Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-11-19
MERE-MENTIOM

Geo. H. Brouwer, conft Hal man
for Oliphant & Co., New York brokers,
has been sentenced to Sing Sing for
from three years and nine months to
eight years and nine months on the
specific charge of misappropriating a
check for $2,750. His peculations
amounted to more than 500, 1000. 900.
Citizens Of Florida are making an ef-
fort to have the remains Of Ponce de-
Leon moved from Porto Rico for inter-
ment in that state. .....A seat on the
New York Stock Exchange sold Thurs
day for $4,000, that in 1905 changed
hands at $4,000. The Marconi
wireless telegraph station at Siascon-
set, Mass, the first plant completed in
America, was destroyed by fire Friday.
..... Gold engagements abroad up to
last Friday, including the amounts al
ready imported, brought the figures up
to $4,000, 900. 80. Seven persons were
killed and twelve injured in a wreck on
the Canadian Pacific railway near
..... The Standard Oil company on
last Thursday declared its usual quar-
terly dividend Of $40 share, which
means that for the year the company
will pay out s39,2OO,000 in dividends.
The Coats Thread company, dur
ing the year ending June 30, 1907,
made a profit Of s15,2S0,625. The an
nual dividend paid this year is 80 per
cent. 80. Large numbers Of Italians,
Swedes, Germans and Greeks are now
leaving the United States to spend the
holidays in the old country. -. Twenty
men are under arrest at Warsaw, Rus
sia, on charge Of plotting to sell gov
ernment secrets to Germany. .... John
R. Walsh, former president Of the Chi
cago National bank now defunct, is on
trial in that city on charges of misap-
propriating funds to the amount Of
$4,000, ,000. Daniel c. Mcknight,
cashier of the State bank of Foster,
KY, Is under arrest on a charge OF
embezzling $16,600. New York
pawnbrokers are so hard up for cash
that no matter how much collateral
person may have, $50 is the limit as to
loans. go. The Chicago clearinghouse
has decided to issue large amount OF
clearinghouse certificates or checks for
general circulation. ..... VIM. Knapp,
paymaster, for Passaic, N. j., bleach
cry. was held up by four men Friday
and robbed of $1,000. Three Of the
bandits were captured. Mrs. Bes
sic Carter was murdered in her home
in New Orleans, Thursday night by
her negro maid, who confessed the
crime. Two Russian gunboats were
destroyed at the Baltic Shipbuilding
yards, Friday, by an incendiary fire. 49,.
Albert ZerZlinger was convicted in st.
Louis, Mo-, Friday, of binding wo-
man by throwing sulphuric acid in her
face and was sentenced to twenty
years in prison. An extra session
Of the California legislature has been
called to meet conditions arising be-
cause of the stringency Of money. ....
Small investors are reported to be buy
ing large quantities of stocks In Wall
street during the prevalence Of low
prices. :. Mrs. Evelyn Romadka, wife
of wealthy Milwaukee merchant, was
convicted in Chicago last Friday Of
burglary and sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for from one to twenty years. ...
The United States treasury department
now has s226,0O0,O00 deposited in the
National banks of the country. "A
Brazil. Ind, man drew $507 from the
First National bank of that city a few
days ago and buried it in his hog lot
A day or two later he discovered that
the hogs had rooted the money out of
the ground and had eaten half of 1t.
A Pennsylvania railroad locomotive in
a speed test last week was run at
speed of 91.6 miles an hour. ..... Bay
ST. Louis, Miss, was visited by $780,
900 fire Saturday. go. Emma Kearney,
aged II, was shot to death in Philadek
phia Saturday by Frank Weneke, be-
cause she refused to marry him. ......
Thomas Whalley, a machinist was
caught in a fly wheel in steam plant
near Washington, D. c., Saturday, and
was instantly killed. 80. Forty union
pressmen, helpers and feeders are on
a strike at Roanoke, Va. go. Fifteen
persons were injured in the wreck of
a Wabash train at Lakeville, Ind,
Saturday.