Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-03-25
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a Negro named Quincy Wright, who
was riding the blind baggage was
smashed to shreds. There was a large
number of passengers on the train; but
all escaped without injury.
There is but little change In the
flood situation in the Mississippi valley
since the last report, except that the
river Is falling at Memphis and rising
at New Orleans. At Memphis on Mon
day the official reading showed stage
Of 1875 feet, fall Of one-tenth Of foot
in the previous twenty-four hours.
The railroads running out Of Memphis
to the westward have not yet been able
to repair their trestles and will not De
able to do anything until the water has
subsided. The people of Arkansas
towns who are surrounded by water
are not suffering from hunger. Tne
levee authorities from Memphis down
to New Orleans think the levees IN
their respective jurisdictions are strong
enough to hold the floods. New Ut
leans processes absolute security. so
far as reports indicate, there Is no
uneasiness there whatever.
The report Of the commission ap-
pointed by the president last Octooer
IN investigate the anthracite coal
strike, was made public last SATURDAY
The report is dated March 1S, and Is
sipned by all the members Of the COM
mission. In brief the commission re-
commends an increase OF wages
amounting in most instances to 10 per
cent: some decrease OF time; the se'-
tlement of all disputes by arbitratton'
fixes a minimum wage %andaa slolns
scale, provides against discrimination
of persons by either the mine owners
or the miners on account OF member
ship or non-membership in "a LABOR
union, and provides that the AWARDS
made shall continue in force until lsoo
To some extent the matter of recogni-
ton or non-recognition Of the miners
union Is touched on, but the commis-
sion declined to make any award on
this matter.
Mrs. Willard Gait, Of Pike county,
Indiana, was shot last Friday night
through the window Of her home, and
on Saturday morning searching parties
started out to find some trace OF the
assassin. Suspicion rested upon Will
lard Gait, the divorced husband but ne
and his relatives joined also In the
search. Marshal Sumter had blood
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and the dog, when taken to the scene
of the tragedy, started at once on
trail that led to the house OF Gait.
When 1t was reached the dog turned
away and soon came upon the search
ing party led by Willard Gait. The dog
refused to go further, but sat down IN
front Of Gait and then tried to spring
upon him. The dog followed no other
trail. and a second time tried to spring
upon Gait. The former husband was
arrested as the murderer Of his wife
and was placed in Jail. He refused to
make any statement.
Mrs. Florence Maybrick, the Amer
lean woman who was convicted at Liv-
ing her husband, James Maybrick, by
arsenic and whose sentence Of death
was commuted to penal servitude for
life, will be released in 1904. The an
nouncement comes from the home Of
flee, which now authorizes her Wash
ington lawyers to use the fact OF her
release next year as a reason for Sc
curing the postponement Of the trial
of the law suits bearing on the prison.
ers interest in land in Kentucky, Vir-
ginia and West Virginia until she Is
able to personally testify. Those who
are in a position to know, say that the
home secretary, Akers-Douglass, has
shown great courtesy in connection
with the suits now pending in America,
that the decision to release Mrs. May
brick was entirely due to efforts on
this side Of the Atlantic and that Am
bassador Herbert has never been called
upon to act in this matter.
- Col. VIM. J. Bryan finished a week
Of jury service at Lincoln, Neb., last
Friday, and received a certificate en-
titling him to 5000 for his labors. Mr..
Bryan served on three cases, was elect
ed foreman Of each jury and altogeth-
er had such a good time that he told
the court he guessed he would write q
book about it, He said he served al
though entitled to exemption as law
yer because he thought his example
might induce other citizens to sacrifice
personal interest for duty's sake. The
last case was one involving the owner
ship of $12 worth of hay, upon which
two days were spent, and Col. Bryan's
verdict for the plaintiff was supple
mented by what local lawyers call re-
markable series Of recommendations,
altogether irregular and in fact an at
tempt at the impossibility Of an equi-
table accounting in a straight law case.
1t read that while the verdict was un-
conditional, the jury thought the plain
tiff ought to take $6, pay half Of the
costs and stop further litigation.
-Supt. Machin, Of the rural free de-
livery service, on Saturday, made pub
lie a wholesale allotment Of routes
which have been under consideration
by the postoffice department for some
time, aggregating 719 in number and
covering nearly all of the states in the
Union. Nebraska heads the list with
an allotment of III routes, and New
York is second with all aggregate Of
104 comprising nearly every county in
the state, with from two to twenty
routes each. These routes will all be
put in operation on July 1. The allot-