Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-04-24
MERE-MENTlON.

sacola, Fla, as a strike e-breaker In
the street car strike, was shot from
ambush on Tuesday. All the state
troops except one company had left
the city. 80. Jacob Ashoff fatally
shot his young wife and then commit
ted suicide at Bellaire, o., Tuesday
morning. They had had quarrel.
"A bill providing for full reports
of campaign funds received by polit-
ical parties has been favorably re-
ported to the lower house Of congress.
-. Harry K. Thaw's attorneys have
begun his fight in the New York
courts for his freedom from Matte
wan insane asylum. Thaw says he
will fight his wife's suit for divorce.
=. The battleship Connecticut, recent
ly completed at the New York navy
yard cost the government $6,SS7,-
26OO5. While the Louisiana, a sister
ship, was built by the Newport News
Shipbuildng and Dry Dock COM
pany, q private concern at cost or
$6,O57647.60.. Two Italians were
killed and forty more or less seriously
injured by a premature explosion OF
dynamite at Bebee, Ark, Tuesday,.
The home of Mr.. and Mrs. John Reed
at Monaco, Pa, was destroyed by an
explosion of Illuminating gas early
Tuesday morning. The family escap-
ed with injuries. ..... Two tramps
were killed and another injured by a
Texas and Pacific train near Bunkie,
La, Tuesday. They went to sleep on
the track. The government print
ing office at Washington is facing
deficit Of 100000 for the current
fiscal year. The Layman's Con-
ference of the Methodist church, with
800 delegates in attendance, conven-
ed at Chattanooga, Tenn, Friday
night. -. .Bubonic plague is alarm
ingly prevalent at LaGuayra, Vene-
zuela. Scores Of deaths are reported
and the disease is said to be spread
ing to other cities. ..... .Forty-one
persons were killed and sixty injured
road, Monday. .... One spectator was
killed and seven were wounded, in
cluding the duelists in street duel at
Bernice, La, on Monday. Three
Charleston fishermen have been land
ed in New York having been rescued
at sea from their sinking craft last
Friday by a private yacht. TWO
French journalists, both women, are
to fight a duel with pistols as the re-
suit Of a quarrel over the question
whether or not women should wear
their hats in a theater. San Fran
cisco had a 100000 fire on Monday
as the result Of an explosion of gaso-
line There was a slight snowfall
throughout northern New York on
Monday Clover seed is selling at
1880 a bushel in York county, Pa,
on account Of the failure Of the 1907
crop. -. Woodford D. Harlan, for
forty years a clerk in the land office
at Washington, confessed on Monday
that he had received many hundreds
of dollars in bribes for divulging boun-
daries of proposed forest reserves.
The Republican convention of
New Hampshire refused to instruct
its delegation to the national conven-
ton by a vote Of 700 to 35....... Be
tween 10000 and 10000 coal miners
have resumed work after an idleness|
of several weeks in the vicinity of
Pittsburg, Pa. Max Shinburn
aged rs, said to have stolen as much
as $3,000,000 during his career as a
burglar, was released from the New
Hampshire state prison last Sunday.
Shinburn is said to have never earned
an honest dollar since he was 16....
A Cleveland o., girl, respondent over
being unable to find work, attempted
suicide by jumping in a lake Tuesday.
The merry widow" hat she wore at
the time acted as life preserver and
she couldn't get her head under wa
ter before she was rescued. ...... The
Railroad company is
floating $4O,000,000 of bonds for con-
StructiOn and equipment work on ltS
lines. 80. The Easter offerings at
Grace church, New York, tOtaled
$15S, 900. .Longshore & Co, a
New York Cotton Exchange firm, suS-
pended business on Tuesday,.
Governor Haskell of oklahoma, has
the bringing of suits against
various papers in that state to re-
strain them from printing advertise
ments of liquor houses and breweries
business in oklahoma. ...."
The pension bill as reported to the
senate on Wednesday, carries an ap-
Of $163,O53,OO0, the larg-
est amount on record for this purpose. ]