Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-10-22
MERE-M MENTION.

The search Of q Pennsylvania misers
bed, after his death a few days ago
disclosed the hiding place Of twenty
five $1,000 bills. DIR. G. w. Hotch-
kiss Of East Springfield, Pa, Is held on
a charge Of setting fire to his office
and residence in an effort to get the
$2,500 for which his property was In
sured. The first wireless telegraph
message was sent across the Atlantic
ocean from Ireland to Nova Scotia las,
Thursday by the Marconi system
The wireless system promises greatly
reduced rates for inter-continenta
messages. :. :. The Danish ship Alfred
Erlandsen, was wrecked on the rocks
off Castle Point, Scotland. Thursday
night, and twenty Of her crew were
drowned. -. There Is an estimated
shortage of about 100000 bushels In
the Irish potato crop Of Maine this
year. The town of Conception,
Mexico, was destroyed by a cyclone
last Friday. There was some loss OF
life. ... Rose L. Fritz won the worlds
typewriting championship In New
York on Friday, by writing 5,619 words
in one hour, making but "a errors. -: 4.
The Standard Oil company will build
the largest oil refinery in the world at
Elizabeth, N. J...... The Denver and
Rio Grande Railway company declares
that It will move its train by tele-
phone II it's telegraph operators carry
out their threat to strike. Two per-
CONS were killed and twenty were In
jured by a collision Of electric cars on
Chattanooga, Tenn, suburban line
Friday morning. General Juan Maso
PARA, described as a chronic agita-
tor" is in prison at Havana, Cuba,
charged with trying to foment disor-
der in the island. .... Ed Cole, not
ed pickpocket. escaped from conVict
camp at Pitts, Ca, Friday. -. It, A
Potts, a Columbus, Ga, machinist,
few days ago drank a pint Of whisky,
on a wager, and died in a short time
afterwards. Michael Oakley Of Can
ton, S. D., was on Friday stung by a
honey bee on the temple, and died In
convulsions fifteen minutes later.
Anthony Comstock, head Of the New
York society for the Prevention of
Vice, aided by postoffice inspectors, Is
making a determined war on obscene
post cards. The crusade will probably
extend over the country. Atlanta,
Ca, Is making an effort to secure the
National Prohibition convention In
1908. :. Jacob Detlinger, York Pa, lost
$40 a few days ago. and brooding over
the loss. he committed suicide by plac-
ing a stick Of dynamite in his mouth
and exploding It.. One deputy sherin
was killed and another wounded by an
escaped lunatic near Covington, Tenn,
Thursday, whom the officers were at
tempting to arrest. .... Thirteen men
were buried alive under tons Of rock
In the Pennsylvania railroad tunnel In
New York on Friday. The rock had
been loosened by a blast. Only two
were fatally injured. d...... The steam.
ships Lusitania and Mauretania Will
receive from $4,000 to $4,000 each trip
for carrying the mails from the United
States to England and European coun-
tries. -. .Memhd Ali Bey. the hrst
ambassador to be sent to the United
States by Turkey. has arrived IN
Washington. 49,. Frederick Magill and
his wife, Faye Graham Magill, charged
with numbering Magills first wife,
have been acquitted at Decatur III. -.
Twenty-seven persons were killed or
wounded in a railroad wreck at Orio,
Spain. Friday. Two persons were
killed and a number seriously hurt at
Earl, Col, Friday by the wreck Of
Sante Fe railroad flyer. Governor
Hughes of New York declared at a
banquet in New York Friday night,
that he had no presidential aspira-
tions. and that he has no desire to be
a political boss. The Mexican gov
ernment has put a ban upon the i'm
portation Of firearms into that coun-
try. The general conference Of the
Protestant Episcopal church Of Amer
ica closed its session at Richmond,
Va, Saturday. after a session Of three
weeks. -. Mrs. Phoebe Goldstein Of
Brooklyn. N. Y, poured oil on a fire
Saturday, and she and six Of her chill