Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-03-31
E-MENTlON.

Governor Broward of Florida, has
appointed William Hall Milton to be
United States Senator to fill out the
uneXpired term of Senator Mallory,
vice William James Bryan, deceased,
after three months service. Govern
or Johnson Of Minnesota has made
specific declaration to the erect that
while he is not candidate Tor the
Democratic presidential nomination he
will accept It If rendered to him. .....
The Iowa and Indiana Democratic con-
ventions on last Friday endorsed VIM.
j. Bryan as the Democratic nominee
for the presidency. 80. There was d
destructive earthquake In Mexico last
Friday, three or more cities being more
or less damaged and a hundred or more
lives lost 49,. The Rhode Island Re-
publican convention declined to IN
struct delegates to the national con-
vention. The Japanese ambassador
fears to attend the big reception that
Is to be given to the battleship fleet
on it's arrival at San Francisco, on
account of the danger Of assassination.
80. Three indictments each contain
ing three counts, against Patrick CAL
houn, president of the United Railway;
Threw l.. Ford. general counsel for the
same corporation, and Abraham Ruef,
former political boss of San Francisco,
recently voted by the grand jury last
Friday, were filed with Presiding Judge
Steurtevant on Saturday 1t Is now
reported from Berlin that Emperor
Williams objection to David Jayne Hill
as ambassador from the United States
has been withdrawn. Indeed it is de-
MED that there has ever been any OBJ
lection. Congress Is considering
the question Of establishing grades of
cotton. .. Judge Pritchard has author
lied the receivers Of the Seaboard Air
Line railroad to pay $4,000 interest
on first mortgage bonds due April l.
The grand National Steeple Chase
race came off at Liverpool last Fri
day and for the first time in the his
tory of the event, the race was
won by an American bred horse. The
distance was four miles, 856 yards
and was won by Rubio by ten lengths.
The purse was $4,000 and the odds
against Rubio were 66 to l..... TWO
men were killed and several injured In
a head on collision between an express
and freight train on the Erie railroad
at Belvidere, N. Y, Friday. ..... The
total stealings Of John Young and
Henry Rieber, who were arrested last
week at Pittsburg, on the charge or
embezzling funds from the Farmers
Deposit National bank, are placed at
81, lc SldlC VI ISAoo iieaS
indicted the Pullman Car company on
1000 counts for violation Of the state
health laws. .... Safe crackers opened
the safe in the postoffice at Suwanee,
Tenn, early Friday morning and got
away with $1,000. Mime Anna Gould
de Castellane, divorced, Is engaged to
marry Prince Helie de Sagan. Mack
Young, a farmer Of Hartwell, Ga, was
seriously shot with an "unloaded" gun
last Friday. The gun was fired by a
young woman. .Myer K. Blmoerg,
known throughout the United States
as "Bim the Button Man." died in
New York last week. Bimberg made
an immense fortune selling political
campaign buttons. Home l.. Castle,
Prohibition candidate for governor OF
Pennsylvania in 1906, is held under
$2,50O bond in Philadelphia on a
charge of defrauding stockholders of
a title and trust company. The low
er house Of the New York legislature
last week passed the anti-race track
gambling bill, recommended by Gov
ernor Hughes. BY a vote of the
Virginia. legislature, Judge ]. w. G.
Blackstone Of that state, is to be re-
moved from office on charges Of gross
immortality. ...... The Knickerbockerl
Trust company, one of the biggest New
York banks that went down lii the
panic of last fall, reopened for business
last week. The deposits on the day OF
reopening totaled nearly $1,5OO,OOO.
DR.. Elizabeth Cook young lady med
ical student, was bitten on the arm
by a Gila monster one Of the most
poisonous members Of the lizard fam
ily, in Philadelphia last week, while
engaged in biological investigation.
The young lady will recover. go. The
la hnil6in0 a
large number of submarine torpedo
boats, which it is said will have ca
pacity of crossing the Pacific ocean at
a greater speed than the Atlantic
fleet "A Chicago woman has sent
5000 to the New York collector OF GUS
toms with the explanation that her
conscience hurt her. because she had
slipped some dutiable goods through the
custom house.. The liquor inter-
ests Of Chicago have employed forty
lecturers to combat the forces OF local
option in Illinois. Two thousand IL
linois cities, towns, villages and town
ships will vote on local option on April
7th. Engineer w. W. Rippey and
Conductor c.. M. Oakley Of the South
ern railway, were acquitted at Raj
eigh, n. c., Saturday Of the charge OF
manslaughter in connection with a
head-on collision in which three lives
were lost. ......C. r.. Niles, a banker VI
Finlay, o., dropped dead on an Allan
tic Coast Line train near Jacksonville,
Fla Saturday evening. The South
ern railway will soon put on a passen-
ger rate of two cents per mile for par
ties of ten and over. 80. United States
soldiers have been sent to the Tread
we'll mines in Alaska, on account or
riotous acts by striking miners. 49,.
Senator Penrose, who has been criti-
cally i'll for several days at his nome
in Philadelphia, is reported as being
slightly improved. -. Henry Farman,
the inventor Of flying machine, was
thrown 35 feet from his machine
in Paris on Friday while going at the
rate Of sixty miles an hour. Farman
was only slightly hurt. .... Last Fri
day, March o. was the warmest March
9th on record in Philadelphia and
New York. -. Several blocks OF 32nd
street, New York, have settled a foot
or more during the past few days on
account of the Pennsylvania railway
tunnel which runs under the street.
Major General A. w. Greedy, U.
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