Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-01-24
MERE MENTION,


$50, ,000, 900 in semi-annual interests on
savings deposits last Monday. The
nude body OF a headless woman was
found floating in Lake Michigan few
days ago and the Chicago police have
a murder mystery on their hands. .....
The nineteenth annual convention of
the United Mine Workers was opened
at indianapolis, Ind, Tuesday, The
membership Of the union Is 3OO,O96.
Two young women were fined $300.76
each in the police court Of Atlanta,
Tuesday, for contempt Of court. go.
The North Carolina general assembly
convened In extra session Tuesday
morning 1t Is likely that state pro-
hibition measure will be adopted. -.
Federal authorities on Tue sday seized
a carload Of coffee at Nashville, Tenn,
which had been shipped from New Or
leans. 1t Is charged that the coffee Is
adulterated.. The Hamilton bank
Of New York, which suspended several
weeks ago, was again opened this week.
The Pennsylvania supreme court
has rendered :; decision in which 1t
holds that the two-cent fare law re-
Gently enacted In that state Is uncon-
stitutional. -. According to Wiltzius's
Catholic directory, there are 1887, ,426
Catholics in the United States. The to-
tai number under the American flag Is
22,01s,87S. .......T The marriage Of Miss
Gladys Vanderbilt to Count Laszlo
szechenyi of Hungary, will take place
in New York next Monday. .. Mrs.
Reagan chapter, United Daughters OF
the Confederacy, of Los Angeles, Cal,
Is suing Mrs. Lula Fonts, second vice
president Of the chapter, for $4,000
damages for SANDER. The quarrel
started about the presidency Of the
chapter. Betsy Bonnette, believed
to be the last of the Ottawa tribe Of In
dians, died few days ago at Sandus-
ky, O., at the age Of 95 years. Five
horses, valued at $1,000 were asphyxia-
ted by illuminating gas in q New York
stable last Sunday night. One of the
horses had broken the gas meter by
kick. which filled the stable with the
gas. 80. The steamship Headley arriv-
ed In New York harbor Monday from
the Orient with a cargo valued at 3d.
100000. There were $4,000 cases Of tea
In the cargo, valued at 100000. .....
Frank Claiborne shot Mrs. Sidney
Jones to death at Cambria, Va, Tues
day afternoon. Jealousy was the cause.
John Stokes, desperate negro
convict, was shot to death by chain=
gang guard near Asheyille, N. c., Tues
day. The negro had made a break for
liberty and was hit with q rifle bullet
at distance OF 400 yards. Gov
ernor Vardaman,s last official act, on
retiring from the governorship OF Mis-
sissippi, was the issuance Of pardons
to twenty-six convicts. =. The Marconi
wireless telegraph service across the
Atlantic ocean will be opened to gen.
eral commercial business about Feb
ruary 1st. The Reading railway will
cut off go Of Its Philadelphia and sub
urban trains next Sunday. Lack OF
business Is given as the cause. THE :
Atlantic fleet left Rio Janeiro on We'd
nesday. Its next stop will be at Punta
Arenas. San Francisco Is preparing
to issue $35,000,000 Of bonds to rebuild
public works destroyed by the earth
quake. The Model License league
is holding it's first annual convention In
Louisville, Ky..... General Bell, chief
of staff of the United States army, in
his annual report to congress urges the
re- establishment Of the army canteen.
..... Mrs. Mary Pancaria, a Philadel-
phia woman, invoked the "unwritten
law" Tuesday and shot the man whom
she claims insnlted her. 80. The Cap
itol State bank Of Boise, Ida, with de-
posits of $1,000, 900 closed its doors
Tuesday. go. An Interstate commerce
commission bulletin Just issued shows
that during the three months ending
September 80, there were 2I,724 persons
injured and 1888 killed on United
States railroads. -. After q long con-
test the Williamsport, Pa, board OF
education has decided to establish sep
arate schools for whites and negroes.
..... James Bigheart, former chief OF
the Usage Indians, and said to be the
richest Indian in the United States, died
at Big Heart, OKLA, Tuesday, aged 81
years. ... 1t Is predicted In New York
that the Thaw trial will be completed
by next Saturday night. 80. Nine per-
sons were killed and forty injured by a
rear end collision on an italian railway
near Milan, last Monday night. Geo.
Peabody Wetmore has been reelected
to the United States senate from Rhode
Island. The legislature of that state
has been dead-locked for a year or