Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-11-22
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The crew Of the French steamship
Provincial, on its way from Sabine
Pass, Tex; to Hamburg, Germany,
were so disabled by an encounter with
a swarm Of mosquitoes In the Gulf or
Mexico, Friday, that the ship had to
stop at Norfolk, Va, where the crew
received medical attention. The pay
car Of the Forepaugh and Sells Bros's
circus was entered and robbed OF $780,
600 on the railroad somewhere be-
tween Greenville and Tarboro, N. c.,
Saturday morning early. William
C. P. Breckenridge died at his home In
Lexington, KY, Saturday night, after
an illness Of four days with paralysis.
Three election officers at Den
yer, COL, were on Saturday adjudged
guilty by the supreme court OF substi-
tuting ballots and wrongfully swearing
In an election clerk, and were fined
$1,000 each, and sentenced to one
years imprisonment. Fire destroy
ed 100000 worth Of property In Gin,
cinnati, o., Sunday. The Missouri
State building at the Worlds Fair in
st. Louis was destroyed by fire Sat-
urday. One fireman was killed, and a
number Of persons were injured. The
property loss was about $3.50, ,0OO......
Fire in an italian tenement house IN
Brooklyn, Sunday, caused the death
Of twelve persons, and property loss
Of 10000. 80. Fourteen miners were
killed as the result Of an explosion OF
coal gas in the Carbonate mines near
Morissey. British Columbia, Friday.
The Mohawk, a freight steamer, burn
ed to the waters edge off Horizons
Point, Long Island sound, Friday.
Twenty-one persons, including two
women, were rescued. A Swedish
watchman is believed to have perish
ed in the flames. Taylor Delk,
Confederate veteran, aged sixty-two
years, died at the state prison farm
near Milledgeville, Ga, Friday, where
he was serving a life sentence for the
murder Of Sheriff Gwynn OF Pike
county, Georgia, eight years ago..
Luther Conant, for several years fnan-
cial editor Of the Journal Of Com
merce and Commercial Bulletin OF
New York city, has been appointed
special examiner In the bureau OF cor
porations, department OF commerce
and labor. -Four employees In the
plant Of the Dover, N J.. gas company
were asphyxiated Friday by gas es-
Gaping through a broken valve IN a
pipe in the meter room. TWO po-
iicemen were killed by burglars whom
they caught in the act Of entering
store in the business part Of Detroit,
Mich, at midnight last Friday. 49,:
Stephen Putney, a fourteen-year-old
boy Of Richmond, Va, disappeared
from the home Of friends with whom
he was stopping in st. Louis. Wednes-
day, and has not yet been FOUND.
He had money and jewelry to the
amount Of $500 on his person and foul
play Is feared. .....A feud between
the Curd family and the Durham fam-
lily in Cumberland county, Kentucky,
eliminated in a duel at Cumberland
Falls, Friday, in which George and
Thomas Curd and Emma Durham
were killed. :. &. Twenty-Five gas tanks
at a gas charging station in Chicago
exploded Friday, killing eighteen EN-,
ployes, and breaking windows ana
throwing walls Of buildings out OF
plumb within a radius Of half mile;
Secretary Shaw has announced
a call upon National banks holding
government deposits, to the amount OF
25 per cent Of their holdings; 10 per
cent to be paid on or before January
Is next and Is per cent on or before
March Is next.