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

The Southern Baptist association
will hold its next annual session at
Hot Springs, Ark. ..... "A lockout of
the building trades of Berlin, Ger
many, affects $4,000 men directly, and
10000 indirectly. .... Grand Master
P. H. Morrisey Of the Brotherhood of
Railway Trainmen has been reelected
for a term of two years. 80. OF the
thirty-one persons killed in the South
ern Pacific wreck at Honda, Cal, re-
Gently, fourteen carried accident in
surance in the Aetna Life of Hart
ford, and the company has to pay
$110,500 as a result of the catastro-
phe. The Chicago, Milwaukee and
st. Paul railroad, through an attorney,
has plead guilty to a charge of re-
batting, and was fined $4,000 by the
Federal court of New York. Mrs
Sallie Freeney will be tried in Dodge
county, Ga, this week on a charge Of
having murdered w. P. Harrell, a
prominent citizen Of that county. Mrs
Freeney claims she shot the man to
defend her honor. Under an or
der Of court 800 cases of whisky, sew
eral hundred casks of beer and a large
quantity Of gin was emptied into the
sewers of Independence, Kan, last
Thursday. over 200 stevedores
went on a strike at Mobile, last Fri
day, because one stevedore firm en-
ployed negroes in loading a cargo of
timber. :. Isaac Stephenson, the
wealthiest citizen of Michigan, has
been nominated by the Republican
caucus to serve out the uneXpired
g vi Cknt tnr
er, resigned .... Two young women
members of an Iowa suicide club COM
mitted suicide last Friday at the same
hour by drinking carbolic acid. ......
Five Montgomery county, ILL.,, farm
ers, who are well-known and wealthy,
are under arrest, charged with the
murder of Miss Lola Nance. 1t is al
legged the young woman died as the
result of an illegal operation. Justice
Grassel has refused to release them
under 100000 bond, which was Of
fered One man was killed, an
other fatally injured, and six were
badly hurt by a boiler explosion at
Sycamore, Ohio, Friday. .... .AnIsia
Louise deMassey, recently convicted
in New York of manslaughter in the
second degree, has been sentenced to
a term of seven years and five months
in the prison for women at Auburn,
n. Y.... A Paris dispatch says that
Mrs. Potter Palmer Of Chicago, has
declined an offer of marriage to the
king of Servia. .... During the year
1906 414,039,5S1 tons of coal were
mined in the United States. The total
value of the coal mined was $5lZ:
610,744. Lawyer Abe Hummel or
New York, began serving his sentence
of one year at Blackwell's island yes
terday. Hummel was convicted or
perjury. The interstate commerce
commission has made a ruling which
forbids one railroad hauling coal or
other commodities for another rail-
road at a lower rate than the same
freight would be transported for prI-
vate individual. .... The submarine
boats Octopus and Lake remained un-
der water at Newport. r. l., last week
for a period of twenty-four hours.
A premature explosion in Lookout
mountain tunnel near Chattanooga
Tenn, wrecked a trestle on whlch
there was a Southern freight train last
Thursday. The engine and eleven
cars fell to the creek below. Three
men were killed, three fatally hurt