Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-02-18
INTERVENTION.

at mOSSVllle, MISS, fTludy IuOIIlllS. 80.
The Courier Printing company's plant
OF Buffalo, N. Y, was destroyed by fire
Friday morning. This with other prop
erty totaled fire loss Of 100000.
Two men were killed and score or
more Injured in a rear-end collision
on the B. & O., road near Chester, Pa,
Friday afternoon, a New York res
taurant keeper is furnishing free hot
day. -, Construction work Is being.
resumed on the South and Western
railroad over the entire route. -. The
Coney Island Carnival company is
stranded at Eastman, Ga,..... Rev.
Frederick F, Reese, D. D., rector OF
Christ Church. Nashville, Tenn, has
Deen elected bishop Of the Episcopal
diocese of Georgia, Two negroes,
father and son, were hanged at Carroll
ton, Ca, Friday for the murder Of Jeth-
ro Jones, farmer, from whom they
were trying to steal bale Of cotton....
Last week the state constabulary OF
pennsylvania raided the homes Of large
numbers Of foreigners in the vicinity OF
Shamokin, and collected large quaint
eleven laundries of Cincinnati, have
been fined $50 each for combining to
raise prices and the combine has been
dissolved. .... Serious riots broke out
at Bombay, India, last week in conpec-
ton with the celebration Of Muharran,
the first month Of the Mahammedan
year. Five persons were killed, and
forty or more were injured. ..... ..Jesse
Watson, a motor car driver. has been
sentenced to one year in prison and q
hne of $1,000 for causing the death Of
a child IN an automobile accident at
st. Louis, Mo-, few weeks ago.
United States troops have been ordered
to Fairbanks, Alaska, on account Of Sc
rious labor troubles caused by striking
miners. go. The senate Of Mississippi
has passed statutory prohibition law.
by a vote Of 36 to 4. The law becomes
effective December 31..... The exports
of agricultural products from the
United States to foreign countries dur
ing the month of January amounted to
the largest amount on rec
ord for a single month. During the
652,7O2,1S6 pounds Of cotton. val
ued at $76,687,50S were exported. COM
pared with 658,728.s18 pounds valued
at $69,990,636 for the same month last
year. 49,. More than 1000 workmen In
the vicinity Of Wheeling, w. Va, idle
since November and December, have
work within the past week, -,
Jack Grant, a former lightweight pugi-
list, jumped from the Brooklyn bridge
last week, while insane, in an attempt
to commit suicide, He was little the
worse for the experience and says be
may try 1t again. 49,. Suit has been
filed against the American Express
company by postofice inspector at
charging the express COM
pany with carrying first-class mail
without being properly stamped, which
is a violation Of the postal laws. ,,
William Marshall negro, wanted at
st. Joseph, Mo-. for. murder, for whom
a reward of $1,000 Is offered, has been
at Tacoma, Wash. ..... Elk
Governor Voorhees, Of New Jersey, has
been indicted on charges Of perjury by
a New York grand jury in connection
partment Of New York, made by
Voorhees, while president Of the defunct
Life Insurance company. ,..,,
The Southern railway officials are fig
uring on a reduction Of the wages of
its entire force OF $4,000 en-
ployees about ten per cent. The ex-
press companies Of the United States
hold railroad stocks to the amount OF
2,21S,950, and railway bonds to the
amount Of $12,324, 900. .,.- Jim Smith,
a notorious moonshiner Of Smithtown,
n. c., and wanted for the murder Of
Deputy Collector Hendricks a few
months ago, was arrested at Madison
n. c., Friday, 49,. Great damage Is be-
ing done by the Allegheny and Yough-
logheny rivers in Pennsylvania, because
Of the hard rains prevailing for num-
Der of days past. New York city
sold $50,0O0,000 Of A per cent city
bonds last Friday. The issue was sub
scribed six times over. John A.
Roebling, multi millionaire manufao-
turer Of Trenton, y, j., has given up
MS winter home at AsheVille, n. c.,
because that city has voted for prohibi-
ton. n....... All the labor unions Of New
Orleans have been indicted by the Fed
eral grand jury on charges Of violation
If the Sherman antitrust laws. .....
The house committee on military affairs
has reported bill allowing an increase
)f twenty-seven per cent to all officers
and enlisted men of the army. Henry
5. Snow. former treasurer of the New
York and New Jersey Telephone COM
oany has been indicted by the grand
Jury of New York on a charge OF grand
arceny, Bonds to the value of 100000.
which Snow was supposed to have in
charge, cannot be found. ..... The Mu-
udi INCSClNc Lie hllSC SOlllpdis
If New York. has been placed in the
hands Of receivers, who will proceed to
wind up the affairs OF the company.
The liabilities are $5,41S,717, and ad-
nitted assets are 1871, 602. 80. About
700 bales OF cotton are floating in Ire
oassey bay, off New FOundland, from
he wrecked British steamer Tolesby
rom Galveston, Tex, to Havre, France.
Fisherman are saving the cotton for a
salvage Of So a bale. ... The lumber
aden schooner II. Pack from Whining
on. ~ c., to New Bedford, Mass, was
wrecked on Long Island, early Satur-
lay morning. The captain and crew
we're saved by a life saving crew by
means Of the breeches buoy apparatus.
.... Seven persons were killed and a
lozen or more seriously hurt by a col
ision Of a Big Four passenger train
With a trolley car on a street crossing
t West Toledo, o.. Saturday night....
rhe tenth anniversary of the sinking
# the Maine was observed in the har-
,or OF Havana on Saturday by the
,la cling Of wreaths on the wreck. "~.