Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-03-05
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critically Ill in New York with pneu-
Tnonia Samuel Beatty has recov-
cred $1O1 damages against an Ohio
gas company, because Of the burning
off of his whiskers in gas explosion
Shipment Of arms for Honduras
and Nicaragua have been held up al
New Orleans. ... The legislative as
sembly of Porto Rico has passed a bill
to abolish capital punishment by
hanging. Japan has sent fleet OF
war vessels to be present at the open
ing of the Jamestown exposition.
Postmaster General Cortelyou has ap-
proved a design for one cent stamps
commemorative Of the Jamestown ex-
position. The design for the two-cent
stamps was approved some time ago
-. A woman miser died in Mexico City
last week leaving an estate OF over
$4,000. The woman was supposed to
be a pauper. 49,. The Salvation Army
is behind a movement to bring immi-
grants from European countries to the
southern states. The Salvation Army
landed 10000 immigrants in Canada
last year. Fourteen miners were
seriously injured and twelve others
slightly, by an explosion Of gas in q
coal mine at North Taylor, Pa, Sat
urday. -. John Bullard, white, was
hanged at Marietta, Ga, last Friday
for the murder of his seventeen year
old daughter. -. The state food COM
missioner Of Ohio has prohibited the
use Of saccharin in canned fruits. Sac
charm is derived from benzine and Is
500 times sweeter than sugar. Two
negroes were killed at Washington,
Ark, last Friday by a cyclone. The
amendment TO the denatured alcohol
bill allowing farmers to establish stills
for making alcohol was passed by the
senate last Friday. A Japanese loan
Of $115,OO0 900 will be floated in Lon
don and Paris this week. West
ern railroads have determined to fight
the two-cent rate laws in the various
states passing rate bills, through the
courts. The French Colonial Cot
ton association is pushing its efforts
to produce cotton in the French Sou
dan, Africa, and claims that in the
next few years the cotton production
Of French Africa will be 100000 bales
The senate on last Saturday pass
ed an amendment to the general def
oia lot oil
ator Smoot of Utah for expenses in
Cured by him in defending his seat
..... "A New Jersey woman laughed sc
hard at a joke last week that she
bursted blood vessel and died in q
few minutes. .... Three persons were
killed and score more or less injured
in a collision on the Naugatuck divi-
sion of the N. Y, n. H., and Hartford
railroad near Waterbury, Conn, las,
Saturday. go. The house Of represen-
tatives OH last Saturday passed a bill
making street care fares three cents
fiat in the District of Columbia. .....
Judge Beckham Of Kentucky has or
dered a military guard to be present
during the Hargis trial at Jackson
KY, which begins Thursday morning
......Dr. Oronhyatekha, Of Toronto
Canada, former chief of the Mohawb
tribe of Indians, died in Savannah
Ga, Sunday. 49,. Russian police raid
ed the polytechnic institute at st. Pc
tersburg Sunday and secured a large
quantity Of Internal machines, explo-
sives and inflammatory literature. .....
Senator Spooner Of Wisconsin, has
rendered his resignation to Governor
Davidson of that state, to take effect
May 1st. ....... The Great Northern
Steamship Dakota, is ashore in the
bay Of Tokyo, Japan. &. Senator Bal
ley Of Texas, occupied his seat in the
United States senate last Saturday fol
the first time during the session which
closed yesterday.