Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-03-08

Chronicle reporter today. "One OF the
principal objects of the recent tour of
President Spencer and the directors
was for the purpose of inspecting this
work, and the boys in the general Of
fees say that the officials were highly
pleased with the progress they obserV-
ed. The greater part of the work or
double tracking the line between Wash
ington and Charlotte has been accom-
plished, and trains are running daily
over much of the double track. Com
paratively little work has been done
between Charlotte and Atlanta al
though satisfactory progress Is being
made, and it is probable that Wash
ington and Atlanta will be connected
within the next eighteen months. Then
the Southern will have one Of the nm
est lines in the entire country
Richard Dixon, a negro. was shot
to death by a mob at Springfield, O.,
last night, for the murder OF Charles
Coils, a policeman. Coils had gone to
Dixon's room on the negro's request.
Dixon said his mistress had his
clothes in her possession. Coils ac-
companied Dixon to the room and IN
a short time the man and woman en-
gagged in. a quarrel which resulted In
Dixon shooting the woman, who IS
variously known as Anna or Mamie
Corbin, in the left breast, just over
the heart. She fell unconscious at the
first shot and Coils jumped towards
the negro to prevent his escape from
the room. Dixon then fired four balls
into Coils, the last of which penetrat-
ed his abdomen. Dixon went imme-
diately to police headquarters and gave
himself up. He was taken to jail. by
1870 o'clock $500 men had collected
in the vicinity Of the Jail, and they
broke in by using cold chisels. At
ter dragging the negro to the front
steps, there was a suggestion OF pos
sible interference by the police, and
a. yolley was fired into his body. At
terward the body was swung to tel
egraph pole and further riddled with
bullets. The lynching was as quiet
and orderly as such an affair could
we'll be, and there was no effort what
ever at any kind of a disguise.
Justice Brewer of the United States
supreme court, was the principal
speaker at a service that was held In
Washington last Sunday in commem-
grafton Of the one-hundredth anniver-
sary Of the organization Of the British
and Foreign Bible society. Among 9TH
er things he said: 1T is scarcely nee
essary before this audience to enter
upon an eulogy or defence of the great
Book of Books. But this is the age of
the iconoclast, when destructive crit
icism runs rampant. Some criticism,
indeed, is reverent and useful-that
which seeks simply to correct
wrong translations and arrange in
chronological order the matchless
truths of Scripture. 1t is striving to
remove from the sacred volume the
dust that careless centuries have
strewn upon it. But there are other
critics, without such lofty aim, who
strive to destroy the faith of other
men, simply because it is held. The
iconoclast is a popular man today
To him the Bible appears merely as
sort of crazy quilt Of untrue history,
ticable morality and vague foreshad-
owings Of the unknown and unknow-
able. Yet we who believe know there
are passages in the Bible unsurpassed
in solemn beauty in the literature of
the world: that its ideals Of morality
are those to which the best within us
Is always aspiring; that it's promises
are the sweetest and most comforting
that have ever come to the tired hearts
Of men," Justice Brewer declared that
the greatest glory of this nation lies
in the fact that ever and always it has
striven to translate into the vernacular
Of international law the parable of the
good Samaritan and the golden rule.
- Says a London dispatch of March
5: A world wide war, which will drag
into its vortex five great nations and
involve the expenditure Of millions OF
human lives and billions of dollars, is
the spectre which haunts London in
these days of battle in the far east
and which has caused feeling of ter
ror among the money magi OF Lom-
bard street. Only the most superb
generalship prevented another panic
far greater than that recorded two
weeks ago. Paris is the very heart of
the sound developed by the war be-
tween Japan and Russia. France is
ready now TO aid Russia and the first
great defeat suffered by the Russians,
the first great loss sustained. will fire
a mine which is ready. London knows
this and fears the result. The first
overt act by France will drag England
into the conflict and the greatest
navies of earth will be forced to bat
tie against each other. Lombard
street is the delicate thermometer that
marks the changes in feeling in Great
Britain and nothing could be more
significant than the condition existing
in London's financial world at this
time. A great financial panic is immi-
nent, and it hangs only upon the con-
.tinuance Of the conservative faction in
power in Paris. To London the war in
the far east has become a mere pre-
lude to a far more serious affair; a
curtain raiser to the greatest war
drama that has ever been played IN
the history of the world. The mat
ter of real Importance will be the