Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-02-01
MERE.MENTIoN.

The Salvation Army has opened an
anti suicide bureau" in st. Louis. :.
George Burnham, Jr., former general
counsel for the Mutual Reserve Fund
Life Insurance association Of New
York, recently convicted of crooked
dealings, Is now at work in the print
ing office at Sing Sing prison. ......
Death from swallowing his own
BRAIN" Is the verdict of Decatur, ILL.,,
coroners jury. in the case Of George
E. Thomas. a railroad brakeman, who
was injured by falling into some
pumping machinery ;. Rev. and Mrs.
J. H. Baker of Moosup. Conn, have
come into possession of about $4,000
by the will Of Jonathan T. Niles. a
tramp" whom they fed and sheltered
one winters night. >. :. Pennsylvania
ice dealers are rushing the harvest
ing of the crop by working a double
shift. usin!' electric lights for the night
crews. 80. DIR. James w. Simpson, a
prominent New York dentist, is on
trial at Riverhead, Long Island, on
the charge of numbering his father
in-law in December, 1906. -. .Presi
dent Castro of Venezuela, is critically
III. and his death Is expected at any
moment. He will probably be sue
ceeded by Gen. Francisco Alcantara.
:. The Delaware legislature doesn't
think that the present is good time
to abolish the whipping post in that
Missouri q
yestigating an alleged ice trust oper-
ating In that state. ..... Charles w.
Schultz, capitalist and banker Of Men,
phis, Tenn, committed suicide In
Battle Greek, Mich, sanitarium last
Monday, by choking himself with
towel. -. May 13 will be observed by
the National Society Of the Children Of
the American Revolution as the day
on which the first white settlers landed
in America. at jamestown in 1907.
II. l.. +. Lagercrantz has been appoint
ed minister Of Sweden to the United
States. The senate committee on
judiciary has favorably reported the
bill which passed the house during
the last session, which gives the gov
ernment the right Of appeal in criminal
cases. The French steamer st.
Germania, from West India ports with
200 laborers, is in quarantine at Colon.
Panama, on account of smallpox.
The detailed figures of the estate Of the
late Marshall Field of Chicago, foot
up more than 100000 The taxes
on the estate viii total about $1,000,00
annually. 80. President Roosevelt will
be the central figure at the opening Of
the jamestown exposition on April e.
..... For the first time In three years
the Hudson river is now frozen over
from bank to bank at Wyack, N. Y.
$50. A score of firemen were caught
under falling walls of an eight-story
building at Buffalo. N. Y, Monday.
while fighting fire. Three were killed
and the balance more or less seriously
injured. Nearly 200 miners lost
their lives In a coal mine near Saar-
bruck, Prussia, last Monday, as the
result of an explosion of fire damp
There were 500 men working In the
shaft when the explosion occurred. 30.
Western railroads are declining to give
the government special rates for NOV
ing troops and are charging full pas
senger rates. :. Harry Murray, q New
York expressman, has confessed the
stealing Of trunks Of New York society
people, containing 100000 worth Of
jewelry and laces. 80. Governor Swet-
tenham of Jamaica, has withdrawn his
letter to Admiral Davis and expresses
regret at having written It,. The
Baldwin locomotive works, Philadel-
phia, were damaged to the extent Of
Isl, ,000,000 by fire Tuesday. ...... Sixty
persons are dead as the result Of
mine explosion at Fayetteville, w. Va,
last Tuesday night. The net earn
ings Of the United States Steel compa-
ny for the last quarter were $41.744,-
964. The net earnings Of 1906 were
$156, ,619.1 =. Russia is buying large
quantities Of American wheat on ac-
count of the failure Of the crop
throughout the empire