Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-12-03
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An organized band Of kidnaprers
have stolen forty-five children from
the City Of Mexico during the past two
months. ..... .Joha Philip Sousa, the
band master, is seriously Ill in Chi
cago hospital as a result Of ptomaine
poison. Seven laborers were burn
ed to death in a rooming house in
Kansas City, Mo-, Thursday, as the re-
suit OF fire caused by an explosion
of natural gas. John Whitley, a
New York business man, aged so, shot
his wife, aged 3S, to death last Thurs
day and then committed suicide by
jumping from tenth story window.
The man was insane. E. Owing to the
closing down of the coke plants in the
vicinity Of Pittsburg, Pa, from 10000
to 10000 men are idle. The gov
ernment Of Japan has made promise
to the Canadian and United States
governments to limit the number Of
Japanese emigrants to these countries.
..... .California's orange and lemon
crops this year amounted to $4,000, 600.
..... There were 259 business failures
throughout the United States last
week. against s21 the previous week
.... The wholesale prices Of meats
have teen reduced by Chicago packers
from 10 to 23 per cent. The retailers
have not reduced prices proportion
ately. .. The Westinghouse Electric
companv has secured a contract from
the British government to furnish 300
motors. varying in size from to 500
horsepower for the new navy yards
at Devonport. England. .....J. E. Hof-
letter, the leading lawyer of Chester.
w. Va, is in Jail at East Liverpool, o.,
and badly wounded, on charge of at
temnting the assassination Of c. H.
wilkins. sheriff of Hancock county, w.
Va. The sheriff shot first :. Bandits
held up a coach load of passengers in
a Cincinnati, Ohio. station Friday and
got away with $50 in cash. The
public debt Of the city of Boston Is
$1l1,S4S.735, per capita Of $1SS on the
estimated population. Three women
and two men were killed and a score
were more or less seriously hurt by a
collision between a trolley car and a
freight train at Waterbury Conn, Fri
day. .. John Smell, fortune teller,
was stabbed to death in the Camden.
n. J.. Jail yard, last Friday by Fred
erick Stewart, a negro. in quarrel
over one cent. -. Tacoma, Wash, bus
mess men have under way plan to
build a building that will cover 415x2Oo
feet ground space, twenty stories high
and will have fifty acres of floor space.
1t will be the largest building in the
world when completed. General
Leon Jastremski, candidate for gov
ernor Of louisiana, died Friday morn
ing at the age Of 81 years. .... Eight
steamers left New York on Saturday
with $4,000 steerage passengers aboard
returning to their native lands. .......
Thirty-one hunters have been killed
this season In the woods Of Wisconsin
and Michigan, -, The Jefferson audi
torium and negro Baptist church at
Charlottesville, Va, were burned
Thursday night. The loss was $4,000. .
John Marshall Harlan, associate JUS
tiee Of the United States supreme court
finished his thIrtieth year as member
OF that tribunal, last Friday. -. More
than $4,000 persons witnessed the
Penn Cornell football game in Phila-
delphia on Thanksgiving day. The
American Automobile association is
planning a race from New York TO
Paris by way OF Alaska, across Sihe-
ria, Russia and Germany A large
number Of entries are expected, ,,..,,.
Senator Foraker has decided to be-
come a candidate for the Republican
presidential nomination against Sec
retary Taft. He will try to get the
support Of the Ohio delegation 10 the
Republican convention, .,... Neal San
ders, O. negro, was lynched by mob
OF CovIngton county, Ala, citizens
Saturday afternoon for criminal as
sault, .Thos. and ]. B. Graham
naval stores operators OF Alabama
convicted in the United States court
at Pensacola, Fla, on charges of peon-
age, have been sentenced TO prison fol
thirteen and six months respectively
..... .Jethro Jones. 10 years old, was
shot to death near Whitesboro, Ga.
Friday night by a negro who had sto'
len a bale Of cotton from him. The
negro was arrested. .... The railroad
station at Brunswick, Me, was blown
10 pieces early Saturday morning BY
the explosion of the station heating
apparatus. Several persons were hurt
Houston, Tex, had o half million
dollar fire last Sunday. ....W. j. Bryar
is in Washington TO confer with Dem
ocratic leaders with regard to prospec'
tive legislation. .. Between fifty ant
sixty miners were entombed in th'
Naomi mine of the United Mine com
pany, near Monongahela, Pa, last Sat
urday night, as the result OF an eXplo'
sion of fire damp. ...... The steamship
st. Louis which arrived in New Yorl