Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-03-10
MERE. M ENTIoN.

General Stoessel began his ten year
sentence at the fortress Of SITS. Peter
and Paul near st. Petersburg on Sat
urday. The general is In bad health.
1t is hardly probable that the cZar will
commute the sentence Of the general.
-. AT Clark, La, 500 people are home
less as a result Of fire on Friday
which destroyed large lumber plant
together with a large number Of cot
tages. The property loss was 100000.
..... August w. Machen, convicted in
1905 Of grating charges In the post:
Office department at Washington, has
been released from prison at Mound
vile, w. Va, after serving three years
and one month. -. Twelve persons
were killed and forty-three injured In
a head-on collision at Samara, Russia,
Saturday .....Noda Soy, a brewing
town of northern Japan, was visited by
a fire last week which destroyed 81
500,0 900 worth of property. -. .Ellwood
T. Hance, former postmaster and vice
president of the Union Trust company
of Detroit, Mich, committed suicide
Friday on account of financial troubles.
"A petition containing 10000 names
will be presented to President RoOse-
welt asking for the pardon Of Captain
Won Schaik of the ill-fated steamer
General Slocum. "A baby hippopota-
mus was born in the Central Park zoo,
New York, Friday. 1t weighed sixty
pounds. >. United States Senator Red
field Proctor was buried at Proctor, VT,
last Friday afternoon. 49,. The army
pay bill, providing for increases in the
pay Of officers Of from 5 to rs per cent,
and an average increase Of 40 per cent
in the pay Of enlisted men, passed the
United States senate on Friday......
Mrs. Virginia Campbell Thompson, for
thirteen years postmaster Of Louisville,
KY, died in Washington last Friday.
Charles M. Schwab has purchased the
famous Potosi mine in the Santa Eula-
liza district Of Mexico. The purchase
price is reported to have been $8,000,-
900. The Western Maryland Rail-
road company has been placed In the
hands Of a receiver. The state or
Mississippi will install a cotton COM
pressing plant at the state convict
farm. 1t is also probable that cotton
bagging plant will be installed. The
recent German campaign in East Africa
Is alleged to have caused the death OF
$4,000 natives by starvation. Mrs.
Mary Harris Armor Of Georgia, known
as the Joan of Arc Of Temperance"
opened a local option campaign In Phil
adelphia last week. .... The Westing-
house Air Brake plant at Pittsburg has
suspended WOTK IOT 0n llQcIlulIe IlIuo
on account of lack Of business. The
total annual business of the Deutsche
Bank Of Berlin last year amounted to
$22,S75 100000. The total deposits are
$119, 700 900. "A woman, 76 years old,
has recently begun suit for divorce
from her eighth husband. The coal
mines throughout Indiana are being
worked to their fullest capacity in anti
cipation of a miners strike about April
1st. In a Pennsylvania railroad
tunnel at Baltimore on Saturday, four
men lost their lives and nine were so
badly overcome that they had to be
sent to a hospital. The cause Of the
disaster was escaping gas. Heavy
falls of rain have caused much
damage to railroad and other prop
erty throughout northern Indiana
during the past few days. .... Suit
has been filed against the Southern
railway at Asheville, N. c., by the in
terstate commerce commission for vio-
lations of the safety appliance laws.
The Atlantic Coast Line railway has
satisfactorily settled it's differences as
to wages with its operating employees.
-. . Bloodhounds assisted in the arrest
of two negroes suspected Of murder at
Hattiesburg, Miss, on Friday. :. New
York banks held $39,135,975 in excess
of the 25 per cent reserve rule on Sat
urday last