Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-12-22
MERE.MENTIoN.

The Lowering bill providing for new
estimate on the cotton crop by the de-
partment Of agriculture to be given out
January 10, was laid aside by the house
committee on. agriculture, Tuesday. -.
Three hundred persons are reported to
have been killed by revolutionists at
Mitau, Prussia, during the riots Mon
day and Tuesday. 80. According to the
bureau Of statistics, the United States
has imported $150,000,000 worth of su-
gar this year, $51,000,000 worth of it
coming from Hawaii, Porto Rico, and
our other island possessions. .......
The United States cruiser, Baltimore,
the British cruiser, Diadem, and Ger
man troops have been sent to Shang-
hal, China, for the purpose Of prevent
ing attacks on subjects OF their respec-.
tive countries, and the looting Of their
homes by the Chinese rowdies. .......
Three men were killed instantly, and
seven were injured by an explosion Of
dynamite in excavations for a new
building in New York city Tuesday.
... Governor Lafollette Of Wisconsin
has resigned the governorship, his res
ignat ton to take effect January 1......
One person was killed and forty or
more were injured in a collision be-
tween two passenger trains on the
elevated railroad In New York city,
Tuesday. The Washington Life In
surance company, John Tatlock, presi-
ident, is being investigated by the leg
islative insurance Investigation COM
mittee In New York. The jury In
the case Of VIM. G.. Crawford, former
deputy auditor Of the United States
postoffice department who was indict-
ed with August Machen and George
Lorenz for conspiracy to defraud the
government In connection with letter
carriers satchels and supplies, return
ed verdict Of guilty Tuesday. Craw-
ford was released on $4,000 bail pend
ing an appeal, President Roosevelt
on Wednesday appointed Joseph Buck
lin Bishop, chief engineer Of the Pana-
ma canal, to succeed Engineer Wallace,
resigned. ...... Felix Gustave Sussier,
former COMMUNICATIVE -chief Of the
French army, died in Paris, Wednes-
day. .. ID. President Roosevelt sent to
the senate Wednesday, the nomination
OF Nathaniel II. Alexander as receiver Of
public moneys at Montgomery, Ala. -.
Fire destroyed several railroad build
ings at the Twenty third street termi-
nal station on the Hudson river in New
York city Wednesday, with q proper
ty loss of over half million dollars.
Several railroad employees were injured,
and five are reported missing. -. Fire
III one OI the CduScu
a panic among the five hundred wo-
men convicts on BlackwelPs Island,
New York, Wednesday, in which num-
bers Of the women and the keepers
were injured. The property loss was
$50, 900. ...... John w. Gates Of New
York, has been elected head Of the
executive committee Of the Tennessee
Iron and Coal company. Two
trainmen were killed and several
were injured in the wreck Of work.
train on the Louisville & Nashville
railroad, Wednesday. The train ran
into a cow on a trestle on Smoky
Mountain loop, near Blue Ridge, Ca,
and the caboose turned over. .....
Representative Heflin, Of Alabama,
introduced q resolution in the house
Wednesday, denouncing the Lowering
resolution providing for an additional
cotton crop estimate, as 'in the in
terest of stock gamblers and market
manipulators." Richard Hodg-
son, one Of the foremost authorities
in the world on physical research,
died of heart disease while playing
hand ball in Boston, Mass, club
house, Wednesday. "A seat on the
New York stock exchange was sold for
$90,000 Tuesday, the highest price on
record. The Yorke Furniture
factory at Concord. North Carolina,
the largest In the state, was entirely
destroyed by fire Tuesday night, with
property loss of $4,000.