Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-06-23
TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1908.

all the lands held in the province of
Santiago by the Catholic church, for
$500, The government rail-
road connecting the port Of Guayaquil,
Ecuador, with Quito, the capital, was
completed last week. The last spike,
Of solid gold, was driven by the pres
idents daughter. VIM. r. Hearsts
total gain OF ballots in the recount of
the votes of the lib precincts of
and the Bronx was 3S1. .
There are 7O5 boxes i'm the borough o.
yet TO be completed. -.
Johnny Hogan, the boxer, who az
dantally killed Peter G. Hoge, a
rine, in a friendly boxing bou
League Island navy yard, Phila
phia, last week, has been exonera
by the naval authorities. ....A Phi
adelphia importer last week receiveW
a ton Of hair from China, said to have
been taken from the heads Of dead
Cinnamon, to be used for making
rats" which women wear in the hair
to make it look plentiful. The
three temporary receivers of the
Knickerbocker Trust company of New
York, which closed it's doors in the
panic of last fall, claimed fees of $751;
900 each. The courts, however cut
the claims to $4,000 each, with the
announcement that but few men were
able to make $4,000 in five months.
.... Charged with misappropriating
funds, d. w. Fawcett president of the
Aberdeen (O.) Banking company, last
week committed suicide, when an Of
fcer came to arrest him. -. The
steamship City of Atlanta, left Savan-
nah last week for New York, with
$4,000 Georgia watermelons as a part
Of her cargo. ..... The Mexican gov
ernment has sent a detail of 100 SOL
diers into the Ella valley, state Of
OaXaca, to wipe out a band of fifty
brigands, which has been terrorizing
that vicinity for some weeks past.
Three miners dead, two fatally burn
ed and fifteen entombed was the re-
suit of an explosion in a coal mine
near Monongahela, Pa. Friday.
Twenty persons were more or less
seriously injured in a head-on colli-
sion between a freight and passenger
train on the Wabash road near Pen
dletOn, Mo-, Friday. ..I. Mrs. Mary
Farmer was convicted at Watertown,
y. Y Friday, for the murder Of Mrs.
Savarah Brennan, and sentenced to
be electrocuted at Auburn during the
week Of August I'd. The motive Of
the murder was robbery. ...." Fire
did damage at the plant of the Shell
ton Steel Tube company at Shelby, O.,
Thursday night to the amount Of
50, 900, 900. .... VIM. II. Taft has re-
signed his position as secretary of war
and General Luke E. Wright Of Ten
nessee, has been appointed to the
place made vacant by the resignation
Of Mr.. Taft, which takes effect June
80. The Philadelphia Ledger says
that it has it from a reliable source
that Mr. Bryan favors VIM. II. Berry,
former state treasurer of Pennsyl-
vania, as a running mate. 80. There
was a total Of fifty-two deaths from
tuberculosis in Philadelphia last week.
....... Edward Sullivan, a school
principal, was fined 5000 and costs at
Wilkesbarre, Pa, last week, for kiss
ing an assistant teacher, Miss Finn,
without her consent. ..-. In the New
York to Paris automobile race the
German car reached IrkuSk, Siberia,
Saturday, considerably in advance of
it's competitors. =. Ex-President Alvea
of Brazil, says that the Brazilian gov
ernment has placed orders in England
for four first-class battleships and
twenty-siX cruisers, torpedo boats,
etc. .....A London newspaper des-
ignates VIM. H. Taft as Mr.. Roose-
velts Grown prince" Three ne
groes were killed and large number
i,,i, in nf OF o. M
ship Arcadia, at Philadelphia early
Saturday morning by an explosion
supposedly due to gases. "A ia
panese, officially designated as a spy,
was arrested at Fort Hamilton, N. Y,
Saturday. He had made maps Of the
fort and surroundings. .... Miss Jean
Templeton Reid, daughter Of Hon.
Whitelaw Reid, American ambassa-
dor to England, was married in Lon
don today to the Hon. John Hubert
Ward, equerry to the King Of Eng
land. 80. The combined weight Of
Messrs. Taft and Sherman, the Repub-
lican nominees, is but little less than
a quarter Of ton. .... Forest fires in
northern Michigan within the past few
days have destroyed three villages,
swept thousands of acres of timber
land and caused loss exceeding $780,
900. .... A law case has just been con-
cluded at Helena, Mont, in which the
arguments consumed forty days. Dur
ing the trial $4,000 pages of typewriter
testimony were taken. A decision Of
the case is not expected for six months.
800. Leon Delagrange, a French aero
pianist, on Sunday in the presence Of
100000 spectators, near Paris, made a
distance of three miles in d flying ma
chine. .... There has been q decrease
of 80 per cent in the number Of imml-
grants coming to the United States
for the five months ending May 31st.
Madame Anna Gould, divorced
wife of Count Bone de Castellane, is
to marry Prince Helie de Sagan with
in the next two weeks. $50. President
Roosevelt and family are now settled
at Oyster Bay, L. l., for the summer.
Mr.. Roosevelt expects to leave April
l Of next year on his African hunting
trip. The Illinois Central rail-
road Is taking large quantities Of grav-
ell from the bottom Of the Mississippi
river near Memphis Tenn, to be used
for ballasting purposes. The river
gravel is said to be superior for bal
lasting purposes to any thing yet dis
covered. -. The attorney general Of
Texas has filed suits against the Amer
lean Book company in which penal