Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-01-28
MERE M ENTlON.

Tom Gates, superintendent of lum-
ber camp at Chatham, La, was shot to
death Saturday in a dispute over the
time Of one of his men. The shooting
was done by a brother Of the man
whom Gates was disputing with. .....
James Miles was killed near Little
Rock, Ark, Saturday by Odom Williams
in a mock duel. The duelists were
boys, about IL years Of age. ..... Nan
tucket, Mass, was visited by the worst
storm in fifty years on Friday and Sat-
urday The wind attained a velocity
| of 100 miles an hour. .... Micaela San
chez VeldeZ married woman Of Ha-
vana, disappeared from the steamer
Mascot just before reaching the pier at
Port Tampa, Fla, Friday night. She is
supposed to have jumped from the ves-
sci while temporarily insane. The
police Of Rio Janeiro, Brazil, picked up
six American sailors in that city after
the departure of Admiral Evans fleet.
They had either deserted or failed to
return to their vessels in time for sail
ing. .....A house was buried by land
slide near Milan, Italy, Saturday and
| five persons were killed. 49,. .Represen-
tative OConnell of Massachusetts, will
make an effort to have manual training
schools established In the army for the
benefit Of United States soldiers. .....
| The Chilian congress last week passed
a bill authorizing contracts for building
a railroad running north and south
through that country. The bill limits
immediate expenditures to $3I500,000.
-. More than 1000 workmen employ
ed in shipbuilding in the Tyne district
of England are on a strike against a
reduction Of wages. Yong Cow and
Mock Lung, Cinnamon, condemned to
| Con tr1n hn
been hanged at Moyamensing prison,
Philadelphia. last week. have been res
pited until March 10. Both the Chi
namen say they would prefer to hang
rather than have a Communication Of life
Imprisonment. The city hall OF
Portland, Me-, was destroyed by fire
last Friday morning with a loss Of
$500, 1000. p. ]. Nordstrom, a bank
clerk of Astoria, Ore, who swindled a
Chicago bank out Of $4,000 through a
bogus draft, was captured at Jackson
vile, Fla, Friday. .... The body OF the
headless woman found floating in Lake
Michigan at Chicago a few days ago,
has been identified as that Of Miss Jen-
ME Fleschmann, a stenographer, who
disappeared in October last. ........ The
government of Japan Is planning for
the immediate building Of two 10000
ton battleships and two $4,000 ton crui-
sers. China has ordered forty torpedo
boats and two gun vessels. Five
fremen were killed and twenty injured
in a fire which did $500,000 damage in
Baltimore last Friday. ..... An epidem-
ic Of pink eye" is prevalent at Anna
polls, seventy-five midshipmen being
treated for the disease last week. k......
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad COM
pany has announced a cut of ten per
cent in the pay of all officers and en-
ployes, beginning February 1......The
Minneapolis Mimi, board Of education
has ordered the burning Of more than
| $50 schools books because Of the prev
Ialence of scarlet fever in two OF the
city schools. .... The cotton mills or
the Boston Manufacturing company at
Waltham, Mass, employing 600 hands,
resumed work on full time Saturday.
=. Three islands of considerable size,
off the coast of Yucatan, disappeared
recently as the result Of submarine
earthquakes. There were no perma-
nent residents on the islands. Owing
to lack Of business, the American Lo-
comotive Works will close its ProVi-
dence, R. l., shops on Feb. 1st for an
Indefinite time. The United States
Coal and Oil company Of Holden, w.
Va, is going to operate a saloon for the
purpose OF keeping its miners and
agreed with the citizens Of the town
| that all profits accruing from the busi-
ness are to be donated to charity. .....
Owen Wistar, the author, has entered
politics and is candidate for select
councilman from the seventh ward or
Philadelphia He Is a personal friend
Of President Roosevelt and poses as a
reformer. Secretary Taft's friends
now figure that he has 4S4 votes Sc
cured toward getting the nomination
for president in the next national Re-
publican convention. .... Chicago Dus-
mess men have agreed to raise fund
Of 100000 for the relief Of the unem-
ployed Of that city. go. Representative
Acheson of Pennsylvania, has introduc-
ed bill in congress to forbid the mall
| ing Of newspaper or other publication
containing a liquor advertisement, un-
| der a penalty Of not more than S50o'
-. "A locomotive engineer on the Trans
caucasian railroad on Friday accident
ally killed a workman. AS a result he
was set upon by mob; the engineer
then opened the throttle Of his engine
land dashing through the mob Killed
six and badly injured a number OF
others The isthmian canal COM
mission will in a few days ask for olds
for 4,5O0,000 barrels Of cement deliver
ed on the isthmuS. New York banks
held $37,064,500 in excess Of the legal
reserve at the close Of business last
Friday .... Forty night-riders entered
la hotel at Dawson Springs, KY, FRIDAY
night and took John Heath, Duyer
for the tobacco association from mis-
bed and whipped him almost to death.
The lower house Of the Mississip-
pi legislature has passed a strong anti
bucket shop bill The imperial gov
arnment Of Japan has issued an edict
fobidding emigration to the Hawaiian
islands. The German emperor Gel
ebrated his fiftieth birthday yesterday.
| .A carload Of dynamite was acci-
dentally exploded at Okaloosa, La, Sat
urday. No one was killed. The dam
age was 100000. Arthur 2. Glover
white, will be hanged in Augusta, Ga,
next Friday. for murder. John d.
Rockefeller is giving employment 10
needy residents in the vicinity Of his
Tarrytown, n. Y, estate to help them
during severe weather now prevalent.
The Florida Mid Winter lnterna-
tional exposition was opened at jack
sonville on Saturday. The Maryland
legislature Is preparing constitutional
amendment to disfranchise the negro
voters OF the state. .... The LISBON
Banking company Of Lisbon, ONO
made an assignment Saturday. The
banks deposits are $l5O,OOO. ..... Inc
Baltimore and Ohio railroad has issued
an order to it's employees of every kind
prohibiting the use Of intoxicating IL
uuors. 49,. Louisa de la Rance, the
novelist, known the world over under
the non de plume Of "Ouida," died in
Italy last Saturday. She died in most
distressing poverty. "A heavy fog
has hung over London during the last
week and many serious railroad and
other accidents have resulted. .... The
lassessable taxable personal property OF
New York city amounts to $1,2l3664,-
liz not including personal property OF
corporation .. The United States pen
sion roll for the fiscal year ending June,
1909, will call for $150,000,O0O, an in
crease Of $7,O00,000 over the present
fiscal year .. . The revolutionary move
ment on Haiti has been suppressed, the
leader. Jean Juneau. being captured
and put to death.
TTLLMAN ON THE LIEN LAW.-While
in Columbia last week, says the cores
pondent of the News and Courier, Sen
ator Tillman expressed himself as fol-
lows on the lien law:
Merely speaking as a farmer and as
oil