Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-06-07
MERE-MENTiON.


Blanchard, Pa, Tuesday, killed two
men and fatally injured two others.
"A Southern freight train was
wrecked near Lebanon, Tenn, We'd
nesday and fifty-seven persons were
more or less injured, none seriously
The trial Of Mayor Schmitz be-
gan at San Francisco on Wednesday
morning. The first trial is on a charge
of eXtorting $1,175 from restaurant
proprietor. w The General Fedora
ton of Women's clubs convened at
jamestown, Wednesday morning.
Representative John j. Esch OF Wis
consin, predicts that it will not be
many years before congress Will pro-
vide a ship subsidy, applicable to mail
carrying ships. .... Telephone linemen
of San Francisco to the number of 200
went on a strike Tuesday in order to
help girl operators enforce recogni-
ton of their union. John A. Par
ker has been elected president Of the
New York Cotton Exchange. .... Ed
win L. Holmes, Jr., former statistician
of the agricultural department, was
put on trial Tuesday in the criminal
court at Washington, on a charge OF
conspiracy in connection with the Ia
nous cotton statistics leak. .... The
per capita circulation in. the United
States on June 1st, was $34.2O, which
is the highest point ever reached. The
per capita is based on an estimated
population Of S5,965, 900. 80. Alexander
MacLean, Canadian agent to Japan.
says that the time will come when the
United States will work harder to Sc
cure Japanese laborers than it is now
working to keep them out. .Prom1-
nent Italians of Chicago are perfecting
a plan by which they hope to divert
the tide Of Italian immigrants from the
large cities to the agricultural districts
of the country. 49,. Geo. p. Decker,
agent of the United States Express
company at Old Point Comfort, Va,
on Tuesday robbed the safe and set
fire to his office in an effort to effec-
tually conceal a shortage in his ac-
married in London Tuesday to Oscar
Lewisohn, a New York millionaire.
The bride is the divorced wife of Fred
Titus, noted bicycle racer. ..... .Thir-
ty-four defendants in the Honduran
National Lottery cases, were fined a
total of S2S0,500 in the Federal court
at Mobile, Ala. Tuesday. .... Two
detectives were killed and two SOL
diers were seriously injured by an eX-
plosion of a bomb thrown by Terror
its at Lodz. Russia, Tuesday. Gen
eral Thomas H. Huger, military gov
ernor of Georgia in 1868, died at STAN
ford, Conn.,, Monday. 49,. Mrs. Emma
Kaufman. wife of a millionaire brew
er. is on trial at Flandreau, S. D., on
the charge of numbering sixteen
year. old servant girl. Five thousand
coal miners will go on a strike in the
Indiana coal fields today. The miners
have presented a list of grievances to
the operators. 49,. Police reserves and
200 longshoremen had a clash on the
Pennsylvania railroad pier at Jersey
City Tuesday afternoon. The strikers
attempted to board a vessel where
nom union men were at work. .......
DR.. Young ]. Allen, for forty seven
years a missionary of the Methodist
church to China, died at Shanghai
Tuesday at the age of seventy-two. -.
Philadelphia suburban communities
have won a fight against the Reading
for restoration of the fares
existing before the enactment Of the
Pennsylvania rate law. ......A London
cable states that England and Japan
have formed a secret pact by which
Great Britain is to have the complete
armed support of Japan in India
against any foe. The pact is blow
.
has failed in an effort to secure a loan
of $50,000,0 900 in Europe for the Union
Pacific Railroad company. Hartman
says his failure is due to the attacks
on corporations in this country. .....
Federal officers raided an oleomarga-
rine factory in Philadelphia Monday
night and confiscated 1000 pounds of
the grease. ..... Eight representatives
of four Chicago papers have been ar
rested on charges of conspiracy and
violation of the Illinois antitrust
laws. The four papers are charged
with combining to raise the price of
Sunday papers from 5 cents to cents
4 copy. .....A lot 25X100 feet on Fifth
avenue, New York. changed hands
Monday on a consideration of 100000
So, 800 a square foot. 1t is esti-
mated that there are 10000 deaths in
the United States annually from con-
sumption. 49,. Minnesota is consider
ing the idea Of calling a conference of
the governors of other states to de-
fend state railway laws from the at
tacks on states rights"