Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-11-24
MERE.MENTlON.

Two PENNSYLVANIA hunters. While
digging a rabbit from hole last
Thursday, unearthed a pot in which
was $4,000 in gold. .... Walter Zeller
is years old. Give Wheeler, 90 years
old. and Herbert Grigg, 10 years old,
are under arrest at Vineland. \. j.,
on the charge of numbering William
Read. an eccentric miser. and the
grandfather of Zeller. The boys got
only SIS out of the job. They were
students of dime novels and wanted
To go west to fight Indians. .... .Phila-
delphia last week sold a bond issue of
$3.500.000 at premium of Sl23,-
500. The total subscriptions for the
issue amounted to $34, 4,455, ,0O0.. "A
Washington judge last week rendered
an opinion to the effect that mans
wife has a perfect right to go through
his pockets while he is asleep. .......
Thos. F. Wall who embezzled $4,000
from the keystone Hotel Supply COM
pany of Philadelphia and disappeared
ron October 2S, gave himself up last
week after having made an agreement
with detectives to be allowed to have
an hour with his wife before being
locked up.......A Summerdale, Pa,
man, Geo. :. Wolff, recently deceased,
left will, reading in part as follows,
referring to a man in another part of
queathed: "To buy for himself q good
stout rope with which to hang him
self. and thus rid mankind Of one of
the most infamous ScOundrels that
ever roamed this broad land or dwelt
outside a penitentiary." Cover
nor-elect Ashton &. Shallenberger of
Nebraska, had his left leg broken on
Thursday night while being initiated
as a Mystic Shriner.. An Akron,
O., woman had her husband arrested
Friday because he tied a cord around
her tongue to keep her from talking
80 much. ....... Mrs. Sophia Harrison
Eastman Edwards and her husband,
Baker Edwards, have been acquitted
in Justices court at Asheville, y. c.,
of tn, charge preferred by EcholS Nc
Bee, o. having stayed in her Buck
Shoals residence unaccOmpanied be-
fore their marriage. ..... Sherman
Thomas, aged q years, son of prom
nent citizen of CedartOwn, Ga, is un-
der arrest at Rome, Ga, on the
charge of wrecking a Southern freight
train by which two men were killed.
John JuhaZ, one of the entrants
i'm the Savannah automobile races on
Thanksgiving Day, was perhaps fatal
y injured Saturday in practice run
over the course. NJ. DerOSe, the me-
was the result of an effort to avoid
dog on the track and the car ran into
a tree. .....T The campaign expenses
of Till ReiSS Democratic nominee for
congress in the Twenty-eighth Penn
SylVania district, was ten cents.
Samuel GOmperS was on Saturday re-
elected to the presidency of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor by the con-
ventiOn in session at Denver, Col. .....
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case containing $4,000 worth of dia-
monds and gems from an Omaha
Neb., hotel on Friday. He was later
arrested and the valuables recovered.
Fifty Chinese banks closed last week
as the result Of Il financial panic fol-
lowing the death Of the dOWager emp
reSS. ... Charles Hartlove, alias
CharleSS MagnesS, the enlisted musi-
clan of the United States navy, who
deserted sometime ago and married
the daughter of the late Senator Cor
man, has been convicted, dishonora-
bly, discharged and sentenced to serve
one year in prison. The Indus
trial Bank of Japan last Thursday
sold $10.OO0.O00 of per cent bonds
in London. The issue was sold in
two hours and was OversubScribed five
times. The fOrgcrieS of Peter
Van VliSSingen, the convicted fOrger
Of Chicago, are now said 10 total ST.
1000, and still growing. -. Jacob
f.. Gemelich, Republican, was elected
lieutenant governor of Missouri, over
his Democratic opponent, by only two
votes i'm the recent election. -. Thir-
uy-fOur members of the junior class at
Il veterinary college at Grand Rapids,
Mich. left the class room Friday when
two negro students entered the room
to resume their studies. .... Richard
Croker, formerly political boss of New
York city, for several years a resident
of Ireland. is on a visit of several
months to America More than