Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-07-26
FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1907.
MERE.MENTION,


in a university at Washington, ID. C.,
has been condemned to death at Caris-
ruhe, Germany, for the murder or MS
mother-in- law. 1t Is estimated that
the wheat production Of Kansas this
year will be 100000 bushels. 80. An
explosion in a coal mine in the prov
ince Of Bungo, Japan, last Saturday,
caused the loss of more than 400 lives.
..... District Attorney Jerome Of New
York, is suing the New York Journal
for 100000 damages on charges of IL
bel. :. The present lemon and orange
crop of California is valued at $14,-
900, 900. go. The American Midland
Railway company has been incorpor-
ated in Oklahoma, with a capital stock
Of $50, ,000, 900. -. Major Eugene Cof-
fin, paymaster, u. s. A, has had his
left arm amputated as result Of be-
ing inoculated while handling infect
ed money. .... The Standard OIL COM
pany is under indictment in Tennessee
under 1924 specific counts. 80. More
than 10000 sheep have died in Natro-
na county, Wyoming, during the past
few weeks from an unknown cause.
DR.. Edwin J. Russell, a practicing ply
sician Of New York, was assaulted by
thugs last Friday afternoon on Lex
ington avenue, and died Sunday after
noon. Four of his assailants are un-
der arrest. Fourteen persons are
dangerously Ill near Frankfort, KY, as
a result Of eating ice cream. -Four
italians, one woman and three men, i'm
plicated in the kidnapping and murder
Of the Lamana child near New Orleans,
a few weeks ago, have been sentenced
to prison for life. go. .Pittsburg, Pa,
Is suing the trolley lines Of that city
for S6S4,0O0 back bills In connection
with its street cleaning contracts.
Two negroes were lynched and four
persons were killed In pistol duels In
Lake county, Tennessee. Sunday.
The dead as the result Of the
Pere Marquette wreck last week, now
number thirty-five. ...... Simon Ma
zer, fifty years old, Of Pittsburg, Pa.
killed himself last Saturday by loud
talking, according to the report Of the
coroner's physician. w. II. Kelly, q
department store proprietor. has been
fined $3.50 by York, Pa, judge, for
selling obscene literature. ...... The
Russian minister Of marine has order
ed the Baltic shipyards to prepare for
the prompt construction Of a number
Of $4,000 ton battleships. -. The gen.
eral staff Of the Italian army has rec
commended the appropriation Of $780,
100000 for defenses on the frontier.
French exports to the United States
during the fiscal year 1907, amounted to
$129, ,044 ,567. .Jabez Wolfe, an ANA
teur swimmer Of London, attempted to
swim the English channel on Monday.
He covered twenty-one miles OF the
distance and had to give 1t up......
The battleship Georgia Is again engag-
ed In target practice Off the New Eng
land coast. 80. The American Union
Coal company Of Pennsylvania, Is su-
ing the Pennsylvania railroad for
100000 damages alleging unlawful
discrimination in favor Of competitors,
Three convicts attacked a guard
at the Palmer Brick works. near At
lanta, Ga, Tuesday In an effort to es-
cape. The convicts were armed with
revolvers. The guard killed two and
the third escaped, but shortly returned
and surrendered. There were sew
en- deaths and sixteen prostrations from
the heat in st. Louis, Mo-, Tuesday.
Jas. b. Duke, president Of the Amer
lnman Of Atlanta, Ga, were married
In New York, Tuesday afternoon. n....,.
A young woman Is confined In the
Massachusetts, general hospital at Bos-
ton, suffering from leprosy. .... .Chas,
Warner, sixty years old, Of New York,
went crazy Tuesday, and shot q young
woman to death and fatally wounded
a merchant, his best friend. 80. There
are eighty cases Of typhoid fever at
the New Jersey state hospital for the
insane at Trenton. -. Under the new
military law Of Russia, only seventy
two hours are to be consumed In deal
court martial from the beginning OF
che trial until execution. 80. Chicago
University students are chagrined over
learning that the beauty who has
"queered 1t" over them for three years
Is mulatto, a. sister Of "Mushmouth"
Johnson, q notorious negro gambler OF
Chicago. There are 10000 suffer-
ers from the famine In the district Of
St Elizabeth, Jamaica. E. {. An Arme-
nian blackmailing society Of New
York, has marked ten Of their rich
countrymen for death unless they pay
$4,000 each for immunity. They have
already murdered one victim. -. An
American named Duryea, Is under ar
rest at Bilboa, Spain, on q charge Of
trying to pass counterfeit United States
money. He had $4,000 of the spurious
paper. 80. The legislature Of Alabama
has passed a child labor law, making
the minimum age limit twelve years
and sixty hours week. 49,. A dis
charged housekeeper Of Ullkjaer. Dem
mark, on Monday hanged three Of her
employers children, three of her own
and then committed suicide by hang
ing. General Metzinger, comman-
der in chief, and several Of the gener-
al staff Of the French army have re-
signed because they disapproved
proposed reduction Of the standing
army Of France. .... The state Of Mis-
sissippi has filed suits against the
Standard Oil company for $1,4S0,000
damages for violation Of the states
antitrust laws. Miss Irene Kauff-
man Of Pittsburg, Pa, lost her life at
Long Branch, N. j., Tuesday, by
drinking carbolic acid, mistaking 1t
fol something else. ;. Police Commits
sioner Bingham Of New York. admits
his inability to cope with the flood Of
crime in that city and demands 1,400
extra policemen. Two burglars loot
ed New York musical instrument
store Tuesday night and carried away
eAnn u,orfh Of honI inc F,,Yaanto