Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-06-02
MERE.MENTlON,

Olga Nethersole. the actress, last
week got a verdict for $4,000 against
Cleveland. o., newspaper for libel
She sued for 100000. .Represen-
tative Burton of Ohio, will make the
speech nominating Mr.. Taft for the
presidency, at Chicago. I. ]. Dunn,
assistant city attorney of Omaha.
Neb.. will nominate Mr.. Bryan at
Denver. The bluejackets Of the
presidents yacht Mayfiower. prevent
ed a serious disaster at the Washing
ton navy yard Friday night, by re-
moving nearly two tons Of explosives
from a burning powder magazine.
Two persons were fatally injured and
several others more or less seriously,
at Memphis, Tenn, Friday night, in a
collision of an automobile with car
riage Della Fox, an 1S-year-old
girl, was sent to prison at Atlantic
City N. j., for sixty days last week,
for flirting with men on the board
walk. -. The fifty-two hounds. and
twenty -eight puppies of the Myopia
Hunt Club Of Hamilton, Mass, i'm
ported from England and valued at
$4,000 were killed last week, because
of rabies. 6. . Eugene c. Chadwick, 20
years old, was acquitted at Atlanta,
Ga, Friday of the charge Of killing
his father in October, last. Wilbur
Wright of flying machine fame, is now
hn hVinR
machine for demonstration to the
French government. 1t Will COST
the United States government $9O,5S5
TO furnish Indian school children be-
tween the ages Of and.21 years,
with shoes during the year 19OS.....
The appropriations Of the last con-
gress are considerably more than
billion dollars. Appropriation bills
carrying more than a billion dollars
were killed. Crops in Iowa, Kan
sas, Missouri, Nebraska and Illinois
were badly damaged by storms FRI
day. One man was killed by a lorna
do near Topeka, Kan. go. Frank Mer-
ritt a New York man, has permitted
himself to be inoculated with tuber-
culosis germs, in an experiment by
Dr. Craft Carroll, who seeks cure
for the disease. The names OF Gen.
eral Clement A. Evans Of Atlanta,
and General w. l.. Cabell Of Dallas,
Texas, are mentioned as successors
Of General Stephen d. Lee as COM
III . 1A Init fnA
federate Veterans. Ten persons
died in Pittsburg, Pa, Friday, as a
result of the excessive heat. .... The
attorneys representing Hearst in the
recount proceedings in New York,
claim that the final count will show
that Hearst was elected mayor by a
plurality of at least $4,000. 49,. Thou
sands of peasants in the famine dis
tricts of Portugal, are living on olives,
which is their only food. .Ack Hale,
charged with numbering his sweet
heart Lille Davis, was convicted at
Bristol, Tenn, Friday, and sentenced
to life imprisonment. Cotton mills
giving employment to more than TO-
900 operatives, went on full time in
Rhode Island yesterday, on the
strength of better conditions in the
textile industry. j. Theodore Ross
Portland, Ore, banker, has been
sentenced to serve five years I'm prison
and pay fine of $516,O94 after con-
viction for wrongful conversion of
state school funds. The Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy Railroad COM
pany last week filed a mortgage on
its property for 100000, 900. Vic
tor Stanley, New York lawyer, was
sentenced to prison last week for not
less than five nor more than ten years
for forgery. ...... Indictments were
returned against nineteen Night
Riders at Frankfort, KY, Saturday.
More are expected. A sale of Ill
head of imported, blooded cattle at
COopersburg, Pa, Saturday, brought
a total of $3S,40O, an average includ-
ing calves, of 1920. Last year at the
same place the sale Of cattle averaged
1852 a head. The Pennsylvania
railroad is considering plans for cleo
trifying it's track for several miles
out of New York upon the completion
of it's tunnel work. :. Lee DeForest.
the wireless telegraph inventor, has
succeeded in talking a distance of
seventy eight miles by wireless tel
ephony. ...... The famous Belmont
stakes, worth $2O765, were won by
Jas. r. Keene's horse, Colin, at Bel
mont Park, y. Y, Saturday Collins
winnings total 100000 for his owner,
having won fourteen important races.
... AS the result Of a new Maryland
liquor law, the number of saloons in