Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-07-19
MERE-MENTlON.

An oil tank containing a quarter
of u million barrels of petroleum was
struck and ignited by bolt of light
ming at Lima, Ohio, on Tuesday. Can
mons were used to make holes In the
tank so as to let the oil out before
the flames could reach other tanks
near by. DR.. Ed r. Taylor has
been elected mayor Of San Francisco
by the board Of supervisors OF that
city. Floyd Webber, an engineer
on a Lake Shore passenger train, was
stricken unconscious while his train
was going at high speed and his con-
dition was unknown until thrown from
his seat in the yards at Cleveland, ..
The fireman stopped the train. .......
| Two robbers held up a freight train on
the st. Louis and San Francisco road
near Cherryvale, Kan, Tuesday morn
ing. They killed o. ]. Brown and Sc
rious!y wounded Otis Taylor, harvest
hands, who were beating their way
home. .... During the six months end
ing June 80, there were 1,O6O,O67 VIC
tins Of the bubonic plague in India.
-. Crystal Hall, three story build
ing at London, Ontario, collapsed Tues
day, killing five and seriously wound
ing twenty or more. 49,. .Chill1cothe,
Texas, was visited by a $15O,000 fire
Tuesday. 80. Judge Alton B. Parker
had a narrow escape from death few
days ago, from bullet fired through
the window Of car in which he was
riding. 80. Harry G. Laws, a school
teacher of Indiana, has lost his mind
as a result of memoriZing the cam
paign speeches Of VIM. j. Bryan. .....
DR.. Benjamin Holbrook is in jail at
West Chester, Pa, on charges Of burg
| larry. BY day he was a successful phy-
sician with large practice and high
ly respected, and by night he applied
himself to burglary. 80. Fred H. Ma
gill and his wife are under arrest at
San Diego, Cal, on a charge Of hav-
wife at Clinton, ILL.,, in May last.
1t is reported that President Roosevelt
will appoint Ex-Governor Terrell Of
Georgia, United States district attor-
Iney of the northern district of Geor-
gia. The job is worth $4,000 year.
500. The Pasteur Institute Of New
York city, has discovered a new anti
toxin for the cure Of hydrophobia. ....
Peter Cooper Hewitt has designed a
boat the model Of which, has made a
speed Of thirty eight miles an hour.
Hewitt believes his boat will cross the
Atlantic in sixty hours. The w. M.
Ritter Lumber company Of Wheeling,
W. Va, has pleaded guilty to ten
counts on an indictment Of peonage
and has been fined $4,000. Gail
Robinson, a Buffalo, N. Y, aeronaut,
fell 1000 feet with his balloon at
Springfield, Ohio, last Saturday and
escaped with slight bruises. .... .Mer-
chants of Niagara Falls, N. Y, have a
plan under way to illuminate the falls
and thus add to their beauty at night.
..... Since the new insurance law Of
Texas has become effective twenty of
the leading life companies have with
drawn from the state. .... .Tailors to
the number Of $4,000 are on strike
in New York and vicinity. They ask
10 per cent raise in wages. Rich
ard Croker has declined to allow the
use of his name as a candidate for the
| British parliament. 49,. DIR. A. Robin,
bacteriologist Of Wilmington, Del, has
had his salary reduced from $4,000 to
$1,500 at his own request. .... Mrs
Annie M. Bradley, who killed former
United States Senator Brown Of Utah.
in Washington, several months ago.
will be released on a $4,000 bail bond
Her trial will come up in October. .....
The Georgia Florida Saw Mill associa-
ton has decided to shut down all mills
owned or controlled by its members,
for one month, with view to boosting
lumber prices. .... Three men and one
woman, all Italians, are on trial at
Hahnville, La, for the kidnapping and
murder of Walter Lamana, an eight
year-old boy, several weeks ago..
Eight convlcts sawed their way
through the iron window gratings Of
the Jail at Dalchant, Texas, Sunday
night and made good their escape. ....
Plans for a 160-mile trolley line from
Atlanta to Augusta, Ga, have been
perfected. Construction work is to be-
gin in October. Senator Platt OF
New York, celebrated his seventy
fourth birthday, Monday. .... Governor
Glenn of North Carolina, says that the
state will resist all Federal court in
reference in the enforcement of the
criminal laws of the state. .......
A female teacher in a girls school in
China, charged with completely in the
murder Of the governor Of Anhui, July
| 6, has been beheaded. .Signor Nasi,
Italy's ex-minister of public instruc-
ton, has been arrested on a charge OF
stealing 100000 from the state treas
ury. The New York, New Haven
and Hartford railroad will, after Sat-
urday, run all Of its suburban trains
out of New York, by electricity. .....
The national debt of Japan is $1,100,-
100000, or about one seventh Of her
aggregate national wealth. The ma
tional debt of the United States is not
more than one per cent Of her aggre-
gate wealth. .....A gas plant at Bea-
trice, Neb., is making high grade IL
Eliminating gas of waste materials,
such as corn stalks and cobS hay and
other vegetable matter. ...... .Rhena
Rivers, of Houston county, Ala, re-
Gently died in that state after serving
nearly twenty years Imprisonment.
She was sentenced to eighteen months
and the clerk of the court wrote the
/ oh
was discovered after her death. .....
Count Boni de Castellane's appeal from
the decision of the court granting a
divorce to his wife, formerly Anna
Gould. has been dismissed. .... During
the fiscal year ending June Goth, 1885,
394 immigrants landed in the United
States. A bomb was exploded in
front Of the summer quarters of the
American embassy at Therapia, Tur-
| key, Sunday. No one was injured. 80.
General Alikhanoff. former governor
general of Tihis, Madame Glieboff and
q coachman. were killed by bomb eX-
plosion at AleXandropol, Russia, Tues
day morning. w A cloud burst be-
tween Grafton and TunneltOn, w. Va,
Wednesday caused the death of sever
al persons and damage Of half million
| or more dollars. 49,. The naval court
of inquiry which investigated the
tragedy on the battleship Georgia Of
last Monday has found that the ex-
plosion was due to flare back"
meaning that when the breech- block
was open after discharge. some
shreds of cloth or unconsumed gas
was driven into the turret. Dis
trict Passenger Agent Wood and o. c..
Wilson, ticket seller Of the Southern
railway at Ashevile, N. c., have been
convicted and sentenced to the chain
gang for thirty days each for violation
of the North Carolina rate law.
Karl Hau, professor of Roman law at
George Washington university, is be-
| ing tried at Karlsruhe, Germany. on
the charge Of numbering his mother
| in-law some months ago. He Will
probably be convicted.
- There is a lively clash of jurisdic-