Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-08-09
MERE ENTIoN.

the Standard Oil company were re-
Gently fined in the city court Of In
dianapolis, Ind, because Of giving
short measure in oil deliveries. ..,...
The government Of Spain has recent
ly decided to pay a claim OF the
United States involving 100000,
which has been standing since 1884.
800. 1t is probable that the legisla-
ture Of Virginia will be called in ex-
ira session to take such action as may
be necessary in the face Of Judge
Pritchard's injunction in the railroad
emigrants are now searched by the
New York police for knives. stilettos,
pistols and other deadly weapons.
Charles Mantzer, a farmer, has re-
Gently had built in st. Louis, q bullet
proof motor car costing $3.50.
Mantzer has not explained for what
purpose the car Is designed. .....
Questions affecting relations between
state and national governments and
corporations will he discussed at q
national conference to be held in Chi
cago October 22 to 25.. Forty
tpersons, including men, women and
children, lost their lives as the result
of a train plunging into the Loire
river in France, last Sunday. "A
race riot In New York last Sunday
afternoon was participated in by near
ly 5000 men and women. Two white
men were seriously hurt. The
plant of the Armour Fertilizer COM
pany at Jacksonville, Fla, was dam
aged 100000 by a lightning-set fire
last Sunday. &C. d. Chamberlain
Of Cleveland, o., secretary Of the Ma
tional Petroleum association, says that
the Standard OIL company will pay
the 100000 fine imposed by Judge
Lands by raising the price Of ell oils
10 per cent now and 25 per cent by
January 1st.. .-- 1t is estimated that
the net profits of the Standard Oil
company from 1882 to 1905, inclusive,
was $790,000,000 on an investment Of
not more than $4,000, ,000.. -. MO-
tor buses have been substituted for
the old stage coaches which have been
carrying passengers on Fifth avenue,
New York, for generations past. -.
The old frigate Constitution, better
known as "old Ironsides." has been
renovated and fitted up as It was near
ly a hundred years ago when II was
one Of the great war vessels Of the
United States navy. The vessel is at
the Charlestown, Mass, navy yard.
A diamond field has been discovered
in southwestern Arkansas. 1t costs
the city of San Francisco $4,000
month to take care Of Abe Ruef. the
| self-convicted CRATER: The presi-
dent and general manager Of the Long
Island railroad are held under bonds
OF $4,000 each on charges OF
criminal carelessness, resulting In the
killing Of two persons in an automo-
bile by one Of their trains some weeks
ago. Judge Van Devanter Of the
United States district court, has is
sued an injunction restraining the
state Of Arkansas from putting Its
railroad rate law into effect on Octo-
ber End. :. .Thos. Dixon, Jr, has
published another novel dealing with
the Ku Klux Klan and carpetbagger
government He calls 1t "The Trait
Or. e.. The health commissioners Of
Chicago says that men are living 30
fast and dying 80 rapidly in that city
that in a few centuries there Will be
only women left. ..... There were
three murders by footpads In Chicago
during Sunday night. The T. o.
Pierce company's paint store of New
York, was damaged 100000 by fire
Monday afternoon. :. The rice crop
Of Texas is being badly damaged by
pests known as white and brown
worms. go. Miss Adelaide Wilbert,
trained nurse Of New York, was at
tackled by a man and dragged into the
basement Of an apartment house last
Tuesday. She successfully defended
herself with a hat pin and escaped.
Governor Hoke Smith Of Georgia sign
ed the prohibition bill last Tuesday.
Citizens Of Georgia are raising
a fund with which TO buy the old 10
comotive "The Texas" to save 1t from
the junk dealer. ...--A discharged
drug clerk at Foggia, Italy, recently
mixed arsenic with cream OF tartar
to revenge himself on the apothecary.
Two deaths have resulted. The clerk
has been arrested. -. Three women
were drowned in the San Juan river,
Colorado, Monday, by the overturning
of a wagon. ABE Cohen and his
sweetheart, Anna Markowitz, were
murdered near Dayton, Ohio, Sunday
night. Three brothers Of the girl are
held charged with the crime. .....W.
S. Alley, a prominent member OF the
New York Stock Exchange, commit
ted suicide in that city Tuesday.
An epidemic Of cholera Is raging
throughout several provinces Of Rus
sia. .....A threshing machine on the
farm of John Wilson near Clarks-
Vile, Tenn, was dynamited by might
riders" Monday night. =. The South
ern railroad has stopped its double
tracking work in North Carolina,
pending a final decision in the rate
cases. "A negro named Tom Hall
was placed in Jail at Goliad, Texas,
last Tuesday on the charge Of crimi-
nally assaulting white girl His dead
body was found next day hanging
from a tree by the neck. The
secretary Of state Of Alabama recent
ly revoked the charter Of the Southern
railway, and the company has been
indicted for doing business In the
state as a foreign corporation with
out license. -. The state Of Louis
lana has begun proceedings to test
the question as to whether or not the
state has the right to pay the fare OF
emigrants without violating the Fed
eral immigration laws. ......T The Of
fetal canvass Of the returns from the
recent Mississippi primary shows that
Williams has a majority Of 648 votes
over Vardaman. Vardaman has con-
ceded the election to Williams. 49,.
Some 800 or 400 Moors are said to
have been killed in last Sundays bom-
bardment of Casa Blanca.