Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-12-10
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was small fraction over 1O3. The
highest price paid for any considerable
amount was 10s.s75 for 100000 Of bonds
by the Farmers and Merchants Nation
al Bank of Onley, Va. The lowest
price realized by the government for
the bonds allotted, was 102.125 and a
considerable amount of the issue was
allotted at that price. The allotments
were made in sums of $4,000 and up
ward, hundreds of banks agreeing to
take bonds up to several million dollars
at their respective bids. The Palmetto
National bank Of Columbia was allotted
100000 at $1O2.50.
There is trouble at Goldfeld, Ne
vada, on account Of general strike
among the union miners. The Federal
government sent troops to the scene to
preserve order. The sheriff OF the
county, who is in sympathy with the
strikers, insists that there was no need
for the sending of the troops, that he
was well able to preserve order. The
owners claim that they cannot start
UP the mines with non-union labor,
without interference from the strikers.
The sheriff insists that there will be no
disorder. The commander of the troops
says he has nothing to do but to pre-
serve order. Sheriff Ingalls,, is the
owner of the largest saloon and gamb-
ling place in Goldfield, and his bias in
favor Of the miners is easily appre-
ciated. President McKinnon Of the To-
cal miners union, and manager Of the
strike, is a brother-in-law Of Haywood
Of the recent sensational murder trial.
- Washington, December Z: Chicago
was today selected as the place and
June 18th, 1908, the time for the meet
ing Of the next Republican national
convention. This decision by the Re-
publican national committee followed
a long and hard-fought contest be-
tween the advocates Of Chicago and
those Of Kansas City, Denver, Colo,
coming in at the end with a formal,
but not important effort to secure the
convention. The ballot showed thirty
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Kansas City and four for Denver, the
vote being made unanimous after the
result was announced. All the south
ern delegations except that Of Alabama
supported Chicago, the latter voting for
Kansas City. Every one accepted the
decision of the committee good natur-
edly and the so or 70 Kansas City and
Denver boomers declared that they
would come back after it again In
1912 and would be sure to- get 1t at
that time" The selection Of the time
for the convention was a compromise
between the first Of June and the last
point also.
What is undoubtedly the greatest
disaster In American mining, occurred
in the mines of the Consolidated Coal
company near Monogah, w. Va, FRI
day. 1t is known that there are nearly
$50 men in the mines, and only four
are now known to be alive. The dis
aster was due to an explosion Of fire
PLANTATION as anybody has been able
to give. This explosion occurred. at
about 10 o'clock Saturday morning, and
it shook the country around as does an
earthquake. People on the surface who
went to investigate found four half dead
men crawling from one Of the exits.
These men could tell nothing except
that they had struggled with others
TO get to air and that they had left
other struggling men behind them.
Three dead men were found a little
further on; but it was hours before
any more could be reached. During
Saturday about twenty-five black and
mutilated corpses were taken from the
mine, and many more were gotten out
during Sunday and yesterday. The
rescue work Is most difficult because
of the presence Of fire damp in vast
quantities. The description Of the sit
uation around the mines is heart rend-
ing, because Of the distress Of the
widows and children Of the dead min
ers. About half Of the victims Of the
disaster are Americans and the other
half are foreigners. The mines belong
TO a powerful corporation, with head
quarters at Baltimore and capitalized
at about twenty million dollars.
A band of five hundred might RI
ders," an organization Of Kentucky to-
bacco growers, marched into Hopkins
Vile, KY, at an early hour last Satur-
day morning and destroyed property to
the value of 100000. The first thing
the mob did after entering the town
was to take charge of the telephone Of
flee and make the girl operators leave
the switchboard. Then they surround
ed the police and fire departments, and
after that set fire to the W. H. Sandy
independent warehouse, the B. M.
Woodbridge association warehouse, and
the Sandy and Farleigh warehouse.
They fired into and wrecked the office
of the Hopkinsville Kentuckian, a
newspaper belonging to the mayor of
the city, and which has been especially
severe in its condemnation of the raids
of the might riders" They also riddled
with bullets the fronts Of the CONNER
cial Banking and Savings Company,
the First National Bank, the Planters
Trust company and the Bank of Hop
kinsville. Many private residences
were also fired into; but from remark
ably good fortune no one was killed.
The fire department was allowed to do
what it could to save buildings adja-
cent to those that had been set on fire;
but with the understanding that they
would not interfere with those the
might riders" had intended to destroy.
Shortly after daylight the mob retired
from the city and a detachment of fif-
teen or twenty militiamen, hurriedly
mobilized, started in pursuit. The mill
tiamen got near enough to fire on the
mob and the mob fired a few shots
back; but nobody was hurt. The prop
erty of the Imperial Tobacco company