Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-09-20
MERE. M ENTIoN.

Alpine fatalities ever recorded. :.....
Walter Scott. a pioneer printing press
died at Plainfield, N. j.,
last Sunday at the age Of SO years..
Bishop H. C. Morrison Of the Meth
odist Episcopal church, South, says
that Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, head Of
the Christian Science church, Is a
"fakir pure and simple. New
York police are looking for tin box
jewels valued at $236,000,
which were stolen, or lost by a woman
passenger on New York train a few
days ago. -. Four men were killed In
an automobile collision near Colorado
Springs, Col. Tuesday. The Stand
ard OIL company Is undergoing prob
ing in New York city at the hands Of
Frank b. Kellogg, special counsel for
the government, In an action looking
to the dissolution Of the oil trust. t......
Two men killed, two mortally wound
ed, a woman stabbed, and nine other
persons injured, was the result Of a
pistol battle in New York, following
an attempt by holdup men to rob an
old man, Tuesday. 80. Theodore Hess,
a New York policeman, was on Tues
day sentenced to fourteen years i'm ?
prisonment at Sing Sing for abducting
a 14-year-old girl with whom he had
become infatuated. ;. According to
Bristol, Tenn, dispatch the estimated
cost Of the South and Western rail-
road Is S50,000,000. -. John v. john
son, known as "'Mushmouth," negro
gambler, who was rated as a Million
aire, died in Chicago a few days ago.
More than 1000, people from all walks
Of life, attended his funeral. :. "A dis
patch from Paris says that General
Drude, commander Of the French
troops In Morocco, has fully accom-
plished his work, and the Moorish
tribes are now ready to lay down their
arms. ;. Mrs. Walter Short, aged 38,
and said to weigh 725 pounds, was
buried at Smyrna, Del, last Monday.
-. The Mauritania, sister ship to
the Lusitania, was given a trial run
IN English waters on Tuesday. Six
italians were drowned in the Alleghe-
ny river at Aspinwall, Pa. Tuesday,
by jumping from a barge. State
Tax Collector John Fitzpatrick OF the
First district Of Louisiana, has made
good the $4,000, stolen by Charles
T. Letten, his chief clerk. I. :. Thos.
r. Patton, who recently died in Phil
adelphia. left an estate Of more than
81, ,000, 900 to the Masonic Grand Lodge
of that state for the erection and
maintenance of Masonic orphanage.
Raw whisky has been advanced
to $1.34 a gallon at Cincinnati, Ohio,
the highest price reached In twenty
FIVE years. .Robt Hartzell of Allen
town, Pa; pleaded guilty to twenty
three indictments of arson Monday
and was sentenced to prison for twen-
ty years. The first car through the
Belmont tunnel under the East river
between New York and Brooklyn was
run Tuesday. Frederick McNally,
president Of the publishing house Of
Rand, McNally & Co., Chicago. died
Monday from nervous prostration, due
to overwork, at the age OF AZ years.
80. Jas. Gay. Gordon, ESQ, Phila-
delphia lawyer. has presented q bill to
the Retail Merchants association OF
that city for $500, 900 for drafting a
contract between the city and the
Philadelphia Rapid Transit company
He afterwards offered to compromise
for 100000. -. President Gompefs
of the American Federation Of Labor
will make an appeal to the labor or
foundations throughout the country for
financial aid to the striking telegraph
operators. :. Three boys were blown
to atoms near Cheboygan, Mich. Mon
day by an explosion of $50 pounds OF
dynamite. The explosive was stored
in an abandoned cabin, which the boys
were using for q target. The steam
ship Deutschland is racing across the
Atlantic in an effort to beat the record
Of the Lusitania. ;. Ludwig Szczygiel,
an unfrocked Catholic priest, Is on
trial at Pittsburg, Pa, for the murder
of Andrew and Stephen Starzynsh,
barkeepers Of that city, a few weeks
ago. Physicians of a New York
hospital, report the cure OF q case or
lockjaw with anti-toxin. Labor
leaders of New York, accuse Secreta-
ry Straus Of using his department In
the interest of the Manufacturers as
sociation and of trying to throw down
the bars against Oriental labor.......
Fourteen men have been arrested and
put under bail In connection with the
stealage and frauds committed In the
building Of the new $13,000,00O Capt.
tol building of Pennsylvania. .....
Eleven men were killed and twelve
injured by the explosion Of q boiler
in a factory at Asorradero, Mexico,
Tuesday. Governor Conner Of AL
ALBANIA, has announced that he VIII
soon call an extra session or the state
legislature to consider the railroad
situation. 80. The eleventh annuat
convention Of the American League OF
American Municipalities is In session
at Norfolk, Va. An Alabama crank
appeared at Sycamore Hill on We'd
nesday, seeking the aid Of President
Roosevelt in collecting q claim OF
$4,000, 900 against John ID. Rockefel-
ler. The man was sent to New YORK.
Returns from Oklahoma indi-
cate that the enabling act by which
Oklahoma and Indian Territory be-
some q state has been ratified, that
the prohibition clause Of the constitn-
ton has been adopted by a large ma
jority and that c. N. Haskell, Demo-
crat, has been elected governor over
Frank Frantz, Republican. President
Roosevelt has to sign the enabling act
before the two territories become
state. Harry McCollico, son or q
prominent Hazelhurst, Miss, man, Is
under arrest in Chicago on a charge
Of obtaining money by false pretenses.
Fair Haven, Conn.,, people say
that Henry H. Rogers, the Standard
| Oil magnate, may be. as sick man
as he Is represented to be, but that ne
certainly does not look the part.
John d. Rockefeller has again begun
to make frequent visits to the New
York offices Of the Standard OIL COM
pany, something he hasn't been doing
| for the past eight years. Events OF
the past few months is given as the
cause of his visits. Thirty per-
sons were drowned and 100 houses
were burned at the Kosakabl mines In
Japan, Tuesday. Fire started In the
mining works and while attempts
were being made to save the mine, the
reservoir bursted.. This year
Egyptian cotton crop is the largest on
record, being 69S,0OO,O00 pounds,
worth $3.50, 900, ,000.. -.....A girl was
arrested in st. Petersburg, Tuesday, on
information that she was to dress as
police officer in a uniform padded
with gun cotton, which she was to ex-
plode by means OF bombs at DOLCE
headouarters where a large number
of high police officials were accustom-
ed to congregate.. Eight Japan
ese, all over 81 years Of age, have been
refused admission to the Chicago pub
lie schools on the ground that the tax
law providing for school FUNDS mace
no provisions for teaching pupiis
tLop Of age.