Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-04-16
MERE-M ENTlON.

The peninsular of Michigan was
covered with snow six to eight inches
deep Friday. -. From 1885 to 1904
there was a yearly average Of g.
597 homicides in the United States.
The percentage of convictions was
l.3 per cent. This country leads all
others in the number of homicides.
$500. George Burnham Jr., attorney,
who was convicted in New York some
months ago, Of grand larceny In con-
nection with the Mutual Reserve
Fund Life Insurance company, has
been disbarred by the New York
court of appeals. "A bill to pre-
vent testimony by alienists as to sup
posed insanity of persons on trial in
all murder cases, has been introduced
Secret service agents are searching
for showers of counterfeit silver dol
lars in Columbus, Ohio. The spurious
coin is said to be perfect in every re-
spect except the ring" -. Louisville,
KY, was visited by 100000 fire last
Friday. The building and plant
of the Rome, Ga, Tribune was de-
stroyed by fire last Friday. The loss
was $4,000. .... The Standard Oil
company has announced an advance
in the price of gasoline of one cent
gallon. .....A baby girl was born
in Bellevue hospital, New York, last
Friday ten minutes after its mothers
death. 1t is expected that the
Russian duma will soon be dissolved
by an imperial edict. ......A monu-
ment to the memory of Rough Riders
who died in the Cuban campaign and
who have died since then, was unveil-
ed in Arlington cemetery, Washington
last Thursday. President Roosevelt
made the dedicatory address. 80. "A
valuable race horse became so fright
ened at an automobile near Lexing-
ton, KY. last Friday that it dropped
dead The trial of Harry K. Thaw
for the murder of Stanford White,
was the longest on record in New
York city. John Alfred, ten years
old, was run over and killed by a
street car at Greensboro, y. c.. Fri
day. .Harvie Jordan, president OF
the Southern Cotton Growers associ-
alton will attend a meeting OF inter-
national cotton growers and spinners
in Vienna. Germany, May 22-24 .....
Fifteen hundred wood workers are on
strike at Dubuque, Iowa. for more
pay and shorter hours. ..."A negro
woman who claimed to be 100 years
old, died in Atlanta, Thursday last.
John A Kebler, general manager OF
the Colorado Fuel and Iron company
died Friday at Denver. Col, from pto-
maine poisoning. supposed to be due
TO eating canned salmon. Two
German aeronauts last week covered
a distance of S12 miles in nineteen
hours. They started from Berlin and
landed in England. .... The prespy-
terv of Norfolk. in session at Wacha-
prague, Va. has voted against the
proposed federation of the Presby-
terian bodies of the country. The op-
position to the federation is based on
race and theological questions.
Judge Landis in the United States
district court. Chicago, has overruled
motion to quash the indictments
against the Standard Oil company.
Five thousand persons are dying daily
in the famine district of China. .....
President BOnilla of Honduras. sur
ENri1nV
and the war is considered to be at an
end A conference of all the Central
American republics. looking TO per-
manent peace, will probably be held
in Mexico City. clerk in the
ST. Louis postoftice had finger blown
off one day last week when he struck
a package with his canceling stamp.