Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-07-23
TUESDAY, JULY as, 1907,
MERE. MENTION,

The spool cotton trust is figuring out
another raise of the price Of cotton
thread which will make the retail
price 10 cents a spool. There were
nearly 5000 prostrations from the
heat in Philadelphia last Thursday.
There were quite a number of ia
talities. The verdict in the Hay
wood case at Boise, Idaho, is expected
tomorrow or Thursday. .... Col. A. b.
Lewis of New York and Fredericks-
burg, Va, purchased ninety-siX thor-
oughbred Jersey cows last week from
an importer and for the herd paid $751;
900. A trolley car on the Schuykill
railway near Shenandoah, Pa, was 60
ing down hill at a sharp clip last
Thursday, when the motorman noticed
that the roadbed was gone, having
caved in, leaving rails and ties sus-
pended in the air. He at once applied
more power and the car passed over
the chasm on the swinging rails. The
Mineworker's Federation Of Pennsyl-
vania has reduced its initiation fee
from $40 to SO in an effort to induce
thousands Of miners to affiliate, who
have dropped membership in the Fed
Grafton. -. The net earnings Of the
WESTINGHOUSE Electric Manufacturing
company for the past year We're $4,-
1855 on plant valuation OF w.
570,073. .... The Japanese government
is floating a $20,000,000 bond issue for
the purpose of building railroads in
Mnnahnria Elnvan SanfS were
killed by Russian police at Riazan,
Russia, Thursday. Several lives
have been lost and property damage
will run into millions as result Of
floods in west Pennsylvania, Ohio and
West Virginia during the past few
days. D. Two Japanese schooners were
caught by United States revenue cut
ters near st. Paul islands, in the Paci-
fic sealing grounds last week and the
prisoners will be tried on charges OF
poaching Thirty-two persons were
killed and a hundred or more injured
in the wreck of Pere Marquette eX-
cursion train near Salem, Mich, last
Saturday. The disaster was the result
Of a rear-end collision. Judge James
Hargis Of Breathitt county, KY, feud-
fame, has been acquitted OF the charge
OF completely In the murder or DR.. b.
D. Cox in Jackson, few years ago.
NE" 1OIh CITY 10 upSCN ny NNS
ems OF attempted assaults on women
and the police are scarcely able to
handle the situation. Prof. Lyman
E. Stowe, a noted astrologer of Detroit,
Mich, predicts a world-war during the
next five years. 49,. The Home Trade
League, with headquarters in Chicago,
has begun a campaign against the big
mail order houses OF the country. The
league claims a membership OF 100000
members among retail merchants or
the country. +. . The strike Of telegraph
operators in San Francisco ended last
Friday with victory for the telegraph
companies. 80. The railroads Of the
west have decided to abolish all spe-
cial passenger rates and privileges and
enforce a straight 2-cent-a-mile rate.
The board of inquiry investigating
the disaster on the battleship Georgia
off Provincetown, Mass, last week,
has decided that the tragedy was the
result Of too rapid firing of the big
guns. . Mrs. Thos. Ellis Of Paint
Rock, N. c., was knocked from tres
tie by a train into the French Broad
river last Friday and drowned.
Auguste Azzali, leader of a famous
Mexican band Of Guadalajara, Mexico,
was drowned at Atlantic City, N. j.,
last Friday, while surf bathing.
Mrs. Augusta Mack, who assisted Mar
tin Thorne to murder and cut up the
body Of William Guldensuppe in New
York, in 1897, has been released from
prison. ... A drought Of eight months
duration has caused a serious famine
on the island Of Jamaica. Crops have
been totally destroyed. .... Joseph c.
Lofts of the mail order jewelry firm,
Lofts Bros, of Chicago, was shot by
his brother S. T. A. Lofts, last Sat
urday, in a quarrel over business af-
fairs. .... The Georgia supreme court
has filed an opinion which will stop
the issuance of charters to negro
Knights of Pythias lodges in that state.
49,. .Pedlar Palmer, famous English
bantam weight pugilist, has been SEN
tenced to five years Imprisonment on
conviction Of manslaughter. -. Miss
Laura Ronaldson, an art student COM
mitted suicide in New York Friday.
She brooded over the death Of a friend
who committed suicide three years
ago. The passenger steamer Co.
lumbia plying between San Francisco.
Cal, and Portland, Ore, was run into
by a lumber laden schooner, the San
Pedro last Sunday and sunk. 1t is es-
timated that fully 100 lives were lost
in the collision.