Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-05-11
Scraps aud facts.

American flag along in the dirt, was
mobbed by indignant citizens, cluo-
bed by a policeman, sentenced py
court and put to work breaking
stones in a penitentiary before the
day was over. The man refused to
disclose his identity when questioned
by the court, but said he was the
"King of Buns" and came from
Nowhere" When Recorded Stanton
read a lecture to him in court Tor
abusing the flag, he interrupted, de.
claring, THAT is all 1t is good FOR.
The recorder imposed sentence OF
six months.
A beauest Of one dollar in cash
and q swarm of bees to sting her TO
repentance is the way William Enroll
took to express his bitterness toward
his sister, Mrs. Sophia Simpson, pe-
fore he died recently in Williamantic'
Me. Enroll was we'll along In years.
and possessed considerable money.
But he was exceedingly hard Of hear
ing, so that 1t was almost an tmpossi-
biiity to converse with him. His in
trinity grew on him until his sister,
with whom he made his home, COM
planned that 1t drove her nearly to
distraction, and she asked her broth
er to leave. Unable to find another
place to board in the village, and be.
ing too old to go elsewhere, Erroll
took a room at the. town farm, ana
grieved sadly over the hard hearted
ness of his sister. He spent his last
days I'm the poor-house, although he
paid a goodly sum for his board and
was independent Of every one.
Jacob Luckestone, chief clerk in
the registry department Of the New
York general postoffice, and for
eighteen years an employe there,
tried to kill himself last Monday
night in the postoffice building under
extraordinary circumstances. the
postofice inspectors yesterday had
been given orders to find out where
$4,000 in bills sent to the First Ma
tional Bank of Tallahassee, Fla, had
gone. The inspectors kept nine pos
tai clerks including Luckestone Tor
eight hours in a room in the Federal
building and told them that they
could not go until information was
forthcoming as to what had become
of the money. Luckestone said he
was weak from hunger, got In an
other room by excuse and tried TO
end his life by cutting his throat and
wrist. He did not seriously injure
himself and was placed under arrest.
The Chemical National Bank Is the
loser through the disappearance OF
the money.
Boston, May s: Thos. w. Lawson
has sent letters to Governor Guild
and District Attorney Moran bearing
on the legislative bribery charges
and bucket-shop bill. In the letter to
Governor Guild, he says: THE pres
ent session of the legislature has been
most basely corrupt" and he adds
that while the district attorney OF
Suffolk county Is putting the thumb
screws on the grand jury room, you
sent a special message to the leg1s-
lature saving in substance that you,
the governor OF Massachusetts,, de-
mand that the bucket-shop bill, which
has Just been killed by bribery be
again introduced under supension OF
rules, and passed. So that in time
to come there will be no repetition
of the damnable deeds, which for
fifteen years have done more than
all else to create anarchists in the
most law abiding community In the
whole world" Lawson also offers
$4,000 to be placed at the disposal
of the district attorney for rewards
for information and urges him to go
to the bottom of the bucket-shop
scandal.
For the fourth time since the
Olympic games were revived In 1896
the strong men of the United States
have triumphed over the athletes or
the rest of the world says the New York
Sun. The games ended yesterday in
the Stadium at Athens, and the team
that displayed the shield of this ma
ton for an athletic emblem carried
off the greatest part of the honors.
In 1895 at Athens, in 1900 at Paris,
in 1904 at ST., Louis and in 1906 at
Athens once more the United States
has been triumphant. To this victory In
great measure the athletes from New
York have contributed. Hahn, the
inimitable Lightbody, Leavitt and
few others are from other cities; but
the names of Pilgrim, Sheridan,
Ewry, Bonhag, Prinstein. Daniels and
other champions grace the rolls OF
the New York Athletic club, or of the
Irish American Athletic club. Per-
haps IL Is cause for regret that the
United States failed to carry away
the trophy for the Marathon run.
Anyhow. 1t fell to a neighbor of ours,
as Herring of the Dominion of Can
ada, was the fastest man over the
historic course.
At Polk county superior court,
Betsy Sims, a notorious female moon
sinner a real beauty. twenty-five
years old, appeared, says dispatch
from Raleigh. For six years she has
sold whisky in North Carolina and
Spartanburg county, South Carolina.
Three deputies chased her. She fled
across the South Carolina line. They
followed and caught her. She gave a
peculiar signal, whereupon her confed-
crates, five moonshiners, appeared
and prepared to shoot the deputies,
who were intimidated. The moon
sinners put up a cash bond for Bet
sy's appearance. They then sold a
horse for SIS and gave her the mon
ey. She bought whisky with it,
which she sold for $500. Judge JUS
tice, hearing of her performance had
her rearrested and sentenced her four
months in the jail at Columbus.
The Jail is three stories high. There
was one other inmate, a white man,
sentenced to one year in the peniten-
tiary for manslaughter. Betsy set fire
to a trap door at the head of the stairs
on the second floor and through the
hole burned in the trap door the man
who was on the third floor. made his
escape. The noise of the fire awaken
ed the jailer. who caught Betsy as she
was attempting to get out through
the opening. She turned on him and
cut him severely with a knife. He
overpowered her and put her back In
her cell. She will be tried for assault
with intent TO kill.
Berlin, May z: Relatives and ad-
visors of Emperor William are be-
coming alarmed concerning him
Never very cheerful. the kaiser is
becoming more gloomy than ever
His mood is never the same for long
but is sometimes mOrose and often
melancholy, while his happiness
when he condescends to reply are
characterized by what appears to be
deliberate rudenesS. At times he en-
deavors to shake off this manner and
then Is pleasant and affable, but
the reaction follows and then he Is
more self-centered than ever before
One who has met him recently de-
scribes him as inordinately vain; a.
supremely conscious of the power he
wields by virtue of his position: as a
firm believer in the divine right OF
kings in general and himself in par
ticular, and as finding his sole graft
fication in posing by virtue of his
divine right. as the arbiter of Eu-
rope. 1t is this sense of his own per-
sonal importance which causes him
never to tire of showing that he APP
preciates to the full the knowledge
of his political strength. He appre-
ciates himself personally no less
highly. He is firmly convinced that