Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-03-17
Scraps and facts.

while the trains were yet in this city.
Last night the police of the city sue
ceeded in locating and arresting two
negroes, who are thought to be lead
ers of the gang of thieves. In the
possession of one of these negroes,
John Harris, were 4S quarts bottles OF
corn whisky. Ernest Crawford, the
other negro under arrest, had numer-
Gus articles concealed in his home that
had been taken from cars passing
through Charlotte. 1t Is conservatively
estimated that the Southern has lost
fifty thousand dollars by car thieves
within the city limits of Charlotte
since the first Of last December.
St Louis Globe-Democrat: Justice
B. Nathan of Alton, received letter
yesterday from Mrs. H. T. Robinson,
of Richmond, Mo-, containing his pho
tograph, which the sender inclosed to
the postmaster at Alton, directing him
to deliver the letter to tie original OF
the photograph. Mrs. Robinson want
ed to ascertain the relatives of Mrs.
Elizabeth Tunnbridge Jepson, who
died at Richmond, Mo-, and was bur-
led on her birthday, Christmas day.
Mrs. Jepson and Justice Nathan were
born in Kent, England. She had fire.
quently spoken to friends Of her fellow
townsman In Alton, but her friends
could not recall his name, and Mrs.
Robinson depended upon the postmas-
ter at Alton to deliver the letter to
the original Of the photograph. Mrs.
Jepson left an estate to her blood rel
atives in England. Justice Nathan
was asked to supply their names and
addresses, which he readily did.
Field Marshal oyama, whose bril-
liant strategy has electrified the mill
tary world, has been the brain OF ia
pans fighting arms for many years.
For a long time prior to the Chino-Ja-
panese war he had been minister OF
marine and war. He made all the
plans for that quick, decisive struggle,
both military and naval, and when the
right moment came took the field in
person, capturing Port Arthur and
Wei-hai-Wei, and ended the war In
short order. AS chief Of the general
staff at Toxic since that time he also
made all the plans for the present
war; and in July last, after the forces
of Kuroki, Oku, Nodzu and Nogi had
taken respective positions, he again
took the field as commander in chief.
He was in personal command when
Kuropatkin was beaten at Lao Yang,
stopped that general at the Sha river,
when the Russians attempted an often
sive movement for the relief Of Port
Arthur, and has now crowned won
derful campaign by the decisive vic
tory of Mukden, where Kuropatkin's
huge army seems to be all but ami
hilated. Marshal Oyama Is go years
old.
Harbin, toward which Marshal
Oyama Is pushing the fleeing Rus
slams, Is practically the geographical
center Of Manchuria. 1t Is located on
the Sungari river at the point where
the Transsiberian railway defects
southwark to Mukden and Port Ar
thur, and Is surrounded on all sides
for hundreds of miles with a rich
agricultural country. Within a dozen
years the city practically has been
built up by the Russian government,
through the agency Of the Manchurian
Railway company, and within five
years the population has increased
from 10000 to $4,000. Great areas Of
in the immediate vicinity of the city,
the leading industry Of which is the
manufacture Of flour. Much Of this
product is turned into bread to feed
the cars troops. Hence it will be seen
that should the Russians be compelled
to abandon Harbin their food supply
would be menaced. Hardin Is about
400 miles from Vladivostok and 900
from Port Arthur. 1t has schools,
banks and excellent administrative
buildings. In fact, the structures in
the place are said to have cost about
$16,000,000. 1t is believed that the
Japanese would open the city to gener-
al commerce.
AS the result of a bitter personal
quarrel, Earl Carpenter shot and kill
ed A. M. Kale at Hardin, Is miles
north Of Gastonia, on the Carolina
& North Western railway this after
noon at 1890 o'clock. Before the
fatal bullet was fired, Kale shot Car
penter, who is in an unconscious con-
dition and expected to die. Coroner
w. NJ. Davis was notified and left
Immediately for the scene Of the
tragedy. Kale was the superintendent
of the Minis Manufacturing company,
at Mount Holly, and was about 35
years old. Carpenter is a son Of o.
D. Carpenter, the owner of the Har-
din cotton mill, and is about 21 years
Of age. The two men quarreled over
the employment of mill help, and
when they met in the public road near
Hardin, a fight ensued. After Kale
fired his revolver, he was shot several
times by Carpenter, the bullets taking
effect in the head and other places.
Death resulted Immediately. Carpen-
ter was removed from the scene Of
the homicide more dead than alive,
and it was said this afternoon that
he could not survive. The dead man
is survived by a widow and several
children. He had been engaged in the
mill business for a number Of years
and was we'll known throughout this
section. He had many acquaintances
i'm Charlotte, where he had visited Of
ten. Both men were prominent in
CASTOR county.