Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-11-03
MERE-MENTION.

Thirty persons were more or less in
iured at Bennett Crossing, Pa, Friday
In a collision between coal train and
trolley car. ;. Theodore Whitmore, ac-
cused Of numbering his wife and
throwing her body in Lampblack
Swamp, near Harrison, N. j., on De-
cember 26 last, was acquitted by jury
at Jersey City, Friday. .... .Chas. E.
Bellows, a druggist at Bridgeton, Pa,
has been fined $1,000 and six months
in Jail for violation Of the state liquor
laws. Mrs. William Astor, leader of
New York's 400" died in that city
Friday, aged 80 years. go. Henri Far
man made a distance of twenty miles
in twenty minutes in an automobile in
France, on Friday. ..... 1t Is rumored
in Washington that Secretary Wilson
of the agricultural department, will
soon resign to take the presidency Of
the Colorado agricultural college. .....
George Cook, white, held on charge
of murder, was shot to death by mob
in the raid at Kingston, Tenn, early
Friday morning. The attorney gen.
eral of Arkansas has filed suits against
seventeen fire insurance companies to
annul their licenses to do business in
that state for violation Of the insurance
laws. .... Twenty three persons, in
Guiding number of physicians, were
indicted in Philadelphia last week on
charges of selling cocaine or making
false prescriptions for the drug. g......
VIM H. Flictner, a New York lawyer,
was last week sentenced to year in
prison, on conviction Of diverting to g.
risky speculation, $4,000 intrusted to
him by two women for safe investment.
...E. A. S. Blake, after being con-
victed at San Francisco on Thursday,
of bribing a juror, made a confession
to the effect that in the event Of his
conviction he was to receive $4,000 in
cash and his wife was to receive $100
a month while he was in prison. This
offer was made by one of Reuf's law
yers. In. criminal court of Phil
adelphia last Thursday, four men,
charged with murder, were sentenced
to be hanged. The victims Of the MUIR
derers were all women. One Of the
men to be hanged is a negro. 80. Miss
Katherine Elkins Of West Virginia, will
be married to the Duke Of the AbruZzi,
Italy, sometime this month. .... Jas.
c. Tomalty is under arrest in San
Francisco in connection with a short
age of 100000 in the city treasury.
Tomalty was a book-keeper for ten
ears A squad Of New York po
lice made raid on pool room in that
city last Thursday and arrested ESQ
prisoners. The Army Of the Work
less" of England, now numbers 2,00O,-
900 and is still growing. $50. Matthew
Berman, a wealthy merchant, died at
Elberton, Ca Friday, as the result OF
hydrophobia. Winston Green,
negro, was electrocuted at the Virginia
state prison at Richmond, early Fri
day morning. His crime was an as
sault on a 12-year-old girl. Mrs.
Florence Erbe, accused Of being an ac-
complice of her sister, Mrs. Catherine
Beisel in the murder of the formers
husband, Captain ]. Clayton Erbe, in
Delaware county, Pa, few weeks ago,
has been released from prison on
bond of $500. w John B. Jackson,
prominent banker of Pittsburg. Pa,
was killed Saturday by fall from a
horse. Cadet G. Cook Ferebee, died
at Lexington, Va, Saturday, as the re-
suit of injuries received in a football
game. 80. Dave Edwards, sentenced
at Knoxville, Tenn, on Saturday, to be
hanged December 10, for murder
committed several months ago, said