Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-09-05
MERE-ME ENTION.

Ten persons were killed In the
wreck of a passenger train at Wit
ham, England, Friday. The train
left the track and plunged into the
station building. Four men were
killed, one Is missing. and three
were injured by the bursting OF
fiy-wheel at the plant Of the National
Tube company. at McKeesport, Penn
sylvania, Friday. Several thousand
dollars worth Of machinery was
wrecked. :. The Chinese government
Is reported to be doing what 1t can
to put a stop to the boycott OF
American goods. .Forty-three cases
of cholera have been reported In
Berlin. After terrorizing the VI
cinity around Lorain, Ohio, for three
days. Peter Pitts. an escaped maniac
shot and killed himself as he was
about to be captured by a posse or
armed citizens, Saturday. Threats
have been made by Italians at Pat
terson, Louisiana. against the physi-
clans who are fighting yellow fever
there, and riots are feared. -. .Secre-
tary of the Navy Bonaparte mas
ordered a courtmartial to meet at
Mare Island navy yard, California, on
September Is, for the trial Of Com
mander Lucien Young and Ensign
Charles T. Wade, on charges grow
ing out Of the explosion on the gun
boat Bennington, at San Diego. Cal,
in July. A steady increase and
high per centage Of mortality Is the
latest report of the cholera situation
in Hamburg and other German cities.
.... One case of yellow fever has
appeared in Atlanta, Ga. Atlanta Is
not In infectible territory. so no
spread Is feared. . Marshall Field,
the septuagenarian multi-millionaire
of Chicago, is to be married today
to Mrs. Della Spencer Cation of that
city. One woman was killed, five
persons fatally wounded and fifteen
persons injured by the explosion OF
a bomb in Barcelona, Spain, Sunday.
There is no clue to the perpetrator
of the deed. :. Five persons lost their
lives and eleven are i'll from exposure
as the result Of the beaching and
breaking of a lake steamer, in Lake
Superior, near Ashland, Wisconsin,
Friday. Four persons were drowned
in the Hudson river, near Hudson.
New York, Sunday, by the running
down and sinking of pleasure boat
by q ferry boat. 1000 dwelling
and business houses were destroyed
by fire at Adrianople. Greece, Sun
day. :. Ten persons were killed and
fifty wounded in a riot between So
cialists and the military at Libau
Poland, Sunday. IA case OF yellow
fever has appeared at Mayesville,
Indian Territory. ...... -Four persons
were drowned by jumping overheard
from a pleasure launch In panic
caused by a flash Of flame In some gas
oline In the bottom of the boat, In the
St. Clair river near Detroit Mich, sat
urday. ;. Robert Bacon of New York,
has been appointed assistant secre-
tary of state to succeed Francis Loom
is. resigned The Grand Army of
the Republic is holding its thirty-nint
annual encampment in Denver. Colo,
with $4,000 veterans and others In at
tendance. The villages of New Berlin
and Edmeston, New York, were al
most entirely destroyed by a cloud
burst Sunday. One person was
drowned. 49,. Fifty persons were KILL
ed in a riot at Baku. Caucasia, Satur-
day. between Tartars and Russian
troops. One hundred or more build
ings were burned. .... Judge G. w.
Ward of Durham. N c., was assault
ed by f. NJ. MCGOWAN, ex-mayor OF
that town last Saturday, because he
did not impose a sentence according to
McCowan's judgment during the ses-
sion of court that day. MCGOWAN Is
in Jail without bond for thirty days
for contempt of court.