Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-05-14
MERE-M ENTION.

. MERE-MENTIoN.
The Georgia railroad commission mas
ordered the Seaboard Air Line rail-
road TO reduce its freight rate ten
per cent in that state. 80. Edward "A.
Nelson. the railway mail clerk VINO
abstracted q package containing Slo
600 from a registered mail sack mas
been sentenced by the Federal court
at Wilmington, N. c., to serve e'shteen
months in the Atlanta prison. 49,. Inc
annual convention Of the American
Cotton Manufacturers association Is
in session in Philadelphia this week.
Presidents and managers OF In
dependent telephone companies and
associations representing approximate
ly $35,0O0,000 Of invested capital are
to meet in Chicago next month with
view to cementing all Independent
systems into one gigantic organization
Fifty-eight persons lost their
lives by fire at SAPPHIRE, island OF H,-
kaido, Japan, last Friday. .Presl.
dent G.. w. Burchell Of the Nati'.nal
Board Of Underwriters, estimates the
insurance losses Of San Francisco to
have been $3.50, 200, 90. .. Experts have
discovered a shortage Of 100000 In the
accounts of the city treasurer OF SYRIA
cuse, N. Y...... The total number OF
bales Of cotton exported from Inc
United States during the ten months
ending April 80, was 8,173,967, worth
..... British troops nave
put an end to the rioting at Lahore,
British India, which continued,
of Massachusetts, has unanimously
passed an anti-bucket shop bill. The
Hartman system has placed an or
der with the. Tennessee Coal, Iron and
Railroad company for 100000 tons OF
steel rails, costing $5,000,000. .... The
Diamond Match company has pur-
chased a tract Of $4,000 acres Of tim
Der in California. Southern wyoming
Is covered with snow seven feet deep on
the level. There has been no sunshine
since April Is. Oxford University
will confer the degree of bachelor OF
letters upon Mark Twain, who Will go
to England in June to receive the hon
orary degree. go. Abraham H. Hum
mel, the famous divorce lawyer OF
New York, must serve year at Sing
Sing for conspiracy and perjury, the
court of appeals having refused q new
trial. Diplomats and other foreign
are studying Secreta-
ry Taft, to determine his possibilities
as the next president. .....A homlng
pigeon flying from the jamestown ex-
position to Washington last Friday
made an average speed OF 1880 yards
a minute. .... The differences existing
last week between Guatemala and
Mexico have been adjusted and the
war clouds have dispersed. ...... Tine
Russian government has appropriated
s., ,O00, 900 for the relief Of its famine
sufferers. The Master Builders as
sociation Of Berlin, has decided TO
lock out all masons, bricklayers and
helpers on May >. Over 100000 men
are affected by the decision. This Is
a counter move to proposed strike
Of the workmen. go. -Four t1nplno
chiefs created panic in NorroiK
hotel cafe last Thursday night by ap-
pearing scantily clad In native cos
tune, barefooted and ornamented with
hundreds of jingling bells. St Pc.
tersburg authorities do not expect
the Russian douma to last another
month. It's dissolution Is expected at
any time. Deserted by her nus
band for another woman, Mrs. carrie
Sigsworth Of Pittsburg, Pa shot her
thirteen months -old child ana tnen
committed suicide last Thursday.
Rev. Dewitt Carpenter, pastor or the
Holiness Union church at harrington,
Del, disappeared with his atnnlty,
leaving his wife behind. The trustees
of the church have elected Mrs. Car
penter to fill the vacated pulpit. ....::,;;
Congressman Burton Of Ohio, Will
probably make an effort to succeed
Senator Foraker in the United states
senate. Wild scenes were enacted
in the Chicago wheat pit Saturday
Bullish buyers predict $1.25 wheat. -.
L. D. Strong convicted at Macon, Ca
of killing Henry Smith for running ms
sister, has been sentenced to thfee
years Imprisonment. .Fr1soy Gipps'
a negro, was hanged In Baltimore FIJI
day for the murder OF a negro wotIiati' nan
AT Wilmington, N. c., last sat
urday, the Laurinburg Oil company
submitted to charges Of rebating and
was fined $4,000 by the Federal court.
Four hundred strike breakers
a rived in San Francisco Saturday and
the governor of California will call out
the state militia If necessary, to keep
the street cars running III Is now
believed by the Delaware authorities
that Horace Marvin, Jr., came 10 ms
death from exposure. .Ihe TWO
cents q mile Tdle Id" VIII D~NO
fective in Illinois on July L.. George
w. Bundrick has been sentenced to De
hanged at Cordele. Ga, for a murder
four years ago. Bundrick
escaped after having the date or MS
execution fixed, and few weeks ago
to officers in California,
saving he was tired Of lodging from
place to place. An equestrian statue
Of General John B. Gordon VIII De
unveiled in Atlanta, Ga, on May 70.
One thousand steel workers are
on a strike at Monaco, Pa. -. DE-. |
Thos, B. Rider was fatally stabbed by
DIR. A. U. williams at Hot Springs, |
Ark. Friday. Rider attacked Williams,
who defended himself with a pocket
knife. Mrs. Matte Conally killed
her son-in-law. Frank Albright sat
urday night, at Maysville, Ala, by
shooting him while in bed. Albright
had come home drunk and ran his
family off the premises. 49,. .Bruton
church at Williamsburg, Va, origlnaly
built in 1882, the present building De-
ing in 1710, was consecrated laSt eun-
day by Bishop Randolph OF the ulo-
cese of southern Virginia. go. Inc ia
panese government is trying to estao-
Iish diplomatic relations with the gov
arnment Of Turkey, but Is not meetlns
with a cordial reception. 80. Ninety
men are supposed to be dead In the
Tenares copper mines at Verlardena'
state Of Rurango. Mexico, as the re-
suit of a fire which started Frlday
night. One man was Killed IN
neadon collision on the Central OF
Georgia railroad at Rome. Sunday.