Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-01-14
MERE-MENTION,

The United States house of repre-
ify the penal laws. Atlanta, Savan-
nah and other cities are calling in their
clearinghouse certificates. ... Congress
has adopted a resolution calling for all
Brownson. .. "A Washington dispatch
credits President Roosevelt with pre-
dieting that the Republican national
convention will nominate Taft on the
court has upheld the constitutionality
of the state law requiring liquor sa-
looms to close at o'clock. :. The gov
ernment of Japan has about completed
an agreement with the United States,
whereby it is to restrict the emigration
of japanese laborers to Hawaii. .....
The temperature at Saranac Lake, N
Y, Friday, was 20 degrees below zero.
VIM. F. Walker, defaulting cash.
ier of the New Britain, Conn, Savings
bank who was arrested last month In
Mexico, will fight eXtradition. .... "A
New York rumOr to the effect that the
Southern railway is to be placed in the
hands of q receiver, is positively denied
by J. ?. Morgan & Co. 1t IS now
estimated that the cost of digging the
Panama canal will be about $21O,0OO,-
900, instead Of the original estimate or
$40, 900, 900. .....A deficit Of $74O,OOO
has been discovered in the bank of Yu-
catan at Merida Three Of the banks
officers are charged with the theft. ....
The cruiser North Carolina built at
Newport News, Va, failed to make the
contract speed in its official trials last
week -Four firemen lost their lives
and number Of others were seriously
hurt by being caught under falling
floors of a re-gutted New York office
building Friday night. -. Twenty per-
sons were killed and forty injured in a
railroad wreck near Machachi, Ecua-
dor Friday. ...... Five passengers were
killed in a head-On- collision on the
Alabama and Mississippi railroad near
Vinegar Bend, Ala, Friday. ......lt is
estimated that $20,000,000 have been
deposited in New York Savings banks
since January 1St. zee. .Dazed by grief
at the loss of his wife, Edwin Collier
Of Ravena, o., took his blind son to her
grave. killed him and attempted to
commit suicide. New York saloon
keepers charge that the Anti-SaloOn
league is supported by multi million
aires and used by them for political
purposes. Two negroes were lYnched
near Chester, Ga, last Friday as the
result of a murderOuS assault on
white farmer and his wife. .... Three
persons were killed and a number Sc
riously injured in a wreck on the
Southern Pacific railway at Aurora
Cal. Friday. The torpedo boat tto-
tilla arrived at Pernambuco, Brazil
Friday. two days behind schedule time.
E. b. Gibson, a whisky agent
was fined $1,000 at Athens, Ga, last
week. for violation of the prohibition
laws. .... The next annual session Of
the International Cotton Federation
will convene in Paris on June 1st. -.
Four persons are dead as the result of
the wreck Of a Southern railway Flor
ida tourist train at Hiram, Ga, last
Tuesday. .... Between l.2OO and l,oO0
cigar makers are on strike at Ha-
Vana The American Printing COM
pany on last Thursday cut the price of
print cloths from 6 to cents yard.
Paul Bowers. aged II years, shot
"a negro burglar to death at AlbertOn,
Pa. early Friday morning, after the
burglar had knocked him down. .... A
large alligator was found under the
floor occupied by an Atlanta, Ga, bar
room. last Friday. ......A Berlin inNen-
tor SAYS he will construct an alrShlp.
capable of carrying 100 passengers.
The Philadelphia board of education is
up against the proposition Of providing
separate schools for white and negro
children 1t is alleged that Repub-
lican senator's are divided on the Aid
rich currency bill. The western sena-