Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-05-05

mers' Gin Compress company, q ST.
OOO, 900 corporation which is to manu-
facture cotton congresses for use at
Individual ginning plants. .... Within
the past few weeks $14, 100000 in gold
has been shipped to European money
centers. :. The United States treas
ury deficit for the ten months ending
April 80, was $49,514,122. During the
month of April government eXpendi-
lures exceeded the receipts by about
$780, 900 day. "A shipload OF 7S3
Japanese left Toxic last week for Bra
zil, where they will be employed In
railroad work. 49,. The new Singer
building, forty-two stories high, was
thrown open for public inspection In
New York last week. 1t is the highest
building in the city up to date. The
Rev. DR.. Morgan Dix, for forty-siX
wears rector of Trinity church, New
York city, died in that city last Friday
of heart disease after a brief illness.
DR.. Dix was in his S1st year. ..... The
United States Steel corporation Will
shortly begin the manufacture or all
steel car wheels to take the place or
car wheels that have heretofore been
made partly of paper. Five ltallan
anarchists with criminal records are TO
be deported from New York to their
native country. 1t is likely that other
deportations will follow. .... Arthur
Pue German, Jr., son of the late Sem
iS a candidate
United States senate from Maryland.
The department of agriculture
has withdrawn inspection from a large
meat packing establishment at Pat
erson, n. j., because it was found that
its pure leaf" lard was adulterated
with beef tallow. .....T. M. Angle
president of the Dry Fork Distilling
company, was last week convicted at
Richmond, Va, Of extensive FRAUDS
against the revenue department, and
sentenced to serve four years in a Fed
eral prison and pay fine of $4,000.
"A 10000 horse power generator,
costing 100000, bursted while being
tested at Niagara Falls, N. Y, last
Thursday. One man was seriously in
iured. Another man was killed by re-
ceiving $4,000 volts Of electricity.
New York city is preparing to float an
issue of $40,000,000 Of bonds for city
purposes. .Mautuk Gondalok, a
Greek, Jumped off the Brooklyn bridge
last Friday, and was later picked up
unconscious but not seriously injured.
Two train robbers held up an
express messenger on a Pennsylvania
train out of Pittsburg Thursday night,
and got away with a large sum of
money that was being transported
from New York to st. Louis. 1t is be-
lieyed that the amount was close to
$50. The 400th anniversary of
the discovery of the island of Porto
Rico will be celebrated with appro-
pirate ceremonies on August l2th.
Four Italian laborerS were killed ana
three seriously injured by the caVlng
of a sewer trench in which they were
working at Altoona, Pa, Saturday.
Yeggmen blew open the safes in the
postoffice and express office at Hart
well, Ca, Friday night and got away
with $4,000. ~. w. Cab1nness, 1or-
mer president of the defunct Exchange
bank of Macon, Ga, who is charged
with embezzlement, has turned over to
the banks receivers, $4,000 in secur-
tiles and real estate, thus obviating
pending civil suits. He will be tried
on criminal charges in June. Last
Friday, May-day, usually day OF dis
turbance throughout European coun-
tries, was a day of unusual quiet this
year. There was but little disorder
anywhere. The Wells-Fargo EX-
press company's car on the Mexico
City through train was robbed of $685.
600 in Mexican currency last Friday.
Morgan Delaney Magee, president Of
the First national bank at Manasquan,
N. j., committed suicide Friday. Worry
over his sons health and poor invest
ments are said to be the cause. BY
burst of speculative fireworks May
wheat was forced up to $1.O4 in the
Chicago wheat pit Friday. j. Ogden
million dollars on the deals. The
Pennsylvania Railroad company last
week cut it's annual dividend rate from
Z to per cent, thereby effecting
saving of $1,572,915. The total num-
Der of stockholders of the corpora
ton is about 10000. Snow fell
throughout western Pennsylvania and
New York last Friday. There was
freezing temperature at many places.
..... Julian Bakk, millionaire pub
Usher of the Rech, at st. Petersburg,
committed suicide Friday by hanging
himself, because of the loss of ST.
600, 900. .Chas. e. Letten, the
clerk who embezzled 100000 from
the tax department of the first dis
trict of New Orleans has been SEN
fenced to seven years in prison. .....
William A. Stetson, Boston leather
dealer and several of his companies
have been forced into bankruptcy.
The liabilities are about $3,OOO,OOO.
The 1908 peach crop of Geor-
gia will, it is estimated, be the lar
gest on record, totalling more than
5000 cars. 1t will begin to move
within the next thirty days. ..". The
house of representatives on Saturday
passed a bill appropriating $25O,OOO
for the relief of sufferers from the
storms in Alabama, Mississippi and
Louisiana last week. An east
bound Northern Pacific train was
dynamited near Butte, Mont, Friday
night, and the engineer and tramp
were killed and two other persons
were seriously hurt. 1t is believed
that tramps did the dynamiting out
of revenge ... Mrs. Beulah Haw-
kins awakened at Los Angeles, Cal,
Saturday after a continuous sleep of
eighty-five days. Sixty thousand
Catholic laymen marched in process
sion in New York last Saturday
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