Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-03-22

Mindanao. On March Z, detachInents
of the Seventeenth and Twenty-third
infantry, troop B. Of the Fourteenth
cavalry, and Gatleys battery, in all 450
strong, under command Of Gen. Leon
ard Wood, attacked and captured the
Gotta Gort) which was held by the
Datto Ali, who resistS the anti-slaVery
law. His defensive works were de-
stroyed and their abandonment forced
by the accurate fire of the battery.
Two thousand Moros made their re-
treat, with a loss of 100. The Ameri-
cans sustained no losses. Twenty-four
cannon, forty-six lantacas. native ar
tillery and a large quantity of ammu-
milton were captured and the fortifica-
tions reduced. Major Truitt and Capt.
MacCoy pursued and captured the
Datto Lybangun and his retainers.
Troops are now trailing all.
Suicide has become epidemic
among the professors at the Ohio
State University. says a Columbus dis
patch to the New York Sun. Charles
Walter Mesloh. assistant professor OF
German, killed himself Tuesday morn
ing at his home on the campus by tax
ing poison. He is the third of the uni
versity's professors to commit suicide
within eighteen months. Profs. clark
and Eggers were the others. Clark
shot himself in his room and EgGers
killed himself with a revolver on the
college grounds. Mesloh's suicide is
due to disappointment growing out OF
the suicide of Prof. Eggers, whose po-
sition as head Of the German depart
ment Mesloh had expected to get.
Mesloh had been extremely nervous for
several weeks. He attempted suicide
a week ago by taking chloroform. A
wife and three children survive Mes
loh. He graduated from the universi-
ty in 1888 and took postgraduate
courses at Chicago and Berlin.
- Chauncey Dewey and his two cow
boys, Clyde Wilson and VIM. ]. Nc
Bryde, were acquitted at Norton. Kan,
last Saturday night of the charge of
numbering Burchard Berry, by a jury
which had considered the case twenty
eight hours. Chauncey Dewey, a
young millionaire ranchman, went to
Cheyenne county, Kan. early in 1900
to manage the Dewey ranch. Soon
after his arrival there he became in
volved in trouble with the Berry fc,m-
lily, who were also prominent cattle
men. Trivial misunderstanding grew
into serious differences which culmi-
mated in the killing Of Burchard Berry
in June, 1908, at the home of Alpheus
Berry. during a fight in which Dewey
and ten of his cowboys were pirted
against all the Berrys. Dewey and his
cowboys went to the Berry ranch to
get a tank that Dewey had bought in
at a sheriff's sale. The feud had
grown bitter before this time, and
when the Deweys started to take the
tank away the Berrys rode up and
battle took place between the two fac
tions in which Burchard Berry was
killed.
A special to the Memphis Com
mercial-Apreal from Grenada, Miss,
says: An anti-lynching crusade has
been inaugurated by the w. r. Barks-
dale Camp, United Confederate Vet
Grams, of this city. The following sig
nificant resolutions were unanimously
adopted at a largely attended meeting
of the camp: First. That we are un-
alterably opposed to the lynching OF
a human being, save perhaps for the
one unmentionable crime. Second.
That as Confederate veterans and
abiding citizens Of Mississippi
and of the United States we are rio-
lently, vehemently and eternally OPP
posed to the practice Of burning a
human being for any crime whatso-
ever Third. That we appeal in
laundering tones to all Confederate
veterans, their wives and daughters
and to that great and glorious or
ganization, the Daughters of the Con-
federacy, one and all, to arise in their
might and by precept and example,
voice and pen, moral force and infiu-
ence, help put q stop to this diaboli-
cal, barbaric, unlawful. inhuman and
ungodly crime of burning human be-
ings. Fourth. That we heartily ap-
prove of and applaud the action Of
Governor Vardaman in his recent sue
cessful efforts to save a criminal from
a mob bent on burning.
Representative Hearst of New
York, on Friday introduced a resolu-
ton providing for an investigation Of
the trust question by committee of
five members of the house. The reso-
luton contains ten clauses. reciting
the evil effects of the trusts upon the
country. -Afffong other things it de-
clares: Such extortionate trusts as
the beef trust and the coal trust and
the ice trust have arbitrarily increased
the cost of the necessaries Of life to
the public. Such speculative trusts as
the ship yard trust and the steel trust
have inflated their stock to many times
its actual value. and sold to the public
transferring the peoples money from
banks and legitimate investments into
the pockets Of promoters and Specula-
tors. Industrial unrest has been
fomented by the increased cost of liv-
ing and by the consequent necessary
efforts of labor to make its wages keep
pace with the increased cost of living.
Such trusts as the steel trust, in spite
of the increased cost of living. have
rutbleSSly cut down the wages of hun