Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-09-29
MERE M MENTION.

w. A. Lewis has been indicted by a
grand jury at Smithfield, w. Va, on
a charge of embezZling and misappro-
priating $55,OO0 Of the funds Of the
Smithfield bank. .......T. Coleman
du Pont, head Of the powder trust, and
chairman Of the national Republican
speakers committee, has been deposed
from the position on account Of crit
icisms made by Mr.. Bryan. ......A 10
months old child was drowned near
Springfield, Mo, Thursday by falling
In a bucket Of milk. 49,. The Jewish
New Year (Rosh Hashana) 1868 began
last Friday evening, and was appro-
priately celebrated by orthodox Jews
throughout the world. .... Owing to
the prevalence of cholera in Manila, II
Is probable that the men Of the Allan
tic fleet will be denied shore leaves
when the fleet reaches that city.
The senate Of Indiana has passed To-
cal option measure by vote Of 80 to
II, the Republican members joining the
Prohibitionists in passing the bill.
The court Of appeals OF Kentucky las
handed down a decision confirming a
another, where local option prohibition
the Adams Express company carrying
liquor from one county In the state to
another where local option prohibition
.
nors claims that the Democrats will
carry New York by at least 100000
majority. .... The 1908 wheat crop of
the state Of Washington is estimated
at 27,000,000 bushels. ..... Various cor
poratiOns doing business in New York
owe the city 1922 100000 in back taxes.
Jas. G.. woodward, a printer, was
elected Friday for third time as may
or of Atlanta, Ga. -. Sixty white pu-
pills of a public school at Topeka, Kan,
went on a strike Thursday because of
the presence Of negro children in the
school. 49,. During binding snow
storm a train on the Northern Pacific,
ran into a freight train at Young's
Point Mont, early Friday morning and
twenty five persons were killed and a
score or more seriously injured. ......
A strike of 10000 employees Of the In
ternational Paper company, at Glens
Falls, y. Y, has been brought to close
after a struggle Of two months. The
men returned to work yesterday. .....
Alexander Townsend, thlrty-fiv years
old. has been sentenced to prison by a
court at Uniontown, Pa, for term of
forty-five years for criminal assaults
on little girls. 49,. Four members OF
the brokerage firm of A. 0. Brown &
Co., which failed for a large amount
about a month ago, were arrested in
New York on Friday on charges Of
grand larceny. ...... Owing to the
drought throughout Pennsylvania and
Maryland and the drying up of the
rivers and creeks, all kinds of fish are
dying by thousands. .... Herbert r.
Clarke, a rich resident Of Rhineback,
n. Y, was arrested Friday on charges
Of burglary and arson. =. Farmers and
automobile owners of New Jersey,
have Joined in a movement for the i'm
provement of the public roads Of the
state. 49,. Liquor is the main issue in
the political fight in the state Of Ohio,
with the Democrats lined up solidly on
the side Of the saloon men. .....Up to
last week the. total Of contributions to
the national Republican campaign fund
was but 100000. In the former cam
paigns Of the past sixteen years, 1t has
never been less than $4,000, 900. E. The
body Of Mrs. Elsie Bragg, widow Of the
late Major General Braxton Bragg, G.
s. A., was buried in the Confederate
cemetery at Mobile, Ala, Saturday. -.
Twenty persons were killed and nine
teen were hurt as the result Of a collt-
sion between elevated cars in Berlin on
Saturday... The Norwegian steamer
VOlund was wrecked by the Fall Riv-
er line steamer Commonwealth, In
Long Island sound early Saturday
morning. Several of the crew Of the
Volund are believed to have been lost.