Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-10-18
MERE-MENTION.

BY the wreck of The Scotch Flyer
one CT the finest trains Of England, on
Tuesday, near Shrewsbury station
twenty persons lost their lives and
fifty others were more or less injured
Twenty five persons were more
or less injured in a trolley car colli-
sion near Erie, Pa, Tuesday. .... .Sa1e
crackers rified the safe Of the postof-
flee at Coopersburg, Pa, early Tues
day morning, secured $4,000 In cash
and stamps and escaped in an auto
mobile. A thief got away with a
tray containing $1,000 worth OF dia-
monds in a Chicago jewelry store Win
dow, Tuesday, while the proprietors
back was turned. Five persons, in
cluding one woman, have been arrested
on charge of completely In the blowing
up of the News Herald of Joplin, Mo-,
on September Is. A work train Oh
sixteen cars, in which were twenty
workmen, fell with 100 feet Of trestle
on the Erie and Jersey railroad al
Stonyford.. N. Y, Monday. One man
was instantly killed, five fatally injur-
ed and fourteen were badly bruised.
Eugene Schmitz, formerly mayor
of San Francisco, now convict for
accepting a bribe, has lost his appeal
to the higher court for a new trial and
will be sent to the penitentiary forth
with. go. Three Tennessee coal COM
panies have filed complaints with the
interstate commerce commission
against the Southern railway, charg-
ing discrimination in the matter OF
furnishing coal cars. 1t Is estimated
that Japan will spend $50,O00,000 dur
ing 1908 in railroad Improvements. 80.
The annual meeting Of the Reading
Railway company was held on Monday
and was attended by two officers Of the
corporation and one stockholder and
lasted just three minutes. ........ The
October term of the United States
supreme court convened last Monday
A statue Of Emile Zola will be
unveiled in Paris on January 13, on
the square facing the palace Of justice
Thirty New York milk dealers
were fined from $40 to $50 Monday fol
selling adulterated milk in that city
..... A New York druggist was SEN
fenced to six months Imprisonment
Tuesday, on account of illicit sales OF
cocaine. Solomon Frank and five
daughters Of Gloversville, n. Y, lost
their lives early Sunday morning by
the burning of their homes. AT q
meeting Of the directors of the Western
Union Telegraph company in New
York last Wednesday, Col. R. G. Glow
ry was reelected president Of thai
corporation. +. . Jesse Holiday, one OF
the organizers of the famous pony ex-
press by which mail was carried tc
California in the early days, died In
Chicago on Wednesday. ...... Twenty
small boys were seriously injured In
Brooklyn, N. j., yesterday by the ex-
plosion of fulnimite caps in a bonfire
in the street, around which the boys
were playing .. Hon. Champ Clark
of Missouri, said yesterday in Char
lotte, that Bryan and Roosevelt will be
the candidates in the next presidential
campaign. +. q. Terrific storms and tor
rental rains have done great damage
in France and Spain during the past
few days. In some instances whole
towns have been wiped out. E. Another
anti Japanese riot occurred in San
Francisco Tuesday. Ten Japs were
more or less injured and about twenty
white men were badly battered up
mostly by the police. Rear Admiral
Robley D. Evans says he has no idea
Of asking to be retired before his age
limit expires. .... The Novoe Vremyar
a leading st. Petersburg paper, says a
war between Japan and the United
States is inevitable, but that such, a
clash may be sometime off. Owing
to shortage of supply, according to
New York wholesalers. there will soon
be sharp advances in the price of all
grades of coffee. In the nine
months ending September 30. the
United States imports amounted to
$1,10S,134.9S3, and the exports for the
same period amounted to $1,331.621,-
G55 5.. During the month Of Sep
tember there were 1886 immigrants
landed in the United States.