Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-10-04


al organization of wealthy Philadel-
phia church members, is planning to
raise S5,000,000 a year for the next five
years among the laymen Of this coun-
and wealthy physician of New Roch-
ellie. N. Y, is under arrest on the
charge of attempted burglary. .......
The international postage stamp,
which was adopted at the Rome Pos
tai congress last year, will come into
use on October 10th. Its value is five
cents and will be sold in every country
in the postal union. The citizens
Of Hyde Park, a fashionable Chicago
suburb, have a secret organization, re-
sembling the Ku-Klux-Klan, for the
expulsion of negroes from the commu-
nifty. The fall manoeuvres Of the
British navy, soon to take place in the
North sea, will include something over
sixty vessels. . Great distress is prev
alent throughout the southern portion
Of Spain as the result Of storms and
floods last week in the vicinity Of NAL
aga. Many lives were lost and mil
lions Of dollars worth Of property were
destroyed. :. Two women were killed
by a Reading express train in Phila-
delphia Sunday night because they
could not wait ten seconds for the
train to pass after a warning from
the street crossing gateman. .... The
triennial convention Of the Protestant
Episcopal church in America, convened
in Richmond, Va. Wednesday. About
100 bishops Of the church are in at
tendance. 80. Count Zeppelin. q Ger
man airship builder, made flight
Monday Of seven hours duration. 80.
Seven Of the fourteen defendants In
volved in the grating charges in con-
nection with the Pennsylvania capitol
have been indicted by the grand jury
of Harrisburg. 49,. New York's newest
hotel Is The Plaza. nineteen stories
high, and said to have cost s12,000,00O.
The postage rate on letters TO
foreign countries is now five cents
for one ounce or less and three cents
for each additional ounce or fraction
thereof. A two ounce letter which
formerly cost twenty cents for postage
will now be carried for eight cents....
More than $4,000 people witnessed a
ball game between the Detroit and
Philadelphia Athletics Monday. The
game was called at the end of the sew
enteenth inning on account OF dark
ness. Five hundred dock laborers
are on a strike in New Orleans. The
strike Is spreading and it is expected
that 5000 men will be involved. .....
Mae Catherine Wood, a former gov
ernment clerk, has brought suit
against United States Senator Platt OF
New York, for absolute divorce. al
leging that she was married to the
senator in 1901. Two persons were
killed when a fast train on the Frisco
road Jumped the track while speeding
down a steep hill near Dixon, Mo,
Monday. The New York police
department a few days ago sent a
cargo of 5000 pistols, valued at
$4,000 about twenty-five miles out
and dropped them into the sea. ......
Thousands Of persons have died from
cholera In Russia, and the epidemic
extends over twelve provinces and Is
still spreading. Sixteen Mexican la
borers were killed and eleven were ia
tally injured by "slide-in" on the
Mexican Central quarries near Victo-
ria. Mexico Wednesday. ........ United
States Senator Borah of Idaho, has
been acquitted Of charges of fraud In
connection with timber-land grabbing
at Boise, Idaho. The steamer Ray
mond H., which piled the Flint river
between Albany and Newton, Ga,
was destroyed by fire Tuesday night
with a loss of $75,000. One man
was killed, and a man and woman
seriously injured in an automobile
when 1t went over 25-foot embank-
ment near Baltimore, Wednesday.
One man was killed and three were
seriously injured by the falling OF the
scaffold in a gigantic smokestack al
Chattanooga, Tenn, Wednesday.......
Three persons dead and a monetary
loss Of $50O,OOO resulted from big fire
at Port Simon, Costa Rica, last we'd
nesday.