Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-07-14
MERE-MENTION.

A small sized revolution is in prog
ress in Paraguay as a result Of a
change in presidents. There has been
some bloodshed. ........ Two men were
killed by a fast train on the Lake
Shore railroad near Hammond, Ind,
Friday. A few minutes later, while the
engineer was endeavoring to make up
the lost time occasioned by the first
killing, another man was run over and
killed. :. Five persons were killed and
seven severely injured in head-on
collision near Medicine Hat, Alberta,
Canada, Friday. .... The cruiser Mon
tana, sister ship to the North Carolina,
has been completed and turned over to
the government at Norfolk, Va......
Burr S. Peck, aged II, Of New Haven,
Conn.,, was married Friday to Miss
May Bryan, aged %, at New York.
Peck's mother, aged 95, is displeased
because Of her sons marriage. The
American automobile in the New York
to Paris race has entered Russia far
in the lead of all competitors and ex-
successful test of wireless telephony
was made between Newark, N. j., and
New York city Thursday. ...... David
Pascoe, managing editor Of the Ger
mantown (Pa.) Telegraph, was last
week convicted Of criminal libel and
was sentenced to pay a fine Of 5000 and
spend six months in jail. -. The Snake
Indians, 1000 in number, located in
oklahoma, have been showing signs
Of hostility during the past ten days
and three companies of the Oklahoma
national guards have been sent to the
reservation to preserve order. :. Count
Zeppelin, the German aeronautist, will
on tomorrow make an attempt to keep
his dirigible balloon in the air and un-
der control for twenty four hours. II
successful, the balloon will be purchas-
ed by the German government at a big
price. .... The Venezuelan government
has withdrawn its representative from
Washington, and for the first time in
more than fifty years the two coun-
tries are without diplomatic relations.
......A 3-year- child was stung to
death by red ants near Tenie, Okla,
last Friday. .... BY the collapse Of
suspension bridge under construction
across the river Rhine at Cologne,
Germany, Thursday, a score Of work.
men were killed and many were in
jured. ... Thomas E. Watson was
formally notified Of his nomination for
the presidency by the National Popu-
list party at Atlanta Ca, Thursday. %.
The Louisiana legislature adjourned
Thursday after killing all the anti-fu-
ture trading bills aimed at the New
Orleans Cotton Exchange. .. One hun
dred wealthy lumbermen of the south
and middle west are planning a $780,
100000 company to control the lumber
business of the territory. -. There
are twenty-seven idle freight ships tied
up in the harbor Of Philadelphia owing
to slack business. In New York har-
Dor there are more than sixty freight
steamers with nothing to do..... The
steamship Lusitania reached New
York on Friday, again lowering the
best transatlantic record, by thirty
two minutes. The average speed was
25.01 knots for the trip. The Re
publican campaign leaders will make
a feature Of publishing campaign ex-
penditures and receipts during the
present campaign. E. CASTILLO Domingo,
one Of the negro soldiers discharged
from the army on account Of the
Brownsville affair, made a murderous
assault on a negro jeweler in Phila-
delphia, Friday, in an attempt at rob-
berry. y... .Footpads robbed a sleeping
policeman Of all his clothing in Cam
den, N. j., Friday night. ....... Jas. s.
Sherman, Republican vice presidential
nominee, has resigned the chairman
ship Of the Republican congressional
committee. .. The total number Of
deaths in the coal mine disaster near
Yosovo, Russia, last week, was 300.
The majority Of the victims were burn
ed to death and suffocated. =. Accord
ing to the July report Of the postoffice
department, there are now 39,239 rural
free delivery routes in operation, with
1,50O petitions for additional routes on
file. Two armed men entered bank
at Amity, Col, Friday, held up the
cashier and got away with $1,000. .....
The total production of lumber in the
United States for the year 1907, Is CIV
en- by the census bureau at 40,256, ,000,-
900 feet. ...... Twenty persons and
many cattle were drowned by an over
flow of the TaXauillo BarTanoa river, In
Mexico, Thursday, caused by cloud
burst. -. Japanese commercial bodies
are to invite 100 representative Ameri-
can business men to visit Japan during
October in an effort to facilitate more
cordial relations between the two coun
tries. .... The $25, 900, 900 Of new stock
offered in London, Friday, under the
Irish land act Of 1903, was oversub-
scribed thirty-five times. ......A Rus
sian torpedo boat was wrecked on the
rocks of the Gulf Of Finland last
Thursday. The crew was saved. .....
The Russian douma adjourned Satur-
day until October 28th. 80. The Hotel
Dieu Annex, a famous Paris hospital,
where thousands of cases Of smallpox
and other contagious diseases have
been treated, is to be destroyed by fire.
49,. According to recent decision OF
the internal revenue department,
physician who writes a prescription for
denatured alcohol and the druggist who
fills such prescription are both liable
to criminal prosecution. Antonio ).
Boneeli, an Italian, wanted in Colum-
bus, O., for embezzlement, was arrest
ed Saturday at Santos, Brazil. Geo.
w. Johnson arrived in New York on
Saturday from st. Augustine, Fla. He
made the entire distance by water in
small boat made Of newspapers. ....
Thos. w Lawson charges that Wall
street has already pledged $2,500,000 for
the election Of Mr.. Taft. Miss Lot
tie Mayer swan from Alton, ILL.,, to st.
Louis, Saturday, a distance Of twenty
six miles, in 5 hours and Is minutes.
A merger Of the independent tele-
phone companies operating between
the Mississippi river and the Atlantic
ocean and involving $100,000,000 OF
capital is under way. ....... The ter
centennial of the founding Of Quebec,
will ha celebrated with elaborate cere-