Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-06-25
TUESDAY, JUNE rs, 1907.
MERE.MENTION.

day night and secured 5000, beside:
watches and jewelry. =. A large party
of Texas bankers were entertained by
the bankers of New York last week.
John d. Rockefeller was fined $25 by {
Westchester county, N. Y, magistrate
last week for exceeding the speed linn
IT,. Governor Stokes of New Jer'
sey undertook to umpire baseball
game between teams representing the
senate and house of that state one
day last week. He was almost mobbeC
by the players because of a "rotter
Carolina has offered a reward Of $l5i
for the arrest of Edward Ashby, who
killed D. S. Overcash at China Grove
N. c., last week. 80. George w. Bun
drick. a white man, was hanged Al
Cordele, Ga, Friday for a murder
committed in 1902. .....An Asheville
n. c., firm last week received a con-
signment Of 250,000 post cards from
Germany The cards consist of west
ern North Carolina views. ..... .Isidol
WOIIIScI, q 1NS" Iva 81
banker, died in that city Friday oi
gout, aged seventy-seven years.
Seven firemen were injured by the
falling of a roof of a burning house In
telephone people are engaged IN an
effort to force Bell phones on the peo-
pie of Statesville, n. C.......The su-
preme court Of Tennessee has declared
the charter of the city Of Memphis
granted by the last state legislature, to
be unconstitutional. .....A man ana
woman were killed by lightning in the
vicinity of Kalamazoo, Mich, Friday
evening. g. . Benjamin Walters, mer-
chant of Madison, Ill.,, on Saturday
committed suicide as climax TO do
mestic difficulties. King Edward
of England has presented q handsome
Bible to the church at Bruton, Va.....
Barlow county, Ga, of which Carriers
VILE is the county seat, voted l,72l to
81 in favor of prohibition last Thurs
day. The vote in Gainesville was $40
to 25 against liquor. go. Frank 4.
Woller. clerk of the municipal and dis
trict courts at Milwaukee, Wis, has
been found $4,000 short in his &C
counts. Woller has been arrested and
will plead guilty. .... Willis McClel-
land, a negro, was hanged at Mobile,
Ala, Friday for numbering Michael
McGoyern, an old resident of that city.
McClelland confessed on the gallows.
Mrs. Daisy Grant Hanna has been
granted a divorce at Cleveland, Ohlo'
from her husband, Dan R. Hanna,
son of the late Senator Hanna. .....
According to a Washington dispatch
the Standard Oil company Is perfect
ing plans by which it will control a
railroad system from the Atlantic 10
the Pacific The eastern terminus Is
TO be Newport News, Va-..... Great
forest fires are in progress along the
line of the Canadian Pacific railroad
TO the east of Fort William, ontario.
Six railroad bridges have been de-
stroyed John Mitchell, a negro
was hanged at Marietta. Ga, Friday
for murder. Thomas Battle an
old Confederate veteran, was last week
convicted in the Federal court at Ma
con. Ga. of the murder of Geo. L.
White, and sentenced to life imprison-
ment in the Federal prison in Atlanta
The reason for the trial Of Battle In
Federal court was that he killed White
on the top of the new postoftice build
ing at Macon, and therefore on gov
ernment property. .... Five men were
killed in an automobile accident at
Calynello Italy, last Thursday. The
car was running at high speed ana
crashed into a rock. .....A Pittspurg
and Lake Erie railroad train ran into
an open switch at Pittsburg, Pa, Sat
urday evening. resulting in the Killing
of the conductor and injuring nine
messengers. ..An electric car was
dynamited near Gadsden. Ala, Friday
night. The car was running at hign
speed at the time Of the explosion.
But little damage resulted. .....lt is
rumored in Chicago that two of the
biggest of the trans continental rail-
road lines will adopt a universal pas
senger rate Of two cents mile.
The legislature of Georgia will con-
vene tomorrow for the session of l9OI-
OS. Western Union operators went
on a strike at Oakland, Cal, last Fri
day. The body of Arthur l.. Dytch'
an installment house collector, was
found hanging from tree near Ma
con, Ga, late Friday night. 1t is De-
lieyed that he was first murdered and
then hanged to the tree with his own
belt. .... Eight workmen were Killed
and thirty-five were injured by a New
York, New Haven and Hartford pas
senger train running into the rear OF
a work train at Hartford, Conn.,,
Sunday night. ...... First MethodlS'
church of Statesville, n. c., was Dadly
damaged by lightning which set 1t on
fire Sunday afternoon. .....A sea tur-
tie weighing 1902 pounds was captur-
ed by a fisherman near San Diego
Cal, last week. 80. Constable j. h
Good was shot to death by Isom Reed
a negro, at Memphis, Tenn, Sunday
evening, while the constable was try
ing to arrest Reed. The negro was IA
tally shot by the officer. r..... .Brodie A
Kennedy, aged fifteen years, was kill
ed by lightning near Mezeppa, N. C..
Saturday afternoon. Anthony Com
stock, head of the New York Society
for the Prevention of Vice confiscated
thousands of immoral post cards al
Coney Island Friday. The legiSla-
ture Of New York will adjourn tomOr-
row afternoon at o'clock, and the
governor threatens to call an extra
session five minutes afterwards. unless
the two houses get together and pass
the assembly reapportionment bill over
which they have been deadlocked fol
some days. . Irwin Lewis of Kennet'
Square, Pa. is under arrest charged
with the murder Of his five-year-olo
stepdaughter Lewis protests his in
pncance Daniel Osiris a Jewish