Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-02-14
Scraps and faets.


planters held at New Orleans, Senator
Clay Of Georgia on last Friday, intro
duced a bill to prohibit dealing in op-
tions and futures in raw or unmanu-
factured cotton, wheat, corn, oats, rye,
barley, wheat flour, pork, lard and ba-
con. The bill is modelled somewhat on
the Hatch anti-option bill, which at
one time attracted so much attention
throughout the country. 1t defines op-
tions and futures, declares them to be
distractions and restraints upon COM
merce and provides that anybody
party to any option or future contract,
as defined, shall be guilty of misde-
meanor and upon conviction shall be
fined not less than one thousand dol
lars and in addition shall be imprison-
ed not less than one or more than
three years. The bill prohibits the use
of the mails to any person or persons,
corporation or corporations for the
purpose of entering into or carrying
out any contract known as options or
futures, as described, and such use is
declared a misdemeanor with the same
punishment as provided above.
- Says a Denver, Colo, dispatch of
Feb. 12: Reports of intense cold, ac-
companied in sections by snow fall,
were received at the Office Of the local
weather bureau tonight from Colorado,
Wyoming and New Mexico. In south
ern Colorado and northern New Mexi-
CO the worst storm since 1885 is rag
ing, according to dispatches from
Trinidad In New Mexico the storm
reached the proportions Of blizzard
and great damage to stock Is report
ed. Railroad men report the prairies
along the line of the Colorado and
Southern strewn with the carcasses OF
dead sheep and cattle. At Folsom, N.
NJ, 1S degrees below zero was regis
tered and In the southern part Of the
territory, where cold weather is a rar-
ity, the zero mark was reached at GER
tain points. The cold snap which has
prevailed on the eastern slope or the
Rocky Mountains in Colorado for sew
eral days, became intense last night,
the thermometer dropping to q de-
grees below zero in Denver. At Twin
Lakes, near Leadville, 32 degrees be-
low zero was registered. In Wyo-
ming the cold has not abated and
much loss Of live stock, 1t is feared,
will result.
j. Samuel McCue. ex-mayor OF
Charlottesville, Va, was hanged at that
place last Friday morning for the muir
der Of his wife on the night Of Sep
tember 4 last. Mrs. McCue was shot
and killed in her home, and when the
neighbors arrived in answer to an
alarm, her body was found in a bath
tub. McCue was bleeding from a
slight wound on the head. He told a
story to the effect that burglars had
entered the house and attacked him
with a baseball bat. He was knocked
down and stunned and when he came
to he found Mrs. McCue's dead body
In the bath tub. The matter was in
vestigated by coroner's jury and al
though the circumstances Of the situa-
ton threw suspicion on McCue, he was
not arrested for several days later.
His bloody shirt was found under the
bath tub. and physicians said that the
blow on his forehead, If blow 1t was,
would not have been sufficient to have
stunned a child. The accused man was
arraigned on September p. The trial
did not commence until October 1S,
and a verdict of guilty was reached
November 5. The lawyers for the de-
fense made a hard fight; but lost out
in the supreme court. The governor
refused to interfere. During Thurs
day night McCue confessed to his pas
tor that he alone was responsible for
the murder. He went to the gallows
in his shirt sleeves and showed con-
siderable nerve in meeting his fate.
He claimed to have been impelled to
his deed by wicked demons over which
he had no control. 1t is generally un-
derstood that the motive Of the muir
der was McCue's love for another wo-
man in Charlottesville. This woman
is prominent socially and otherwise,
and loved McCue better than her life,
II Is said.
- Says a Washington special of Sun
day to the News and Courier: Wash
ingtonians just now are suffering from
the same fever Of excitement which
overcomes the good people in the
country districts when a circus is COM
ing to town. Everybody is talking in
auguration and Of the things to be
done on March 4, next, when President
Roosevelt will parade at the head OF
an unique army, and for the second
time take the oath Of Office to admin
lister the affairs of the nation Ito the
best of his knowledge and ability"
The carpenters are busy constructing
mammoth reviewing stands where the
president, his guests and the general
public may see the passing show and
in front of which forty thousand SOL
diers, sailors and civilians will man.
oeuvre, present arms and right-about-
face with ali the grace and alacrity at
their command. Mr.. Roosevelt Is a
singular man and this inaugural pa
rade is going to be a singular affair.
Besides the president, the vice presi-
dent members Of the cabinet and a
few senators and representatives. there
will be company upon company of reg
ular troops, detachments from every
branch of the military service, cadets
from West Point and Annapolis, In
dian renegades, converted bandits,
cowpunchers with their fringed leather
suits and bucking bronchos. Filipinos
and Porto Ricans wearing the uniform
of Uncle Sans army. and last, but
more fearful than all the rest, politi-
clans. The Indians, including the ia
nous Apache. Geronimo. who eluded
Gen. Miles on the trails of Arizona,
and who for years defied Gems Cooke,
Lawton and Wade in the arroyos and
canyons of New Mexico. will be here
in all his feathers and war paint, and
will march down Pennsylvania avenue
to the honor of the president of gov
ernment he so long opposed. With him