Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-05-29
FRIDAY, MAY 2e, 1908.
MERE-MENTION.

A New York judge last week sem
fenced a drug clerk of that city to
pay a fine of $1,000 and serve year
in prison for selling cocaine without
a prescription. .... Chester, Pa. was
the scene of a number of serious RIOTS
Tuesday, as the result Of clashes be-
tween striking street car men and
strike breakers. ..... More than 5,OOO
people are homeless and more than
100 lives were lost as the result of the
food in Trinity river at Dallas, Tex.
last Saturday Three thugs made
an unsuccessful attempt to steal mon
ey packages containing $4,000 from
bank messengers on the streets of
New York Monday. One of the thugs
was captured. The general assem-
bly of the Southern Presbyterian
church. will meet in Savannah, Ga,
in 1909. ......J. P. Morgan & Co., New
York, announce the recent sale of S16,-
100000 of 4 per cent, Chicago, Bur-
lingtOn and Quincy railroad bonds.
The subscriptions were three times
greater than the issue. ...... .Philadel-
phia exports for the first three months
of 1908 were $1O,OOO,OOO greater than
for the same period Of 1907, and this in
the face of a panic" The street
car strike in Cleveland, O., came TO
an end Monday with defeat for the
strikers The house committee on
library has reported favorably a bill
carrying an appropriation of $l,OO0'OOO
to erect a monument to Abraham Lin
coin in Washington. The II. +.
Brigham shoe factory, at Westboro'
Mass, employing several hundred
hands, resumed operations Monday
after being closed for about four
months. ...It is reported from New
York that Frank A. Munsey, the mag
aZine publisher, is making an ehort
10 buy the New York Tribune. New
floods in Trinity river, Texas, Monday
and Tuesday, added much to the dan
ger and distress at Forth Worth ana
Dallas. The loss i'm Texas will total
several millions and it is estimated
that the losses in Oklahoma will to-
tai $4,000, ,OOO.. New York city's
daily consumption of milk is 1,4SS,-
$50 gallons A dispatch from New
York says that twelve Cinnamon
smuggled across the Mexican border
at Ell Paso, Texas, in boxes, to be re-
leased after reaching some interior
city were suffocated, as result OF
miscarriage of plans. James A
Patten, the Chicago bull, forced
Nav corn up to 7Ss cents bushel on
the Chicago board of trade Tuesday
Governor Fort of New Jersey
has appointed a commission of five TO
suggest a law for the taxation OF
banks, trust companies and savings
banks. =. The battleship Michigan
the "Dreadnaught" of the American
navy. was launched at Camden, y. j.,
Tuesday. The Michigan's main bat
terv will include eight 12-inch guns.
James Brimmingstall is under
arrest at DOwagic, Michigan, on
charges of murder. He admits SIX
murders, and is believed to be guilty
of ten others. Up to Tuesday there
had been nleu SlNly-elSul HoIlNSS Va
contests against the seating of Taft
delegates to the Republican national
convention. 1t is rumored that Sec
retary of War Taft will resign from
the presidents cabinet on July 1.....
Corporal Cooper and Private Grinnel
of the Eleventh cavalry, are on trial
at Havana, Cuba, on the charge OF
numbering a Cuban fisherman"
VIM. c. Mcconnell was shot to death |
at Mineral Wells, Tex, Tuesday, by
Jeffers Pierson. Mcconnell was attor- |
ney for Mrs. PiersOn in divorce pro-
ceedings. The steamer Boston ran
down the fishing schooner Fame, on
the fishing grounds off Yarmouth,
Nova Scotia on Tuesday night and
fifteen men were drowned. .Presi-
dent Fallieres of France, is making a
social visit to King Edward of Eng
land. The body Of Francis NJ.
Bloom of the Sunbury Trust company
of Sunbury, Pa, who defaulted few
weeks ago in the sum of $4,000, was
fished from the Susquehanna river
Tuesday. ;. James F. Creighton shot
his wife and two step-daughters to
death at Owen Sound. Ont, Tuesday
night and attempted suicide. He Will
recover.