Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-10-15
MERE-MENTION.


visited New York last Friday for the
first time in several weeks. Mr.. and
Mrs. Edw. M. Watson, Christian
Scientists of Mt. Holly, N. j., were
convicte ed Friday of manslaughter, be-
cause OF their failure to provide med
ical treatment for their child while
sick with pneumonia and whose life
could have been saved with proper at
tention. Paul L. Lindsay Of Geor-
gia was elected president Of the Ma
tional Rural Letter Carriers associa-
tion in session in Atlanta, Ga, last
week. The next national convention
will be held at Omaha, Neb. Nv.
A. Hatcher, an Adrian, Ga. farmer
went home drunk Friday and at once
began quarreling with his wife, and
while she was assisting him from his
buggy his pistol was accidentally dis
charged and she was shot to death. 80.
The steamship Frithjof, which accom-
panied Walter Wellman's Arctic ex-
pedition, was wrecked off the island OF
Jan Mayen, October s, and the cap
tain and fifteen members Of the crew
were drowned. The Austrian steam
ship Ginlia reached New York Thurs
day with 1853 passengers. While at sea
the vessels cargo took fire and burned
steadily for twelve hours, and was H.
nally extinguished by a huge wave
which engulfed the vessel during a
tarriRn otnrrp Gnye,nnr Conner of
Alabama has called an extra session
of the state legislature to convene
November 7th, for the consideration OF
additional railroad laws. Chicago
is preparing to spend $100,000,0OO on an
underground system of passenger rail-
ways. .... The viceroy Of Manchuria
has obtained the approval of the Chi
nese imperial government for a loan
of $25,O00,000 to be raised in America,
TO be used in the construction of pub
lie works. =. Emperor Francis Joseph
of Austria, is critically i'll. 1t Is be-
lieved in New York that the end of the
telegraphers' strike is in sight. The
price of export oil has been raised 80
cents a barrel by the Standard Oil
company. The Atchison, Topeka
and Sante Fe Railway company was
found guilty of rebating by a Federal
jury at Los Angeles, CAL, Friday, and
Is liable to a fine Of 81, 100000. .......
Cannibalism is reported to be preva-
lent among the natives Of northern
Canada, by a newspaper man who has
just returned to Winnepeg, after an
exploring. expedition. .rhe first snow
of the season fell in western Pennsyl-
vania last Friday. .... While motoring
in Neuilly, Paris, Chas. T. Baird or
Philadelphia, ran over and killed
boy. He was attacked by a mob, but
was rescued by the police. He will
have to stand trial for manslaughter.
The Lackawanna Transportation
companys steamer, Cypress, ore laden,
was wrecked in Lake Superior on Fri
day night and twenty-five Of her crew
were lost. .... President Schneider OF
the Chicago board of education, said
Friday: LAS for the Bible in the pub
lie schools l object to it. 1t is not mt
for children. .Hetty Green, Amer
ica's richest woman, said in an inter-
view Saturday: IF my son married a
woman because the union would bring
him a title, l would disown him." ......
Mrs. Claudia Bodey Money, wife OF
Senator H. d. Money of Mississippi,
died suddenly Friday night at the
Money residence near Beauvoir, Miss.
... Mrs. Minor Morris, who was
elected from the White House a year
ago, is in an insane asylum at Farm
ington, Mo. . The fourth annual
convention of the National Rivers and
Harbors congress viii be held in
Washington. December 4, 5 and 6......
The engineer fireman and conductor
of q freight train on the Central or
Georgia railroad were killed Saturday
morning by the explosion of the loco
motive boiler. .... Three negroes were
taken from Jail at Tunica, Miss, FRI
day niglt and lynched by a mob. .....
A Pull. dn conductor was killed and
eight passengers were injured by the
collision of a Louisville and Nashville
freight train with the Pullman car at
Pratt City, Ala, Saturday morning. -.
Allen LefOrt, first lieutenant, coast ar
tillery, U. S. A, has been arrested In
New York, on charges of forgery. .....
Frank Thomson, a convict in the New
Jersey penitentiary at Trenton, has
been notified that he is the heir to
$150,000 of an estate at Manchester,
England. ...... The Canadian govern
ment has decided to at once pay the
Japanese sufferers from the Vancouver
SUCH UdlldStS dS Slldll De
ed fair and will later ask the city to
reimburse the government. The ar
mored cruisers Tennessee and Wash
ington left Hampton Roads on Satur-
day for San Francisco, as path finders
for the battleship fleet which Will sail
in December. .... American naval ex-
pertS will make several voyages on the
Lusitania for the purpose of studying
her mechanism and especially the tur-
bine engines. .... The New Jersey leg
islature adjourned Saturday after
passing a bill allowing the people Of
the state to select United States SEN
ators by popular vote. Secretary
of State Root will return to the United
States tomorrow from Mexico. =. .Ex-
Councilman w. A. Martin of Pittsburg,
Pa, has been sentenced to three years
| imprisonment for accepting a bribe
OF $4,000 for effecting the passage of
| Il franchise ordinance. ...... The tax
budget for 1908 as made up by the
New York city board of estimate,
makes a book of about 5000 pages.
.... William ]. Bryan was in Charlotte
yesterday on account of the Fall Fes-
tival and delivered an address last
night to about 5000 people. his theme
being the Average Man." He dis
cussed his theories of governmental
policy as they bear upon tariff revis-
| ion, Capitalization of Federal power,
conservation of states rights rate leg
islatiOn. destruction of private mOnop-
olies, etc. ...... Four people were kill
ed in an automobile that was run
down by a Philadelphia and Reading
train at Pottsville, Pa, yesterday. .....
The British government is gathering
| a powerful fleet of warships in the
North Sea for a series of manoeuvres
covering four days.
- During the course of an address
before the annual convention of rural
carriers at Atlanta, Ga, Thursday,
p. V. DeGraw, assistant postmaster
general, said: THE adoption of the
rural delivery system was an inevita
bic result of the spirit of progress
which has always prevailed in this
country. Like most of our popular
institutions its growth has been rap
| id, but ii has not been established in
discriminatory. There has been con-
siderable comment upon the fact that
rural delivery Is costing nearly $780,
| 100000 during the present fiscal
year, and while agreeing that the new
service is Il great public convenience
which has come to stay, many persons