Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-04-07
MERE-MENTION,

MERE-MENTIoN.
Wholesale arrests of anarchists are
being made by United States secret
service officers, the first big roundup
being made in New York. All who
cannot prove their right to be in TINS
country will be depOrted. The Far
merS' Union now has Il total of 2,OOO,-
600 members in the eleven states so
far organized. .... The British torpe-
do boat destroyer Tiger, was run down
and cut in two parts by the cruiser
Berwick in the English channel While
at practice Thursday night. The Ii
gers crew of thirty-siX officers and
men lost their lives. .... Mrs. Alfred
G. Vanderbilt of New York, is suing
her husband for divorce. Mr.. VAN
derbilt is not resisting the suit. ....
The German government has recently
consummated a loan of $l62,OOO,OOO,
much To the surprise of the financial
world " Daniel Delaney. former
cashier for a Brooklyn law firm, is un-
der arrest for embeZZlement and Tor
gerry TO the amount of $4,000. \
bin is before congress to place an in
telnal revenue tax on all prize coupons
enclosed in packages of cigars, cigar
cites and snuff The bill is aimed at
the tobacco trust. .....A Russian army
officer has invented a bullet proof
breast and back shield, which weighs
only five pounds. ..... VIM. j. Bryan
has withdrawn his acceptance of an
invitation to the New York National
Democratic club on receiving notice
that he was not to be allowed to make
an address. The Pennsylvania Steel
company last week received an order
for 5000 tons of steel rails from the
Wales
Two babies, twins, died at st. Paul.
Mimi, as the result Of having been
given five drops each of soothing syr-
up..... Carl Fischer Hansen, known
in New York as the 'philanthrOplc
LAWYER" who has figured in Il number
of shady cases, was arrested and placed
under $4,000 bond. on a charge of eX-
torting $1,000 from u Philadelphia
man by blackmail. .... The state Re
publican convention of Indiana laSt
week elected delegates to the Republi-
can National convention and instruct
ed them To work for the nomination of
Vice President Fairbanks. Mr.. Fair
banks wrote a letter To the convention
i'm which he declared for an immediate
revision of the tariff laws. .When
Il verdict of guilty was rendered against
Henry r. Mcdonald last Thursday on
a charge Of dynamiting a church. he
pulled a pistol from his pocket and shot
and killed one officer and wounded
three others at Terre Haute. Ind. He
was badly wounded by police officers
i'm the fight. .. Bank robbers blew
open a bank safe at Mounds, Okla,
Thursday morning and got away with
$4,000 after desperate battle with cit
iZens. A new oil field, 100 miles
from Beaumont has been discovered at
Lufkin. Tex. \ we'll brought in last
week is running 10000 barrels day.
Land values have jumped $1,000 per
acre. -Four factories, including three
tobacco factories and four dwellings,,
were destroyed by fire at Lynchburg,
Va. Friday. More than 100000
pounds OF leaf tobacco, valued at $225,-
900, were destroyed. .... Evelyn ThaW
has filed suit against a New York hotel
man for $4,000 damages for libel.
Declaring that a $50 hat was not a
necessary household expense" chi
Cago jury refused to give judgment
against a man because he refused 10
settle a millinery bill Of this amount
against his wife. . The United States
independent Telephone company, a
$5O.O 900 corporation, has been de-
clared inSOlVent by q New Jersey
court President Roosevelt has or
dered Il reorganization of the regular
army 10 DllnS IL up ~ lOO'VVV
ed men. =. Andrew Carnegie has add
er $4,000. 900 To the Carnegie FOunda-
ton Fund established to provide pen
sions for teachers who have passed 4
certain number of years as instructors.
This last donation brings the total 10
$1,000 900 New York CitYS board
Of estimate has appropriated $l,OOOOOO
to make the city school buildings safer
in case If fire. providing additional
exits and fire escapes. 1t is prac-
tically settled that race track gamb-
ling i'm New York state is at an end
as the result of bills now before the
state Legislature. .... While a funeral
procession was passing through the
streets of Rome a few days ago. a
riot broke out and before it was quelled
three persons had been shot to death
by soldiers. .... One of the worst
snow storms of the winter ragged
throughout Manitoba. Canada, Thurs
day and Friday. Railroad traffic was
completely blocked. Riley Grammar,
one of the most noted race track
gamblers Of the present generation.
died at Rawhide. New, Friday. of pneu-
mOnia. One night last month. Gran
nan won $4,000 in a roulette game. -.
The number Of deaths in Greater New
York for the three months ending
births during the same period was 32,-
CE5. Fall River. Mass. cotton mills
paid out $226.150 in dividends last
week on a capitalization of $l3.325.OOO.
5000. John S. Leech, public printer at
Manila. has been appointed pubhc
printer at Washington. The Japan
eSe government is preparing royal
welcome for the Atlantic fleet when 1t
reaches the ports Of Japan. Prof.
Robert Koch, the noted German bac-
teriOlOgiSt. is making an extended Wis
il to America ..... The bureau of rail-
ways Of Pennsylvania has issued a
statement To the effect that railroads
i'm the United States. having total
trackage Of 62.247 miles. showing an
increase in earnings for the fiscal year
ending June 80. 1907. of $i3,0O0.OOO
over the previous year. About l2O.-
coo persons witnessed a football game
At Glasgow. Scotland, on Saturday
During the progress Of the game a
riot broke out and forty persons were
injured. ....F -Four Philadelphia police
men are under arrest on charges OF
burglary and larceny committed on
their beats. The booty Was found i'm
the homes of the accused men. The
diamond workers of Amsterdam have
ceased work during the month of April
on account of the small demand for the
precious stones Many failures of dia =
mUnd dealers are expected -. Bartolu
Giuffe. years old. son of a Brooklyn
merchant. has been kidnapped and
81 600 are demanded for his return.