Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-09-10
MERE-M ENTION.


last week on the charge Of receiving
a part of the funds stolen by Chester
B. Runyan from the Windsor Trust
company several weeks ago. was ac-
quilted. Robert Collins, aged %.
was seriously wounded by William
Campbell, at Bristol, Va. Friday, with
a pistol. Jealousy over a woman was
the cause of the trouble. lit Is re-
ported from Oyster Bay that Presi-
dent Roosevelt Is engaged in writing
his annual message to congress. .....
Estimates place the number Of deaths
from bubonic plague throughout the
world between April and August at
about $4,000. 49,. Mrs. Charlotte Phil
lips Is under official surveillance at
Cleveland, o., on the charge Of muir
dering her husband. She claims that
Phillips was murdered by burglars....
Congressman Theodore F. Burton has
been nominated by reclamation for
mayor of Cleveland, O., by the Repub-
licans, to run against Mayor Tom
rifle team made a score of 500 out Of
a possible 600, shooting for the Palma
trophy at Ottawa, Canada, Saturday.
..... "A vigorous crusade against the
building Of sky-scrapers has been be-
gun in New York. The crusade Is
lead by the fire underwriters. IS.
D. Wolf, a Chester, Pa, merchant,
last Friday night dreamed that his
store was being burglarized. When he
reached his place Of business Satur-
day morning, he found that his dream
was true. wv. H. Drinkard, agent
for a brewing company, has disap-
peared from Winston Salem. N. c. He
is about $4,000 short in his accounts.
Mrs. Fred M. Fish, wife Of a
wealthy retired Chicago broker, was
found murdered at Evanston, ILL.,, FRI
day morning. Her husband was
found unconscious with his throat
cut. The police believe Fish murder
ed his wife and then attempted sui
eide. Eight moonshiners, taken by
revenue officers at Smithtown, n. c., a
few weeks ago, were convicted at
Greensboro last week, and given terms
ranging up to fourteen months. with
500 fines. =. The International Har-
vester company last week plead
guilty to violation of the Texas anti
trust laws and paid a fine Of $4,000.
The shortage in the milk supply
for New York city is now said to
amount to $4,000 quarts a day, due to
drought up the state. .Watermel-
on Day was celebrated at Rocky Ford,
Col, last Thursday. Fully 1000 peo-
pie attended the celebration. ..... Will
liam Macintosh, a negro. member OF
the Tenth cavalry at the battle Of San
Juan Hill, was hanged at Norfolk.
Va, last Thursday for murder. "A
shipload of Italian immigrants are due
to arrive at Savannah, Ga, during
October. -. The William ]. oliver
company Of Knoxville, Tenn, has been
given a contract for 500 dump cars
for use on the Panama canal. The
contract price is $562,000. Fifteen
persons lost their lives in fire which
destroyed a hotel at Shelton, Wash,
last Thursday. ... The bridge over
the ST. Lawrence river, which COL
lapsed ten days ago, is to be rebuilt on
the same plans as the original. The
work will require about two years.
Prof. Koch, the noted German scien-
tist and physician, has discovered a
cure for sleeping sickness" a disease
fatally prevalent among the black
tribes Of Africa. The doctor made
400 cures in one settlement and Is
hailed as the great white wizard"
Richard Mansfield, the actor, left
an estate Of $4,000, 100000 Of which
was life insurance. .....Sir Thomas
Upton is soon to make another try at
the Americas cup. The famous
Cliff House, on the ocean front, fac
ing the Golden Gate, San Francisco
harbor, was totally destroyed by fire
Saturday. .... Oliver e. Hanks, a
young man of Chfllicotte, O., chal-
lenged Edward E. Wallace Of Fosto-
ria, O., to fight a duel because wal
lace was counting his girl. A day and
night in Jail with $25 fine for send
ing a threatening letter through the
mail cooled the wrath Of Hanks. .....
Miss Helen Gould has contributed
SIC, 900 for an evangelical fund In New
York The second trial Of Harry K.
Thaw, which was set for sometime In
October, will be indefinitely postpon-
ed on account of the critical condition
of Abe Hummel, the lawyer, who Is
confined in the Blackwelrs Island
prison. Hummel Is expected to die
at any time and his death would re-
move a dangerous witness against
Thaw. big Florrie" Sullivan, one
of the Tammany political leaders OF
New York, Is hopelessly insane.
The great 10000 ton battleship au-
thorized by the last congress Is to be
named New York. .... The Jewish
New Year, Rosh Hashonah. was OBJ
served throughout the world from
Sunday evening at 6 o'clock to Mon
day evening at the same hour. ......
John Wanamaker Of Philadelphia
has been decorated by the French
government with the Legion Of Hon.
or. .... President Roosevelt may de-
vote a few days Of his southwestern
trip to bear hunting in the Louisiana
cane breaks. .....J. w. Hart, 80 years
old, was convicted on a charge OF
burglary at Savannah, Ga, last week
and sentenced to three years impris-
onment 80. Mrs. Eugene p. Corner
committed suicide Saturday by drown
ing herself in Menlow creek, near
Staunton. Va. Dependency on account
Of i'll health is supposed to have been
the cause. 80. Richard Malone, aged
% years, was killed in a wreck on the
Virginia and Southwestern railroad
at Phillips, Va, Saturday. The cars
rolled down a fifty foot embankment.
The great race across the Allan
tic between the steamships Lusitania