Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-04-09
MERE-ME ENTtON.

his home CITY,. MrS. Clara boln-
field, wife of Otto Bothfield, men,
Der of the New York Produce Ex-
change, committed suicide Friday by
throwing herself into a creek at Bay
Ridge, Long Island. :. Wheeling, w.
Va, after a trial of municipal own
ership of a gas plant, has abandoned
the property as a financial failure.
The whipping post was used In Balti-
more Friday for the first time In
twenty years. The victim was a negro
wife beater. The society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals OF
New York, is making a determined
war in that city on the use of high
check reins and hard bits on carriage
horses. VIM. ]. Bryan Will be the
guest Of honor at the Brooklyn DEM
ocratic clubs Jefferson Day dinner on
April 16. About $50 longshoremen
in the employ of the Old Dominion
Steamship company at Norfolk, are
on a strike. Daniel A. Campbell
has been appointed postmaster OF Chi
cago to succeed Fred A. Busse, the
mayor-elect. Six persons were In
jured, two fatally, in Charlotte Sat
urday as the result of collision be-
tween a Seaboard Air Line train and
a street car. The Great Northern
railroad was on Saturday assessed
with $150,000 in fines in the Federal
court at Minneapolis, upon the cor
viction of granting rebates on hfteen
counts. Alexandria, and other Lou
isiana towns were on Friday morn
ing swept by a cyclone which wrecked
nd
of people. There was also much prop
erty damaged. =. Three train rob-
bers held up a Lake Shore freight
train near Clarence, n. Y, last Thurs
day night and robbed freight car OF
merchandise. A New York dfspatch
saws that the $10,000,000 given by
Mrs. Russell Sage for charitable work
throughout the country, is but a small
beginning of her benefactions for the
poor Of the country. 49,. Governor
Stuart of Pennsylvania, has signed the
bill making two cents a mile the max
imum passenger rate In that state.
L. E. Gelky of Oakland, Cal, Is suing
the Southern Pacific railroad for $25,-
600 for the loss of his big toe. which
was mashed off by collapse Of a car
seat. Julius Kennedy, twelve-year-
old Charlotte, N. c., boy, was FOUND
locked in a freight car in philadelphia
last week. The boy was half starved
Three yeggmen named Wood,
Rogers and Wilson were sentenced
to the North Carolina penitentlary
from Mocksville last Friday. The FIST
two get two and half years and the
last named, fifteen months. An eX-
press train on the Illinois Central col
lided with a coal train at Duquoin
ILL.,, last Friday. The engineer %as
seriously injured and the fireman kill
ed The government Of Chill mas
accepted the proposal Of German
and Belgian syndicate TO build rail-
road throughout the length Of the
country. The British ship Yeddo,
grounded in the SueZ canal last week
and obstructed navigation. The
Interstate commerce commission has
succeeded in settling the impending
strike of employees of the western
railroads entering Chicago. ...Of the
4, 900 houses making up the city OF
Bitlis, Turkish Armenia, 800 were de-
molished, and 800 badly damaged by
the recent earthquake. There is much
suffering In the city. .... Anthony
Fiala is planning another attempt to
reach the north pole. Bishop Jas.
N. Fitzgerald of the Methodist Episeo-
pal church, died in Hong Kong, Chl-
ma, last Thursday. The United
States district court grand jury, IN
session at Greensboro. n. c., has re-
turned a true bill against Franc. h:
Jones. the defaulting bank teller OF
Charlotte. The Chmese 1amlne
fund raised by the Christian Herald
now amounts to more than $4,000.
The army transport Buford. with sup
plies, will sail for China on April 80
Fire destroyed $50 bales Of cot
ton, fifty cars Of guano ingredients
and number of warehouses at
Marshallville, n. c., last Friday. $500.
The Rome, Ca, whisky dispensary,
sold $246.729 worth of liquors during
the year 1906. Captain Fred.
erick Cole. U. S. A.. and former Chief
Clerk E. P. Thornton. are charged
with padding the pay rolls IN the
ouartermaster's shop at Manila.
Several thousand dollars are involved
in their stealings. Mrs. Frances
Butler, a real" daughter Of the Amer
lean Revolution, died at Framing.
ton, Va, last Thursday at the age OF
eighty-four years. "A rumor sent
out from st. Petersburg last week to
the effect that the czar would abdicate
in favor of his brother, Grand Duke
Michael, is officially denied. Ten
Lodz, Russia, Saturday, because they
attempted to return to work. p. A.
| B. Widener, street car magnate and
capitalist of Philadelphia, has offered
to build a s10,000.000 art gallery In
that city. $500. .Clive Darrie, a twenty
four year old giant from Australia, is
in London looking for wife ap-
preaching him in size. Darrie is 8 feet
s inches tall . Upward Of $4,000 Jews,
are homeless and facing starvation as
the result Of the recent agrarian riots
in Roumania. The Chinese famine
has brought the people to such straits
that they are digging up and eating
their own dead. 80. During the year
1906 the Pennsylvania railroad handled
II 900, 900 pieces of baggage, valued at
more than $4,000, O,O0O,0 900. .... Theodore
D. Buhl, a prominent banker and bus.
mess man of Detroit. Mich, dropped
dead on the streets Of New York sun
day afternoon. The cause Of death was
| apoplexy. Former President Bar
rillas of Guatemala, was assassinated
in Mexico City Sunday afternoon.
The Daisy Rolling mills Of Norfolk,
Va, were destroyed by an incendiary
fire early Sunday morning. entailing a
loss of 100000. which is practically
covered by insurance. 1.-The total
tobacco crop Of the United States for
1906 was 6S2,42S,530 pounds, which
was worth about $6S,000,000.