Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-11-08
MERE M ENTloN.

The trial OF Mrs. Annie Bradley,
charged with the murder of former
Senator Arthur Brown of Utah, Will
begin at Washington. D. c.. next Mon
day. see. The plants of the Bourbon
Stock Yards and Vissman Packing
company of Louisville. KY, were de-
stroyed by fire Tuesday afternoon, en-
failing a loss of $325,000. Ten carloads
of hogs were burned. .... The Globe
National bank of Globe, Arizona, was
closed Tuesday on account of being
unable to meet a run on 1t by deposit
tors. ... The seed division building
Of the department Of agriculture al
Washington, was partially destroyed by
fire Tuesday. The British torpedo
boat destroyer, Mohawk, on Tuesday
attained. a speed of thirty-nine and a
half miles an hour. .... With the larg-
est vote ever polled in Delaware, the
anti license party carried two of the
four districts into which the state had
been divided in Tuesdays elections.
In Illinois sixteen counties voted for
prohibition. 49,, One man was killed
and three were more or less seriously
wounded in an election day riot at
Frankfort, KY. Tuesday. Secretary
Taft will probably return to the United
States from the Philippines by way of
San Francisco, instead of continuing
his trip around the world. Two
men committed suicide in Philadelphia
Monday by hanging, another tried to
drown himself and a fourth tried acid
poisoning, while a woman attempted
to kill herself by stabbing with pair
Of scissors. ..... Six men are under ar
rest in New York on charges of rob-
bing the Adams Express company OF
sums aggregating between $4,000 and
sec, 1000. .. .Armela Mongeluzza, a 10
year-old Italian woman Of Philadel-
phia. was murdered Monday morning,
and her body robbed of s756, her saw
ingS of fifteen years. ..... The steamer,
City of Birmingham, plying between
Boston and Savannah. sank in Boston
harbor early Monday morning -. Five
persons were killed in railroad colli-
sion near Little Rock, Ark, Sunday
night. . Joseph Healey, charged with
false registration in New York city,
was on Monday sentenced to four
years and six months in prison. .....
There were two men murdered by wo-
men. and three men accidentally killed
in Birmingham, Ala, Monday. .... An
Atlanta, Ga, man is seeking a divorce
from his wife on the ground of cruel
and abusive treatment" Six thou
sand miners OF Illinois are out on a
strike because the company for which
they were working, announced that
until the money stringency was passed,
they would be paid in checks. .. Fred
F. Carter, sheriff of Lake county, IND,
has been placed under arrest by post
office authorities on the charge of tam
pering with the mails, in that he open
ed letters addressed to a prisoner in
his charge. .....L Lone Star, full
b!ooded Cherokee Indian, was married
at Cincinnati. Ohio, Monday, to Miss
Stella Walker of Newport, KY.
il is estimated that the jamestown eX-
IOsition company is about three mil
lion dollars in debt. and it is quite GER
tain that a receiver will be asked with
in forty eight hours after the show
closes. .. The United States Steel cor
roratiOn has secured control of its
nd
company. .. Internal Revenue Com
missioner Capers declares that Federal
gaugers. in league with big distillers,
are defrauding the government of more
than $500 a day in Virginia and other
states. . The steamship Kronprin-
Zessin Cecile arrived in New York,
Tue sday morning with $7.1OO,O0O in
gold. The gold was packed in 235
boxes containing about 100000 each
and weighed about fourteen tons. The
Lusitania, due to arrive last night,
brought $10,000,000 more in gold. .....
1t is estimated that the 1897 apple crop
of the United States is a little short
of 24.OO0.0O barrels, this total being
materially short of last years crop.
.The strike of the commercial
telegraph operators. which has been in
progress for about twelve weeks, has
about run it's course, and the opera
tors are returning TO work all over the
country. There are now more than
$500 rural free delivery routes in the
United States.