Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-11-20
MERE-M ENTION.

Burglars entered the vault OF the
postoffice at South Bend, Ind, early
Sunday morning, using an electric
drill, and got away with $4,000 worth
Of stamps. .... Rev. Endicott Peabody,
principal of Groton school, New Ha-
ven, Conn, say, 1T is the vicious idle
rich from whom we have to fear more
than any other element in our modern
life. Thousands of Italian and
other European laborers who returned
to the old country during the season of
business depression, are now returning
to the United States. The cranber-
I ry crop this year is estimated at 1,O0O,-
| 900 bushels. The Thanksgiving con-
sumption Is estimated at 100000 BUSH
Pearl Good has been sentenced at Wa
co, Texas, to twenty-five years in pris-
on for the murder of her husband on
June 25, last. The authorities Of
Sawtelle, Cal, where an old soldiers
| home Is located, are trying to prevent
the sale of Jamaica ginger to the vet
Grams on the ground tnat it is killing
the old men by the score. "A herd Of
torty-one cattle, infected with aphthous
fever was KlIIed Monuay at Danvllle,
ia, by state health omcers. Many
otner animals have the fever. A num-
Der of cnmdren Of the vicinity have
peen infected with the disease and ia
tai results are PROBABLE. .... .Ihe ex-
|
l4t at Butter, IA, few days ago, start
ed the now of an oil Well tnat Is pro-
uucing SUI barreis or Oil a day. .Ac-
| cUruIus TO omCIaI ngures $o2,iGb,I6O
were wagered on morse Races in r rance
| last year, from wnlcn the government
| Received a revenue or $2,o3l, l,O6i. .Pe-
ter van VnssIngen was arrested, con-
fessed to having obtained mvre tnan
$4,000 through forged notes and
| deeus, was indicted and sentenced to
an lndetermlnate term Of one to four
teen years, ali in four hours time IN
Chicago, on monday. .Cnas. Z. Taft,
| brother Of President-elect VIM. H.
TAFT, is said to have spent $1,000,OOO in
| has efforts to elect his brother. Chas.
| p. Taft Is candidate for Mr.. Forakers
| seat IN the United StaIes senate. .....
| he contributions to the national Dem
| cient to meet the expenses, Chairman
Mack has announced that he would
personally make good the deficiency.
......Dr Neff Of Philadelphia, said
Monday, that not less than 5000 babies
died in Philadelphia within a year as
a direct result of unsanitary and filthy
supplies. -. Lieutenant Edward Gott-
lieb, of United States army, Is being
tried by court martial in New York, on
charges of serious financial Irregular
ties. go. The United States govern
ment Is suing the sugar trust to recov-
er the sum Of $3,624,121 forfeitures and
backshipments or ;ar r. ring the
past six years. q. Charles Wright was
convicted at Rockhill, Md, Monday Of
selling two half pints Of liquor and
sentenced to pay fine Of $500 or serve
three years In the penitentiary. .......
Six men were instantly killed in a coal
mine shaft at the Ellsworth mine in
Washington county, Pa, Monday, by
the fall Of the elevator cage a dis
! tance of 2S5 feet. ....... .Thos. Taggart
has Withdrawn from the race for Unit
ed States senator from Indiana, for
business reasons. Abraham Ruef
has asked for a change Of venue in his
bribery cases at San Francisco, on the
ground that he believes his own life and
those Of his counsel to be in danger.
-. Less than $4,000 persons contri-
buted to the national Republican cam
paign fund. The total amount sub
scribed has not been announced.
Mr. VIM. ]. Bryan, said at San Anto-
nio, Tex, Tuesday: IF the party so
demands and conditions arise to war
rant 1t, l will be a candidate for the
presidency four years hence. VIM.
Randolph Hearst was a visitor at the
White House in Washington on Mon
day night. -. Herman Billek, convict
ed Of numbering a Chicago family of
five members, Is to be hanged Decem-
Der II, after taking an appeal through
all the courts up TO the United States
supreme court. .....A 400-mile auto
vannah, Ca, on Thanksgiving Day.
over a 25 mile track. About twenty
five cars are entered for the event. -.
A British steamer Is loading 100000
gallons of oil at Philadelphia, for ship
ment to Calcutta, India. Mrs. Sophie
Harrison Eastman was married at
Asheville, N. c., Tuesday night to Ba-
ker E. Edwards of Norfolk, va.
Eight convicts were burned to death
in coal mine at Pratt City, Ala,
Monday night, by a fire which was
started by convicts in an effort to
make their escape. =. DIR. w. S. Greg
ory, the dentist on trial at Roanoke,
Va, on a charge of assaulting Miss
Theodore U. Irvine, while she was a
patient and under the influence Of eth
er, has been declared mot guilty..
The Lackawanna Railroad company
will spend $25,0OO,OO0 for the improve
ment and extension of its lines be-
tween New York and Chicago during
the next twelve months. . Plans have
been approved for the construction Of
a monster dry dock by the United
States government at Pearl harbor
Hawaiian Islands. The dock is to be
LOO feet long, 10 feet wide and 35
feet in depth, and will cost approx
mately $4,000, 900. ...... The famous
Lookout Inn on the crest of Lookout
Mountain, near Chattanooga, Tenn,
was destroyed by fire Tuesday. The
loss is about $150,000.