Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-03-03
TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 1908.
MERE-MENTlON.

EN- liNbN.
Ned w. Barton, a patent examiner
Of Washington, Henry f. Everdins,
n lawyer of Philadelphia, and John
\. Heany an inventor of York, Pa,
have been indicted by the grand jury
of Washington. ID. c., on charges of
destroying records in the patent Of
flee. .. The commission appointed
10 investigate the collapse of the cam
lilcver bridge at Quebec across the
st. Lawrence river. has concluded its
work and its report will be in effect
that the collapse of the structure was
due to a defect in the design. .SeV-
ell Terr0ristS were sentenced IL death
and three TO life Imprisonment by q
military court at the fortress of StS.
Peter and Paul. at st. Petersburg, last
Friday. The condemned men had
made attemptes upon lives of Russian
officials the week before. John
Jones, supposed to be the Jim Blud-
soc" of the poem by the late John
Hay, died az Dakota, Mimi, last
week. The house committee on
postoffices and postroads will report
soon a bill carrying appropriations
amounting to $22O,765,292, which is
$S,674,199 more than last year.....
Chancellor of the Exchequer Asquith
of Great Britain, has introduced a Dill
in the house of commons by which
it is hoped TO reduce the number ot
saloons throughout England by 3O,-
OOO. Twenty years will be required
to accomplish the reduction should
the bill become a law. .....By
decision of the Missouri supreme
court, which declares that the court
of general sessions of that state Is
unconstitutional, more than 100 pris-
oners are left in the position of never
having been legally tried. The
womans enfranchisement bill passed
the British house Of commons FIJI
day afternoon by vote Of 2Il 10 ~.
...E. H. Humphries, was arrested at
Harrisburg, Pa, Friday on a charge
of attempting TO brihe juror on the
capitol grating cases now in progress
in that city. .... Thomas A. Edlson'
the inventor, has undergone several
operations during the past few days
in a New York hospital, on account
of a diseased ear. His condition Is
critical, but it is believed that he Will
recover. From forty to ninety
lives were lost by mine explosion
near Sabinas, Mexico. last Thursday.
Most Of the victims were MeXlcans
and Japanese. An Italian, con-
victed in a New York court last Fri
day of murder in the second degree,
which carries a sentence of twenty
years in prison, pleaded with the
judge to sentence him to the electric
chair rather than sentence him to
term of years in prison. An at
tempt was made to take the life OIL
President Alcorta of Argentina at
Buenos Ayres on Friday with dyna-
mite bomb, which failed to explode
When the Atlantic fleet reaches
san Francisco about the middle OF
April, forty-fve American fighting
ships will be anchored inside the COL
den Gate. .... Robert J. Clifford, a
private Of the fifteenth United States
cavalry, died at Santa Clara, CUBA,
Thursday of yellow fever. go. The
railroads Of the country estimate that
their expenses will be increased SlO,-
100000 by the operation of the Fed
eral law limiting the working hours
of telegraph operators to nine hours
a day, which goes into effect tomor-
row.. An attempt TO assassnate
the shah Of Persia was made on Fri
day. The shah, expecting trouble,
sent the royal closed automobile
ahead Of himself and the assassins
blew this to pieces with a bomb.
Three outriders we're killed and twen-
ty-five spectators were injured. The
Texas Brewers association in seS-
sion at Galveston last week, pledged
$1,000, 900 to fight prohibition in Mis-
sissippi, Alabama and Georgia. ..... "A
mother and three children were burn
ed to death in a boarding house fire
at Pittsburg, Pa, early Saturday
morning. Two men were killed
and fifteen injured by the wreck of
a log train on a tram road near Moul-
trie, Ga, Friday. The train fell
through a trestle.. Five men
were fatally hurt, seven others were
badly burned and twelve iiremen
were overcome by sulphur fumes in
a Brooklyn fire Saturday. Rotten
hose, which would not stand the water
pressure, proved useless and 100000
fire damage resulted. Judge j.
9. Pritchard of the United States dis
trict court will open the prohibition
campaign in North Carolina at Will
mington on March 18th. Evelyn
Thaw denies all stories 10 the effect
that the Thaw family is trying |"