Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-04-19
MERE ENTloN.


MERE-MENTIoN.
The island of Jamaica is suffering
great damage because Of water fam
inc. ..... The New York Chicago fast
mail train on the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad was wrecked at Sullivan, O.,
Monday morning while running seventy
miles an hour. -. May 1st the postal
rate on papers and magazines from
Great Britain to Canada will be two
cents a pound instead Of eight cents
as at present. 49,. The largest battle
ship in the world, the Aka, has been
launched at Kure, Japan 1t Is bigger
than the British Dreadnought, but
carries fewer IL inch guns. 49,. Man
| churia has been formally put under
Chinese control with the expiration Of
the time limit fixed by treaty for the
withdrawal of Russian and Japanese
troops. -. Ten detectives win be
employed to keep visitors to the
Jamestown exposition from obtaining
knowledge of the coast defenses at
Hampton Roads. The Federal grand
jury has indicted number Of Balti-
more fruit importers and severely crit
icised the customs officials for negli-
gence. :. .. Burglars looted a barroom
at Atlantic City a few nights ago and
left note saying: I'VE don't want
your wines and liquors. We belong to
the w. c. T. U."..... Pope Plus x has
created seven new cardinals There
are no Americans among the number.
-. The British steamship Andalusia
foundered of the coast Of Spain last
Saturday. The entire crew was lost
save the captain, first officer and one
sailor. -. A member of the Russian
douma charges that the recent mutiny
in the prison at Riga, was the result
Of plot on the part Of officials to
bring about the mutiny In order to
get rid Of certain prisoners who were
In the way. DIR. Arnold Frank, rep
resenting Emperor William Of Germa-
ny, is in the United States to purchase
1000 horses for the German army. -,
Charlie Strauss, colored, was lynched
at Cola, La, Tuesday. He was charged
with assaulting white woman. .,,..
Edward Sexton, convicted Of murder
three years ago, was electrocuted at
Auburn, N. Y, Tuesday. -. The body
Of A. ]. Milstead, aged seventy-five
years, of Atlanta, Ca, was found float
ing in Baltimore's harbor Tuesday,.
A registered package containing $10,-
900, sent from Raleigh, NJ c., to New
York, was missing when the pouch In
which It was sent reached its destina-
ton. John D. Rockefeller has
recently contributed 100000 to the
needs Of the American Baptist Mis-
sionary union. Joseph Chamberlain,
formerly British colonial secretary, Ia
critically Ill. 80. Lake county, Ind, Is
trying to make the Standard Oil COM
pany pay taxes on an assessment OF
$40, 100000, instead Of s3,0O0,000 as at
present. :. :. United States Senator
Borah Of Idaho chief counsel for Hay
wood, Meyer and Pettibone, the al
legged assassins Of Ex-Governor Steun-
enberg of Iowa, Is under Federal in
dictment in connection with govern
ment land frauds. -. Mrs. Holman.
mother of Evelyn Thaw, says that II
Evelyn had told her what she told the
Thaw jury, she would have killed
White herself. -. The seven jurors
who voted for Harry Thaw's convic-
ton, were burned in eff1gy at Dunkirk,
o., Tuesday. -. James Marshall, head
Of the Mrs. Edith Ross Matrimonial
Society,"" Of Philadelphia, now defunct
Is charged with having married fifty
times. 49,. The Spanish minister Of
marine is asking the cortes for appro-
priations aggregating s64,O00.o0o for
the Spanish navy. .... The Wisconsin
legislature Is in q deadlock over the
selection Of a successor to Senator
Spooner. -. Nearly 100 persons were
locked up in New York city Monday
night, on charges Of carrying conceal
ed weapons. The crusade against the
practice is the outcome Of the killing
Of two policemen by Italians Sunday
afternoon in Washington park. .,,,,
Three white convicts attempted to
escape from the North Carolina pen
itentiary at Raleigh, Wednesday. One
was shot to death and the others were
recaptured. 49,. The strawberry crop
Of eastern North Carolina has been
reduced by half as the result Of the
cold weather. :. Michael Iatros, Greek
consul at Lowell, Mass, has been in
dicted by the Federal grand jury at
Boston on a charge Of smuggling aliens
into the United States. 10. P. Dod-
son, while demented, sIot and killed
his three-year-o son at Gadsden,
Ala, Wednesday. 49,. John p. Dun
ming, a we'll known newspaper writer.
died in Philadelphia Wednesday. Dun
ming landed in Cuba with Roosevelt's
Rough Riders and sent out the first
story of the Las Guisimas ambuscade.
.... The Prince and Princess Of
Wales are soon to make an extended
tour Of Canada. Rev. and Mrs. Lem
G. Broughton were seriously injured in
a street car accident in Atlanta Tues
day evening. 80. The Florida senate
by a vote of twenty-three to five has
decided to disfranchise the negro In
that state. ..... One thousand dollars
reward is offered for the return Of
Horace N. Marvin, Jr., the kidnapped
Delaware child, and no questions ask
ed. 49,. An Elbert county, Ga, peach
orchard owner, has sold the coming
crop on 10000 trees for SO per tree.
..... Southern Chile was visited by
terrific earthquake Wednesday. ......
William E. Corey, president Of the
United States Steel company, is to be
married to Mabelle Gilman, an actress,
on May 7th. Corey divorced his first
wife several months ago. ....A num-
ber Of instructors and members of the
staff class Of the Ft. Leavenworth,
Kan, military training school, are
soon to make a horseback trip over
the route of General Sherman from
to Atlanta. -. King Ed