Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-06-11
TUESDAY, JUNE II, 1907.
MERE MENTION.


zoo City, Miss, Saturday. $3.50 Capt
John Walker, q Confederate naval Of
ficer, shot his wife to death and COM
mitted suicide at Biloxi, Miss, Satur-
day. They had quarreled. go. Ku-
rachi, India, was swept by a cyclone
on June 6, and damage to the amount
of about $6,500,000 resulted. E. -Four
Mexican laborers were killed by light
ming near San Luis Potosi, Mexico,
Friday. The main building of
the Montgomery, Ala, plant of the
Virginia Carolina Chemical company,
was destroyed by fire Saturday. The
loss is more than $50,000.. "A York,
Pa, man was granted divorce at 10
a. m, Friday and was married again
at 4.3O p. m. ...... The New YORK po-
lice recovered a casket Of jewels val
ued at $4,000, belonging to Mrs. w.
K. Vanderbilt last week, which was
stolen eight months ago.. .-". Mrs.
Elizabeth Fairfax Ayers, wife Of Lieu
tenant Colonel Charles G. Ayres, is
suing officials Of West Point Military
academy for 100000 damages, for an
alleged snubbing.. John Boland,
a young white man, fell into caul-
dron of boiling asphalt at Brooklyn,
NY, Friday and was cooked to
death. One person was killed and
four were seriously injured by col
lision of automobiles at Barnegat, N.
J., Saturday.. Two men kidnap-
ped a nun from st. Clements Catholic
school at Duluth, Mimi, Friday, and
no trace of the missing woman has
been found. :. Senator Philander G.
Knox of Pennsylvania, has announced
his willingness to become a candidate
for the Republican presidential nom
ination next year. .Florinclo MO-
rales and Bernardo Mora have been
condemned to death at Mexico CITY
upon conviction Of the assassination
of Gen. Barillas, former president or
Guatemala, in that city on April L..
The National Society OF Colonial
Danes convened at jamestown, va,
last Thursday, with $50 delegates In
attendance. Mime. Lillian Nordica-
the noted prima donna, is to establish
am American "Bayreuth" on the Hud-
son river, New York, where the best
instructors will teach operate music.
Japanese miners to the number
of 1000 are on a strike at the Bessni
copper mines in japan and are max
ing determined efforts to destroy the
mining property with dynamite. -.
Two horses and twelve cows were
killed by lightning in the vicinity of
oxford Pa, last Thursday. 80. Dur
ing last year 25,307,000 tons Of steel
were produced by the steel mills OF
the United States and Canada. 1t is
predicted that during the next twelve
months the output will be greatly in
creased. -. The Federal grand jury
at Portland, Ore. has indicted $50
furniture dealers of Oregon, Washing
ton, California and Idaho for violation
Of the Sherman antitrust law.
OF nineteen men sentenced to death
at Guatemala. City for conspiracy
against the life of the Guatemalan
president, seven have been granted
Communication of sentence. the
graduates from the University of New
York City last week numbered 425.
OF this number flfty-four were wo-
men. .Conowingo bridge, a wooden
structure across the Susquehanna river
near Port Deposit, Md, and valued at
100000, was destroyed by incendia-
ries last Thursday. -Four persons
were killed by cyclone at Nashville,
ILL.,, Saturday. A dozen or more were
injured. "A passenger train on
the Wabash railroad ran into an open
switch at Acheron, Pa, Saturday, ana
collided with a freight train. Both
engines were demolished, several cars
telescoped and three persons killed:
The second world peace congress will
convene at The Hague tomorrow. -.
Thirty persons perished during big
cloudburst which destroyed Grady
Vile, KY, Friday night. The town
was located at the junction Of two
creeks and water rose so rapidly that
escape was impossible. Four
young white men were acquitted last
Friday at Danville, Va, Of the charge
Of killing Ellen Elliott, a negro wo-
man, while she was masquerading as
a man Geo. w. Bundrick OF Crisp
county, Ga, who several weeks ago
gave himself up in California, brought
back to Georgia, tried and convicted
OF murder and sentenced to be hang
ed today, has been reprieved for ten
days. IA fiotilla of torpedo boat
destroyers made a run from New
York to Norfolk Friday, 240 miles, in
a little over twelve hours. The
Seaboard Air Line railroad has secur-
ed an injunction against the Georgia
railroad commission restraining II
from putting the recently enacted
Georgia rate laws into effect until
final hearing Of the case on June ~.
Former Lieut.. Mack Richard
son. 26th United States infantry, com
mitted suicide at Fort Sam Houston.
Tex, last Friday. "A dozen or
more person escaped from ten-ssory
building during the progress of a fire
in New York Saturday afternoon by
sliding down a fire hose. The VIM.
]. oliver company has been awarded
q contract to build railroad from
llt
tanooga, Tenn. The contract will to-
tai about $4,000, 0,000.. The people
Of the province Of Asturia have pre-
sented to the crown prince Of Spain
solid gold casket weighing fifty pounds
and valued at more than $40, 000.....
Bowling Green, KY, has voted its sa-
looms out of business. When the law
becomes effective there will not be an
open saloon on the Louisville and
hot TnuicUillp
KY, and Nashville, Tenn. The
triennial convention of the Knights
Templars of the United States will
convene at Saratoga, n. Y, in July.
The Twenty-fifth infantry, one
of whose battalions figured in the
Brownsville. Tex, affair, will sail for
the Philippines on July 25th. - The
Federal grand jury Of West Virginia
has indicted a number Of lumbermen
of that state on charges of peonage.
...Application has been made for
the appointment of a receiver for the
Farmers Cooperative Harvesting Ma
chine company, located at Columbus.
o. Most of the concerns stock Is held
by farmers. .... According to New
York statistician the embezzlements
by people handling other peoples
money during 1906, amounted to $751;
$4,000 in the United States. This was
an increase of $6,000,000 over the pre-
vious year. . DIR. Henry Albrecht, a
noted Vienna professor of surgery,
claims to have, discovered the bacillus
Of whooping cough and also serum
which will effect cure. Ger
mania Goodrich Alvord, for forth three
years state superintendent of public
schools of Illinois, and the father of
the graded school system, died in Au-
gusta, Ga, Saturday afternoon, at the
age of eighty-four years. The Ma
tional Editorial association is in ses-
sion at jamestown. 80. The trial or
Franc H. Jones. charged with embez-
zling $4,000 from the Charlotte Ma
tional bank, and Percy G. Fonville,
charged with conspiracy, will come up
in the Federal court at Charlotte this
week. A Mexico City dispatch says
that it is reported there that President
Cabrera has been assaSsinated at
Guatemala City. The report has not
been confirmed. E. The Princess Anne
hotel at Virginia Beach, Va, was de-