Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-07-07
MERE.MENIION.

picnickers in Chester county, Pa, a
few days ago, dropped into a field Of
ripe wheat, setting 1t afire, and de-
stroying several acres Of the grain.
Harry Orchard, the confessed
murderer Of Governor SteunenbeFg Of
Idaho, who was to have been hung at
Boise last Friday, has had his sem
tence commuted to life Imprisonment.
........ Walter j. Barnett, vice pFesi-
and Trust company of San Francisco,
which failed in November last for
SO, 900, 900, has been sentenced to ten
years in prison. He was convicted Of
having hypothecated $205,000 in So
curities belonging to an estate OF
which he was special administrator.
New York magazines are max
ing efforts to contract with President
Roosevelt for exclusive stories cover
ing his proposed hunting trip in Af-
rica next year after he leaves the
presidential chair. 80. The govern
ment department Of justice Is maxi
ing final arrangements for an attack
on the so-called Powder trust, which
Commander Robert E. Peary's ship,
the Roosevelt, left New York yester-
day on another cruise in search Of the
North pole. Commander Peary will
join the ship at Sydney, Cape Breton.
...... "A little girl, years old, was
arraigned in a New York police court
last week on a charge Of grand lar
ceny In apparent innocence she told
how she had burglarized more than
fifty places, claiming that she had
been taught to steal by her eldeFs,,.,,
During the month Of June 4,476
marriage permits were issued In
Greater New York, Since January
1st there have been 15,102 licenses
issued. ..., The NATIONAL reunion Of
the BENEVOLENT and PROTECTIVE Order
Of Elks will convene at Dallas, Tex,
on July IL. A feature Of the occa-
sion will be a barbecue, for which
5000 pounds of beef and 1000 pounds
of mutton have been provided. .,,,,
The child labor law for the District OF
Columbia went into effect last We'd
nesday. Among others affected are
about rs per cent Of the newsboys OF
Washington, who are forbidden to
work between z p. m. and q. n..,,r
Treasury officials are looking for a
probable July dsficit Of about $780,
100000. The surplus Of receipts for
June over expenditures was about
81, ,000, 900. 80, The American AUTO
mobile Is now leading ali competitors
in the New York TO Paris race. The
gross earnings Of the United States
railroads, according to an estimate OF
year ending June 80, was $3,477,304,-
656 and net earnings for the same
period are placed at $718,642,57S,.,,
During the fiscal year ending juno 80,
the United States mints coined total
Of $215,714,862, Of which $197,23S,-
377 was In gold. d...., The blue prints
and working drawings Of the new SIX
ty-two story Equitable Life Insurance
company's building to be erected in
New York, are estimated to have cost
$3.50, 900. The little insurrection
started in Mexico few days ago has
been brought to close, the revolu-
tionists being widely scattered and no
longer dangerous. Count Zeppe-
lin, a German aeronaut, last week
succeeded in staying in the air for
twelve hours in dirigible balloon.
The balloon was under perfect con-
troll and covered a distance Of 22O
miles. 80. Reports to the bureau Of
navigation during the fiscal year end
ing June 80, show that there were
1906 vessels built in American ship
yards, having a gross tonnage Of
588,627 tons. Seventy-five steel steam
ers Of a total Of 304,379 gross tons
were built on the Great Lakes. 49,.
become extinct within the city of New
York. With but few exceptions all
cars are being handled by electricity
.... The secretary of the treasury
last week sent out notices to national
bank repositories throughout the
country calling in about $45,00O,0OO
Of government funds. "A strike Of
all union miners in Alabama Is look
ed for this week. The senate OF
Louisiana has passed an anti-bucket-
shop bill. ... Fire broke out in a
five and ten cent store in Cincinnati,
O., Saturday, and six girls and one
Gump is under arrest at Webster
Springs, Va, on the charge Of embez-
zling $4,000 of the funds of the First
National bank Of Webster Springs....
The bodies of 214 miners have been
taken from the Rikovsky mine, near
Yusovo, Russia, which was blown up
by a gas explosion on Thursday.
About $50 other miners are cut off
from escape by fire in the mine.
There are twenty-four cases Of diph-
liberia among the men confined in the
naval prison at Charlestown, Mass.
... Receivers have been appointed
by the vice chancellor of New Jersey
for the United Box Board and Paper
company, which has general liabil-
tiles of $S4.1S9,445.84..,... -. Slight
earthquake shocks were felt through
out southern California early Friday
morning. go. Six persons were KILL
ed and thirty injured in railway col
lision near Oakland, Cal. Saturday.
,.....L Lewis Wingate was convicted
at independence, Va, Saturday and
sentenced to eighteen years in prison
on a charge of numbering his son by
starving him to death. -. Battling
Nelson, a pugilist, won the light
weight championship title from Joe
Cans, a negro, in a fight near San
Francisco on Saturday Cans was
knocked out in the seventeenth
round. Nelson lost the title to Cans
about two years ago. .... BENJAMIN
T. Nixon, a marrying squire" Of JEFF
fersonville, Ind, died last week. Dur
ing his term of office he married g.
500 couples ... The Tammany del
egation to Denver is 900 strong and
occupied five special trains for the