Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-02-28
MERE.M ENTION.

William Rogers, white, was hanged
at Savannah, Ca, Tuesday, for the.
murder Of his wife about year ago.
He had no provocation for the deed ex-
cept that his wife had left home with
out his permission. .....A solid carload
Of postal cards has recently been ship
ped from Mumford. Me-, to Augusta,
Ga. for distribution from that city,.
Lee Hart killed his mother-in-law,
mortally wounded his father-in-law,
seriously wounded his bride Of six
months, and then committed suicide by
Jumping in front Of train at Lamar,
Mo-, Tuesday. His wife had refused
to leave her parents when Hart came
for her. 80. Father Heinrichs, a Cath
olic priest, was assassinated in his
church at Denver, Col, Sunday morn
ing while celebrating mass. Catholic
priests throughout the country believe
that there is an organized band Of as
sassins plotting against them. Pres
ident Stewart McDiaried Of the Green
Mountain, Ia, savings bank, has been
placed under arrest on q charge Of IL
legal banking. ..... The Jersey tun-
mel, under the Hudson river, connect
ing New York and New Jersey was
formally opened last Tuesday. The
tunnel cost $4,000, ,000...--. Ernest
L. Dashiell, former insurance agent
and real estate broker, pleaded guilty
to charges Of forgery at Norfolk, Va,
Tuesday and was sentenced to four
years imprisonment. .....A firm OF
New Orleans contractors has written
TO Mayor Mcclellan Of New York
that it can give employment to 1000
laborers of New York's unemployed
and that New Orleans needs 10000
laborers. Frank S. T"ackard, for
twelve years treasurer f Warren
county, n. Y, has confessed to q de-
falcation of $4,000, his stealings be-
ing from the private bank Of Emerson
& Co., of Warrensburg. .... British
naval estimates for 190S-09 total
E32,319, 500. Eight members OF
the Black Hand society have been
indicted by the grand jury of Balti-
more on charges Of conspiring to muir
der. go. Two young men at Doyles-
town, Pa, have been sentenced to
pay fines of $50 each and serve six
months in prison for taking and ex-
posing nude photographs. The
secretary Of the treasury has called
on the repositories Of United States
funds for the return Of $35, 100000
public deposits by March 23......
Hiram Percy Maxim Of Hartford.
Conn.,, son of Sir Hiram Maxim, in
ventor of the machine gun, has in
vented an attachment which will
make all sizes of guns noiseless when
fired. Reports from Winchester,
KY, are to the effect that the tobacco
trust has practically decided to pay
the farmers price for all the hurley
tobacco of the crops of 1906 and 1907.
thus ending the tobacco war. ......
]. Frank Afferbach, president of the
Perksie schools board pleaded guilty
Tuesday at Doylestown, Pa, to forg-
ing $14 900 of school bonds and was
sentenced to serve eleven years in pris-
on at hard labor. .... The New York
to Paris automobile racers reached
Chicago Tuesday night, the American
car in the lead. ...... .Ah Foon, the
richest Chinaman of New York, was
assaulted Tuesday while
he slept. II is believed to be the be-
ginning of another Tung war.......
Charles NJ. Sanford, Brooklyn law
yer, was shot down by a woman In
his office Tuesday The woman de-
clared that the shooting was IAN act
Of Cod. The Seaboard Air Line
announces that on April 1st
it will sell block tickets to parties Of
ten or more on any of it's lines at the
rate of two cents mile for each
passenger. This rate Is open to theat-
rical companies, baseball clubs and
private parties..- Louis r. Pow
ell, aged 103 years, died in Atlanta,
Ga, Wednesday morning. 49,. The At
lantic fleet will leave Callao Peru, for