Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-07-10
FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1908.
MERE-MENTION,

About one-third of the city Of Port
Au Prince, Hayti was destroyed by
fire, which ragged during Sunday and
Monday. More than 400 buildings
were destroyed. .....H Henry Farman'
the aeroplanist, won a $4,000 prize al
Paris, Monday, by keeping his flying
machine in the air for twenty minutes.
.... Five common pleas courts or
Philadelphia, granted ninety-nine de-
crees Of divorce, Monday. $500. More
than $4,000 men were put to work In
the Pittsburg district Monday. after
being idle for several months.
Since January 1st the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals OF
New York, has destroyed 77,O67
homeless cats and dogs in that city.
Albert Z. Swartz, a wealthy
business man of Allentown, Pa, has
been sentenced to one years imprison-
ment and a fine Of $500 and costs on
a charge of perjury. The Chicago
Tribune's figures for Fourth of July
casualties places the number OF dead
at ~, and injured at 2,736. The days
fire loss totalled s535, ,435...... The
Isthmian Canal commission on Mon
day placed a contract with the de
Nemours Powder company for 2,O9O'-
900 pounds of dynamite for the Pana-
ma canal work. :. During this week
more than fifty persons have died IN
New York as the result of the exces-
sive heat. There have been scores OF
prostrations. The immense oil helds
between Tampico and TuXpan are
burning, and the fire is visible Tor 1Oo
miles or more :. Mime. Anna Goulu
and Prince de Sagan were married IN
London, on Tuesday. 49,. MISS Louise
Worrill accidentally killed hersef al
Cuthbert, Ca, Tuesday, while LOADING
a % calibre parlor rifle. "A large
norton of Lincoln, Neb., was hoodeu
Monday. Five persons lost their lives
and the property damage is very great
Julian Harris has been CHOSEN
editor of Uncle Remus's" Magazine
established by his father the late joel
Chandler Harris. A National Cur
rency association has been organized
nv eighteen banks Of Atlanta and
north eorgia under the new Aldrich-
Vreeland banking law. The Grano
Prix race of the Automobile clup Oh
France. was run near Paris Tuesday
and was won by a German car. Two
of the racers were killed by an over
turned car. 1900. One arrest has oeen
made in the Wilson murder case OF
Philadelphia. After a gruelling IN the
nolice "sweat-box" the suspect was
released on a nominal bail. The po-
lice are now searching for sister-ln-
law of one of Wilson's victims. s......
Frank H. Hitchcock has been appoint
ed to the craftsmanship of the Repup-
lican National committee. Judge
Taft will be notified of his nomination
for the presidency at Cincinnati o.
on July IS. ... The 1908 wheat crop
of Russia is said to be 25 to so per
cent below the normal condition al
this season and a famine is predicted
The Carnegie Steel company or
Pittsburg has purchased the Schoen
Steel Wheel works Of the same city,
for $3,0OO,000 The Carnegie COM
pany at first undertook to put the
wheel works out Of business by re-
fusing to sell it steel. The wheel peo-
pie then began to erect a steel plant
of its own. This forced the sale. go.
Lieut.. Arthur r. Jones of the United
States army, died at Manila on Mon
day from the effects Of cholera. ......
The American Locomotive works has
this week shipped the first four OF an
order for thirty locomotives to France.
The harbor front Of Boston was
visited by fire Wednesday afternoon,
and property to the value of $780,
900 was destroyed. A revolution
of some proportions has begun In
Honduras and Washington officials
fear that the trouble may spread over
the other Central American repub-
New York, have closed a contract
with President Roosevelt for the ex-
elusive publication of his African
hunting stories. .....A gang of safe
crackers robbed two safes in New
York factory Tuesday night, and got
away with $25, 1000 worth of gold pens.
.....A Bloomfield, y. j., woman
bought IL cents worth of cheese
Tuesday and in it found a diamond
ring valued at $1,000. According
to a Constantinople dispatch of the
9Th, more than 1000 persons were
drowned by a flood in the Yeshil and
Irmak rivers in Asia Minor during
Tuesday and Wednesday. -. Twenty
persons were killed and forty injured
by the collapse of new building in
ST. Petersburg yesterday. .....A big
fight is being made in the Georgia
legislature to break up the convict
leasing system in vogue in that state.
..... Three persons are dead and ten
are missing as the result Of tene-
ment house fire in Boston yesterday.