Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-05-26
MERE-MENTlON.

A Newfield, n. J., barber, cleaning
out a cistern last week, found S5O'oOO
in bonds of the West Jersey railway,
which were issued forty-two years
ago. Mrs. Sarah Morasch, Kan
sas City, Kan, woman, was convicted
last week of numbering a 4-year-old
child with poison, and was sentenced
to life imprisonment. a wide
spread hydrophobia scare developed
i'm New York last week, following the
death of VIM. H. Marsh, who died as
the Pasteur institute physician said he
would. A large number of people
are undergoing treatment at the insti-
tute. Sixty persons were killed and
100 or more hurt in a collision on
Belgium railroad last Thursday. ....
The seaport town Santa Marta, CO.
lombia was destroyed by cyclone
last week. E. The wages of 25,OOO or
more cotton mill operatives of New
England were reduced 1874 per cent
by an agreement which became effec-
tive yesterday. Governor Hughes
to conduct a bucketshOp in New York
state. The jury in the case of Abe
Reuff, tried on a charge OF bribery,
reported Friday, after being out for
ty-eight hours. that it was unable to
agree on a verdict and mistrial was
ordered =. The New York state de-
partment of agriculture has realized
$2.OOO,OO0 during the past year from
the sale of what are termed "aban-
doned farms" in that state. ......"A
number of Fall River, Mass, cotton
mills went on full time yesterday on
the strength of better demand and
better prices for cotton goods. ....
Disbursements by the large industrial,
railroad and public utilities corpora
tions will turn loose about $75,OOO,-
600 in interest and dividends i'm New
York next month. The Standard Oil
company will pay out $S.S5O,4I1 in
dividends. . The steamship Lusita-
MIA clipped three hours and thirty
eight minutes from its best trans-At-
lantic record last week. making the
distance from Queenstown to Sandy
Hook in days, 20 hours and 22 min
utes. This is the best time on record.
Six workmen were killed and
forty-two seriously injured in an eX-
plosion which wrecked a sugar retin-
cry in Paris, Friday. $500. Governor
John Sparks of Nevada, known as
Honest John Sparks" died at Reno,
New, Friday, aged 67 years. .... The
government has filed suit in the Fed
eral circuit court at Boston against
the New York, New Haven and Hart
ford railroad to prevent that corpora
ton from getting control of the Bos-
ton and Maine railroad, charging the
existence of a combination in restraint
of trade, under the Sherman anti
trust law. .... Twenty Russian peas
ants were hanged at Kherson, Russia,
last Friday, for having taken part in
recent agrarian disorders. They were
condemned by court martial. l.......
Charles Barry, John Gundlach and j.
r. Shippey, New York note brokers,
are under arrest in that city on
charges of grand larceny, having
swindled merchants out of more than
S100O 1000. About $4,000 coal min
ers, who have been on u strike in
Kansas. Oklahoma, Missouri and Ar
kansas since March 1St, will resume
work this week under old conditions
.A bronze statue of the late Sen
nnVailp1
Cleveland, Ohio, Saturday. .lncom'
plete figures show that the present
session Of congress has broken all pre-
vious appropriation figures by $780,
100000. The total appropriations are
close TO $l,O2O, 900. An airshiI
CARRYING sixteen people, collapsed al
Oakland, Cal, Saturday, when 3OL
feet above the earth. All of the Occu-
pants were more OF less seriously ill.,
iured. but none were killed. Tel
persons were killed at Chestnut Hill, {
Philadelphia suburb, sunday night by
q double rear-end collision Of trolley
cars ON a steep hill. The first car broke
its brake chain and plunged down tht
hill colliding with another car, ant
these two then ran into Il third Cal
ahead. and three cars were smashed t
splinter. e.. The body Of General Geo
Clinton, the first governor of New Yorl
state. which Office he held for twenty
one wears. and twice vice president o
the United States, who died in 1872
will be removed this week from Wash
ington. d. c., to Kingston, y. y.
...hnrD II uin he interred next SATURDAY,