Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-04-02
TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1907.

Colombia are booked for the next
scrap between South American repub-
lies. The set to Is expected to come
off at any time. Mrs Polly Weed
Baker of Boonville, Ind, has just OBJ
tained a divorce from her eleventh
husband. Mrs. Baker is sixty-five
years old. .... There were 166 busi-
ness failures throughout the United
States for the week ending March 2S
.... New York automobile owners
are putting their machines at the dis
posal of the hospitals of that city one
day each week to give invalids outings
Because of the great depres-
sion of stock values in Wall street,
wealthy New Workers are represented
as cutting down their expenditures
especially for luxuries. The pub
lie debt Of New York city is nearly
$500, ,00O,O 900, which Is only $15,000,-
900 less than that Of London. .....
Three distinct earthquake shocks
were felt at Tacoma Wash, Friday.
There was no damage. Texas
has recently passed law making any
form Of gambling in that state fell
ony, punishable by fine and imprison-
ment. :. The kidnapped Marvin boy
of Delaware has not yet been found
..... Because of the passage OF =
cent passenger rate laws by various
western states, the railroads have de-
cided to raise the freight rates on
grain and grain products between
western and eastern points. Tine
largest human heart on record was
disclosed by a post mortem eXamina-
ton Of Bainbridge o. Stafford, VINO
died In the Toombs, New YORK last
Saturday The mans heart Welgn.
ed fifty ounces. A normal heart
weighs twelve to fourteen ounces. -.
]. Vance Shaw shot and killed ms
brother, Columbus Shaw, at Hartweli,
Ga, Saturday. The killing followed
a quarrel. Brewery workers TO
the number Of $500 are on a strike
in st. Louis for higher wages. -.
An unknown woman committed sui
eide at Niagara Falls last Friday py
jumping over the American Falls: -.
Two persons were killed ana Iour
wounded In a bomb explosion at Con-
stantinople last Friday. -. -Four
white men and fifty natives were kill
ed by an explosion Of dynamite near
Johannesburg, South Africa last Fri |
day Michael McCabe and w. J.
O'Leary, United States soldiers, nave
been sentenced to fifteen years i'm |
prisonment in Utah, for robbing
man of SIS. ..... Train wreckers de-
rallied q passenger train on the Choc-
taw, Oklahoma & Gulf railroad al
Council, Okla, last Friday: The en-
gfneer, fireman and an unknown ne
=. ..,1,o lrIllad Twpnty-SiX per-
sons were killed in wreck on the
Southern Pacific railroad near Cotton, |
Cal, last Thursday afternoon. ...
General Kuroki will represent the
Japanese army at the opening OF the
jamestown exposition. Andrew
Carnegie made a vigorous attack on
certain Wall street methods at din
ner given in his honor in New YORK
last week. He declared that ne mao
never made dollar gamDllns In
stocks, and said 1t was time
that business men declined to recog-
nize men who make money IN Wali
street and render no value for u.
Railway stocks purchased by Z. n.
Hartman since last June have de'
preciated $24,000,000 in value on the
New York exchange. william
A. Proctor, president Of the Proctor
& Gamble Soap company, makers OF
Ivory soap. committed suicide last
Thursday by shooting himself -.
The supreme court OF Minnesota mas
dissolved the Injunction restraining
the Great Northern Railway company
from issuing $60,000,000 additional
stock AT the time OF the death |
of Stanford White he was in debt 10
the amount Of $4,000 .-". Chick
Stahl, a famous baseball player, COM |
mitted suicide at West Baden, lna;,
last week by drinking carboiic acla
..... The Pennsylvania railroad Is
having it's tracks patrolled oy armed
guards in Pennsylvania to prevent
wreckers getting in their work.
The Western Union and Postal Tele-
graph companies have decided on a
raise in telegraph rates Of from 10 TO
33 per cent. Matthew Han1oru,
a Philadelphia miser died In MS
room last Saturday, apparently from
starvation and neglect. In Hantoro
room was found money, stocks ano
bonds to the value OF over SlVO'ooo
The flowers used in the deco
ration of New York and Philadelphia
churches for the Easter services, were
on Sunday afternoon and yesterday
morning distributed among the vari-
ous hospitals Of the two cities. -.
A MINNEAPOLIS mill has received an
order for 40, 00e sacks Of flour for I'M |
mediate shipment to China Tor tne
relief of the famine sufferers. Col. |
orado's legislature has passed Dill
prohibiting a candidate for a public
office having his name on more than
one party ticket, thus putting an end
to fusion in that state. 80" Horace
G. Raynor, convicted in London last
week of the murder of Whiteley,
merchant, and sentenced to death, |
has had his sentence commuted TO
life Imprisonment. The Tarantu-
la and the Viper, two submarine boats
for the United States navy, were
launched at the Fore River ShipyardS, |