Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-12-07
Straps aud faets,

j. Bonaparte; postmaster general,
George Won l. Meyer; secretary navy,
Victor H. Metcalf; secretary Of the
interior, James r. Garfield; secretary
Of commerce and labor, oscar S.
Straus; associate justice Of the su-
preme court, VIM. H. Moody.
The post office department has
decided to issue orders terminating
the allowances for special fast mail ia
cilities from Washington to New Or
leans on January 5.-Postmaster Gen
eral Cortelyou made this announce
ment tonight after receiving notice
from the Southern railway that, owing
to the roads increased traffic and the
necessity for double tracking the road
1t will be unable to continue the opera
ton of train mo. 81" after January B.
The last session of congress appro-
priated $167,00O for special fast mail
service in the south and Of this amount
about $4,000 has gone to the South
ern railway to maintain train No. 81,
which carries only mail, and 81, which
Is limited passenger train, which, OF
course, will not be discontinued. The
appropriation for this purpose has been
made annually by congress for the past
eleven years and the appropriation has
often been the subject of vigorous de-
bate in congress in which opponents OF
the special facilities" objected to the
appropriation as subsidy"
Ell Paso, Texas, December 3: Cap
tured after a desperate fight with Of
fcers, A. B. Sibley, a sheep buyer,
charged with robbery and murder, lies
mortally wounded in Sanderson jail.
Sibley had purchased on three success
sive days, large herds Of sheep from
B. M. Cawthorne, J. w. Ealston and
another rancher, paying them in cash.
In each case the rancher delivered the
sheep at Del Rio, receiving check,
which he promptly cashed, and later
was found murdered and robbed. Sus-
picion was directed toward Sibley. He
had made his escape but posse was
organized and started in search Of
him. He was finally located in the
mountains near Sanderson. A desper-
ate fight ensued in which Sibley was
shot several times and number OF
the possemen were wounded. weak
from loss of blood, he was finally over
powered and brought to the jail in
Sanderson, where it is thought he will
die before he can be placed on trial
for the crimes. $50.
The house subcommittee on appro-
priations, for the time being, says a
Washington dispatch, has passed over
the subject of phonetic spelling in the
public ,printing. The recommendation
of the committee to the house will be
that in so far as congress can control
this matter, the old order Of things
shall be followed. Before the legisla-
tive bill is completed, decision will be
reached as to how far the authority OF
congress over the executive and the
judiciary in such a matter extends, IL
1t has any jurisdiction at all. The leg
islative bill, when reported to the
house, will have every word that was
spelled according to the simplified sys-
tenn, in the draft sent up from the
printing Office, amended and printed in
italics according to the accepted form
heretofore in use, and the house will be
called upon to pass Judgment on such
amendments and issue it's decree in the
matter Of spelling. The action Of the
house on such amendments in the first
appropriation bill reported will end the
matter so far as congress is concerned
"A sensational trial in which large
portion Of the country has been very
much interested for several weeks
past, was concluded at Herkimer, N.
Y, last Tuesday night by the convic-
student, for the murder of his sweet
heart, Grace Brown. The body of the
young woman was found in Big Moose
lake a few days after the 11th Of last
July, and inquiry developed that she
was last seen in the vicinity in the
company OF Gillette. The trial devel-
oped that the young man and young
woman had been lovers and should
have been married. The prosecution
held that Gillette had persuaded the
young woman to this place and killed
her. The defense set up that the
young woman committed suicide by
jumping out of the boat and that Gill
lette was unable to save her for the
reason that the boat was overturned.
The jury was convinced that the
tragedy was the result of deliberate
murder and found accordingly. Gill
letta will probably die in the electric
chair. ~
High Point, N. c., December 4: 1t
Is learned that at the trial of the cir
Gus men who beat Conductor Slack
into insensibility at the scene of the
wreck yesterday near Troy, one Of
them was placed in Jail as being the
real instigator Of the cowardly act,
and the only one who was positively
identified by the conductor. From re-
liable source 1t is learned that the
wreck resulted from a wagon on a car
not being properly fastened. This
rammed into a cattle car, killing three
horses and one man. Finally it be-
came entangled in the wheels, causing
the wreck. The conductor came by
after the wreck and the circus crew
pounced down on him, beating him
almost to death, and leaving him in a
field nearby for dead. The engineer
went for help and the sheriff of Mont
gomery county was soon on the scene
with a posse. On account Of the i'll
feeling towards the circus crowd for
beating Conductor Slack so unmerci-
fully, the people Of Ashboro, it is
learned, resolved on vengeance and
when the show appeared there today
to exhibit. the tax was so high that
the circus refused to give any per-
fOrmance.
Representative Slayden of Texas,
on Tuesday introduced a bill which
provides that ION or before the Both
day of June, 1907, all enlisted men of
the army who are negroes or of negro
descent shall be discharged from the
service of the United States and there
after no negro or person Of negro de-
scent shall be enlisted or appointed in
the army of the United States" In
explaining his bill Mr. Slayden said:
THE bill speaks for itself. 1t was not
introduced for buncombe. My purpose
is to give the congress of the United
States an opportunity to purge the
army of an admittedly dangerous ele-
ment. To say that the negroes are
brave is not an argument against this
measure Many men have been brave.
in fact most men are in the matter of