Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-12-20
Scraps aud facts.

General Kuroki was killed by q
Russian shell. The captain says he
was with General Kuroki until Octo-
ber 80, whereas the several reports he
had seen said the general had been
killed October s.
A strange story Of crime has been
received from the small town Of Ia
mazunchala in the state Of San Luis
Potosi. An Indian Known as Cahuant-
ri, who was suffering from an attack
Of hydrophobia encountered Vincent
Silva and the latter's mother, who
were coming to town and killed them
with a long knife. The number Of
wounds inflicted Is said to have been
over twenty to each victim. He then
killed a shepherd. Rurales were sent
out to capture the man, but when they
approached him Cahuantzi fired upon
them with a revolver, killing one and
woundine another. He was finally kill
ed by the ruraIes. cahuantzi is sup
posed to have gone mad as the result
OF being bitten by coyote some weeks
ago.
Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick, the wo-
man who deposited with the bank at
oberlin, o., alleged securities to the
amount Of some sl2,oo0,oOO and then
borrowed about one million dollars on
the receipt the banker gave her, is
now In Jail at Cleveland, o. She was
arraigned last Saturday and plead not
guilty; but did not ask to be admit
ted to bail. Banker Beckwith and his
cashier, were also arraigned and in
pleading not guilty were admitted to
bail in the sum Of $4,000 each. A ma
tional bank examiner has been detail
ed to unravel as far as possible Mrs.
Chadwicks peculiar financial transac-
tions, the exact nature Of which has
never been determined. 1t is expect
ed that the trial .of this most remark
able case will develop additional SEN
sations.
A bill amending the revised stat
utes and providing for the retirement
of United States Federal judges who
reach the age Of seventy years after
having served for ten years. has been
introduced in the house by Represen-
tative' Watson Of Indiana. The meas
ure provides that where any Judge Of
any court of the United. States resigns
his Office after having held his COM
mission as such for ten years, and
having attained the age Of seventy
years, he shall, during the rest Of his
life, receive the same salary paid him
at the time Of his resignation. and
any such judge who has attained the
age Of eighty years and who has not
resigned under the provisions Of this
act shall be relieved Of all the active
duties Of his office and placed on the
retired list, at the same salary paid him
at the time OF his retirement.
Thomas w. Lawson continues the
disturbing element In the New York
stock market. AS the result Of his
confidence advertisements
In the newspapers prices on all kinds
Of stock. especially copper. went down
to very low figures. The aggregate
decrease was hundreds df millions Of
dollars. One large operator, Colonel
VIM. C. Greene. advertised in the New
York papers that he would go to Bos-
ton last Thursday and denounce Law
son as a liar. thief and robber. Law
son was on the designated spot before
the arrival Of Greene and shortly after
Greene came the two men shook hands
and talked over the situation pleas
antly. Greene claimed to have lost
$4,000, 900 as the result Of Lawson's
bear campaign. Although there has
been lots Of excitement, the non-spec-
ulative public is inclined to the opin-
ion that Lawson is merely playing a
game and 1t Is not altogether certain
that Greene and others are not in col
lusion with him.
A special dispatch from Toxic re-
ports that the Japanese naval bonn
bardment On Saturday sank Russian
torpedo boat at Port Arthur. Accord
ing to the Daily Telegraph's Chefoo
messenger from the Japanese lines at
Port Arthur, the Russians had prepar-
ed a trench around the fort at Pan
lung, almost 600 yards long and 80 feet
wide, which they filed with petrole-
um to a depth Of several feet, then
covered It with wood and straw. In
the course Of an attack on the fort
early in December, the Japanese
storming party sank into this morass,
which the Russians fired with an elec-
trio fuse. The fierce confagration
lasted all night and day, and hundreds
Of Japanese were burned to death, but
the second night, the trench having
been dried up. the Japanese advanced
In small detachments, protected by
large wooden shields and engaged in
a savage bayonet fight. The Japan
ese, the report continues, captured the
position and made prisoners of 152
Russians.
AN interesting story Of the great
struggle at arms between Japan and
Russia lies in a long established per-
sonal friendship between General Te-
rauchi, minister of war Of Japan, and
General Kuropatkin, commander in
chief of the Russian armies in Man
churia, and an exchange of swords as
presents between them on the eve of
the war. says Toxic dispatch. Ku-
ropatkin and Terauchi met in Paris
twenty years ago. There sprang up
between them q feeling Of warm
friendship and regard. They parted in
Paris and did not meet until Kuropat-
kin came to Japan last year. When
Kuropatkin was about to leave Terau-
chi presented him with a Japanese
sword-an old blade Of the finest
workmanship and with an interesting
history. When he reached st Peters
burg, Kuropatkin gave an order for
the manufacture of a Russian sword
for his friend Terauchi. 1t was finish
ed and dispatched in December, and
reached the Japanese capital a week
before Togo's guns opened! fire on
Port Arthur. A somewhat peculiar
thing ahout tho Russian suora iS m Z