Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-09-22
MERE ENTlON.

The United States submarine boat
| Octopus wss last week operated at a
depth Of 107 feet below the surface Of
the bay at Newport, R. I. This is the
record for actual operations under wa
ter with q full crew aboard. .... The
creditors Of Daniel Sully, the cotton
operator. who failed about four years
ago, will only get about forty cents on
the dollar for their claims. .... Lewis
Stuyvesant Chanler Of Dutchess coun-
ty, has been nominated by the Demo-
cratic party for the governorship Of
New York Mr.. Chanler Is at present
lieutenant governor Of the state. -. The
government Of Germany has suggested
to the government OF Holland the call
ing of another peace conference at The
Hague, probably next year, to consider
universal peace and Exchange regula-
tons. .... Since its establishment In
1886, there have been more than 900,-
900 patents issued. The first patent is
sued was for IAN improvement in box
for packing tobacco. The Interna-
tional tuberculosis congress will con-
vene in Washington on September q.
L
the world will be in attendance. The
negroes Of Cuba are forming a politi-
cal party Of their own on color lines
and declare they will have a candidate
for every office from president down,
in the November elections. ..... .Thos.
A. Edison says that within five years
airships carrying passengers will cross
the Atlantic ocean in eighteen hours, a
speed Of 200 miles an hour being neces-
sary to do this. ......A terrific storm
with the wind blowing more than six
ty miles an hour, struck Galveston,
Tex, Thursday. The streets were
flooded to a depth Of more than four
feet. The health authorities Of Penn
sylvania are wrestling with what
threatens to be a statewide epidemic
of smallpox. .... Invitations have been
sent out from New York to all parts Of
the country to participate in the Sec
ond international congress Of the un-
employed to be held in that city on
September %, and continue for one
week .. Hans Knudshen, Danish
electrical engineer has invented and
perfected a wireless telegraph typewri-
ter. The writing on one machine oper-
ates another machine at a distant point
by means of sound waves the same as
is employed in wireless telegraphy. -.
Adolph H. Newburg, one Of the attor-
neys Of Abe Ruef, the San Francisco
CRATER, was last week arrested on a
charge of attempting to bribe pros
pective juror in the trial Of Ruef. 80.
Wall Street brokers are offering odds
of five to one that Governor Hughes
will be elected to the governorship OF
New York A. +. BOnelli, an alb
sconding banker Of Cleveland, o., want
ed for the embezzlement of $4,000
some months ago, was last week re-
turned to that city, having been cap
tured in Brazil. .....An official census
of Chicago, completed last week, gives
the population of that city as 1,924,060,
an increase in four years Of 209,916. -.
Forty men were overcome by poisonous
gases and smoke in a fire which de-
stroyed the plant OF the Swift Packing
company at st. Joseph, Mo-, Thursday
night. .... In special elections held in
Indiana last week to fill vacancies in
the Legislature, the Democratic party
made very large gains as compared
with the Republican vote Of two years
ago. In one district Republican major
ity was cut down from 5000 to 236....
Jim James, the negro who was the
cause Of the race riots in Springfield,
ILL.,, a month ago, because he killed
Clergy A. Ballard, was convicted Fri
day. and sentenced to death. ;. Harold
S. Bope, son Of a wealthy Pittsburg
man, was arrested in that city Friday
with Frank L. Steen and F. S. Haugh,
charged with a gigantic land swindling
scheme which the trio was working in