape, but the guards
have been forced to injure two of them
to keep them within bounds. The
tramps were going through Kansas,
bound for Colorado. The freight train
upon which they were riding was
wrecked near Pratt, and the tramps
were captured and put to work. Hun
dreds of acres of wheat are going to
ruin for want Of harvest hands. The
farmers are blaming the state agency
for keeping the harvest hands out OF
Kansas, and claim it is a political
scheme. The tramps are being paid 81
a day for their work.
The funeral of Mrs. John Siebert,
Of Mount Morris, near Sterling, Ind,
was delayed last Wednesday until the
mourners could adjourn to a cornheld
and administer a coat of tar and feath-
ers to the husband and sister of the
dead woman. Then the funeral pro-
ceeded, but the two were to have been
chief mourners and were absent. The
house was filled with sorrowing neigh
bors when some Of them discovered
Siebert in another room, hugging and
kissing Mrs. Theodore Wolfe. The
crowd quickly dragged the couple to the
cornfield. A plentiful supply of tar was
poured over the victims and the featn-
ers from pillow were emptied on each.
Then the two were driven from the vii
lage and ordered never to return. Mrs.
Siebert died Of consumption and during
the two years Of her sickness, it is al
legged that her husband was continually
making love to his wifes sister.
- With a desire to ease his conscience
of the crime of cold-blooded murder,
William F. McAllister, a Philippine vet
eran, has surrendered to Chief of Po-
lice Kidward, at San Jose, California.
McAllister, who is 80 years of age,
comes from Wheatland, Ill. He enlisted
in the army during the Spanish-Amer-
lean war, and was sent to the Philip
pines in company K, Thirteenth United
States infantry. The man claims to
have seen much hard service, and final
ly became hardened and possessed OF
an insane desire to kill Filipino single
handed. In May, 1900, McAllister says,
he stole away from camp and met three
inoffensive Filipinos. He raised his
gun to his shoulder and shot one OF
them dead. On April 3, 1901, McAllis-
nf ha
Chief kilward will hold the man until
an investigation can be made.
Says a Washington dispatch OF
Wednesday night: The city has on a
lively appearance today. Many sena-
tors and prominent politicians are leav-
ing for their homes or summer resorts.
IL is expected after the Fourth that
President Roosevelt will go direct to
Oyster Bay from Pittsburg, and in
Washington little will be seen Of him
until October or November. This ses-
sion of congress, which adjourned at
$50 yesterday afternoon, has been
disappointment to many and the pub
lie today has been discussing just
what has and what has not been done.
During the two hundred and eleven
days Of the session over a billion dol
lars have been appropriated. Twenty
thousand bills and resolutions have
been offered. The most important bills
passed were the repeal Of the war rev.
enue taxation; the isthmian canal bill;
Chinese exclusion; oleomargarine; Phil
ippines civil government; Philippines
revenue; irrigation and permanent CEN
sus. Among the important bills that
failed of passage are: Cuban recplroc-
ity, Babcock low tariff, anti-anarchy,
department of commerce, popular elec-
ton of senator's ship subsidy, anti
trust and national militia.
The national weather bureaus
weekly summary Of crop conditions,
issued Tuesday, says: The northern por-
ton of the country east Of the Rocky
Mountains has experienced another de-
cidedly cool week, with generally
abundance of rainfall. In the southern
phenomenally heavy rains, where they
were greatly needed, over large
part of Texas and portions of North
ern Louisiana and Southern Arkansas.
Cotton continues to suffer for rain In
the south-central portion Of the cot
ton belt, and drought conditions have
rapidly developed over the greater part
of Georgia, where the crop is in less
favorable condition than in the preVl-
GUS week. Over the northern portions
of the central and eastern divisions more
favorable conditions exist, although lice
are extensively reported throughout
the central and eastern portions. Ihe
feature of the week was the abundant
rainfall over the greater part OF the
drought region of Texas. in which the
condition of cotton has been greatly
improved. Drought, however, contin-
ues in extreme northwestern and south
western Texas. The weather conditions
OF the week have been generally faVor-
able for the tobacco crop, which, how
ever, has not made rapid growth in the
Middle Atlantic states as result OF
low temperature.
Chairman Dalzell, of the special
committee of the house Of representa-
tives which investigated the charges In
connection with the purchase of the
Danish West India islands, submitted
the report of the committee last Tues
day, showing that Captain Christmas
had repudiated the alleged report on