Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-02-04

= sylvania will soon have to accept re-
ductIon Of ten cents a ton in wages OF
accept a shut down Of the mines on ac-
count of slackness OF business. A
bill has been introduced in the United
States senate authorizing an approprta-
tion Of $350,0 for government. exhi-
bit at the international exhibit to be
held at Toxic, Japan, in 1912. The
number Of insane persons confined In
asylums in New York state Is 29,O93
The net increase last year was 791....
Standard Oil company has completed
a deal by which it secures monopoly
of the South African oil business. .....
The Louisville and Nashville railroad
has announced that it will not accept
liquor shipments for points in Georgia
and Alabama, on account Of the prohi-
bition laws of those states. The At
lantic fleet entered the straits Of Magel-
Ian early Saturday morning. .Gener-
al Miguel Divila has been elected pres
ident of Honduras without opposition.
There was no disorder during the cleo
tion, but much excitement. 80. During
the month of January, 15,432 steerage
passengers arrived in New York from
European ports, and 5S,767 steerage
passengers sailed from New York to
foreign countries. j. Ogden Armour
is alleged to have cleared more than
$l,OOO,O 900 in his operations on the bear
side OF the Chicago wheat pit In the
campaign which practically ended last
Friday. May wheat closed Friday at
96ac. .. The railroads Of the country
have been penalized more than $1,000
900 since January /, 1906, for failure to
arrive and depart at stations on sched-
ule time with the mails. 80. .Revolu-
tionists have taken charge Of the city
of Tabriz, on the Russo-Persian from
tier. Tabriz is a city of 100000 popu-
ander. mine superintendent near
Trinidad, Col, was badly damaged by
dynamite Friday, in an effort to kill
Alexander and his family. ..... The
resumption Of work by many of the
steel and iron mills of Pennsylvania, is
giving work to thousands Of men at
good wages. ..... A negro named Rufus
Simpson. has caused lots of trouble
his being afflicted with smallpox and
having hired himself out as butler,
a hotel room, a private school and a
chapter house. and fifty people have
been vaccinated, all on account of Simp-
SON Five men from Luzerne cOun-
", Pa, have been sentenced to the
Eastern Pennsylvania penitentiary for
fifteen months because of election
frauds in that state last November. -.
Two persons were drowned near Beaver
Falls. Pa, Friday, by breaking through
the ice while skating. .... Eight men
were injured, three seriously, by an
explosion of primers in the arsenal at
Frankford, Pa, Friday. .... New York
to Animals is under charges Of graft
preferred by Mayor Mcclellan. .......
Six persons were killed and a number
were injured as the result of a lorna
do which swept over the vicinity of
Wesson, Miss, Friday. ..... The ORR
entail bank, a state institution of New
York city, with capital of $75O,000,
and deposits of about S11,OOO,OOO,
failed to open it's doors last Friday
morning after run of several days.
.... The city council of Detroit,
Mich, last week offered work to as
many as $500 unemployed men If
they would work. Only about doz-
en- men applied for work" Mrs
Annie Ackerly Of New York city, was
on Friday convicted of arson and SEN
fenced to fourteen years imprison-
ment in Auburn prison. She set fire
to her apartments in the hopes OF
collecting $1,000 fire insurance. .....
Andrew Johnson, the negro who kill
ed an Atlanta, Ga, policeman few
weeks ago has been refused a new
trial by the Georgia supreme cOur
and will be again sentenced to hang
..... The annual convention of the
Southern Cotton Growers associa-
ton will be held at Dallas, Tex, Feb
ruary 19 and 20. Fifteen build
ings valued at $4,000, were practi'
cally destroyed by fire at Morehead
City, y. c., Thursday night by what
is supposed to have been an incendi.
ary fire.. Ten cadets of the Vir-
ginia Polytechnic Institute at Roam
oke, were expelled last week for TAX
ing part in hazing other students.
1t is rumOred in New York that the
Hartman and Gould interests will
purchase the SeabOard Air Line rail
way. Five persons are dead and
five are seriously injured as the re.
suit of a fire which destroyed q
rooming house in Kansas City, Mo.
Saturday morning. William Rog'
ers, white, is to be hanged in Savan,
nah. Ga, on February IL, for wife
murder. Rev. VIM. G. Whitaker
is under arrest at Springfield. O.. or
the charge of using the mails fol
fraudulent purposes. He operated
largely around Asheville, y. c., las
wear. New York clearing house
banks held $4O,526,725 more than the
required 25 per cent reserve last Sat
urday. negro, Will Steele, was
frozen to death at Salisbury, n. c., Sat
urday night. .... The plant Of the At
lantic Compress company at Americus
Ca. and between 1000 and $500 bale:
of cotton were destroyed by fire Sunday
night. The loss was about $150,OOO..
u,ba nIant Of the Plain Dealer Publish.
ing company, Cleveland, O., was de-
stroyed by fire Sunday. The loss wa:
5000. 900. ... .Buchannon, w. Va, wa:
visited by 100000 fire Sunday morn,