Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-08-02
MERE.M ENTIoN.

Large numbers Of Japanese are EN-
igrating to Canada. Twelve hundred
were landed at Vancouver, B. c., last
Sunday. Three big milling con-
Germs of Minneapolis, Minn., have been
fined 500 each for collecting and ac-
cepting rebates from the Great Nortn.
ern railway. The legislature OF
Alabama has killed q bill which pro-
yided for taxing the property OF the
Booker T. washington school at Tus-
kegee. There has been q consid-
erable increase In the cost OF raw
sugars during the past few days.
English cotton mills running 460,0OO
looms, have agreed to stop the mills
for a period Of two weeks previous to
October 1st, on account OF the high
price Of cotton yarns. The Chl-
cago and Northwestern railway mas
placed a contract for a steel bridge
across the Mississippi river at clinton,
Ia, which Is to be two miles long,
and will cost $2,000,000. .... The
United States cruiser Salem was
launched at Quincy, Mass, last Fri
day. She is to be fitted with turbine
engines and will be capable OF max
ing "a knots (about q miles) an hour.
The Long Beach hotel at Long
Beach, L. l., was destroyed by hre
early Monday morning. There were
100 guests in the hotel when the fire
was discovered and all escaped with
only nine persons injured. sen
ator Albert Beveridge and Miss Kath-
crime Eddy are to be married at Ber-
lin on Wednesday, August THU.
Chas. H. Meyer, president OF the West
ern Federation Of Labor, charged with
completely in the murder OF Governor
Steunenburg of Idaho, has been ad-
mitted to bail in the sum OF $2b,OOO.
Two women were killed In New
York Tuesday, by strangers. the
first bale of Georgia cotton was SOLO
on the New York Cotton Exchange on
Monday, at 26 cents a pound. .......
James Reed, a negro, was kicked to
death and then hanged by mob near
Chrisfield, Md, Sunday morning. Reed
had killed a policeman. Henry
Huntington, son Of Commander Henry
A. Huntington, a retired United States
naval officer, shot his brothers Doug
lass and AlonZo and his two sisters,
Edith and Elizabeth, at Versailles,
France, Sunday, while in rage.
The state of Pennsylvania is making
determined war on the Black Hand
society in that state. 80. Senator
Foraker Of Ohio, has announced his
candidacy for the Republican presi-
Dental nomination next year. La
Dor unions throughout the west are
holding jollification meetings over the
acquittal of VIM. D. Haywood.
John Maxwell, inventor of the power
knitting machine, died in Philadelphia
Sunday night at the age OF 93.. .......
VIM. Nelson, a negro, was electrocut-
ed at Sing Sing prison, New YORK, last
Monday, for murder. Four men
were killed and three were injured by
a rear-end collision on the New York,
New Haven and Hartford railroad at
Brockton, Mass, Monday. Mrs.
Louisa Taft, mother of Secretary OF
War Taft, is critically i'll at Millbury
Mass. The London Daily News
and Evening News have settled two
pending libel suits by the payment or
damages. said to be 0,000.......
Fifteen soldiers have been sentenced
to death at Guayaquil, Ecuador, for
conspiracy against the president.
Eight have been executed. 80. .Thos.
Black, ex-mayor Of Kenton, Ohio, has
surrendered to the sheriff and confess
ed to forgeries amounting to $2S,00O.
...... Twenty lives lost and $1,000
600 property damage sustained. Is
the result Of a series Of confiagrations
in New York during the past week.
The Mexican government has appro-
priated 100000 for the purpose OF
improving its breed Of horses. .,....
Russia and Japan are about to sign