Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-10-27

will take all of the responsibility.
A special from Brunswick, Ga
SAYS: Because of his insolence to lady
from Spartanburg, S. c., a Negro Pull
man car porter was put off train NO.
IA, of the Southern railway in the
woods yesterday. He was left there to
mediate how much better it Is for
Negro to be polite even if he Is In the
uniform Of the Pullmans. The Negro
spoke to the lady something about
transferring to another train. She did
not understand him and asked him to
repeat what he had said. He did 1t
very insolently. George H. Smith, the
treasurer of the city of Brunswick, was
on the train, and observing the manner
in which the Negro spoke to the lady,
gave him a thrashing. The porter ap-
pealed to Conductor Tengale, but got
little sympathy. AS soon as the con-
ductor heard how the Negro had acted
he stopped the train and hustled the
insolent darkey off. He wouldn't let
him stop to even change his uniform.
The Negro who was taught lesson
in manners is from Milwaukee.
United States Senator Asbury C.
Latimer of South Carolina addressed
the Southeastern Iowa Good Roads
Association at Burlington, one after
noon last week. He favored govern
ment aid in highway improvement. He
said: AN effort is now being made by
g ,,oA, io1 IN
public life to devise some financial
scheme by which the treasury surplus
now taken from circulation under the
Dingley tariff may be put back into
circulation. The scheme is to loan
this money to national banks without
interest. am opposed to this and feel
it would be better for the Federal gov
ernment to appropriate s100,000,000 Of
this surplus per annum for five years
for building good roads. This $780,
100000, supplemented by an additional
50O.OOO.OOO from the people, would, in
my judgment, meet all the demands
necessary to improve the roads
throughout the Union. The result
would be an increased value of land
throughout the United States any
where from 10 to SO per cent, on 6,OOO,-
900 acres of tillable land"
Trial by jury in civil actions in the
county courts in England has long been
declining in popularity. On one circuit,
in which several thousand cases Of
some Importance were disposed of
during 1902, not a single action was
tried with jury. This is certainly not
surprising, if county juries often be-
have as did the five good men and true
whose strange methods in arriving at
verdict were described by county
court judge in the London Times the
other day. The case, which arose out
of an accident, lasted two days. "The
Jury of five retired. Said No. l: oil,
Grease & Oil are my solicitors; my
verdict is for them. Oddly enough, No.
2 and No also employed the same
solicitors, and so the three were solid
for Oil, Grease & OIL. For hours Nos.
and held out. Night was far ad-
vanced they were cold and hungry and
submitted" This is bad enough, but
what the county court judge adds Is
even more calculated to make all liti-
gants' flesh creep. up spake No. /:
Let me see, were Oil, Grease & Oil for
plaintiff or defendant?' But, alas!
none Of the five knew"
Mr.. w. J. Bryan has been before
the probate court at New Haven,
Conn.,, during the past week in behalf
of his interest in the will of the late
Philo S. Bennett, a millionaire Of New
Haven, deceased. The will contains a
bequest of $4,000 to Mr.. Bryan. 1t ap-
pears that Mr.. Bryan and Mr.. Bennett
were great friends. the latter having
been drawn to the former during his
first presidential campaign. Mr.. Ben
nett's will was prepared by Mr.. Bryan.
having been dictated to his wife, who
took it down on a typewriter Mrs.
Bennett, the widow of the testator, is
objecting to the probation Of the will
with the provision that deals so liber-
ally with Mr.. Bryan. She holds that
there was no reason for the bequest.
Mrs. Bryan is testifying to letter that
she wrote to Mrs. Bennett at the dicta-
tion Of Mr.. Bennett, instructing Mrs.
Bennett as to Mr.. Benefits wishes in
the matter. Mr.. Bryan testifies that
although the bequest was made uncon-
ditionally, the understanding with the
deceased was that part of the money
was to go to Mr.. Bryan's children, and
the balance to be used for educational
purposes.
Leslie NJ. Shaw, secretary of the
treasury Of the United States, opened
the Iowa campaign last Friday night,
with speech at MuScatine in which
he talked for two hours upon the tariff,
making as the keynote of his talk an
appeal to the people to demand the
opening up Of the markets of the south
for United States products. He spoke
for two hours to the largest political
gathering ever assembled here. Secre-
tary Shaw said in part: We are now
within twelve months of another ma
tional campaign and with no present
cropping in the dark. The candidate for
governor in no state dare express him
self on the money question. The Dem
ocratic nominee for governor in no
state dare say whether he is in favor
Of free silver Of in favor Of the gold