Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-10-08
RE.MENTlON.

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York, heiress Of $12,000,000, Is soon to
be married to Count Laszeo Szecheny
Of Budapest. -. -Four Italians were
hanged on one scaffold at the same
time In the county Jail at Lancaster,
Pa, last Thursday, for the murder OF
a fellow -countryman on August 80.
Charles Gibson and Stephen Dorsey,
negroes, convicted Of numbering a
white woman near Camden, N. j., are
to be the first victims Of the electric
chair in that state. Charles Emory
Smith, editor Of the Philadelphia
Press, and former postmaster general,
was. married Thursday at Long
Branch, N. J., to Miss Henrietta Mich
oils of New York. 49,, The naval feet
will sail for the Pacific coast on De-
cember 10. ...... Ambassador Char
lemange Tower, United States ambas-
sador to Berlin, and the oldest In the
service, has asked President Roosevelt
to relieve him from duty during the
coming spring. Mrs. Cora smith,
small shop keeper Of New YORK, was
beaten and robbed by Black Handlers
last Friday, after firing at the men,
who had attempted blackmail.
SIX hundred marriageable-and will
ing-young women arrived IN new
York on Friday on the steamer Cedric
from the British Isles. The Japan
ese government has placed an order
with the Duff Manufacturing eompa-
ny Of Allegheny, Pa, for 362 locomo-
tiyes for the Manchurtan railway, now
being pushed to completion. 49,. Oscar
s. Straus, secretary Of the department
of labor and commerce, came out
squarely for q revision Of the tarin In
a speech before the convention OF cot
ton manufacturers in washington, FIJI
day. .Overexcited at the prospect
Of a cruise to the Pacific and weaken
ed by ill-health, Lieut.. Jas. R. Combes,
U. 8. NJ, has been placed In the navy
hospital at Brooklyn. temporarily In
sane. One man at Portland, Ore,
and another at Vancouver, B. c., lost
their lives last Friday, as result or
tripping on stairs they were descend
ing The appellate division OF the
supreme court Of Brooklyn rendered a
decision Friday removing Justice Thos,
w. Fitzpatrick from the bench OF the
second division Of the court Of special
sessions, and disbarring him, as the
result Of charges Of negligence OF Of
ficial duties. The surplus Of the
Standard OIL company as revealed py
q statement Of its earnings-the hrst
ever made by the Standard-issued
last Friday. Is $261,061,S11. nine times
the amount Of Judge lands fine. -.
A two-cent letter postage between the
United States and Great Britain Is one
of the possibilities of the near future,
according to the belief Of Postmaster
General Meyer. 80. Sixty five Japan
ese girls were killed at Osaka, Japan,
Saturday, while asserting condemned
shells, when an explosion occurred.
Levee workers to the number OF 10000
are now on a strike at New Orleans,
and business Is badly demoralized. -.
Sheriff Oglesby Of Pulaski county,
Ind, was shot to death by three
tramps, whom he was seeking to ar
rest Saturday. The sheriff wounded
two Of the tramps, but all escaped. -:
The steamship Lusitania started
from Liverpool Saturday night on her
second trip to New York. and it Is
believed by her owners that she will
considerably lower her previous re-
cord. ...... BY the collapse Of a floor
of the North End Athletic club at
Waterbury, Conn.,, Saturday, 150 men
were thrown into the cellar while at
tending a Republican rally. Three
men were seriously hurt. -. .Ac-
cording to the reports OF the ONO
railroad commission the roads or that
state are making more money under
the two-cent rate than under the olo
tariffs. ...... The Board Of Estimates
of New York city figures that $146,-
600, 900 will be necessary to run the
business affairs Of New York city
during the coming year. 49,. An
armless man committed suicide In
Paris last week by holding pistol
between his teeth and pulling the
trigger by means Of a string fastened
to his toes. The Detroit basepall
team has won the pennant and the
1907 Championship Of the American
league, with Philadelphia, a close
second. ..... Henry Yankun, saiior,
being treated for typhoid fever at ,ne
Of Pennsylvania hospital at
philadelphia, developed smallpox and
as the result 800 employees and zoo
of the institution are under
strict quarantine for two weeks at
least. Many Of the large steamships
plying between New York and British
and continental ports were badly dam
aged by storms at sea during the Voy-
ages of last week. .... William Barns,
a negro, who murdered August Baker,
a policeman at Cumberland, Nd, on
night, was shot and kicked
to death early Friday morning. .......
BY the breaking Of rail into seven
teen pieces, a Pennsylvania train was
wrecked early Sunday morning near
Pa, and three passen-
gers were seriously hurt. E. .Aguinaldo.
the Filipino patriot, has scheme
he proposes that the Filipinos
buy the islands from the United States
at price Of about 100000, ,00O. go.
Despite all efforts to check them.
Japanese are pouring into the United
States from Canada by the hundreds.
go. John Mitchell, president Of the
Mine Workers Of America Is critically
III at his home in Indianapolis. Ind.