Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-08-13
MERE-M ENTION.

1t is estimated that the 1907 Kansas
wheat yield will be 65,0O0,000 bushels
and that Of corn 187,000,OOO bushels.
"A grain elevator at Baltimore be-
longing to the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road, was burned Thursday, with a
loss of $225,000.. .One hundred ana
six Japanese were deported from San
Francisco last week. They were caught
while slipping across the border from
Mexico. Baron Lindenau Of Ber-
lin, Germany, says that Karl Hau OF
Washington, recently convicted or
numbering his mother-in-law at Ba-
dem Baden Is not guilty and that he
knows the murderer. 80. The passen-
ger business of the Southern railway
represents more than 81 per cent Of Its
gross earnings. 80. JEFFERSON Scott,
negro, died in Seneca county, Ohio,
last week, at the age Of 113 years.
David Hutcheson, superintendent OF
the congressional library reading room
for thirty-three years, has resigned....
Twenty seven ships are enroute from
Java for New York and Philadelphia,
carrying 10000 tons of raw sugar..
The engineer fireman, conductor and
brakeman Of the Baltimore and Ohio
train which last December ran into
another train at Terra Gotta near
Washington. killing forty-six persons,
have been indicted by the District OF
Columbia grand jury on charges OF
manslaughter.. -. Bill Quantrell. the
leader OF Quantrell's guerillas in the
civil war and long believed to be dead.
Is reported to be living at Quatsino.
Vancouver Island. More than l5O
union carpenters, brick layers, ETC.,
are on strike at Washington, D. Co..
The stock Of the Standard Oil COM
pany sold down to 466 Friday in New
York, the lowest price reached in many
years. Ludwig Sczegiel, a Polish
priest Of Chicago. killed Steven and
Andrew Starsynsk, hotel proprfetors
Of Pittsburg, Pa, Thursday, while In
IA drunken rage. After q recent
visit to the state prison Governor Pat
terson Of Tennessee, issued thirty
eight pardons. mostly to boys under
Is years OF age. In general hght
between Mexicans and Japanese at
MaZatlan, Mexico, last Thursday, three
Japs and one Mexican were killed, and
several were mortally wounded......
The second tube Of the Belmont tunnel
under the East river, New York, was
completed last Thursday. y...... Lieut..
Robert E. Peary has abandoned his
proposed trip in search Of the north
pole until next year. Central
American republics will hold a con-
Vention in Washington the coming
winter looking to an agreement which
will insure peace between the different
nations. go. Judge Austin L. Crothers
has been nominated for governor by
the Democratic convention Of Mary
land. Citizens Of Strongville, Ohio,
had a street battle with bank burglars
early Thursday morning. One OF the
burglars was shot to death, two others
escaping. 49,. The National Copper
- A,lr t.a, tlxy tNao IL
ed vault built Of armor plate.
Defalcations in the city treasurer's Of
flee Of Syracuse, N. Y, involving $780,
900 and covering a period Of ten years
were brought to light last week. ......
Washington county, Texas, farmers
have broken up negro cotton pickers'
union by thrashing the eight walking
delegates Of the union with wagon
whips. .....A mob Of 500 foreigners
tried to mob a train crew near Sieg-
fried, Pa. Friday, because the train
had killed two Of their number. 49,.
Holcomb Bacon, a prominent business
man of Albany, Ga, was found dead In
his room at the Aragon hotel, Atlanta,
the Standard and Vacuum OIL compa-
nies and the New York Central and
Pennsylvania railroad companies. have
been returned by a Federal grand jury
at Jamestown, N. Y. On conviction
the various companies are liable to
fines aggregating $1S.240. .000.. La
zar Mehoievich was hanged at New
Orleans, Friday, for assaulting little
girl. Harvey Liebe. a jeweler, shot
his wife and then committed suicide
at Portland, Ore, Friday. 49,. Daniel
J. Adams, horsethief and incendiary
Of Northampton county, Pa, was con-.
victed last Friday at Easton and SEN
fenced to twenty years Imprisonment.
..... A powder mill at Locust Noun
tain near Shenandoah, Pa, blew up
Friday night There was no loss Of
life although the nightwatchman had
his clothes burned off Of him.. $50.
Robert Murdock. white. shot Mrs. Lau-
ra Raw. proprietor Of a boarding house
at Asheville, N. c., to death and then
committed suicide. last Wednesday
morning.