Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-04-28
TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1908.
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1 per cent mortgage bonds recently
issued by the Pennsylvania Railroad
company, announced on Friday that
the issue had been Oversubscribed by
| investors ten times over, or in other
words that they could have disposed
of $4OO, O,000,0 900 of bonds. Govern
or Hughes has called an extra session
of the New York legislature to con-
vene May IL. 1t is expected that the
| governor is going to make another
/ effort to force the passage Of the an
ti-race track gambling law. -. Yaqui
Indians attacked an armOured auto
mobile i'm Sonora, Mexico, last week
| and killed three American miners and
| two MeXicans. The supreme
court OF Illinois has handed down a
law of that state to be constitutional.
| ..... Three persons were killed by
cyclone in Cummin county, Neb.,
Friday. .... The German bundles
rath has bill before it providing for
$l25,000 additional yearly subsidy to
the North German Lloyd Steamship
company for maintaining monthly
sailings of vessels from German ports
! to Australia, China and Japan. .....
Work has been resumed on the Nc
Calls Ferry Power cOmpanys plant
at Mnqua, Pa, on the Susquehanna
river. One thousand men will be en-
plOyed When completed this dam
will be greater than the Assuan dam
on the River Nile, and will develop
100000 horse power. -. Marcus j.
Northbrooke, a fire insurance agent,
has been arrested at Coney Island,
n. Y, on a charge Of grand larceny.
81, 100000 of fraudulent fire insur-
ance policies. .Thos. F. Ryan, the
inancier, told the New York grand
jury investigating the Metropolitan
Street Railway company's affairs, that
prior TO 1885 not a dollar had been
paid for 95 per cent OF the capital
stock OF the railroads of this country
All but about per cent was water.
..... British and Indian forces are
facing another uprising of fanatical
tribes in the vicinity of Peshaur, In
dia. Robert Parker, president
OF the Remington bank at Rensselaer,,
Ind, has been convicted Of embez-
element on six indictments, and SEN
| fenced to pay fines Of double his en-
bezzlements and serve two to four
teen years in prison. .... The White
Star Steamship company announces
the building of two ships, the length
Of which will be $40 feet, fifty feet
longer than the Lusitania, and will
have a carrying capacity OF $4,000
tons, or LOO carloads of thirty tons
each. Wallace H. Ham, until
four years ago New England manager
for the American Surety company,
treasurer of st. Paul's Episcopal
church of Boston and custodian OF
funds for ST. Luke's Home for Con-
valescents, died in prison last week
where he was serving term OF f1f-
teen years. .... The damage done by
the floods in Texas last week are es-
timated to have been more than
50, 2,OOO,0 900. Immense areas Of cotton
and corn will have to be replanted.
....V. Kuhn Wellington Kee,
Chinaman of Shanghai, has been
elected editor-in-chief Of the Column
bian Spectator, the daily paper pub
lished by Columbia university New
York The Liquor Dealers asso-
citation of New York city is making
war on dives and disreputable resorts
I'm that city by refusing to furnish
them with liquors. Judge kohl-
satt in Chicago last week enjoined
five express companies from issuing
franks, as infringing the Interstate
commerce law. Louis Strang,
driving an Italian car, won an auto
mobile road race at Briarcliffe, n. Y,
Friday, in which he covered a dis
tance of 1892 miles in 5 hours, IA
minutes and 13 1-5 seconds. The
cotton and stock brokerage firm Of I.
A. Mcintyre & Co., of New York, sup
posedly one Of the strongest firms do
ing business in Wall street, was fore
ed to suspend operations last Friday.
The sailors Of the Atlantic fleet
to the number of $500 were given an
automobile ride at Los Angeles, Cal,
last Friday. Five hundred automo-
biles were used. .-. secretary or
War Taft will leave Washington on
Thursday for Panama, where he goes
to straighten out the controversy be-
tween Colombia and Panama as to
the boundary lines, and some friction
among the canal administration OFF,
cials. -. Robert Ingris, college
student, died in a Yonkers, N. Y,
hospital on Friday after surviving
knife stab in the heart for nineteen
days. Surgeons took several stitches
in the heart between beats in an ef-
fort to save his life. .All the ship
building yards of Great Britain are to
in an effort to coerce striking labor
ers in a few Of the yards. .... Three
Fall River, Mass, cotton mills, with
combined capital of $2,800,000, have
declared dividends for the quarter
ending March 31st, amounting to
SAG, 900. 49,. Prairie fires in South
Dakota last week swept over seven
counties, doing damage to the amount
Of 100000. 49,. Fred Herbst fatal
y shot his sweetheart at West Allls,
Wis, Saturday because she refused to
marry him, and then committed sui
eide by shooting out his brains. 80.
With a laugh at his wife attempting
to stop him, Eugene Munsell, a prom
inent New York hardware man,
committed suicide last Saturday by
jumping from a seventh floor window
Of rhe Vandyck hotel The At
lantic fleet Is now at Santa Barbara
Cal, for a stay of five days. -. "A rev.
olution has broken out in Santiago
province Of the Argentine Republic
and civil authorities have been forced
to flee for their lives. In police
raid in Chicago on Saturday more
than 100 thieves, pickpockets, foot
pads and vagrants were arrested.
The United States senate on Saturday
after a bitter debate, killed the
amendment to the naval appropria-
tions bill providing for four battle
ships. The Due de Chaulnes, who
married Miss Theodore Shonts OF
New York on February 18th last,
died suddenly in Paris hotel Thurs
day night probably as result of
morphine poisoning. -. United States
Senator Knox of Pennsylvania, in an
address at Philadelphia on Saturday
night declared that there should be q
revision Of the protective tariff and
that the work should be done by
"men wise enough to distinguish be-
tween revision and ruin. In a
railroad collision near MalteZa, Mex
leo, Friday, twenty-eight persons were
killed and fifteen wounded. The
1900 pupils Of the Edward Jemer
public school Of Chicago, were panic
stricken and fed from the building
Friday, on hearing that BLACK Hand"
men had planted a bomb under the
building. Many Of the children were
injured. Hugh M. Watson, a
medical student of Charlotte. n. c.,
was killed in Chicago on Saturday by
an elevated train. He was working
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