Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-04-21
MERE-MENTlON,

The county council of London, Eng
land, has accepted plans for new
county hall that is to cost $1,00O,OOO.
architect who worked as a clerk.
The Presbyterian department of
church and labor will ask the 1900
ministers of Presbyterian churches
throughout the United States to OBJ
serve May 10 as Labor Sunday.
Carlton Mccarthy, who styled him.
self the live wire mayor" was defeat
ed for reelection to the mayoralty of
Richmond, Va, last week. Mccarthy
was too hot after corruption, saloons
and places of ill-repute. The navy
department is reported to have re-
Gently bought three of the largest COL
capacity of 1000 tons Of coal each
..... Herbert l.. Heyl, head actuary
of Franklin Institute, Philadelphia,
fell dead from heart disease last
Thursday on being arrested for en-
beZzling $1,000 from the institution
Heyl took the money in small dribs
and his stealings covered a period of
several years. Police Captain
Duffy of the New York police force,
was last week sent to Sing Sing for an
indeterminate sentence because he as
sisted thirty men in false registration.
The Hamburg American liner,
President Lincoln, arrived nj New York
last week with a case of smallpox
aboard, and 165 steerage passengers
were quarantined in consequence.
Mrs. William Wheeler Smith of New
York, has relinquished her claim to
the $3,000,000 estate left by her hus-
band, in order that memorial hospi-
tai might be erected to his memory.
Mrs Smith will receive only $S,400 a
year from the estate. 1t is an
nounced at Washington that the de-
partment of justice will prosecute the
Nashville, Chattanooga and st. Louis
railway for failure TO provide proper
accommodations for negro passengers
Rev. George w. Tomson, pastor
of the Presbyterian church at Wood
bury y. j., committed suicide Friday
by shooting himself with pistol. He
was engaged to marry wealthy wild
ow and two days before he had been
violently denounced as a hypocrite by
a Sunday school teacher to whom he
had been very attentive. Two ban
dts entered a bank at Coffeyville,
Kan, early Friday morning, locked
the cashier and u customer in the
vault. gathered $4,000 into a gunny
sack and rode away. Captain
Arthur II. Mark and his wife got
verdict of one cent against the Wash
ngtOn, Baltimore and Annapolis
Electric Railway company at Balti-
more in the Federal circuit court Fri
day for alleged injuries to Mrs. Mark.
They sued for $4,000 Two train
robbers held up the passengers on
Pullman car just out of Minneapolis,
Mimi, Friday and got $41 and two
watches. Mrs. Sarah Eichenlaubs
and her son, Russell, were acquitted
i'm Philadelphia last week of the
charge of poisoning the latter's wife.
Kurdish bandits are giving the
governments of Russia and Persia
considerable trouble on the Persian
border In Il pitched battle between
CuSSackS and bandits last week, thlr-
ty-fOur of the latter were killed and
a large number were wounded .....
The total number of victims OF the
Chelsea. Mass, fire of ten days ago
has now reached fourteen. Louis
Orion, his wife and five children were
burned to death near COgswell. s. D..
troopS have been sent 10 Chester,
Pa, on account of riOting street car
workers who are on a strike against
reduced wages. .....T Thirty ltallanS
were on Friday forced to leave Bloom
ington, H.. by threats Of violence. The
people had become incensed because
the mayor of the city had received
threatening BLACK Hand" letter.
Confessing that he had robbed the
Merchants National bank of Chester
Pa. of $45. 900, John B. Harris. teller,
offered to commit suicide that the
bank might be reimbursed from his
life insurance. The offer was declined.
Harris was prominent socially and IN
church and Sunday school circles.
In an effort to corner the llmburger
cheese market Edwin c. story, cash
ier of the Citizens National bank OF
Bellcvflle. Wis. embeZZled $4,000 of
the banks funds. When discovered
he attempted suicide. Wholesale
plots of murder and arson have been
uncovered by trials of "Dreamers,' a
religious sect at Winnepeg. Manitoba,
ON charges of arson.