Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-08-25
MERE-MENTION.

Logan Jones, craZed by liquor, at
tempted to murder his family at Tar
boro, n. c., last Thursday, and was
shot to death by his 15-year-o son.
...... After several months of bitter
struggle the chamber of deputies of
Holland has by a vote of S3 to 55
adopted the Congo annexation treaty.
This will put an end to the misrule
that has characterized the colony for
many years past. ..... The steamer
Lusitania last week again broke her
best record across the Atlantic by
clipping three hours and fifteen min
utes from a former best record Of
days, Is hours and 40 minutes. The
Lusitania IS the undisputed queen Of
the sea. Six Hungarians were ar
rested at Hoboken, n. j., Thursday as
they stepped from the steamship
Deutschland, on a charge of murder
ing a man at Vacz, Hungary, and
robbng his body of $4,000. Gov
ernor John A. Johnson has been re-
nominated by the Democratic party
Of Minnesota for the governorship,
although he said that he didn't want
the nomination. More than $4,000
worth Of Democratic campaign but
tons of the vintages Of 1896 and 1900
have been sold to the small dealers Of
Brooklyn, n. Y, who bought them
without knowing that they were be-
ing buncoed. .... The tower Of the
city hall of Philadelphia is to be re-
gilded, and the work will require the
use of 10,23O,OOO sheets of gold leaf.
.... The great forest fires which
have been burning in British Colum-
bia for three weeks past have been
brought under control. The de-
fense Of Captain Peter C. Hains, who
shot VIM. E. Annis to death at Bay
side, L. l., ten days ago, on account of
the alleged intimacy Of Annis and
Hams wife, will be insanity. -. Yel-
low fever IS spreading throughout
considerable portion Of southeastern
Mexico. The government Is using
every effort to stamp out the disease.
The Mexican boil weevil Is r@-
ported to be doing great damage in
southwestern Mississippi. H. 3.
Subar and ]. H. Gilmore, rival nIer-
chants. fought a duel at Robinson
ville Ind, Friday Both men will de.
.....Six children were burned to
death near Colfax, Wash, Friday.
The children were left in the house
while their parents went to a theatri-
cal performance. -. w. G.. Blair, OF
Omaha, Neb., was injured in rail-
road wreck, and while the surgeons
amputated his leg at the hip Thursday,
he lay on the table, smoking cigarettes
and jokcd the surgeons about their
bloody work. The police Of Camden
county, Pa, have progressed on the
solution of the trunk murder mystery
of that county so far as to identify the
body of the victim as that of Solomon
Jacob RosenbloOm Of Windber, Pa.
and are searching for his son, who it
IS believed committed the murder
The son disappeared a few days after
the disappearance of the father In
November last. j. w. Randall
of Madison county. y. c., was convict
ed Saturday of murder in the second
degree, his victim being his wife, and
was sentenced to thirty years in the
penitemtiary. The defence was in
sanity. .Chas. Street. a baseball
catcher Of the Washington team, on
Friday caught a baseball dropped
from the top Of the Washington mon
ument, $50 feet from the ground
This feat has been tried many times,
but never successfully accomplished
before. The ball in its descent traV-
eled at the rate of 1875 feet per sec
Ond .....A bride of n week on Fri
day committed suicide by jumping
from the 1200-fDOt Bismarck tower at
HerngsdOrf. Prussia. She left a note
telling her husband to marry some
other woman with whom he could
be happy. ....... twenty eight boys,
inmates of the Pennsylvania reform
school at MOrganZa, are victims of
typhoid fever. The disease is epi-
demic in number Of towns through
out the state. Augusta b. Leguia
was on Friday proclaimed president
of the republic of Peru by the Peru
Wan congress. .... Three bets were
made in New York Friday at odds of
to l that Taft would be elected pres
ident. Even money bets were made
that Pryans popular vote would be
less than eight years ago. $500. The
public debt of New York city on June
80 was $7S5. 1926. MIR. Taft
declares that in the event of his cleo
ton he will, Immediately after his in
auguration, call an extra session of
congress for a revision of the tariff
laws. .. Two tunnel drivers were
killed in a coal mine near POttSville,
Pa. Saturday by a bolt of lightning
which entered the mine on the car
rails. The men were 1900 feet un-
dergrOund at the time of the trage-
dy. ...... No. / Northern wheat de-
clined from 124 to 1l2 per bushel at
the Minneapolis Chamber of Com
merce in Saturdays trading. ....A
large meteor fell and exploded near
Ellsworth, Kan, Friday night No
damage was done. .... Fifty men
have been indicted by the grand jury.
at Springfield. Ill.,. on charges of riot
ing in connection with the race war
in that city ten days ago. DIR.
Geo. II. Smith. leading physician Of
PrOOklyn. died Friday morning at
j.O5 from blood poisoning, contracted
three weeks previously. Dr. Smith
on Thursday said he would die a few
minutes after 5 o'clock Friday morn
ing.