Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-05-17
FRIDAY, MAY II, 1907.
MERE MENTlON.

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Both the sugar and tobacco crops Of
Cuba will be record breakers this year.
Sugar because of its size and tobacco
because Of its rare quality. The
steamer City Of Cleveland was de-
stroyed by fire at Detroit, Mich, Mon
day. The loss is 100000, sustained by
the builders, as the vessel was not
quite complete. ...... .Messrs. Flick,
Schwab, Corey and other Pittsburg
recent Wall street market slump.
Pittsburg banks were assessed $780,
100000 in two days to bolster up the
market. .Pennsylvania's legislature
has killed the proposed bill providing
for nominations of candidates for the
United States senate by primary elec-
tions. In order to evade the heavy
import duty on its products the Siroc-
CO Engineering Works Of Belfast, Ire
land, will establish a branch factory
in the United States. -. Mrs. Rus
sell Sage has announced the scope Of
her foundation charity work. The
$40, ,OOO,O gift is to be used in eradi-
eating causes Of poverty and not to
aid individual cases. .... VIM. Z. Co
rey, president Of the steel trust and
Mabelle Gilman, an actress were mar
ried in New York at 1914 a. m. Tues
day. The ceremony was at this hour
In order to escape the thirteenth Of
the month. Coreys gift to his bride
was $1,000,000 In securities. ...T The
| first election for a universal suffrage
was held throughout Austria Tuesday.
Austria's election laws provide fine
and Imprisonment for failure to vote.
THE Louisiana State Medical
society wants the legislature of that
state to pass law regulating so-call-
ed expert testimony. Judge Nc
Reynolds In the criminal court at
Chattanooga, Tenn, says the "unwrit-
ten law" is becoming a serious men,
ace Of the day, and that so FAR as his
court is concerned there would be no
| further dallying with 1t. Western
Missouri river points to Chicago one
and a quarter cents per hundred on
July 1st. .... .Harvie Jordan, president
Of the Southern Cotton association,
sailed from New York for Europe on
Wednesday. The coroners jury
investigating the Northern Pacific
| wreck at Honda, Cal, last Saturday,
says the accident was caused by de-
fective equipment. .....W. c. Wallace,
cashier of the Columbus. o.. postoffice.
committed suicide Wednesday, while
inspectors were checking up his ac-
counts at the postoffice. The FEEDER
al circuit court, In session at Roches-
ter, N. Y. Is to try Harrison Hill,
full -blooded Seneca Indian, on
charge Of murder. Hill is charged
with killing his brother in-law in jan
rary last. 80. Miss Florence Nightin-
gale, heroine Of the Crimea, celebrated
her eighty-seventh birthday In Lon
don. Wednesday. .All grades Of re-
fined sugar have been advanced ten
cents per hundred pounds. 49,. More
than $4,000 cotton mill operatives Of
New. England will receive an increase
May 27..... j. II. Arnold, travelling
revivalist. has been sentenced to six
months on the rock pile at Athens,
Ca, for cruelty beating his twelve
YEAR old son, who played ball on SUM-
day. -. Six inches Of rain fell in less
than two hours in the vicinity Of
NatcheZ, Miss, Tuesday. The an
nual convention of the Order of Rail-
way Conductors is in session at Men,
phis, Tenn. ...... The senate OF Penn
sylvania has passed an anti-bucket
shop bill by a vote Of 36 to 1..... Six
ty men were overcome by smoke in
| fighting a fire in the SUBJ cellar of the
Remington Typewriter company's
building in New York, Tuesday. .....
Heavy snow storms prevailed in Ne
oraska and South Dakota Tuesday. -.
The Pennsylvania railroad is expert
menting with an electric locomotive
which is said to have made 100 miles
an hour in speed trials. -. Kuhn,
Loeb & Co., New York bankers, will
undertake to float $40,000,000 of bonds
for the completion of the Southern
Manchurian railway. :. President Diaz
Of Mexico, has proposed that Mexico
and the United States exercise joint
protectorate over Central American re-
puflics in order to stop continual
| fighting among themselves. The idea
doesn't appeal to Central Americans.
49,. The senate Of New York. has
passed bin over Mayor McCrellan's
veto. providing for equal pay for equal
work for women teachers compared
with the work Of male teachers in
New York city schools. =. .Represen-
tative Nicholas Longwbrth is being
doomed as a candidate for the United
States senate from Ohio against SEN
ator Foraker. ........ The circuit court
at independence, Mo-, has fined three
Kansas City ice companies $4,000 on
conviction Of maintaining a monopoly
Of the ice business In that city