Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-10-11
MERE. ENTioN.

The Chilean government has en-
barked upon an undertaking that has
for its object the making OF Valparai-
80 port one of the best in the world.
The French and Spanish commanders
in Morocco are having trouble, because
of the alleged arrogance Of the Spar
ish commander, who refuses to recog-
nize the superior rank Of Gen. Drude.
Ten thousand longshoremen at
New Orleans are on a strike. Strike
breakers have refused to go to work
until they are guaranteed an eight
hour day. The soft yarn spinners
who met in Atlanta few days ago
for the purpose Of considering the
matter Of curtailing production, decid-
ed that they would not take action for
a month yet as they are all behind
with orders. The labor organiza-
tions Of Cuba are making big trouble
for the railroads. A general strike Is
threatened. :. "A receiver has been ap-
pointed for the Crowder's Mountain
Cotton mills, located at Kings Noun
tain, N. c.. The liabilities OF the con-
Germ are about 100000, with assets Of
less than half that sum ~. Samuel
Lyon, a Pennsylvania, recently died.
and an autopsy developed the fact that
his brain weighed only twenty-four
ounces. So small a brain Is seldom
found in a healthy adult. ...A pris-
oner in Paris has confessed that he
had been hired by rich antiauarfans
to bribe parish priests to give him
relics of the churches and substitute
counterfeits for them. He estimates
the value of his robberies at 100000.
-. Joe Wood, aged 16 years, has
confessed to the Camden, N. J.. police.
that he murdered Ethel Nevins,
playmate, aged about IL years. Wood
will probably go to the electric chair.
49,. The Philadelphia police have
made their first arrest in the fight
against the ambulance chasers" In
that city. Cholera Is spreading
with alarming rapidity In Toxic, ia
pan. . The price Of copper metal
has declined about 10 cents a pound
within the last six months. :. .Secre-
tary Taft was given the greatest ova-
ton ever extended to representative
of foreign government by represen-
tatives of the Chinese government at
Shanghai on Tuesday. 49,. A gang Of
convicts enroute to Siberia, attacked
their guards near Tvbalsk, Sunday.
Twenty-Five were shot down, but elev-
en- escaped with rifles wrested from
the guards. 80. Jew batting continues
to be the leading pastime in Odessa,
Russia. A mob attacked a large num-
Der of Jews in a cemetery Monday
during a funeral service and large
number of Hebrews were wounded....
Governor Buchtel of Colorado. and
two prominent citizens Of Denver. re-
ceived internal machines through the
mails Tuesday; but had been warned
by the chief of police that they were
coming and the machines were not
opened. The chief had captured and
gotten confession fro2o the sender
in time to warn the partiss. .......
Lord Rothschild, the London banker,
says: Stocks are low because govern
ments all over the world are Kissing
at capital. -. The Swedish Royal
Yacht club will build yacht
and make a try for the Americas cup.
80. The second trial Of Harry K.
Thaw is set to begin on December End.
Martin w. Littleton will be Thaw's
chief counsel. 80. 1t Is reported In
Washington that Secretary Cortelyou
will take charge of the jamestown ex-
position, because It has paid only
100000 Of the governments $1,000
900 loan. Two cigar boxes Of bum
blebees have been shipped to the Phil
ippines by the department Of agricul-
ture for cross fertilization purposes.