Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-05-03
MERE.M EN'rlON.

The seven miners entombed in the
Foustwell mine near Johnstown, Pa,
were rescued Tuesday night, having
been imprisoned since the Friday pre-
yious. ..... The weather bureau at
Washington says that April broke all
records for low temperature extending
over a period Of twenty-six years.
twenty-five congressman are on a
junket to Hawaii, having sailed from
San Francisco on the transport IL
ford Tuesday. $500. William E. Corey
has been reelected president Of the
United States Steel corporation. n......
The United States Amusem- ut COM
pany is to build a $5,000,000 hotel
and theatre in Chicago. Andrew
Carnegie has agreed to give $4,000 to
the University of the South, at Sewa-
nee, Tenn, for the erection Of a SCI
entific hail.. ... The legislature of
Pennsylvania has passed joint reso-
luton providing for a constitutional
amendment to authorize the state
government to borrow $25,000,000 for
good road purposes. -. Estrada Ca
brera, president Of Guatemala, had a
narrow escape from assassination last
Monday morning. AS the president
and his staff were driving along the
streets Of Guatemala City, mine was
exploded under the carriage. The
president escaped injury, although sew
eral Of his staff were injured. :. More
than 1000 arrests were made In Paris
Wednesday as the result Of May Day
riots. Many policemen and rioters
were more or less injured. =. Three
men were killed, four severely burned
and four others were entombed by
mine explosion at the Whipple mines
near Charleston, w. Va, Wednesday
afternoon. The ninth ami
versary Of the battle of Manila bay
was celebrated in Washington, We'd
nesday night with a banquet. Admi-
raj Dewey presided. The New
Orleans Cotton Exchange has begun
war on bucket shops which do not Sc
cure market quotations in a legiti-
mate way. ...... Louisa Holden, aged
forty years, shot her husband and her
son and then committed suicide at
Providence, R. l., Monday night. She
Is believed to have been demented..
Secretary of War Taft, in an address
at Cincinnati Monday night, said the
Panama canal will certainly be finish
ed within eight years and probably In
less time than that. .... DIR. Chas.
Griffith Worthington MacGill, Of Gen.
Stonewall Jacksons' medical staff, died
at Catonsville. Md, Monday, at the
age Of sixty-four years. .... .Chas. q.
Gates & Co., one Of the largest COM
mission firms in the country, with Of
fees in New york and Chicago, will
discontinue business on June 1st. Jno.
w. Gates is the head of the concern.
The United States supreme court
has decided that a state has right to
compel railroads to fix schedules to
fit the convenience Of the public. The
ruling was on an appeal from North
Carolina. Chief Of Police Mince-
moyer Of Danville, Pa, captured a
Jail breaker Tuesday by leaning from
the side of a rapidly running locomo-
tive and picking the prisoner up from
the side Of the track by his coat col
lar. "A new concrete bridge across
Little Otter river, between Roanoke
and Lynchburg, Va, collapsed Mon
day, completely damming the river.
The engineer and fireman OF a
through freight on the Seaboard Air
Line, were killed in a head-on colli-
sion at Norlina, N. c., Tuesday morn
The fly wheel Of the engine
Of the ice making plant Of the Selwyn
hotel, Charlotte, N. c., bursted Tues
day morning, doing $4,000 damages.
No one was injured. Radical
members Of labor unions of Chicago,
are agitating a movement to secure
the presentation Of a petition to the
senate next winter for the impeach-
ment of President Roosevelt. ..... AS
a result Of the overflowing Of the
Dneiper. Dneister and Dvina rivers In
southern Russia, it is estimated that
there are 100000 people homeless.
The United States transport Buford
sailed from San Francisco Tuesday,
carrying $4,000 barrels Of flour for
the famine sufferers Of China. .....
A United States marshal seized 1000
pounds of oleomargarine in Philadel-