Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-01-07
TUESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1908.

to $1S,80I I4S3...... DIR. Nichols Sem,
one of the most widely known sur
geons of the United States, died in
Chicago, last Tuesday. :. "A wage dis
pute between Manchestey England,
cotton mill owners and operatives,
now In progress. will probably result In
the locking out of 100000 workers.
During December 2,2OO,539 cubic, yards
of dirt were moved on the Panama ca
nal an increase Of 100000 cubic yards
over the month Of November. Mrs.
John Van Ness Roberts, q well known
New York society woman, committed
suicide last Friday. -. M. G. D. Bor-
den, the Fall River, Mass, manufac-
turer, last week purchased 3OO'0OO
pieces of 2S-inch cloth at Al cents
yard ... Three miners have been en-
tombed in the Giroux mine at Ely
New, 1000 feet under ground for 'fiVe
weeks and will not be rescued for at
least another month. They are being
fed through a pipe. The appraised
value of goods imported through the
port of New York during 1907 amount
ed to 1856, ,341,270. . Twenty-Five per-
sons, mostly negroes, were more or less
injured in trolley car collision in
Savannah. Ga, Saturday night.....
Garrett Hedden, a desperate, who Kill
ed his brother six years ago, was shot
to death by Sheriff Biggs In Polk
county, Tenn.,- Saturday. -. =, Lewis
Lindsay, a negro, who sat on the jury
which tried jefferson Davis, died
in Richmond, Virginia, Saturday
night. 80. The grand jury Of Kansas
City, Missouri, has indicted l2s per-
sons for violation of the Sunday clos
ing law. .... During last week 100000
pounds OF white hurley tobacco was
sold at Frankfort, KY, at an average
price Of $1,000 per hundred pounds.
The First National bank building at
Kansas City, Mo-; was wrecked by
bomb explosion Saturday, number OF
persons were injured. ..... The steam
ship Mount Royal left Antwerp for St.
John, N. B., on December 7th, with
3O4 passengers and crew Of 100 and
has not since been heard from. 1t Is
feared that the vessel has foundered at
sea. John Grohowski, 20 years old
Of Kingston, Pa, has succeeded In per-
fecting a wireless telephone apparatus.
..... Five prisoners escaped from the
Washington county, Md, Jail Saturday
morning by digging hole In the outer
wall. An old postage stamp, issued
by the Alexandria, Va, postonice In
1S47, was sold in Philadelphia last
week for $4,000. Frederick F. Wheel
er, a Los Angeles, CAL, capitalist, will
probably be the candidate OF the Ma
tional Prohibition party for president.
80. Arthur Whitaker died at South
Atlantic City, NJ, Saturday. from
rabies, caused by dog bite received
four months ago. 80. The Pennsylva-
MIA railroad has cut the working time
Of 5000 men at Altoona, Pa, from
fifty-five to forty five hours q week.
owing to slack business. :. 4. The French
postal department has inaugurated a
system whereby letters are forwarded
by. wire at a small cost. -. Three
boy skaters broke through the ice on
the Penobscot river at Bangor Ne.
Saturday, and were drowned. An
anti saloon campaign has been com
menced in Salisbury, the head centre,
and last big stronghold Of the North
Carolina liquor business. -. The Lon
don Times has passed from the, con-
troll of the Walter family, which has
owned that great newspaper for three
generations. c. Arthur Pearson has
secured the direction Of the newspaper
for the new company by which II has
been acquired. X, Eia...