Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-09-24
MERE.MENTIoN.

HE-MEN IiON.
Chancellor Hicks at Vicksburg,
Miss, on Saturday assessed penalties
aggregating s1.SO0,OO0 against the Gulf
Compress company. as an Illegal trust,
and gave the corporation one year to
wind up its business and get out of
the state. .. Five men killed and one
fatally injured. resulted from freight
I train getting beyond control and run
ming back down heavy grade into
another train near Devoe. Cal, Satur-
day. ;. Porter and Albert Jones have
been found guilty Of numbering Rob-
ert Adams at Eatonton, Ga, and sem
fenced to life Imprisonment. All the
parties are white. ..... King Chula-
longkorn Of Siam, celebrated his
birthday at Hamburg, Germany. Sat-
urday at an estimated expense OF
$3.50, 900. Two men were killed and
three probably fatally injured by an
explosion Of natural gas in Wilkes
barre, Pa, coal mine, Saturday. 80.
Frank e. Constantine was convicted in
la Chicago court Saturday. OF the muir
der of Mrs. Arthur Gentry and SEN
fenced to life imprisonment. -. Sec
retary Root will leave Washington on
his visit to President Diaz at Mexico
City, tomorrow -. The plant Of the
Atwater- Nelson Buggy company at
Thomaston, Ca. was destroyed by fire
Saturday morning with a loss Of $780,
600. /. /. Colonel Robert e. Withers. an
ex- United States senator died at
Roanoke Va, Saturday night, aged 90
years. &. 4. The Russian government Is
preparing to spend $1s,00O,000 on de-
fense works at vladivostok. 80. The
combined population Of Oklahoma and
Indian Territory, making the new
state Of Oklahoma, is 1.414,042........
Chas. Rorer, an American, has been
sentenced by a London court to fve
years Imprisonment for jewelry thefts.
......J. Pierpont Morgan was fined
s165 last week for having thirteen
trout in his possession at his Adiron-
dack mountain camp. Senator For
aker in a speech at Hillsboro. o., a
few days ago, said the constitution OF
the United States should be preserved
intact, especially 80 far as the rights
| II conferred on individual states were
concerned. 1T is officially announc-
ed that the peace negotiations be-
tween the French and Moors at Casa
blanca last week failed and that the
French will again resume the offensive
80, Five men were killed and four
men and two women were injured at
Wilhelms Haven, Germany, Saturday
by the explosion Of shrapnel shell
at an artillery depot. ....... President
Roosevelt plans to spend seventeen
days camping and hunting in the cane
brakes of Louisiana. -. The English
admiralty has placed an order for a
new battleship which Is to be 500 tons
larger than the famous Dreadnought.
| Mrs Carrie Nation was last week
sentenced to seventy-five days i'm
prisonment in the District work house
by a Washington police court, for dis
orderly conduct. .. The engineer and
fireman were killed, one mail clerk Will
die and two others were seriously
hurt in the wreck Of an Illinois Gen.
tral near Fulton, KY, Saturday morn
ing. 80. The Westinghouse Electric
company at Pittsburg, Pa, has re-
Gently laid off 10000 men who have
been employed in making large i'm
provements for the company. Fifty
people were injured, several probably
fatally, by the collapse Of a grand
stand at Pottsville, Pennsylvania, Sat-
urday. The collapse was caused by
cyclone. UP to Saturday 4,512 cases
of cholera have been reported from the
affected districts of Russia, with g.
| 230 fatalities. ..... About $4,000 shoe
workers are on a strike at st. Louis.
..J. L. Smith, a Nashville, Tenn,
carpenter has confessed to the stealing
of $500 from a Southern Express
| company's car a year ago. Mrs.
Margaret Carter, a New York society
woman, committed suicide in that city
Friday, by shooting herself In the
right temple. go. Rev. H. Harsha,
Methodist minister of Kremmling,
Col, was whipped by white caps" last
Thursday, on account Of his intimacy
with a young woman Of that place
=. Nose Dossett, negro, was lynch
ed at Pritchard Station, Ala. Sunday,
for an attempted criminal assault up
on Mrs. ]. Breeder, a white woman,
80 years old. The steamer Alex
ander Memick went ashore In Lake
Superior on Saturday night and six
men were drowned. ..... On her first
day out on the eastward trip the Lusi-
tania, which left New York Saturday,
made an average Of twenty-five knots
per hour. y. .Thirty-two passengers
were injured, some Of them seriously,
in the wreck of the Chattanooga and
Washington limited Of the Southern
railway just north Of Ryan's Siding,
Va, Sunday morning. A broken rail
was the cause Of the disaster. .Ow-
ing to long continued drouth, crop
conditions throughout the northern
portion Of Mexico are reported to be
exceedingly poor. r..... .Eppisonio Ar
cara, an Italian, proprietor of an East
Side, New York, shirt factory was
found dead in his factory Sunday,
having been stabbed nineteen times
with a stilleto. His body was horri-
bly, mutilated. go. Samuel Sloan, one
Of the best known Of American rail-
road builders, died at his home at
Garrison, N. Y. yesterday, at the age
of SO years. .... Thousands Of coun-
terfeit S. notes were turned loose on