Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-10-27
MERE-MENTION.

The Mecklenburg county fair last
week was a failure financially, because
Of the unfavorable weather. Rear
Admiral Curtis, retired, died at Buff
falo, N. Y, last Saturday. .... JOSEPH
Bird was awarded a verdict of 81 in g
$4,000 damage suit against a street
railway company, in Philadelphia
court last Friday. Secretary Of State
Root has refused to issue warrant
for the extradition Of Jan Janoff Pou-
rem, who is wanted by the Russian gov
ernment for political offenses, ir
that country. .... Eight persons, in
cluding one woman, were rescued Fri
day from the schooner Flora Rogers
wrecked off Body's island lighthouse
Chesapeake bay. The rescues were
made by lifesavers with breeches
buoy. VIM. +. Hartwell, sheriff o1
Kent county, Del, has been indicted by
a grand jury, on charges Of obtaining
money under false pretenses, padding
and fictitious bills for board Of prison
ers, etc. .... President Roosevelt Is sc
fearful of the outcome of the election
next Tuesday, that he has put his en-
tire cabinet at work this week in behalf
Of Mr. Taft. The president is fearful
of the results in New York, Maryland
West Virginia, Ohio and Indiana, and
the cabinet members will do their best
to save these states for the Republican
nominee. Prof Fred Van Ingen was
shot to death on a Texas and Pacific
train near Plasquemine, La, Thursday,
by T. S. Beauvre. Van Ingen had just
been married to a Miss Rhorer, for
whose hand both men had been suit
ors. go. Congressman John Dalzell of
Pennsylvania, one Of the big Republi-
cans of the lower house, is having the
first real fight of his political life for
reelection. The labor vote Is against
him. . The National Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union began its thir-
ty-fifth annual session at Denver Col,
on Friday. .... Charles Joseph Mag
ness, a musician Of the navy, aged 20
years, who recently married Miss Ada
German, aged 40 years, daughter Of the
late Senator German Of Maryland, Is
under arrest at the Philadelphia navy
yard on a charge Of desertion. Mag
ness will probably be sentenced to three
years in the naval prison at Charles
town, Mass. -. .Silas c. Mcfarland,
American consul general at large for
the European district, committed sui
eide on a German railway train Sat
urday morning. Congressman Rain
ey of Illinois, says he will introduce a
resolution at the opening Of the next
session of congress calling for q con-
gressional investigation Of the Panama
canal purchase. ... There are more
than 200 cases of typhoid fever in the
hospitals of Montreal, Can, besides
scores of outside cases. The epidemic
has continued for several weeks. .....
Governor Patterson of Tennessee, has
suggested a conference of the govern
ors of the southern states, to take steps
to put an end to the work of night ri
ders. 49,. General E. Burd Grubb, ex-
Republican, running for congress on
the Democratic ticket in New Jersey, is
being assisted on the campaign stump
by his wife. .... VIM. ]. Connors, state
Democratic chairman Of New York,
charges that the upstate Republican
organizations of that state have padded
the registration rolls with from 10000
to 10000 names. $50. Three children
were burned to death in boarding
house at Lincolnville, Okla, Thursday
night. Five negro murdererS were
legally executed in Louisiana on Fri
day last The Japanese government
will probably call a conference Of the
powers interested, to consider questions
in relation to the Pacific ocean. Two
murderers, Italians, escaped
from the Jail at Indiana, Pa, Friday
morning, by cutting hole through the
ceiling Of their cell and escaping
through the Jail hospital. A New
York stock broker has placed bet Of
$50, 900 to $4,000 that Chanler will de-
feat Hughes in the gubernatorial race
in that state. .... An Atlanta, Ga, no
tel clerk was fined s25.75 by police
Judge on Friday, for stealing a kiss
from young girl. .....A grand jury
at Dalton, Ga, has presented recon-
mendation to the court that telephone
be required to put lightning