Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-11-05
MERE-ME ENTION.

lauen seven inoHlHS dBO, anu IL 10 ho"
believed the vessel was wrecked of
Cape Horn and her crew Of forty men
devoured by cannibals. ...... Ohio Is
making an effort to collect $1,00o,00O
tion franchises in that state. 1.-THE
Union Pacific railroad discharged more
than 1000 employees last week. Cut
ting down expenses Is given as the
cause. :. Peter Klees, police judge Of
Aurora, ILL.,, who weighs 565 pounds,
is on a peanut diet for sixty days, on
a claim that such a diet Will reduce
his weight. &. q. The Woman's Christian
Temperance Union and the Anti-Sa-
loon League are about to begin cam
paign to close the barrooms Of WASH
ington, D. Co.. Mile. Ragazinnikoya,
who last week murdered Gen. Maxim
offsky, the Russian director Of prisons,
has been tried by courtmartial and
sentenced to death by hanging. ......
1t Is estimated that $143,000,000 will be
required to pay the running expenses
Of New York city during the coming
year. ..... "A Pendleton, Ore, farmer
last week received check for $780,
'S42.I0 for his 1907 wheat crop. the
product Of 5000 acres. The average
was $236l an acre. 80. 1t Is reported
in Germany that the Japanese govern
ment has placed orders with German
gun makers for s10,00O,00O worth Of
guns. ,. . The Hawaiian sugar crop
this year will amount to 100000 tons,
the largest on record. -. The meat
trust has advanced the price Of meats
to what they were before the recent
New York panic. -. The San Fran
cisco mint will at once begin the coin
age Of $15,000,000 in gold coin. .......
The wages of 1000 copper miners Of
the Butte, Mont, district, were last
week cut so cents per day, on account
of the low price Of copper. $50. About
1,200 families of the East Side, New
York, have been ordered to vacate
their homes by November 18th. The
city will tear down the houses to make
a terminal for the new Manhattan
bridge. About $500 people are affect
ed by the order. The phosphate
mines in the vicinity Of Mt. Pleasant
Tenn, were closed last week and 5000
men are idle as a result. 49,. The navy
department has decided that the locks
Of the Panama canal must oe ten feet
wider than at first planned. They will
be 110 feet. .... The death sentence Of
Karl Hau, formerly professor Of Ro-
man law at George Washington uni
versity, convicted at Baden Baden,
Germany of the murder Of his mother
n-law, has been commuted to life i'm
prisonment. -. Several persons were
injured and property loss Of $25.000
was the result Of an explosion Of 500
quarts Of nitro-glycerine at Butler,
Pa, Saturday. .......T The emperor OF
Japan was 81 years old Sunday.
The Philadelphia mint is now turning
out 100000 day in $50 gold pieces.
..... Ocean freight rates have been
increased 10 to 20 per cent during the
past week or ten days. .... The 100
saloons of Knoxville. Tenn, and twen-
ty-five at Bristol, were closed Thurs
day night under the Pendleton anti
liquor law. go. Three Navajo Indians
were killed by United States troops In
southern Utah last week In a fight be-
tween renegade Indians and the SOL
diers. q. James Wardell, tried In New
York last week, on a charge Of assist
ing his wife to commit suicide, con-
fessed that he murdered her. He was
sentenced to prison for eighteen years
and eleven months. :. The diet Of Fin
land has passed bill which prohibits
the manufacture and importation OF
alcohol in that country. .....A trunk
containing alcohol, exploded in the
Pennsylvania railroad station at Pitts
burg, Pa, Friday, and one man was
fatally and several seriously injured.
The police station at Buffalo, N.
Y. was destroyed by fire Friday after
noon with a loss of 100000. The orig
inal copy Of Czolgoz's confession OF
the assassination Of President McKin-
ley was destroyed with the building.
Oklahoma and Indian Territory cotton
growers say that they will hold the
1907 crop for 16 cents. .... The Argen-
tine Republic will hold worlds expo
sition in 1910. The number Of dead
as the result Of the mountain slide at
Karatagh, Russia, is now placed at
200. . About $120, 100000 in dividends
and interest have been turned loose In
New York during the past four or
five days. "A great railroad strike
Is threatened by the railway unions Of
England. Should the strike material
ize, the English railways will be par
alyzed for some time. .... Twenty one
steamships have been chartered at
Glasgow, Scotland, to transport coal
for the Atlantic fleet on its cruise to
the Pacific. Joseph Kocijue, a pa
tient at a Patterson, n. j., hospital,
died Saturday, after sleeping continu-
ously for seven weeks. Two negroes
were lynCHeu dl AIo~,
Saturday. One for murder and the
other for protecting the murderer from
q posse -. Henry G. Dawes, a Chi
cago manufactures, was surprised
when several Of his en-
ployers rendered him sufficient money
to pay his help during the continuance
of the money stringency. 80. John H.
Kemmer, a Pittsburg, Pa, contractor,
last week tried to drown himself, then
took murlatic acid and finally caused
death by shooting himself with a pis-
tol. :. A Paris surgeon has perfected
a method by which mutes are taught
to hear and talk. 80. .Rafelle Russano
and his wife, Italians, were murdered
by BLACK Hand" agents at Hacken-
sack, N. j., Sunday night. VIM. F.
John, a contractor, shot his wife and
then committed suicide in Brooklyn,
n. Y, Sunday night. ..... Mrs. Corne-
liza A McKelvey, a Baltimore woman,
made a rope by twisting a United