Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-07-12
MERE-MENTION.

E. G. Lewis, president, and Franh
v. Putnam, treasurer of the Lewis
Publishing company, ST. Louis, are
under indictment in the Federal courts
on charges of fraudulent use of the
mails. go. Two of the largest mercan-
tile buildings Of Indianapolis. Ind.
collapsed last Monday, following g
fire, entailing loss of $225,OOO. 49,.
Vice President Fairbanks saved the
life of a hotel waitress, who had fal-
len into a lake in Yellowstone Nation
al Park last Sunday. 80. Three hun
dred machinists at Fitchburg, Mass.
are on a strike for nine hours work
and more pay. The Western Fed
Grafton Of miners has ordered a gen.
eral strike in the Cobalt, Ont, district
The mine owners refuse to recognize
the Federation in any shape. 80. The
railroads of the country last year used
103,000,000 ties, equal to 3,0OO,O0O,O0t
board feet of lumber. .... The Texas
anti-pass law went into effect yester-
day and is the most drastic in the
country. Railroad officials who give
passes to anyone not entitled to II
under the law, are liable to a fine OF
$4,000 and two years imprisonment.
There was one death and many pros
trations from excessive heat in Phil
adelphia on Monday. -. James Bruir
Of New Brighton, Pa, aged 81 years
is soon to take his fifth bride. ......
Richmond Pearson Hobson says that
war between the United States and
Japan is inevitable. He wants more
warships built at once. .... King Ed
ward VII Of England, is on a visit to
Ireland, his second time since as
cending the British throne. .... Jesse
Cook, an ex-slave, died at New Castle
Pa, Monday, at the age Of 104 years
-. Judge Lands of the Federal court
Chicago, will impose q fine on the
Standard Oil company, convicted OF
violation of the Sherman antitrust
laws, on August 3rd. The United
States department Of justice will ask
for a receiver for the American To-
bacco company, with a view to dis
integrating the monopoly. .... Orders
have been issued to rush work on the
battleships Oregon and Wisconsin
which are undergoing repairs at Seat
tie, Wash. ..... 1t is announced from
Paris that Major Alfred Dreyfus will
retire from the French army on pen
sion because Of ill-health. .... Jesse
R. Grant, son of President Grant, is
a possible candidate for the next Dem
ocratic presidential nomination. ....
Sheriff Brewster and several deputies
Of ST. Tammany parish, La, dispersed
a mob Monday, which had gathered tC
lynched a negro. The sheriff announc-
ed that he would protect the negro
with his life and the mob gave up the
job. .... E. H. Hartman is to be in
dicted by the Oregon Federal grand
jury on charges Of fraud growing out
Of the acquisition Of government lands
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scene Of a serious revolt among the
wine growers, the peasants not being
satisfied with a new law relating to
the making Of fraudulent wine.
Attorney General Jackson Of New York
has begun an investigation Of charges
that the Western Union and Postal
Telegraph companies have combined
to maintain telegraph rates. 80. The
governor of the province Of NganhweI
was murdered Sunday by sub-direc-
tor of police. The murderer was de-
capitated at once. The Legislature
of Alabama will place bronze statue
of the late Senator Morgan in statu-
ary hall at the Capitol, Washington.
Engineer Dease Of a Mobile and Ohio
passenger train, was struck by mail
crane Tuesday and knocked back into
his cab unconscious. The train ran
six miles further without an engineer
and colliding with a switching engine
near Mobile, Ala, seriously injured
several persons. .... More than $4,000
knights TemplarS are attending the
triennial conclave Of the grand en-
campment at Saratoga, N. Y, this
week. Two men were killed and
three seriously injured by a head-on
collision of freight trains on the At
lantic Coast Line at Blue Springs. Ga.
Tuesday. .... One negro killed, one
officer wounded, twenty-five gallons OF
whisky, two barrels of beer, two grips
full Of Colts revolvers, several hun
dred dollars in money, and twenty five
negro prisoners, resulted from a raid
on a negro gambling den at Nichols
Ca, Sunday night. Geo. w. Van
derbilt's Biltmore, n. c., estate is as
sessed at 2,321,427. 7..... The Bridge
man building, Philadelphia, four sto-
ries high, in course of construction
collapsed Wednesday, burying some
twenty-five or thirty workmen in the
ruins. The grand jury has return
ed true bills against DR.. David l.
Rowland and his wife, Lillian Row
land at Raleigh, n. c., on the charge
of numbering Mrs. Rowland's first
husband, G.. r. Strange. King Ed
ward of England has granted a par
uOn 10 SOl. Arthur LSiSll, wiz "ot
convicted of high treason in 1902, and
sentenced to death, for having fought
with the Beers against England. .....
There were two deaths and ten pros
trations from heat in st. Louis, Wed
nesday Six out of seven young
men were drowned by the capsiZing OF
sail boat in PenobScot Bay, Me-, Tues
day afternoon. 49,. The international
Christian Endeavor convention was
CCnvened in annual session at Seattle
Washington, Wednesday. go. Senator
A. o. Bacon has been reelected to the
United States senate from Georgia. -,
Chester B. Runyan. defaulting teller OF
the Windsor Trust company of New
York. will be defended on a plea OF
insanity. Ex- Mayor Eugene Schmitz
of San Francisco, within five minutes
after he had been sentenced to serve
five years in prison, declared that he
would again be a candidate for mayor
of the city at the fall elections.
Yaqui Indians raided a mining camp
near QuerObabi. Sonora, Mexico, las,
Sunday, and stole everything that they
could carry off. .. Russia will spend
$15.50O,0OO during each of the next
three years in building up new navy
&C. r. Edwards, manager of Swift
& Cos branch house at Raleigh, n. c..
~ uIuSI dllSSb VII C NllCtl SC VI
ing funds of the company. .... After
fatally wOunding Joseph Nicholson al
Eastman. Ga. Monday DR.. S. P. Smith
ATTENDED his victim for two days in a
vain effort to save his life. .... Seven
teen cars of peaches have been shipped
from the vicinity of Macon, Ga, tC
eastern markets this week. -. Frank
Norton. a telephone lineman. was kill
ed in Atlanta. Tuesday night by cross
ed electric light wires. .....A great
fight for state prohibition is being
made in the Georgia Legislature. II
is probable that the prohibition advo-
Gates will win out. ..... Nine. From
kina. who in March last attempted tC
aSSaSSinate Gen. RheinbOt at Moscow
Russia, has been sentenced to death
... Emmanuel Baptist church, Chi
cagO. now employs a brass band in its
Sunday services. 80. Harry Kirkstein
"a telegraph operator, has been arrested
in New York. on a charge of acting