Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-08-18
MERE-MENTION.


Of Brodie L. Duke, the millionaire to-
bacco manufacturer, was convicted in
a Chicago court last week on a charge
of passing a worthless check. .... A
tic City, n. j., and vice of all kinds is
being put to rout. The reform wave
is the result of a war between politi-
clans. ..... In the recent general elee-
ton in Cuba there were 265,955 votes
cast out of 491,096 names on the reg
iStration books. -. Investigations in
New York have brought to light the
fact that there have been hundreds of
wives deserted by their husbands in
that city, since the beginning of the
business depression last fall. -. The
national convention of the Catholic
Total Abstinence Union of America,
in session at New Haven, Conn, last
week reported 100000 active men,
bers. 49,. The American Agricultur-
ist predicts that the 1908 corn crop of
the United States will total 1850, 0,000,-
600 bushels, 10 per cent greater than
that Of last year. The bubonic
plague is still raging in Venezuela,
and but little effort is being made to
tight the disease. W. ). Taylor,
formerly governor Of Kentucky, and
for several years a fugitive from that
state, will it is said, return to Ken
tuckv and stand trial on charge of
completely in the murder of Govern
or Goebel: The legislature of
Texas, which meets in January, is
pledged to submit prohibition
amendment to the constitution to be
voted on at a special election in 1909.
..... The department of agriculture
has given out a statement to the effect
that Alaska" wheat, which is being
widely exploited as a producer, is poor
in quality and not as productive as Is
claimed by its promoters. 80. AT
Tsaritsyn, Russia, there have been
225 cases Of cholera and $50 deaths
since the outbreak Of the disease. The
river Volga is infected. .... The 1908
Kansas wheat crop is estimated at
S5,000,000 bushels. .....A mule died
near Anderson, Ind, Friday, from an
unknown cause. A post-mortem ex-
animal had two hearts. The New
York Press says: president Roose-
velt has ordered the nomination of
Hughes for governor" The Republi-
IAN politicians of the state, opposed
to Hughes were depending on the in
auence of Roosevelt to help their
schemes. Mr.. Roosevelt saw that the
schemes of the politicians were not
feasible as the people were with Gov
ernor Hughes. ..... Ira d. Sankey,
famous throughout the world as an
evangelist and hymn writer, died at
his home in Brooklyn, n. Y, Thurs
day night. William j. Connors,
Democratic state chairman of New
&c, Nt.i1l
that state in the November elections.
.....A gigantic balloon exploded on
the grounds of the Franco British
exposition in London. Friday, killing
one woman and seriously burning a
dozen or more. Norman Fogle,
chief of the savings department of the
First National bank of Wilkesbarre,
Pa, is under arrest on a charge of
embezzling $4,000 Of the banks funds.
FOgle's downfall was due to an auto
mobile on a salary of $1,000 year
..... AT Amsden, VT, on September
26, a man named Moote will begin q
weeks wood chopping contest to de-
eide a bet involving $4,000 that he
IAN chop, split and pile five cords of
wood each day for six days. -" Mill
No. 4. the largest Of the five mills
owned by the Odell Manufacturing
company at Concord, n. c., was de-
strOyed by fire Saturday, entailing a
'oSs of half a million dollars. -. VIM.
=. Annis. a New York publisher, was
shot to death at BaySide, l.. l., Satur-
day by Capt. Peter G. Haines, Jr, U.
S. A, on account of improper rela-
tiOnS with the latter'S wife. Elgh-
teen suits. aggregating $75O,OOO. have
been filed against the owners of the
Darr coal mine in WestmOreland
60 10, Fi1oO nlI
of the accident there in 1907, by which
a number of lives were lost. .FruS-
trated in an attempt to rob the home
of q wealthy woman at Media, Pa,
Friday, and pursued by mob bent
on lynching him, Moses Spencer, ne
gro, committed suicide by blowing out
his brains. John Richards, ac-
cused of numbering his rival in love.
Maurice X. Frances in Floyd county,
Va. was acquitted Friday at Roanoke
after being tried five times. He was
convicted and sentenced to be hang
ed once; there We're three mistrials.
......P Paul MauSer. the German in
Ventor of the famous MauSer rifle, has
invented q new gun which carries
twenty-five cartridges at one loading
and loads itself automatically on fir
ing. .WOmenS clubs throughout the
west are starting a movement to raise
funds for the Bryan campaign, by
means of dances, ice cream festivals,
pink teas etc. "A mob of 300 men
made an unsuccessful attempt to get
two negroes charged with assault,
from the Jail at Portsmouth, Va.
early Saturday morning. The mob
was stood off by the sheriff and ten
men until the arrival Of the fire de-
partment, which played water on the
mob. putting ii to rout. .....A negro
rapiSt made his escape from mob
near Pensacola, Fla, Friday by SWIM
ming the Blackwater river. but was
captured by the sheriff of the adjOin
ing county. Had he been captured by
the mob he would have been burned
to death. .....A young Italian woman
shot her husband to death Saturday
after he had demanded that she sup
port him at the cost of her honor
Bandits held up a Northern Pacific
train at Trent, Wash, Friday night
and made their escape. 1t Is not
known how much they secured.