Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-08-30
MERE m ENTlON.

INTERVENTION.
Engineer Carter was instantly killed
and Fireman Thompson was fatally in
jured in a head-on collision on the
Queen and Crescent road at Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, Wednesday morning..
1t is rumored in London that Sultan
Abdul Aziz has been assassinated In
his palace at Fee, Morocco. go. Gov
ernor Hughes of New York. has ap-
pointed his former law partner, M. c.
Fleming, to make an investigation OF
the insurance department Of that state.
..... Jas. P. Farrell, Irish Nationalist
member Of the English parliament for
North Langford, Ireland, and forty
others have been arrested and are held
for trial on the charge Of taking part
in IAN unlawful assembly likely to
cause riot. .. Albert Stemelon, a
Detroit, Mich, bookkeeper, walked into
police headquarters in that city Tues
day and announced that he had thrown
his 2-year-old daughter into the river
as a sacrifcial atonement for his sins.
The British parliament closed on
Wednesday after one Of the longest
sessions on record. -. .Ex-Sherin L.
s. F. Dorsett Of Lexington, N. c., Is al
legged to be about $4,000 short in his
accounts. .... The Western Union tel
egraph Office at Arkansas City, Kan,
was burned Tuesday night by what Is
believed to have been an iDcendiary
fire. Ex- President Cleveland Is In
such bad health that he will not go to
his summer home In New Hampshire
as he usually does each year.. james
Oliver. the plow manufactures, Is crit
ically Ill at his home at South Bend,
Ind. Sixteen battleships, six tor
pedo boats and thirteen other craft
will comprise the fleet to be sent to
the Pacific in December. The fleet Will
require 125, 900 tons Of coal for the trip.
80. Delaware peaches are selling In
the northern markets at the highest
prices on record. The great trans
atlantic passenger lines entering New
York are engaged in a passenger rate
war. Col. Ivanhoff, governor Of the
Russian political prison at Wiborg was
assassinated in st. Petersburg, Mon
day. Speaker JOS. G. Cannon says
that he Is not a candidate for the Re-
publican nomination for the presiden-
The American Tobacco COM
pany has permanently closed its plant
at Cincinnati, Ohio, on account OF the
scarcity Of labor. Jas. G. Penn, q
wealthy capitalist and tobacconist OF
Danville. Va, died Tuesday at the age
OF 61 years. go. Thirty alleged MEM
bers Of the Black Hand society are In
jail at New Castle, Pa, awaiting trial.
They are being guarded by state con-
stabulary.. .....A package addressed to
George B. Cortelyou exploded when
struck with a cancelling stamp at the
Nicetown sub-station of the Philadel-
phia postoffice, Tuesday. No one was
injured. Secretary Of War Taft
was on a st. Louis and San Francisco
train which was wrecked near Spring
Hill, Kan, Tuesday afternoon. There
were no casualties. 49,. Stanley Bel
lou, confidential man Of the Banning
Cooper company Of Pittsburg, Pa, Is
held on a charge Of embezzling $4,000
Of the firms money. fast pas
senger train on the st. Paul railroad
crashed into a street car at La Crosse,
Wis, Tuesday. Several passengers
TIT,
persons were burned to death In a
boarding house at Oklahoma, Okla. on
Tuesday. The Washington, ID. e,
police have commenced a very active
campaign against the bucket shops OF
that city. Four persons were kill
ed in an automobile wreck at Roches-
ter, N. Y, last Wednesday. The auto
mobile collided with a trolley car.....
Boston. Mass, negroes on Wednesday
celebrated the one hundredth anniver-
sary of the abolition of the slave trade.
They adopted a resolution calling upon
negroes everywhere to oppose any can
didate who should have the endorse
ment of President Roosevelt for pres
ident.. The West End Business
Mems association Of st. Louis, Is try
ing to bring about the calling Of ma
tional constitutional convention, with
view to settling a number Of perplex-
ing questions, not the least important
among them being the Limitation or
authority as between the state and
Federal governments. Striking te-
legraphers are charged with having In
terfered with the telegraph wires con-
Meeting Camp Perry with the outside
world and three miles OF telegraph line
between Camp Perry and La Crane are
now under guard Of soldiers. .....A
dispatch from Mt. Airy. N. c., says
that an unusually good apple crop will
be harvested this year.. George
Gould, aged 65 years, described as one
of the wealthiest men Of New Rochelle,
~ Y, died Monday In a New Rochelle
hospital from starvation. .... New
York city will on September 10 open
bids for $40000,000 Of Al per cent city
bonds. A Manchester, England, dis
patch says that ITO delegates repre-
senting Lancashire spinning and man
ufacturing plants, have been selected
to attend the conference of cotton
growers and manufacturers in Atlanta,
Ga, on October 10. 1t Is UNDER
stood that the leaders Of the Telegra-
piers union are to appeal to President
Roosevelt to make an effort to settle
the telegraphers' strike.
The Union county Baptist associa-
ton has declared in favor Of absolute
prohibition as the proper policy Of the
state as to the liquor question.