Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-02-14
MERE-MENTION.

Plans have been completed for the
erection Of a $20,000,000 union terminal
station at San Francisco. The
United States forestry department has
given orders for the Staying OF about
$1,000 wild horses that roam the gov
ernment reserves in Nevada. Rob
ert Womack, discoverer Of the Cripple
Creek. Col, gold field, is living at Colo
RADIO Springs, an object Of cnarity. He
sold a claim for $500 that has since
produced $15,000.000 in gold. The
estate of the late Marshall Field has
recently paid the city Of Chicago ST.
0OO,00 back taxes on unlisted secur-
tiles that came to light after Mr.
Fields demise. The Oklahoma house
has passed bill which will require all
hotels to provide beds with nine-foot
sheets, and that no cup, dish, vessel
etc., that has a visible crack can be
used in serving food =. More than 75,-
600 hogs were received at Chicago
stockyards on Monday. The receipts
were the largest on record for single
day. .... Henry Thaxter, a negro, was
hanged at Birmingham, Ala, Monday,
for murder. He made an address from
the scaffold, saying, Friends, am here
once again." and ending with, Thank
ing you for your attention" -. ~ .The
First National bank OF Brooklyn, which
closed October 25, was reopened Tor
business this week. A New York
Judge a few days ago fined seventy
four absent talesmen 800 each for lax
attendance after being summoned for
Jury duty. Sixteen locomotives, made
in the United States and shipped to the
Manchurian railway, were lost on the
coast of China few days ago by the
sinking Of the vessel carrying them....
Thousands Of iron and steel workers
are returning to work throughout I'LL
nois, Ohio and Pennsylvania as busi-
ness prospects grow brighter. .Chas.
w. Morse, a former banker and Ice
maenate of New York, is under indict-
ment by the Federal grand Jury for
grand larceny Mrs. Dora Nc
Donald, on trial in Chicago since jan
uary 20 for the murder Of Webster
Guerrin was acquitted by a jury Tues
day night. The Tooth anniver-
sary of the successful burning Of an
thracite coal in a crate, was celebrated
at Wilkesbarre, Pa, Tuesday. -. The
mayor of Milton, Del, says he Will
resign the job because the town has
become so quiet and peaceful under
fees to pay for his time. Judge
Kennesaw Lands, in Chicago on
Tuesday, refused to appoint receiver
in a bankruptcy case involving two
liquor saloons. The judge said, Il re-
fuse to go in the liquor business, and,
therefore, will appoint no receiver.
will enjoin anyone from moving away
or selling the assets. "....... Russia
will spend $6,000,000, in the next three
years in building a fortress at Vlad-
iyostok .Leavenworth, Kan, af-
ter a bitter campaign lasting several
weeks has voted to adopt commits
sion form of government instead or
by mayor and council. :. Mrs. Violet
Goold, sentenced to death by the
guillotine at Monte Carlo, France, for
murder, has had her sentence COM
muted to life imprisonment. She and
her husband murdered a woman NAM
ed Levin, for the latter's jewels. =. The
attorney generals Of Texas, Kansas
and Missouri, have decided to CO.
operate in a warfare on violaters OF
antitrust laws of those states. AN
S-year-old negro girl was killed In
Atlanta, Wednesday morning by a
live telephone wire. .... Six automo-
biles made the start in the New York
to Paris race from New York on We'd
nesday morning. Squire Mut-
chin, a negro, who claimed to be 1873
years old, died at Troy, Ala, Tuesday.
Mutchun claimed to be a native of
South Carolina. More than 5000
merchants from the south and west
landed in New York, Tuesday. to buy
spring goods. 1t is estimated that the
visiting merchants will buy close to
500, ,000,00 worth Of goods.