Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-05-21

and a number were more or less Sc
riously injured. Harry Thaw caused
the proprietor of a New York moving
picture exhibition to be fined 500 last
week for showing pictures alleged to
be a reproduction of the Thaw-White
tragedy. While drunk and seek
ing revenge ex-Chief of Police w. L.
Cate shot Chief of Police Thos. l..
Guess to death at Bellevernon, Pa,
last Thursday. Cate was badly beat
en- by a mob that wanted to lynch
him. Frank A. Brotherton of Des
Moines, Ia, committed suicide in Phil
adelphia last week, because he had
broken a promise to his wife that he
would quit drinking. "A woman ar
rested in Pittsburg, Pa, on a charge
of disorderly conduct last week, ten
dered the judge her three-months-old
babay as bail for her appearance in
court 80. There will be large num-
ber of damage suits growing out OF
the recent wreck at Honda, CAL, on
the Southern Pacific railroad ......
The next congress will be asked to
pass law providing for the supervis-
ion of all weights and measures used
in trade. The United States in
terror department has set aside ap-
proximately $4,000 acres Of public
lands for the proposed Arkansas ma
u.
has pardoned a nephew Of John L.
Sullivan, who deserted from the ma
rine corps, on condition that he re-en-
list and serve the full term of four
years. State Senator Colby, a re-
former, has refused a nomination for
governor of New Jersey, because, he
SAYS he was elected to the state senate
and wants to serve out the term for
which he was elected. go. Irving Tai
ley, q negro, was convicted in Baltf-
more last week on charge Of raising
50 note to $40. He was sentenced
to the Federal prison In Atlanta for
The senate of New York has passed
bill allowing amateurs" to play base
ball in that city on Sunday afternoons
Bulls" of the Chicago wheat
pit are predicting that the price of
wheat will soon reach $1.25 per BUSH
ell "A Cleveland o., contractor, In
tearing down an old building in that
city, found a rusted tin box contain
ing Erie railroad bonds valued at
$116,740 and 1874 in gold. The bonds
had been missing since 1874. -. The
pier of the Morgan Steamship com
pany, New York, was destroyed by
fire Friday night. Several thousand
bales Of cotton were burned. The loss
is placed at 100000. Thirteen
merchants have been arrested at
York, Pa, on charges Of selling OBJ
scene post cards. {. Mrs. Bertha Ray
ner Frank, sister Of Senator Rayner
Of Maryland, left q prominent Allan
tic City hotel last week, because she
was told that "the patronage OF He
brews was not desired" The jap
anese government is putting stop to
the speculative craze in that country
and during the past six weeks has dis
solved projected companies with an
aggregated capital Of $3.50, 900, OO0....
The number Of deaths from the plague
in India for the six months ending
Nav 18th was 451,S92. In the prov
ince of Punjab alone the total Of
deaths was 286,777. 7......A band OF
terrorists held up a railroad once at
Warsaw, Russian Poland, last Friday
and got away with $4,000 after fight
in which four persons were killed and
nine were seriously wounded. -. "A
private detective shot and instantly
killed an innocent bystander during
a fight with striking longshoremen at
Hoboken, n. j., last Friday. A police
man saved the detective from a mob
who wanted to lynch him. .The
legislature of Pennsylvania adjourned
last Friday after a session lasting sew
eral months, leaving a batch OF 5SO
bills for the consideration OF Governor
Stuart. Alfonso, Prince OF the
Asturias, the royal baby of Spain, was
baptized according to the rites OF the
Catholic church, in the imperial pal
ace at Madrid Saturday at noon.