Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-10-16
Straps and faets.

Skinner had his hand in his NIP pocket
at thetime. AS Hayward fired, Skin
at the time. AS Hayward fired, Skin
Skinner fell mortally wounded. The
shooting was the outcome of family
scandal.
Saws a Rochelle, Ca, dispatch OF
October 13: The father of Tom Car
uthers, who is under sentence to hang
for the murder of Henry Byrd, has
made application for the reward offer
ed for the capture of the youth. The
Negro was sentenced to hang on Oc-
tober 16. He escaped, but was after
wards arrested at Hawkinsvilie. A
reward of $3.50 had been offered for
him in the meantime. Now the Negro s
father is applying for the reward. The
sheriff of Pulaski thinks the father IS
entitled to it, as the old man gave the
officers the information that led to the
arrest Of the youth. The idea the old
Negro had was that the boy was fu-
gitive from justice, and was about TO
starve to death, and it would be better
for him to be put to trial even If he
had to hang. The old Negro thought
hanging could not be as bad as starv-
ing.
"A Toxic, Japan, cable Of yesterday
to the London Times says the Russo
Japanese negotiations are progressing
there, and there is no reason at pres
ent to apprehend any but peaceful
issue. The Times correspondent IN
Russia sends elaborate accounts OF
military preparations and the hurrying
Of troops to the far east. They state
that two army corps, with an aggre-
gate of 100000 men, are being mobili-
zed and dispatched through Siberia.
1t is stated that the war ministry mas
already demanded an extra credit or
25,OOO, 900 roubles for these prepara-
tions. NJ. Witte left the finance min
istry Just in time to escape the disa-
greeable situation. His successor IS
said to be hardly able to cope with the
difficulties Of the situation. Reserve
officers are being refused passports
abroad, and there seems no doubt, says
the Times, that the postponement OF
the cars visit to Italy is as much due
to the far eastern crisis as to the So
cialists.
The question raised at The Hague
international court as to the language
in which the Venezuela arbitration is
to be conducted marks the steady
progress Of English speech, observes
the London Chronicle. A couple Of
centuries ago there would have been
no such question. Latin as the inter-
national tongue would have been used
as a matter of course. it was the ac-
knowledged medium Of statesmen
scholars and travellers. Then, in the
eighteenth century, by reason Of the
pre- -eminence of Louis XIV, French
succeeded Latin and reigned as the
language of courts, diplomacy and ira
vel. It's international status was first
challenged at the Berlin congress In
1876, when Disraeli, prompted by his
insufficient French, proposed, and with
Bismarck's support, made English
the medium of the deliberations. At
the cars peace congress, English
was widely used, and now in the Vene-
zuela arbitration. Great Britain, Ger
many and Italy maintain that the doc
umentary pleadings shall be in English.
The last commercial treaty between
China and Mexico were also in Eng
lish.
Senator c. w. Fairbanks Of Indi-
ana, as soon as the regular session or
congress convenes will take up mat
ter in which he is much interested, says
a Richmond special dispatch to the
New York Times. Just before the ad-
journment last spring he offered res
olution calling upon the postal depart
ment to investigate the feasibility OF
using the telephone in the delivery or
special delivery letters. The senate
would not make an appropriation at
that time, as the proposition was new.
Senator Fairbanks talks enthusiastic
ally Of the matter. He believes that
the adoption of the rural telephone will
make 1t possible for the farmer to re-
ceive his mail as quickly as the man
in town. He would have it arranged so
that the postmaster could open the
special delivery letter and read it over
the telephone to the man in the coun-
try. The rapid extension Of telephone
lines through the rural districts makes
the scheme more easy that it would
have been at the time he prepared 1t.
He has talked with merchants and
farmers and members of the postohce
department, and they are all in favor
Of the plan. He says he intends to
push the matter as rapidly as possible.
Army circles, says a Washington
dispatch, are greatly interested in the
fight which it is proposed to make
during the coming congress for the re-
establishment of the army canteen or
post exchange. The plan is said to be
to attach a rider to the military appro-
priation bill, repeating the anti-can-
teen law, which was enacted two years
. ago at the behest of the w. c. T. U.
and other similar societies and church
organizations. Ever since the law
abolishing the canteen went into effect
reports have been pouring into the
war department from every garrison
of United States troops in this coun-
try, as we'll as in our contiguous
possessions, all of them stating that
drunkenness, crime, insubordination
and other violence of military laws
have increased many fold. The record
hn haa1a l1raifarranl1, had that q arnai mis-