Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-06-12
MERE-MENTION.

Gifts to the cause of higher educa-
ton in the United States for the
twelve months just ended, total $23,-
127,762. OF this amount the Univer-
sity Of Chicago received $4,371, 1,220.37.
.. 1t is estimated that the govern
ment deficit at the end Of the fiscal
year. June 80, will be STE, 1000, 900.
with one exception the largest since
the civil war. The dead letter Of
flee at Washington handled 100000
pieces Of mail during the past year.
...... The battleships Alabama and
Main have left the Atlantic fleet at
San Francisco and will return to the
United States by way of the Suez ca
nal. More than 1000 men were In
the Fleishman bread line" in New
York last Saturday night. This is the
largest number on record, with one
exception. .Chas. H. Haussler, a New
York policeman, has been sentenced
to prison for three years for compile
ity in a jewelry theft. .. Sarah Ko-
ten, young Russian trained nurse,
shot Dr. Martin W. Auspitz to death
in New York on Sunday night Her
defence will probably be 1.-THE un-
written law. The president has
appointed Captain Lewis Guion of
Louisiana, member Of the Vicksburg
National Park commission, to succeed
Gen. Stephen d. Lee. . Further re-
ductions are to be made in the prices
of all kinds of steel products except
rails. E. The Tennessee Coal, Iron
and Railroad company, operating in
the Birmingham district, have put
1000 additional men to work this
week. By the last of June it is ex-
pected that this company will have
5000 men employed, after being idle
several months. . The total acreage
Of wheat in the United States this
year is estimated by the agricultural
department to be 17,170,000 acres. go.
The Wheeling and Lake Erie railroad
has been placed in the hands of re-
ceiver. The total indebtedness Is $685.
100000. :. The Buffalo express Of the
Wabash road, was wrecked near Buff
falo early Tuesday morning and twen-
ty persons were injured. DIR. E. p.
Culver is on trial in Augusta, Ca, this
week on a charge of involuntary man.
slaughter. The doctor gave custom
er morphine tablets and labeled them
calomel, thereby causing the death of
an infant. 30. H. P. Belmont, a New
York capitalists and banker of nation
al reputation, died last Wednesday of
appendicitis. .....lt Is reported from
PittSburg that the United States Steel
corporation has contracts for 2,0OO,-
600 tons of steel rails. Addison l..
Altaffer, discount clerk of the Allie
gheny national bank of Pittsburg, was
put under $4,000 bond Tuesday, on a
charge of taking $261,931 from the
bank. Altaffer received $500 a year
coll
bile and a handsome summer home.
-. .RObt H. Green, banker, a church
trustee and large property owner Of
Waynetown, Ind, on Tuesday pleaded
guilty to horSestealing and was sem
fenced to serve one to fourteen years
in prison. ... John V. Harris, teller of
a bank at WilliamspOrt, Pa, was on
Tuesday sentenced to three years in
the Federal prison at Atlanta and
pay a fine of $1,000 for making false
entries in his books. ... 1t is reported
from Washington that Geo. b. Cortel-
you will be ROoseYelts preference as
running mate for Mr. Taft. .....A
burglar was arrested in New York
Tuesday morning as he was leaving
fiat with large amount Of loot. His
abode was searched and among 9TH
er things found was a large steel safe
containing $1,000 worth Of jewelry.
He said he was always afraid of bur-
glars. .... Sixteen persons, four Of
them women, are under sentence of
death at LOdz. Russia. for political Of
fenses. =. A break in Red river levee
at Grand Cane, La, Wednesday caus-
ed the overflow of $4,000 acres of
land and much stock was drowned.
-. Senator Gore of Oklahoma, un-
dergoing treatment in a Washington
hospital in the hope of restoring his
sight, has given up hope of material
benefit. .... The Anti-Saloon league
says that Missouri is the next state to
be freed from liquor. A Los Ange-
les. Cal, woman is suing her sixth
husband for q divorce.