Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-05-07
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An invitation to address the law
class Of Yale university by Dolphin M.
Delmas, has been withdrawn. .....
Countess" Anisia Louise de Massey
was found guilty Of manslaughter In
the first degree In New York last
week after a trial on the charge Of
killing Gustav Simon, a shirtwaist
manufacturer. ;. Eleven bodies have
been recovered from the Whipple coal
mine near Charleston, w. Va, where
gas explosion occurred last week.
The lower house Of the Michigan leg
islature has passed a bill providing
for nominating state senator's by pri-
mary elections. .... "A belled buzzard
was seen near Canton, N. j., last week
Ten companies of the California
National Guard have been muster
ed out of service for having fallen be-
low the standard Of efficiency.
The Russian council Of ministers has
decided to double track the Siberian
railroad from Moscow to the Manchu-
rian border. Mexico Is equipping
80, 900 troops in expectation Of war
with Guatemala. The trouble is over
the refusal of the Guatemalan govern
ment to surrender General Lima,
whom the Mexican government
charges with completely in the assas-
City some weeks ago. General
Kurok and staff, representatives Of
Japan to the jamestown exposition
landed at Seattle, Wash, last Thurs
day. Fourteen steamships landed
2O,729 immigrants in New York dur
ing the twenty-four hours ending at
s o'clock p. m, May End. This Is the
largest number ever landed in New
York in a single day.. VIM. A.
Brewer, Jr., former president Of the
Washington Life Insurance company,
was fined $500 by New York judge
last Thursday because he made a
fraudulent report to the state super
intendent Of insurance. go. Edward
Gibson, negro, assaulted Miss Dor
othy Paris Of Wenonah, n. j., last
Monday. On Friday he was convicted
and sentenced to twelve years impris-
onment and a fine of $4,000. Two
American railroad contractors are un-
derTarrest at Guatemala City, charged
with completely in the attempted as
sassination Of President Cabrera on
April 29th. &c. Three thousand long
shoremen are on a strike In Brooklyn
for an increase of twenty per cent in
wages. :. Frank Richardson, ne
gro, shot and mortally wounded J. Z.
Sullivan, agent Of the Alabama Grea'
southern railroad dt "oouSloSh, Hia''
Friday and in turn was instantly kill
ed by Sullivan. A dispute about
freight rates was the cause OF the trag-
edy The isthmian canal commits
sion will soon ask for proposals for
furnishing 100000 feet of yellow
pine, fir and redwood lumber for the
Panama canal. .... The state or Ala
bama has hired IT'S convicts to an
Alabama lumber company at $42.25
per month, each. .... Nearly S,0OO
packing house workers Of South Oma-
ha, Neb, have been granted an in
crease Of wages Of from five to ff-
teen per cent. Snow storms pre-
vailed throughout Missouri, Kansas,
Iowa, Nebraska and other middle wes-
tern states last Friday. 80. Charles
H. Rogers, arrested In California sew
eral weeks ago on the charge Of muir
dering three persons near Middletown,
N. Y, in October, 1905, has confessed
his crime. He took SIG from his VIC
tins. -. One Of the walls Of the
Churiscar dam, near Chihuahua, Mex
leo, being built for irrigation purposes.
gave way last Thursday. A score of
men were killed 4. The United States
cruisers Denver and Cleveland, now at
Hampton Roads have been ordered to
Join the newly organized Pacific fleet
The legislature Of Pennsylvania
has a bill before IT to appropriate $5,-
754, 900 for pensions for civil war vet
Grams. Thirty thousand acres or
government lands are to be thrown