Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-04-23
TUESDAY, APRIL %, 1907.
MERE-MENTION,

hopes 10 SuCceeu bOlSe FcIiOoSp oS
United States senator from Pennsyl-
vania. -. DIR. oliver Crook Haugh,
convicted Of numbering his father,
mother and brother, was electrocuted
sonville, Fla, was damaged 100000
by q hurricane last Friday. Three
lives were lost. {. &. Enrioc Alfono was
arrested by New York police last week
during a raid for concealed weapon
, carriers and identified as a man want
ed in Italy for participation in at
least twenty-five murders. .. Several
! thousand Paris restaurant and cafe
| walters are on a strike and the army
has been called on to preserve order.
..... The bronze statue Of Jefferson
Davis, which is to be unveiled In
Richmond on June 8, was drawn
| through the city to the monument site
last Thursday by 5000 children.
Ex- Congressman Wadsworth Of New
York, declares that President Roose-
vent Is a 'fakir and humbug.".
During three days of last week 1890
| immigrants arrived at Ellis Island,
N. Y. Nearly 10000 were landed
| Thursday. 80. The Catholic cathe-
dral Of Mexico City, one Of the Oldest,
largest and most famous in the world.
was cracked from top to bottom by
the recent earthquake :. Heavy SHOWS
fell throughout the northwestern
states last week, damaging the wheat
crops and practically destroying any
prospects of fruit and berries. ......
Fhe house of assembly Of New York
state last week passed a two-cent rate
DILL with but one dissenting vote....
| rwo severe earthquakes were felt. at
Manila last Thursday. No serious
damage resulted. There were TO-
100 deaths In India during the week
ending april 13, from the plague. The
epidemic began in 1897, since which
time there has been nearly 100000
deaths. -. The financial budget OF
the Japanese diet recently adjourned
reached the unprecedented sum Of
| $305. 100000 for 1907-0S. -. Japan is
experiencing a reaction Of the boom In
company promoting which began In
| 1906, and as a result there has been q
rapid decline In the price Of shares.
and many mushroom fortunes are
dwindling -. .Iloilo, capital OF Island
of Panay, Philippine islands, was de-
stroyed by fire last Friday, making
10000 people homeless. 80. Mrs. Mar
garet Smalley has been arrested in
Chicago on the charge Of numbering
her blind husband by throwing him
out of third story window. 49,. The
present famine in Russia Is described
as being the worst in the history Of
that country. Relief is not expected
until the growing crops are harvested.
80. Thomas Longboat a Canadian
Indian, covered a distance Of twenty
five miles in the Marathon road races
in Boston last Friday in hours, "a
minutes and 20 seconds. Longboat
was one Of ia runners. !. Bank burg
lars dynamited a safe at Weston, Ill,
Friday morning, and got away with
$4,000, after holding the town In a
state OF terror for more than an hour.
-. "A negro convicted in a New York
magistrates court last week OF Great
ting a disturbance and carrying brass
knuckles, was sentenced to Sing
Sing prison for three years. -. .Fif-.
teen thousand coal miners are on q
strike in British Columbia. -. James
R. Dardas, an architect, was held up
by two women footpads in New York
Saturday and robbed Of his watch,
scarf pin and $50 in money. go. The
| Worwmen's party Of Belgium is agi-
tating for republican form Of gov
ernment to succeed the present mon-
archy as represented by King Leopold.
:. Captain George Curry, at present
governor of jSamar, has been appoint
ed governor Of New Mexico. vice Gov
ernor Hogerman, resigned. -. .Esti-
mates from the earthquake districts OF
Mexico place the number Of deaths at
600. :. :. The residence Of Rev. Father
Yankoln, at Hazleton, Pa, was dy-
namited by members of the Blackhand
society last Friday morning. The
negro exhibit at the jamestown expo
sition is assuming large proportions
and bids fair to make creditaoie
showing of the progress Of the colored
race during the past few years.
Because they were thwarted In an at
tempt to get married, Mabel Pendle-
ton and Stuart Gay of Staunton, Va,
committed suicide by jumping from a
high bridge into Jackson river last
Friday. ;. Three persons were injured
by the explosion Of a gas retort at
the carpet manufacturing plant OF
Dobson Bros, Philadelphia, last Sat
urday. About 1000 employees were
temporarily thrown out Of employ
ment by the fire following the explo-
sion. Hail to the depth Of twelve
inches is reported as having fallen In
Yorktown county, Texas, last Friday.
Crops were badly damaged. .....J. c.
o. Morse has been appointed receiver
for the Uncle Sam Oil company at
Fort Scott, Kan. .... The British tor
pedo boat destroyer Arial collided
WlIn tile DTtdh"dICL LCdi FeAASsS7 -
land Of Malta, Friday night and sank
in deep water. One man was drown
ed. DIR. E. Simon Flexner Of the
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re-
search, New York, believes that he has
discovered an anti-toxin that Will
cure and prevent spinal meningitis.
George Armstrong, proprietor OF
the London Globe, died in that city
Saturday at the age Of seventy-one
years. The United States war de-
partment is asking bids for furnishing
large number Of horses and mules
for service in the Philippines, Cuba
and Panama. An Atlantic Coast
Line freight train ran into a split
switch at Thomasville, Ca, Saturday
afternoon wrecking thirteen cars.
There were no casualties. >. President
Roosevelt will go to his summer home
at Oyster Bay on June 18th. 80. Ben
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