Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-07-03
MERE.MENTlON.

MERE-MENTlON.
Ferdinand Dudenhefer, a former
tax collector Of Louisiana, was con-
victed at New Orleans on Tuesday Of
embezzling $4,000 of state funds. -.
About 800 freight handlers Of the ILL.,
nois Central railroad are on strike
at New Orleans for an increase Of pay
from $1.80 to $3.50 a day. ,. United
States troops have been sent to points
along the Mexican border to keep
Mexican revolutionists from taking
refuge on American soil. The Corn
Products Refining company has been
chartered under the laws Of New Jer-
sey with a capital Of $4,000. ..-R Re-
ceivers Of the Seaboard Air Line rail-
road have placed orders for $4,000
tons Of steel rails. :. Upon examin-
alton Of the bottle from which DIR.
VIM. H. Wilson Of Philadelphia drank
glass Of ale last Friday night, which
caused. his death, 1t was found that
the. bottle had been drugged with
cyanide Of potassium. Detectives
suspect a New York man as having
sent DR.. Wilson the ale. The 1908
peach crop Of Delaware Is estimated
at 1,500,00 baskets. The harvest will
begin about August 1st. The leg
islature Of Louisiana has passed a
high license law for that state. The
minimum license is to be $500.
The Russian douma has passed q bill
providing for an internal loan Of
500, 000, 900. .......A Swiss aero club
has succeeded in sailing a balloon
across the Alps mountains. This has
often been tried without success. 80.
VIM. F. Walker, absconding cashier Of
the Savings Bank Of New Britain,
Conn, who disappeared in February,
1907 and was arrested in Lower CAL
ifornia in December last, will be turn
ed over to United States officers by the
Mexican government. Walker got
away with about $3.50, ,000.. The
American Steel and Wire company,
put 1900 additional men to work on
Tuesday in its Pittsburg plant. I. 4. The
1908 acreage of corn in Illinois is 10
per cent less than last year and its
condition Is very poor. -. Railroad
and industrial concerns, whose princi-
pal Offices are in New York, show a
decrease of $29,517.714 in dividends
IS compared with July 1 Of year
ago. 80. "A mutiny in q convict camp
near Atlanta Ga, Tuesday, resulted
in the serious shooting Of one convict.
......The new royal baby Of Spain
was officially christened on Monday.
The child was given eleven Names.
John w. Riddle, American ambassa-
dor to Russia, is critically Ill at st.
Petersburg. IN. H. Green shot L.
w. Tidwell to death in Bradford, Fla,
Tuesday morning. The coroner's jury
said it was self defense. ;. Two men
were killed and three seriously injur-
ed In the collapse Of a building at
Minneapolis, Mimi, Tuesday after
noon. -. Albert Brown, negro, was
hanged in Washington, D. c., Monday,
for the murder Of his brother
Seven persons died in New York on
Tuesday, due to the extremely high
temperature Mrs. Philip N. Moore,
Of st. Louis, has been elected president
Of the general Federation Of Women's
clubs, now In session In Boston. see.
There is much suffering among the in
habitants Of Warren and Issaquenna
cent overfows of the Mississippi riv-
er. Geo. A. Hoadley, aged 80
years, professor at Swarthmore col
lege in Pennsylvania, is soon to mar
ry Miss Fannie B. Kilgore Of Della
ware county. The bride-elect is &c..
Gen. Luke E. Wright has assumed the
duties Of secretary Of war and will
soon visit the Panama canal. Mae
c. Wood, the Omaha, Neb., woman
who sued Senator Plat Of New York
for divorce, has been indicted by
New York grand jury, on a charge Of
perjury. "A superb silk state flag
Is to be presented to the cruiser North
Carolina at Morehead City, N. c., to-
day. by the North Carolina Daughters
Of the American Revolution. -. Geo.
H. Daniels, for many years general
passenger agent Of the New York
Central lines and one Of the best
known railroad men in the country,
died at Lake Placid, n. Y, Wednesday.
... Six Of the ten race track asso-
Citations Of New York state spent $42,-
500 in an effort to kill the anti-race
track gambling law recently passed by
the legislature Of that state. .... AL
fred Soderman Of a Massachusetts, ex-
pertinent station located at Worcester,
has tomatoes growing above ground
and potatoes under the ground on the
same vine. ..... The Republican ma
tional committee has not yet decided
as to who will be chairman. One wing
Of the committee wants Frank II.
Hitchcock and the other wants Arthur
I. Vorys and they are unable to get to-
gether. The American Sheet and
Tin Plate company, Pittsburg, has cut
the wages OF its 10000 employees,
per cent. ... .Murat Halstead, one Of
the best known Of American journal
lists, died at his home in Cincinnati,
yesterday. .... The friends Of Govern
or Johnson of Minnesota, say that he
will not have the vice presidency and
the friends Of Mr.. Bryan say that he
shall not have it.