Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-07-29

Is no telling, under ordinary conditions'
Italy stands the best chance Of elect
ing a pope. That Is because there are
more Italian cardinals within easy
reach Of Rome, and the Italians gener-
ally have q majority Of the sacred COL
lege. Pope Leo, however, has been at
the point Of death for a long enough
time to allow almost all Of the cardi-
nails to get to Rome, certainly all VINO
cared to do so. The sacred college,
therefore, will be composed Of repre-
sentatives of nearly every portion OF
the Catholic world, and under TINS
condition there is no predicting who
will probably be selected as the sue
cessor of Pope Leo XIII.
-Morganton, N. c., News-Herald: A
few days back Mrs. Jessie Oils, VINO
lives near Pisgah church, and one mile
from Altamont, put her little three
months old baby in rocking chair on
a pillow and carried it out to the corn
field. where she had few rows of corn
to hoe. She placed the chair In the
shade and went about hoeing the corn.
When she returned to see about her
little one, to her horror she FOUND
large blacksnake coiled about Its head
and face. The little woman seized the
snakes head with her hand and hurl-
ed it away from her babe, and to her
ioy found the babe unharmed. The
snake sank it's fangs into her hand IN
two places, but no serious harm has
resulted from the wounds. Mrs. Oils
Is the daughter Of John Wise ana
seems to have inherited some OF the
pluck of her father. 1t was he VINO,
some years ago, seized large black
bear that was killing his dogs, by the
hind leg and held it until another man
ran more than a hundred. yards anc
shot it. ~'
There was a wild Negro hunt at
Danville, ILL.,, last Saturday, resulting
in the death Of two Negroes and one
white man and the wounding Of twen-
ty or thirty whites. A Negro commit
ted an assault on the wife Of a white
farmer in the neighborhood, and soon
after his arrest mob gathered for an
attack on the Jail. While the mob was
on it's way, white man got into an
alteration with another Negro and the
Negro killed the white man. The Ne
gro was quickly run down, hanged to
a telephone pole, hacked to pieces and
burned in the public square. After this
the mob attacked the Jail. The sherih
tried to bluff the enraged men back
and fired on them, wounding several
The attack was continued and the Ne
gro was found in a large iron sare'
where he was killed with q sledge
hammer. By this time the whole city
was in an uproar and troops began to
arrive on the scene. Some Negroes
armed themselves and others fled. The
whites were shooting every Negro they
saw, and the situation has not yet en-
tirely quieted down.
Indianapolis dispatch of Thurs
day: The people of Linton, coal
mining town Of Green county, gave no.
tice several days ago that the Negroes
who are attached to the Wallace cir
Gus. must not enter the place. The
show was billed there for today and
the outlook was so threatening that
Governor Durbin called up the sheriH
by telephone this morning and sug-
gested swearing in a large force or
deputies. The sheriff admitted that
the feeling against the Negroes IS
strong and promised to see that the
peace Of the town Is preserved. The
Wallace company had received notice
of the threats and when the train bear
ing the company reached Switz CITY,
twenty miles from Linton, all the Ne
groes were ordered to stay there till
the show was given at Linton and
then to join the company at another
place. This precaution saved trouble,
as the people had determined that no
Negroes should enter the place. The
prejudice against the Negroes Is con-
fined to the coal miners and their fam
lilies and is said to have been caused
by the employment Of Negroes In the
mines several years ago, when the
white men were on a strike. AS soon
as the strike was settled the Negroes
were driven away and not a Negro
has been allowed in the town since.
Scranton, Pa, dispatch Of July rs:
An attempt to lynch John Peel, a Del
aware, Lackawanna and Western COM
pany detective, was made last night at
Foster, by a crowd of villagers who
were infuriated upon learning that he
had gained evidence which would con-
meet a score of the families Of the
village with wholesale thievery Of brass
and other junk from the company's
property. Peel was attacked at no
tel while waiting for train. When
the mob made its attack with cries Of
lynch him!" the detective drew his
revolver and began pulling the trigger,
but there was something wrong with
the mechanism of the hammer and the
cartridges were not exploded. Peel
gained the waiting room while the mob
was shrinking before his leveled revol-
yer, and he locked himself in. Word
was telegraphed to this city and a
force Of twenty-five officers was has
tily recruited, to be sent to the detec-
tives rescue. In the meantime pas
senger train arrived and the crew, act
ing under telegraphic orders from this
city. quit the train and after a hard
fight succeeded in getting the detec-
tive on the train. The ringleader Of
the mob is said to be one Of the lead
ing citizens Of the town, and it is al
legged that because the detective had
gained evidence in connection with the