Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-04-14
FRIDAY, APRIL II, 1908.
MERE M ENTION.


ney, Fla, Friday night, by mob of
armed men, and as the victims emerg-
ed from the burning building they
were shot down. 1t is supposed the
crime was committed by men who had
been refused work. .... Ike S. Knight,
Il well known citizen of Fort Worth.
Tex, ran amuck Saturday evening, and
before he was finally overpOwered he
had killed one man and wounded two
others. Leo G. Thurman was
hanged at Norfolk. Va, Friday for the
murder of his roommate, Walter P.
Dolsen of Michigan. Thurman con-
fesSed that the crime was cold blood
ed and committed for the purpose OF
robbery while his victim was asleep.
... Conductor J. F. Simmons of the
Seaboard Air Line, was probably ia
tally stabbed in front of the union sta
ton at Savannah, Ga, Friday night
by Baggagemaster Tyson, as the re-
suit of a quarrel. .... Many of the
high officials at Washington, including
the president, have recently received
letters from anarchists, in which they
are threatened with death. Secret
service men are closely watching out
for the officials. Four of the our-
policemen of Philadelphia have
been sentenced to serve seven years
each, solitary confinement in the Eas-
tern penitentiary. Frost, the plumber
accomplice, got off with four years.
William Workman was arrested at
Pittsburg, Pa, last week and placed
under $40, 900 bond on charge of en-
bezzling $4,000 from a savings insti-
tuition, of which he was assistant
treasurer. .VeneZuela's war re-
sources consist of about 1000 soldiers
and seven useless men-of-war. and
three, small auxiliary ships. .... The
delegates-at-large from Massachusetts
are 10 go to the Republican conVen-
ton at Chicago uninstructed. ... The
Georgia railroad commissioners have
granted permission to the Georgia and
Carolina Railway company to issue
S6,00O,O0O of bonds for building and
equipping its road. Nineteen Douk-
hobors, nine women and ten men,
have been sentenced to six months i'm
prisonment at Fort William, Ont, for
parading the streets unclothed. ......
The New York anti-race track betting
bill was defeated by the senate last
week. Governor Hughes says he will
run for governor again, if necessary, to
force the passage of the anti-betting
law....C. r. Billingsley, formerly
president Of the Capitol National Bank
at Guthrie, Okla, has been sentenced
to seven years and four months i'm
prisonment on conviction of misappro-
priating the funds of the bank. The
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul rail-
road has completed deal with ia
panese company by which the third
trans-Pacifc steamship company is to
be established between United States
and Japanese ports" The Paris
police are fearful of reign of ter
ror" instigated by anarchists, that it is
believed is scheduled for May lst.
Large numbers of anarchists are being
arrested .... Mrs. Russell Sage has
given $25O,000 to Princeton university
for the erection Of new dormitory
for freshmen. ... English men and
women to the number of 125 arrived
in Philadelphia last week and will set
tie on farms in Virginia. The su-
preme court of Alabama has confirm
ed both the prohibition and "9 o'clock
closing laws of that state. ... The
legislature of Ohio last week passed a
law prohibiting club members from
keeping supplies of liquor in private
club lockers. Twelve miners were
killed by gas explosion in coal mine
at Norton Hill, Somersetshire, Eng
land, Friday. .... .Chas. Z. Letten
clerk Of the first district tax collectors
office at New Orleans, charged with
embezzling 100000, has confessed his
crime $500. Three women have been
elected TO the board of education OF
Dallas. Tex. They were the first wom-
en- who ever ran for office in Dallas.
Postmaster General Meyer has
issued an order permitting the perfor-
alton of y. $. postage stamps for iden-
tifcation only. The postal saw
ings bill is to be passed by the senate
this week. 1t will carry an amend
ment to the original bill providing
for the receipt of deposits of 10 cents
and over. The supreme court OF
Tennessee has rendered a decision by
ic
denied the right to do business in that
state. .... The condition of Admiral
Evans at Paso Robles, Cal, is report
ed as being quite critical. T }.
Danills shot and killed his brother,
p. B. Danills, at Meridian, Miss, Sat
urday. mistaking him for a burglar.
The Chinese boycott of Japan
ese ships from China ports to Amer
ican is reported as being thoroughly
effective both as to freight and pas
Senger business. :. Bankers and COM
mercial bodies all over the country are
making a determined fight against the
passage of the Aldrich financial bill. ...
Money conditions have become so easy
in New York that gold shipments TO
Europe are expected to be resumed at
an early date. .... 1t Is probable that
the present session of congress Will
adjourn about May 9th. go. The Mu-
tual Reserve Life Insurance company
of New York has been dissolved by the
state courts and permanent receivers
appointed to wind up its affairs.
Count AndreaS POtocki, governor Of
the Austrian province of Galicia, was
assassnated Sunday afternoon by a
Ruthenian student. E. President RoOSe-
welt is planning to spend a year abroad
after the expiration of his term of Of
flee. The New Hampshire branch
Of the American Federation Of Labor
has issued a circular in which 1t
strongly opposes Secretary Taft as
presidential candidate. E. Samuel Dix
on. a West Virginia coal mine opera
tor has been indicted by a Federal
grand jury at Huntington, on charges
Of peOnage. ..... One woman was KILL
ed and three men seriously injured in
onromObile collision in Chicago on