Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-02-22

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ination has not yet been concluded
Houston Texas. Feb. 19: A local
iewelrv company was robbed or De-
tween $4,000 and $4,000 worth OF
loose diamonds yesterday and up 10
late hour last night no clue toward
their recovery had been reported. YES
terday morning a stranger entered the
store and asked to have an unmounleu
diamond. which ne had, matched IN
order TO have both mounted for ear
rings. A box of loose. stones was pro-
duced by the clerk, and they went
through them trying to select a satis-
factory stone. The stranger dlu not
appear to be satisfied and SAID ne
would send his wife around in the al
ternoon. He left the store and, as the
clerk supposed. the box OF dlamohus
was returned to the safe. There was
occasion to take the box from the safe
again in the afternoon and it was then
discovered that the box that had been
returned contained only tissue paper
instead of the valuable jewels. IL was
identical in appearance with the ooA
for which 1t had been substituted eN-
cent being a trifie smaller.
Charlotte, n. c., Feb. 20: FREDERICK
Messer. the souths oldest citizen, IA
nous as a hunter and trapper oetore
civilization blazed a trail across the
Blue Ridge mountains, is dead at MS
home in Haywood county at the age
Of ia years, six months and five days.
Messer was born Aug. IL, l7s2, In Lin
coin county, and in early life, when
western Carolina was an unexplored
wilderness, people by the Cherokees' ne
located in the mountain twenty-one
miles from what is now WaynesVllle'
the county of Haywood, there pursu-
ing his wild vocation of hunting and
trapping. He was hale. and vigorous
I'D to within few months-of his deatn'
frequently walking to Waynesville to
attend the county court, and once eV-
cry year, on his birthday, swimming
the Pigeon river, which runs by his
mountain home. He married a woman
of Wilmington, this state, who bore him
nine children and lived to the age OF
eighty-four. But one child, now
woman ninety years old, survive MIN.
His age is established by authentic
records He used tobacco and the corn
whisky of the mountainS in moderation
all his life and attributed his great age
to the fact that most of his sleeping
and waking hours were spent out OF
doors.
Butte, Montana, February II:
Sixty thousand persons in Butte and
several thousand of others in adjacent
towns and country passed the fourth
day without local newspapers, and it
was a dreary Sunday. Striking press
men are responsible. With nothing
to read except publications from 9TH
er cities, more persons attended
church than for years. There was
general scramble among the stay
at-homes" for the papers delivered
from outside points. The usual num-
ber sent here was trebled in anticl-
patton but the supply was so small
that premiums as high as a dollar
were paid for a single paper. Scalp
ers did a great business on the streets
In eating and drinking places, police
stations and residences men gather
ed in groups, appointed a reader and
listened to what news of the day there
was to be had. st. Louis, Denver,
Chicago and st. Paul papers several
days old were eagerly devoured.
The papers which have suspended
temporarily are the Butte Miner, Ev-
ening News, Inter-Mountain and the
Daily Standard of Anaconda. The
proprietors of these papers, who are
all wealthy men, declare that they
never will resume publication if it be
on condition that they pay the in
creased price asked by the striking
twelve pressmen, whose walkout
caused the suspension. These men
have been getting $3.50 day, and
they demand another dollar. The
printers have been granted an in
crease In pay, and are now getting
Sc for seven and half hours work,
but the advance was made under pro-
test, and the prOprietOrs declare they
now have drawn the line irrevoca-
bly,. The Amalgamated Copper COM
pany owns the Inter- mountain, r.
a. Heinze owns the News, Senator
Clark the Miner and the Marcus Daily
estate the Standard. None of them
need the money, and all are tinan-
cially able to carry out their express
ed policy of never yielding To the
preSsmen's demands.
- Washington. February l9: One
witness who endeavored to throw some
light on what has been termed the
battle of Brownsville was William
Hardin, not of Atlanta, but Of Char
lOtte. Hardin said he had lived at
Charlotte for five years. during one
period of his life and had worked
both as plumber for private firms and
at the Charlotte waterwOrkS This
interested Senator Overman. who
pressed the witness to tell some
thing more ABOUT MS lar f1eel IdlS-
ing. He said he worked for John
Smith at Charlotte. Hardin caused
members of the committee much
amusement. He is Il young negro,
very black. with hOarse voice and
shutters He was patient in the hos
pital and had gone to the canteen to
get piece of apple pie. He had been
sick. was convalescing and wanted
apple pie. Coming out of the canteen
with his pie Hardin encountered Ma
jor Penrose. the mayor Of Browns
Vile. and stranger. who was using
fOrciful language and telling Major
Penrose that his wife had been as
saulted by negro soldiers" and that
unless arrests were made by 10 o'clock
every "D-n Niger" soldier would be
killed. Hardin told of hearing shots
fired north and east Of the hospital
They continued as those firing moved
west until they reached the point Oppo-