Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-09-08
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER, 8, 1908.
MERE MENTlON.

MEHE MEN iONS
Mistaking her for night-rlder'
John F. Dalton of Galloway county,
KY, shot his bride of month 10
death. Dalton heard noise OUTSIDE
his house and went to investigate
telling his wife to stay in her room.
She attempted to follow and they met
in the dark with the above result. -"
VIM. o. SossOm, Is years old, was
shot 70 death at Mobile, Ala, Thurs
day night, while acting as a peace
maker in a mock duel. He was kill
ed with an "unloaded" gun. .......A "A
Niigata. Japan, dispatch tells or the
destruction by fire there on Thursday
last of 1000 houses. .....T The Amer
lean battleship fleet left Melbourne
Saturday morning for Albany, Aus
tralia, and will sail for Manila from
the latter city on September 17.....
Mrs. Walter Allen, wife Of the proprl-
etor of the st. Charles hotel of Dali
las. Tex, on Thursday night shot and
killed Lille Wheatly, who was in a
carriage with Allen at the time of the
shooting Chairman Tom NJ. Blod-
gett of the State Republican league
of Georgia, has deserted the G. o. ?.
and has come out in favor OF Mr..
Bryan for the presidency. Frank
P. Sargent, United States commits
sioner of immigration, died in WASH
ington on Friday, aged 81 years.
The people of Germany have contrl-
buted the sum of $750,000 to Count
Zeppelin, to be used in further eXper-
fments with dirigible balloons. .......
The Spanish ship Lula from Brazil
lian ports, was wrecked on the coast
of Spain Friday and her crew OF htty-
two is reported drowned. 1t IS
rumored in Pittsburg that Andrew
Carnegie is to give $10,OOO,OOO for
the further development of the car
negie Technical School at Pittsburg'
Samuel Buah, well known
and respected resident of Dover, DEL
is to vote in the November elections
for the first time in twenty-nlne years
Buah was convicted of a petty crime
when a youth and has just been
granted a full pardon. Hezeklah
Monk died in the Herkimer county,
n. Y. almhouSe last week atter
being an inmate of the institution
since his birth, S5 years ago. ..:: "A
steamship for Italian ports left Phil
adelphia Thursday, having on board
1900 Italians returning to their ma
tive land. .... Mrs. Marshall f1eid'
Jr.. widow Of the Chicago merchant,
was married in London Thursday TO
Maldwin Drummond. 49," Col. Hen
ry M. Nevius of Red Bank, n. j.,
was last week elected commander in
chief of the Grand Army of the Re-
public, in session at Toledo, .. The
next encampment will be held at Salt
Lake City, Utah. The grand jury
investigating the recent riots against
negroes at Springfield, H., has re-
turned III indictments after ses-
sion of fourteen days. One woman
and two men were indicted for muir
der. The woman committed suicide:
DIR. ]. H. Watson shot Carel
Horne, a business man, to death, ser
iously wounded Miss Ethel Edsall,
and committed suicide at Dallas, Tex
Friday morning while in a Jealous
rage. The County Physicians So
ciety Of Sussex county, Del, is MAX
ing a determined fight on flies to pre-
vent the spread Of typhoid fever
germs. Prof. James King, vet
eran aeronaut of Philadelphia, pro-
poses to cross the Atlantic ocean in
mammoth balloon. John r. Early,
the North Carolina leper, has been
granted a pension Of $72 month oy
the United States pension depart
ment. Trolley car workers, TO the
number of $4,000 throughout the New
England states, have declared in IA
vor of a strike at an early date.
Jas. Kerr, Democratic committeeman
for PENNSYLVANIA, has been found to
be too small for the job, and efforts
are being made by Chairman Norman
Mack to induce Colonel Guffey, who
was opposed by Mr.. Bryan at Denver,
to take charge of the job. GOV
ernor Hughes Of New York, continues
to be a thorn in the flesh of the Re-
publican bosses of that state. The
bosses don't want to nominate him
for another term as governor, but are
afraid to do otherwise, for fear that
the state will be lost to Taft in the
November elections. Mr.. Hughes is
bigger than the Republican bosses....
Chester S. Jordan is under arrest in
Boston on a charge of numbering his
wife on Monday night of last week
and disposing of her body by placing
it in a trunk. Jordan made confess
sion to the police. His defense Will
be insanity. Jordan is brOther-in-
law of Jesse L. Livermore. the New
York cotton operator. There was
a panic among 400 women workers
in a millinery establishment in New
York Friday, because Of fire in the
building in which they were employ
ed. All of them escaped without
serious injury. Miss Leona Bon
nell has been arrested at Omaha,
Neb., is connection with the murder
of DR.. Fred Rustin in that city last
Tuesday morning as he was entering
his home. Rustin and the BOnnell
woman were on very intimate terms.
The total excavation on the
Panama canal for August was $685.
SOC cubic yards. an increase Of 1861
S14 cubic yards over August Of
year ago. The system of subways
has cost the city Of New York the
sum of $54, ,944. DR.. A. Rosett
is held in Savannah, Ga, on a charge
Of murder, in that he caused the death
Of May F. Trask by criminal opera
ton, and j. Prickett, young man of
that city, is held as accessory. ....
John Towns. a negro was hanged at
Damascus, Ca, Saturday morning by
a mob. for attempting a criminal as
sault on Mrs. Joe Wheeler a few days
previously near that place.