Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-12-15
MERE-M EnTION.

Inc executive COIllIllillSC VI liiS ANeh
tional Democratic League Of Clubs held
a meeting in Washington Thursday
night and adopted Get together, bury
all differences" as the slogan for the
1912 campaign. E. .Chas. Davis, charged
with the killing of DR.. Fred Rustin at
Omaha, Neb., on September 2, has
peen acquitted by the trial jury. The
state tried to prove that Davis was
hired by Rustin to kill him. 80. .Abra-
nam Reuf, charged with bribery, was
convicted at San Francisco last Thurs
day, after trial lasting 1O6 days. Reuf
IS liable to a maximum sentence OF
fourteen years. .... The father Of Mrs
Silvey Speer Thomas, the wife Of Rus
sell ]. Thomas of Atlanta, has begun
a suit to annul the marriage of his
daughter, on the ground that 1t was
the result of intimidation on the part
Of the groom. Thomas is suing the
parents of his bride for 100000 dam
ages for the alienation Of his wife's af-
fections. .... The wholesale price OF
eggs in New York Is 40 cents a dozen
and the supply is short at that price
The United States Steel corpora
ton last week bought control of sew
eral of the largest pressed steel car fac
tories in the United States. The deal
involved many millions of dollars. .....
A Uniontown, Pa, man offers reward
of $4,000 for the arrest Of his wife and
a man with whom she eloped. The
woman's mother committed suicide
when she learned Of her daughters act
"A Berlin cable is authority Tor
the statement that a woman recently
collapsed on the streets Of Munich as
the result of the heaviness of her hat,
which was three feet in diameter. She
recovered after her hat was removed
..... John Pierpont Morgan, the New
York financier, said at Chicago ban
quet Thursday night, ANY man who Is
a bear on the future of this country
will go broke" ........ with president
Castro away from Venezuela, 1t is
probable that a revolution will sweep
that country that will make the re-
turn Of the dictator" at least undesir-
able from his point of view. .... .Ac-
cording to the comptroller Of the cur
rency there were on September %,
1908, 6,853 national banks In the United
states, with total paid-up capital OF
s921,463,173; circulating notes out
standing of $613,726,l55, and individ-
ual deposits of S4,54S,135, 165. The ag-
gregate resources of the banks on the
above date were $9,027, ,260,4S4.... "A
New Jersey man last week filed petit
ton in bankruptcy and gave his liabil-
tiles at $2l32,500, and his assets as
500. Pittsburg, Pa, politicians
are charging that large sums OF money
gotten from the National Republican
committee by Senator Penrose for use
in Pennsylvania to save Repuollcan
congressman, was largely used to elect
members to the state legislature who
could be counted on to vote for the
o1a Of United
States senate. Rev. G. F. Tuttle
was shot to death near Washington
Ga, Friday by young man named
Bailey, in a quLrrel over a negro Ia
borer, who had left Mr.. Tuttle to work
for Bailey. 80. Will Latura, a charac-
ter with a record of two previous MUIR
ders, walked into a negro saloon at
Memphis, Tenn, Friday night and
without provocation shot four negroes
to death and seriously wounded three
others. Latura was arrested. .Reu-
ben Barbee, a wealthy citizen of Dur
ham, n. c., is under arrest for the MUIR
der of Engineer Fred Holt about two
weeks ago. Holt was shot to death In
his cab while his train was running
and his death was not discovered for
some time. DR.. A. S. Pitts of Ha-
Zlehurst, Ala, a physician, was shot
to death by DR.. Thomas Birdsong, a
dentist, Thursday evening. Birdsong
is a brother-in law of Mrs. Angie Bird
song, who killed a doctor at Monticello
Miss, about two years ago. Pat
Grove, the former outlaw and especial
ly noted as the kidnapper of the Gu
dahy boy a few years ago, has re-
formed and is now an evangelist. ....
David Kappreer and his son, Abraham
F. Kappreer are in Jail at Columbus,
O., on charges of completely in misap-
propriating funds of the defunct Ma
tional bank at Dresden, o.. Senator
H, c.. Hansborough of North Dakota, is
critically i'll in a hospital at Minnea-
polls, MINI. "A special train, With
J. Pierpont Morgan as its only passen-
ger, made the run from Chicago to New
York on Friday in II hours and l min
ute Mrs. Ambrose E. Calhoun of
Columbus, Ca. on Thursday gave birth
to triplets. Mr.. Calhoun is 50 years
Of age and the father Of twenty-fi five
children. .Adrien Lebuef, cashier
for q dry goods concern at Oakland,
Cal, Is under arrest and has confessed
the embezzlement of $4,000 of the
firms money-another victim OF buck
ct shops and poolrooms. .... Otto Z.
Black has been pardoned by Governor
Smith of Georgia, after serving three
years for horse stealing, crime OF
which he was not guilty. .... The New
York Times has published figures which
shows that 7,659.6SS votes were cast fer
Mr. Taft in the recent election, and g.
45O,690 for Mr. Bryan. The Mac
farland- Moran team won the six day
bicycle race pulled off at Madison
Square Garden, New York last week,
which ended Saturday night. They
travelled 2737 miles and one lap, which
is three miles and one lap better than
tho record