Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-03-24
TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1908
MERE MENTION.

MERE E-MENTlON.
Congressman Charles +. Littlefield
of Maine, has resigned his seat in
congress to look after his law practice,
which he says was rapidly going TO
pieces. .... William James Bryan,
United States senator from Florida,
died in Washington last Sunday OF ty-
phoid fever. He was appointed to the
senate to succeed the late stephen X.
Mallory and had been Il senator only
seventy three days. He was in the 33d
year of his age. IA review or the
marine casualties on the coast OF New
England and British America during
the past fall and winter, puts the totaG
number of lives lost at $50. About
275 of these were fishermen. ..". In
formation from Hayti Is to the ERECT
that comparative quiet mas been re-
stored 1t is feared that Prince
Manuel. now king of Portugal, will
lose his arm as the result of a wound
received at the time his father was
murdered. Governor Curtis Guild
of Massachusetts is critically i'll. He
is suffering from grip and rheuma-
tism. Reports of Saturday and Sun
day were to the effect that the snow
fall had not injured the fruit crop. ....
D. D. Edwards, noted Kentucky des-
perado, killed w. D. Davis in Chatta-
swore on the witness stand that he
had killed seventeen men,. ABE
Hummel, the disbarred lawyer who
has Just completed term of imprls-
Onment for shady practices in the
Dodge-Morse divorce case, sailed last
Friday for Europe under the name OF
Herman Newberger.. r..... Inc news
papers have it that the Duke OF AoruZ-
ii, a cousin of King Victor Emanuei
Of Italy, is to marry a daughter OF
Senator ElkinS Of West Virginia. ."".
Announcement has been made of an
other presidential message directed at
predatory wealth. 1t is promised that
It will be a scorcher.. .... The depart
ment of agriculture has announced the
annual quarantine against the inter-
state shipment of cattle from the
fourteen states in which Texas FEVER
exists. North Carolina, South Caro-
lima Georgia and Florida are includ-
ed Judge Kohlsaat of the United
States district court. has decided that
Oberlin NJ. Carter. former captain IN
the u. :. army is entitled to $45.OOO
of the $500. 600 attached by the gov
ernment as having been obtained
through Green & Gaynor by fraud.
A man named Perry has been arrest.
ed at savannah, Ga, on i Sharse %
having sent a BLACK Hand" letter TO
Judge Emory Speer. The letter in
formed the judge that he is to die on
April b.. The Rhode Island DEM
ocratic convention refused to instruct
its delegates to the national conVen-
ton. An Enoch Arden case is re-
ported from Augusta. Frederick
Pfaff disappeared from Augusta in
1890, and his wife afterward read a
statement to the effect that he had
been killed in a railroad accident.
Some years later she remarked and
was living happily with her second
husband until a few days ago when
she learned that her first husband IS
living She Immediately applied for
a divorce and procured it, the
Central of Georgia Power company
has been organized with capital OF
$4,000, 900 for the purpose of devel- |
oping central Georgia water powers.
..... The price of granulated sugar
has advanced considerably during the
paSt few days, said to be due TO |
shortage of the raw material. ......
The New York Central railroad last
week placed orders for 1876 locomo-
tives and $4,000 tons of steel rails. .
Ankodine ZtesO is under arrest in
Chicago on the charge of having at.
tempted to assassinate the cZar OF
Russia in st. Petersburg a month ago. |
...J. Edward Burke, alias j. II.
ROeck, a jewelry buyer, wanted IN
New York for the theft of $165,OOO
worth of diamonds, pearls and other
precious stones, was arrested In san
Francisco last Thursday. The
congressional committee on appropri-
ations has refused to sanction an ap-
preparation of $1,O0O,000 for the relief
Of survivors of the General Slocum
disaster. The governor of New
Jersey has approved bill which pro-
hibits the sale or gift Of cigarettes,
cigarette paper or tobacco to any one
under IS years of age. Nine. Anna
Gould. divorced wife of Count Boni de
Castellane of Paris, arrived in New
children. She says she has had
plenty of married life. Ten san
Francisco policemen were arrested
last week for grating from dive
keepers and women in the slums..
w. L. Wilson. supreme secretary of
the United Home Protector fraternity
Of Port Huron, Mich. last week con- |
fessed that he was $4,000 short in |
his cash. He speculated in mining
stock. Howard L. Greenwault, a |
young lawyer of Reading. Pa. was last
week committed to jail for nine
months for embezzling $2S from a
widow. .One-fifth of the street car
conductors of Trenton, y. j., were dis |
charged last week because OF their
StealingS. The three men VINO re- |
Gently robbed the RancO Minero at
Chihuahua, Mexico, of $4,000 have
been arrested, and the money recoV- |
cred. ...A Milwaukee, Wis. man
last Thursday night shot his wife to
death and then wounded himself twice |
to avert suspicion from himself, claim
ing the murder to be the work or
burglars. He loved another woman.
.... Bishop Chas. H. Fowler OF the
Methodist Episcopal church. died in |
New York on Friday. Three men
were killed and one was seriously in
jured in a railroad collision near
WOodsville, n. H., Friday. Two
men. charged with murder. were
lynched by a mob at Perry. Fla, last
Friday. The Mexican government
has granted an eXtraditiOn for VIM. +.
Walker. who is wanted in Connecticut
for embeZZlement. .... .SeVenty-two |
horses were burned to death in chi |
cagO last Friday in a livery stable fire. |
The senate Of Maryland has re-
fused to order a local option bill from
the temperance committee, thus Vir-
tually killing the measure. A YES
sci loaded with 1000 tons of dvna-
mite. and several hundred tons Of nj
troglycern left Philadelphia on Fri
day for Colon. Five men and two
women counterfeiterS were captured
by secret service officers in Chicago
last week.