Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-05-19
TUESDAY, MAY 1e, 1908.

been running twenty-nine hours a
week for some time. Train rob-
bers got away with $4,000 from
Santa Fe train near East Las Vegas
Texas. Thursday. .... The Reserve
Trust company of Cleveland, o., rail-
ed last week with liabilities of S2,-
700, 900. .Advices from La Guayra.
Venezuela, are To the erect that the
bubOnic plague epidemic in that city
is causing deaths at the average rate
of sixty-five a day. IA call has been
issued for the first national good
roads congress to meet in Chicago
on June Is and at Denver on July 6.
... Raymond. the Washington cor
respondent of the Chicago Tribune,
figures it out that VIM. H. Taft will
be nominated on the first ballot Of
the Chicago convention, and will
have ninety-One votes more than
the 49l necessary to nominate.
$4,000. The sisal growers of Yucca
tan, Mexico, have combined against
the International Harvester company
TO force the price Of sisal, which is
made into binder twine, from five to
ten cents pound. ...... CaSSOporiS,
Mich, has a murder trial on in which
five widows are involved. A widow
named Metsker shot a man named
Morgan, thus making Mrs. Morgan
widow; the shooting occurred at the
home of a widow named Greene, and
a fourth widow, Mrs. Berhner, was
present at the time of the shooting.
The fifth, a Miss Greene, a friend OF
Morgan, describes herself in letters
to him as his soul widow" Merry
widow" hats combs, and letters are
all concerned in the trial. ..."T The
Illinois Central and the Yazoo and
Mississippi Valley railroads have
been indicted by the Federal grand
jury at New Orleans on the charge
of rebating. -Four persons were
killed by a tornado near Crowley,
La, Friday. 49,. Senator Julius Cae-
sar Burrows of Michigan, will be
temporary chairman OF the Kepup-
lican national convention at Chicago
on June 166th. .... The Southern
Railway company has recently float
ed an issue of $15,000,000 per cent
three-year notes. :. The II. G. Flick
Coke company has issued an order
which prohibits its employees drink
ing liquor either on or off duty. ......
The total losses by fire in the United
States during 1907 amounted to
$l99;3S3,300. Lord Aberdeen, the
lord lieutenant and Augustine Bir-
rell. chief secretary of Ireland, are
charged by a Dublin barrister with
the theft Of jewels belonging to the re-
gala of the Order of st. Patrick,
kept at Dublin castle and valued at
$3.50. 900. Tom Longboat, a cele-
brated Indian sprinter, in ten
mile race against a horse at Hagers-
Vile, Cal, Friday, came out victo-
rious, making the distance in 548
minutes. Eugene V. Debs was on
Friday nominated by the Socialist
party in session at Chicago, for the
presidency. A bomb was explod-
ed on a street car track at Calcutta,
India, Friday and four persons were
injured The British government
fears an Indian uprising. go. The
Central railroad of Georgia, has or
dered 3.1S6 fruit cars to move the
Georgia peach crop. John Geiger,
convicted cashier of the Canton Ma
tional bank of Baltimore, out under
$4,000 bail, pending an apepal,
committed suicide Thursday night.
when he learned the decision of the
lower court had been confirmed.