Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-11-06
MERE-MENTlON.

Fire did damage to the amount of
$250,O00 in a Philadelphia lumber yard
Monday. Millions of teet Of hard wood
ilmOer were destroyed. The Penn
syIvania Railroad company has let
contract to the Westinghouse Manu-
lacturlng company for the electrinca-
tion of It's New York and Brooklyn ter
mlnals, yards and tunnels. The con-
tract calls for $5,000,000. C. A. Hen
gerer, Of Buffalo, N. Y, committed
suicide Monday by jumping into the
Niagara river and going over the falls.
..... Eugene Fitche, an octogenarian,
of Hampton, Ark, on Monday shot
Samuel Fife to death, thinking he was
tne leader Of the night riders In that
community. .Peyton w. Metcalf,
nephew of Secretary Of the Navy Met
calf, is serving a thirty day sentence
at san Jose, CAL, for running over and
lnjuring a small boy. Fire, prob
ably caused by a cigarette, destroyed
theatre building and caused the loss
Of one life and $4,000 property damage
at Newark, N. j., Monday. ....... The
constabulary operating in the province
Of Misamas, Mindanao island, Phil
ippines, has been engaged the past
week in pursuing a band Of Moro
outlaws. The leader has been killed.
..... The supreme court Of the United
States has handed down an opinion in
which it is held that states have the
right to forbid the Importation or pos
session of game from other states and
foreign countries. "A shark, weighing
seven tons, and thirtytwo feet long,
said to be the largest on record, was
killed a few days ago in San Pedro
bay, Lower California. 49,. Four hun
dred race track sports went from Bal
timore to New York on Monday on a
special train to cast their votes in
their home state against Governor
Hughes, because of his anti-racing
fight in that state. go. Mrs. Julia A.
Water" and other poems, died Mon
day at Galesburg, ILL.,, aged IS years.
...... The total amount Of national
bank notes in circulation on October
81, was $665.S44,192, an increase for
the year Of $55,863,7 1926. VIM. E.
Corey and his wife, who was Mabelle
Gilman, an actress, did not attend the
marriage of his sister, Ada B. Corey,
to DR.. Chas H. Aufhammer, at Down
bride a check for 100000 as a pres
ent. Alice Cheney Brown obtained
possession of $4,000 worth Of bonds
from a Chicago brokerage firm on
Monday by means of a worthless
check The bonds were recovered by
a detective. .... New York police cap
tured a gang Of four counterfeiters
with a complete outfit, in a raid on
Monday. .......A Mormon church, To-
Gated at Montreal, Ga, was dynamited
by unknown parties Monday night.
President Roosevelt and party will
leave for the African hunting trip on
March l3. ... .Twenty-six men have
been arrested in CraigheaG county,
Ark, on charges Of night riding and
are held by the grand jury in bonds Of
$500 each. .... The 74th birthday an
niversary of the Dowager Empress Of
China was celebrated by the American
battleship fleet at Annoy on Tuesday by
the firing of a salute by each Of the
fourteen ships Of the fleet. Fire de-
stroyed twenty-five buildings, valued
at $l50,000, at Savannah, n. Y, Tues
day. .... The Sells Bros circus train
was in a head-on collision on the va
200 and Mississippi Valley railroad
near Greenville, Miss, Tuesday. One
man was killed and one seriously in
jured. A. ]. Gordon, formerly coun-
sci for the Great Northern railroad at
Spokane, Wash, is $50000 short in his
accounts with the railroad company.