Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-06-16
MERE-MENTlON,

MERE-MENTlON.
Governor Hughes Of New York,
won out in his fight against race track
gambling in the legislature Of that
state last week. The anti-gambling
bill was passed in the senate by vote
Of 26 to 25. Two men were arrest
ed in Pittsburg on Friday with $75,-
They were representatives of English
jewelry houses in South America
cities. .....A wealthy New York man
has put up money sufficient to make
strong defense for Sarah Koten, the
the Russian nurse, who shot DR.. NJ.
w. Auspitz in that city recently. .....
Admiral RObley d. Evans says that as
far as ii goes the American navy Is
the equal of any in the world, but
thar we should have at least twenty
four battleships on each coast. .....
The department Of agriculture esti-
mates that the value Of crops in the
United States for the year 1908 will be
close to $4,000, 200, ,000.... Manila
is raising a fund Of 100000 with
which to entertain the Atlantic fleet
when 1t reaches there. .... willard
H. Meyers, former head bookkeeper
Of the National Safe Deposit company
Of Washington, was sentenced to two
years i'm prison for embezzlement, last
week. :. Mrs. Abraham Gotofsky of
Troy Hills, \. j., last week gave birth
to four girl babies. She is the mother
of thirty children, fourteen Of whom
are living. ... Ten mounted robbers
raided the customs house at Tifiis,
Russia, Friday. Three robbers were
killed, one wounded and six got away
with $4,000 rOubles. .... There has
been a very decided rise in the price
Of dressed beef in the western cities
during the past few days. .....It Is
reported from London that a steel
corporation is in process of forming
that will include English, Russian,
German and American companies
that will have a capital Of $375,0OO,-
600. $500. .Chas. B. Mccormick, a
lawyer and politician Of Watertown,
n. Y, committed suicide Friday by
jumping from the roof Of a building
100 feet to the ground. He had been
arrested on a charge Of conspiring
with his brother, who was a claim
agent, to rob the New York Central.
.... Senator Gore, the blind sena-
tor from Oklahoma will have opposi-
tion to his reelection to the United
States senate. ..... Guilty as charged,
is the verdict of a Federal jury rem
dered at Rochester, n. Y, on Friday
in a case against the Standard Oil
company for violation Of interstate
commerce laws. The Standard COM
pany is liable to fine of 100000.
$50. Rudolph Ploetz, aged 79, a
wealthy widower, and Miss Ursula
Hunges, aged 80 years, eloped to Mad
ison, Wis, Friday and were married.
The sons of the groom opposed the
match. -. Secretary Cortelyou last
week received an envelope postmark-
ed Jersey City, N. j., containing $S'-
600, which the sender said was for the
conscience fund" Of the treasury de-
partment, and made a total of $4O,-
600 which the sender had returned to
the department to make good his
stealings from the government many
years ago. Former Police Inspec-
tor Whitaker Of New Orleans was on
Friday sentenced to three months
Imprisonment and a fine Of 500 for
an attack on Editor Leveque in that
city several months ago. Ten Sc
cret service men have been detailed
to accompany President Roosevelt to
his summer home at Oyster Bay, L. l.,
and remain there while the president
Is away from Washington. .... In
the presence of a dozen terrorized
witnesses two thugs murdered a man
on 27th street, New York, Friday,
robbed his person Of all valuables and
kicked the mans body into the gutter.
"A silver service designed by
Paul Revere, the Revolutionary hero,
is to be presented to the battleship
Colorado by the citizens of that state.
Preliminary work has been
commenced on the fourth suspension
bridge to connect New York city and
Brooklyn. -. The steamship Lusi-
tania arrived off Sandy Hook, N. Y,
Friday morning, beating the best for
mer record over the long course from
Southampton to Sandy Hook by seven
minutes. More than 100000 peo-
pie took part in the diamond jubilee
celebration of Emperor Francis Jo-
seph of Austria-Hungary at Vienna
on Friday. Two lives were lost
and a property loss Of more than
S25O,0O0 is the result of fire in the
packing house of Morris and company
at Kansas City, Kan, Friday. The
fire was caused by explosions of am
monia tanks. The Delaware and
Hudson railroad company Is prepar-
ing to float an issue of $2O,OOO,OOO 4
per cent mortgage bonds. .... The
British admiralty is drawing plans
for a battleship that is to be larger
than the Dreadnaught, and will cost
about $12,OO0,000. The new ship is
to be equipped with gas engines, thus
doing away with all smoke. ..... The
Georgia Populists convention will be
held in Atlanta on July 9th, at
which time Thos. E. Watson will be
officially notified Of his nomination
for the presidency by the national
Populist party. .... General Peter A.
McGlashan, a veteran of the civil war
and a Confederate brigadier general,
was drowned near Savannah, Satur-
day afternoon while surf bathing. he
was a native Of Scotland and was II
years Of age. ..... Frank Dickson. a
negro barber, was shot to death in
Atlanta. Ga, Saturday by Baiif Hit
chins over an alleged debt of seventy
five cents. -. Fifteen persons were
more or less injured in a wreck on the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad
at Clinton, Mo-, Saturday night. ....
Isadore Sonthimer, coroner of Atlantic
N. j., was drowned at Atlantic
Il l..