Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-08-27
TUESDAY, AUGUST a7, 1907.

count of the long continued drought
$500. Frank Iams Of st. Paul, Neb.,
last week imported $40 head OF Per-
cheron, Belgian and German coach
horses for breeding purposes. Some
of the Percherons and Belgians weigh
from 1900 to $500 pounds each.
Benjamin c. Weisberg, treasurer or
the Virginia Peanut company, Is un-
der arrest on a charge Of embezzling
81, 800. Owing to the scarcity or
labor In the west and the curtailment
of coal production, the Hartman lines
have made contracts with Australian
mines for portion Of Its supplies.
A monument to President Mckinley
will be unveiled at Canton, Ohio, on
September 30th. The United States
and Great Britain have agreed to lay
the long existing dispute over the New
Foundland fisheries before The Hague
tribunal for arbitration. 80. About
1000 machinists Of Greater New
York are demanding an increase OF
twenty-five cents a day In wages and
will probably strike II 1t Is refused.
o. w. Roberts, Jr., Of Charlotte, was
killed by police officer at Asheville,
\. c., Friday night. thousands
Of newsboys from all over the coun-
try were at the jamestown exposition
Saturday-"Newsboys' Day.. The
prisoners In the prison for the crfmi-
nal insane at Dannemora, n. Y, made
desperate effort to escape from the
prison last Friday. 'Jne prisoner was
killed. 49,. The state of Texas has
filed a suit against the International
Harvester company, charging viola
ton Of antitrust laws, and demands
penalties Of $1,700, ,000.-- A strip
twenty-five miles long and one to six
miles wide In Barnes county, s. D.,
was devastated by hail last Thursday.
Six men were killed by the ex-
plosion of q donkey engine boiler at
Hoboken, n. j., Friday. Pitts
burg, Pa, had a $1,000,000 fire last
Friday. An entire block Of the shop
ping district was wiped out. The
Pennsylvania railroad has sent out a
circular In which It claims that tramps
cost the railroads Of the country $685.
10000 annually. John Miller,
negro hod-carrier, fell from the third
story Of a building at Camden, n. j.,
Friday. He fell on his head, with the
brick he was carrying on top OF him.
He was only slightly injured by the
experience. -. Two men are dead
and two men and one woman are bad
ly wounded as the result OF free-for-
all pistol fight near Barbouryiile, KY,
Friday. ... The Atlantic battlesnip
fleet, accompanied by a number OF
torpedo boat destroyers, will start for
the Pacific in December. The
Washington police raided five alleged
bucketshops in that city last Friday,
and ordered the proprietors and pa
irons to appear In court. Four
teen persons, including three women
holding babies, were thrown into the
water at Green Bay, Mich, Friday, by
the collapse Of small dock. All
were rescued. -. Southern railway
common stock fell "a points on the
New York Stock Exchange Saturday.
American automobile manu-
facturers are suffering great slump
| In orders for their machines on ac-
count of the apparent tightness Of
money throughout the country.
Four thousand men have been laid on
on the Panama canal work on account
of lack of funds. Evander NC
Iver, a wealthy Chicago contractor,
was murdered and robbed by thugs
last Thursday, -, The French war
department has sent g. number OF pal
looms to Casablanca for use IN the
campaign against the Moors.-. -Four
men are under arrest at Los Angeles.
CAL, on a charge OF being implicated
in plot to assassinate president Diaz
of Mexico. :. &. The Thrall hospital AZ
Middletown, n. Y, was badly damag-
ed by fire Saturday night. Twenty
six patients were rescued from WIN
dows by means Of firemen's ladders.
Counsel representing the inter-
state commerce commission Will soon
begin taking testimony In New York
with the end in view Of dissolying the
Standard Oil company. "A man
died at Brunswick, Germany, last
week. after having lived for thirteen
wears in a bath tub filed with warm
water. -. The fourth Eucharisnc
congress Of the Roman Catholic
church will be held at Pittsburg. Pa.
October Is, 16 and 17...,,.. Walter
Cutler, 10 years old, Of South Benz,
Ind, kidnapped by gypsies four years
ago, made his escape last week ana
returned to his father. IA sup
posedly mad fox terrier caused at pan
ic at Coney Island last SATURDAY az
ternoon, and before 1t was shot had
bitten thirteen people.--....A woman
was rescued Friday from chasm IN
the Swiss Alps, after being imprisoned
for twenty-five days. She had lived
twenty DAYS on moss, grass and water.
Five persons are dead in Boston as
the result of a blaze caused by the
overturning Of an oil lamp. ....T TWO
men were killed In the cinder pit OF
the Homestead Steel works at Pitts-
burg, Pa, Saturday, by the explosion
Of gas. d. Three persons were seri-
ousIy injured in New York Saturday,
in a collision between an automopile
and an electric car. Worn comes
from Tromsue. Norway, that wafer
Wellman Is about ready to start from
Spitzbergen on his balloon trip TO the
north pole. ...... A company with
tr A. hod haan IA.