Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-01-21
MERE M ENTIoN.

Dr. F. n. Daken was acquitted aI
Sulphur. Okla, Saturday Of the charge
OF murder, on a plea of the unwr1tteh
law.. Four children skaters were
drowned at Coral, Ind. Saturday, by
the breaking of the ice while skating.
The county Jail at Statesville, Ga,
was DESTROYED by an incendiary hre
Friday night, and two prisoners were
burned to death. .,. Judge Alton b.
Parker has been retained as senior
counsel for the American Federation Oh
Labor. 49,. A Scotland Yard detective
last week arrested two men at Merced,
Cal, on a charge of stealing 100000
worth of jewelry, after a chase around
the world. A large eagle was shot
in Richmond county, n. c., one day last
week as it was flying away with an IN
fant. During the financial furry,
the New York clearinghouse put VA
100000 worth of certificates into clrcu-
lation The Pennsylvania Railroad
company estimates that its January re-
ceipts this year will be $4,000,OOO less
than for the same month last year. IL
estimates that it has $4,000 idle freight
cars at various points. $500 An ONO
crank offers to take Harry ThaWs place
for $4,000, ,00O.. Three hundreu lnou-
SAND DOSnelS VI wheat "SlS NSSNASS ~
by fire at KenOra, Ontario, Friday. 80.
The Southern railway will extend it's
two and a half cent passenger rate 10
Tennessee. Mrs. Herbert n. Sears,
q prominent and wealthy woman OF
Boston, committed suicide in New YORK
last Friday, by jumping from WIN
dow on the 18th floor Of the Hotel 81.
Regis. Edward S. Whitaker, po-
lice Inspector made murderous as
Sault on J. NJ. Leveque, editor OF the
New Orleans World, in that city IhurS-
day night. .....A woman attlfed IN
mans clothing was among the victims
of the BoyerstOwn, Pa. theatre fre OF
last week. ......A destructive fire at
BOSWELL, Pa, was checked one day last
week by snOwballs being used in lieu
Of water. The Japanese budget as
laid before the diet last week gives
the estimated receipts at $355,52O'OOO,
and the estimated disbursements at
500. $4,000. About $53,000,00O are ap-
propriated for the use on the army ana
navy. The discount rate OF the
Bank of England was reduced 10 nNe
per cent last week. This is taken as
evidence that the bank officials conslo-
er the American financial stringency
at an end .ReVOlutioniStS last week
took charge of several Haytien towns
and a battle with government forces Is
expected at any time. 49,. Former sen
ator Call has filed a protest against the
sea ting Of Senator William j. Bryan OF
Florida. Call will base his contest on
the negro exclusion act OF Florlda. .''.
The government of China is making
vigorous effort to break up the opium
smoking habit among civil ana mliIalE
officers .A new pOStOthce bulldlnS
to cost $3,500,000 is to be erected IN
~, vorl, citv The unidentified
dead of the BoyerstOwn, Pa, holocaust,
will be buried in one grave, which Will
he S5X2S feet The total NUMBER OF
dead will be not less than 19O.. An
oil we'll recently opened in the Cauca-
sus of Russia, is rated at l2O,OOO par
rels of crude oil per day. The BerKe-
lv Knitting mills of Norfolk, Va, nave
been placed in the hands of receiver;
Geo. l.. Billings Baltimore hotel
proprietor. and his wife, were killed IN
an automobile accident in that city
Saturday morning. The internation-
al Harvester company has been hned
S16 600 by a Kansas court for violation
of the states antitrust laws. ......F For
ty miners made a miraculous escape
from a Pennsylvania coal mine last
week after an explosion which started
q fire. They traversed seven miles un-
derground and finally reached open ar
Their faces were blackened and clothes
badly torn and scorched as result OF
their experience. .... -Four girls were
killed, nine seriously injured ana
score of others more or less injured as
the result of a knitting mill fire at
Scranton, Pa, Friday. The torpedo
boat fiotilla joined the battleships at
Rio de Janeiro, on Friday last. The
Chinese government has placed an ur-
gent order in France for large num-
her Of rapid fire guns. "A. NJ. Cham
berlain. Bradford, Pa, man. last FIJI
day shot his wife to death and then
committed suicide, because his dinner
wasn't ready on time. w Wheat crops
in the southwest are being considerably
damaged by ravages of the Hessian fly.
Fire in the Masonic Temple at
baltimore. caused $250,000 damage on
Friday. The loss is covered by inSur-
ance.