Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-09-03
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1907.

near Naples. Italy, is again slightly
active. Ominous rumblings have been
heard for several days. About
forty operators on leased wires return
ed to work at East st. Louis last Fri
day.. John d. Rockefeller last week
received a check for $7395 for the wit
ness fees and mileage claimed by him
for his appearance before Judge Lam
dis some weeks ago in the Standard
Oil case. The schooner Hudson,
lumber laden, was burned to the wa
ters edge near Little Hope, Nova SEQ
tia. Friday. With the object OF
helping the police and incidentally
themselves. Reading, Pa, Italians are
organizing the White Hand" society,
which Is to be an exact opposite OF the
Black Hand societies, which are now
causing so much trouble in that state.
go. China's dowager empress, fear
ing that the Chinese are bent upon un-
seating the Manchus, has called In her
advisers to discuss changes in the gov
ernment and the proposed amalgama-
ton of the Chinese and Manchu races.
Theodore H. Price, the New York
cotton speculator, estimates the COM
ing crop at 100000 bales, as against
13,3O5,O00 bales, the estimate by the
census bureau. flying machine
Is TO be added to the British army
equipment. Although the machine has
been under construction for two years,
the fact has only recently become
known. The railroads Of Georgia
put the rates as fixed by the railroad
commission Of that state into erect
yesterday. Edward Winner and
Misses Lillian and Bertha Ballum were
drowned in the st. johns river, Flor
ida, Saturday, by the capsizing or
launch. .....F. NJ. Johnson, farmer,
and his daughter, Mrs. J. H. Pullen,
were killed by an Atlanta and West
Point passenger train near West Point,
Ala, Saturday. .... William Gisrlell
has been nominated for governor by
the Prohibition state convention OF
Maryland. :. Edward Edwards, white,
was shot to death by his cousin, Hugh
Postelle, at Asheville, n. c., Saturday
afternoon. They had quarreled over
family matters. Postelle Is in jail.....
An artillery officer and four policemen
were killed by a bomb explosion at
Odessa, Russia, Saturday morning.
The artillery officer was examining the
bomb and dropped it accidentally.
The Texas fast mail on the st. Louis
and San Francisco road plunged
through a burning bridge near Tusla,
/. T.. Friday night. Several passengers
were seriously hurt. Four midship-
men are to be dismissed from the An
napolis naval academy for breaches Of
discipline while on the summer cruise,
A treaty between Russia and
England has been signed at st. Peters,
burg. 1t regulates the interests Of the
two powers in Afghanistan, Thibet and
Persia. 1t is announced from Oys-
ter Bay that President Roosevelt will
telegraphers' strike. Louis Glass,
vice president OF the Pacific States
Telephone company, has been convict
ed Of bribery. 80. The second torpedo
boat fiotilla is to go to the Pacific with
the battleships.. ..... There is a prohi-
bition campaign on in Birmingham,
Ala, the first in the history of the city.
The election is to be held in Novem-
ber. Joseph L. Briskey, right field
er for Savannah's team in the South
Atlantic league, broke his neck last
Sunday while bathing at Tybee Island
beach. -. .Anson county, N. c., voted
for prohibition last Saturday. The
National Farmers Union assembled in
Little Rock Ark, today. The under
standing is that it will probably fix the
price of cotton at Is cents.