Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-02-02
MERE.M ENTION.

Eight girls DeloH6Hi6 "
cooking school, died last Friday from
eating poisoned sausage. AT a meet
ing. of the committee on Confederate
reunion held in Nashville last Satur-
day 1t was decided that the next re-
union be held in September, which is
quite a departure from the rule here
tofore prevailing, the usual time being
in July The Atlantic Coast Line
railroad has arranged to appropriate
$4,000 annually with which to pension
employes who may have reached the
age of s. after a service Of at least
ten years. :. Miss Mamie Bryan, Sis
ter of Mr.. W. J.. Bryan, died at the
home. of her brother, in Lincoln Neb.'
last Saturday. zee. Democratic senators
held another caucus on the 1sthmian
canal treaty yesterday. New YORK
commission men now demand margin
of S. a bale to handle cotton con-
tracts. This is because of the wide
fluctuations. In ordinary times the
margin demanded Is only 81 bale.
The German government Is having
much trouble with the natives IN west
Africa. =. 1t Is estimated that over
200, 900 citizens Of Texas have disfran-
chised themselves by failing to pay
their Doll tax. ..... w. P. Brown step
ped into the pit at New Orleans last
Thursday and announced that he would
take all the July cotton that might
be offered at 16 2-3 cents. He got 5000
bales, and kept crying for more.
Mayor Harrison Of Chicago, was recent
ly arrested on a warrant of the coro-
ner charging him with responsibility
for the Iroquois fire. He submitted
quietly to arrest and gave bond. At
the hearing it developed that he could
not be held. His friends have since
been trying to persuade him to. sue the
coroner for damages for false arrest.
A number Of New England cotton
mills are running on reduced time be-
cause of the high price Of cotton. ...
Exports Of the United States to Russia
during the past year amounted to $780,
900, COO, The Pacolet Manufactur-
ing company has closed down it's mills
at Gainesville, Ga, for an indefinite
period on account Of the high price of
cotton. The mill employed 1000 hands.
The state Of Georgia has paid out
SS.0Q0.0OO in pensions to Confederate
veterans since the war. .Represen-
tative Maddox of Georgia, has intro
duced a bill for the per capita distri-
button Of the surplus in the United
States treasury on a per capita basis,
of not exceeding s25,0OO,O00 annually
for road building purposes. s....... The
Mississippi river is blocked with ice at
Memphis, Tenn, for the first time in
twenty years. 49,. William G. Whitney
was operated on for appendicitis few
days ago. His condition is quite seri-
Gus. William H. Taft, former gov
ernor Of the Philippines, took the oath
of office as secretary of war on yester-
day and at once entered upon the du-
ties of his office. .. There are persist
ent reports from London to the effect
that Mrs. Florence Maybrick, the
American woman, who was sentenced
to life Imprisonment in England for
the murder of her English husband has
at last been released. 49,. Lake Mich
igan is frozen over from shore to shore.
.... The controversy between Russia
and Japan continues to hang on Rus
sia's reply tc Japan's last note. .....
Louis r. Ross covered a mile in 55
seconds in. an automobile at Ormand,
Fla, yesterday.