Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-06-22
MERE.MENTION.

MERE.MENTloN.
President Taft will leave Washing
ton on July Is, for his summer home
at Beverly Cove, Mass. .....N. G. AL
ston, an absconding bank cashier OF
Stevenson, Ala, has been arrested at
Seattle, Wash. e. II. Hartman,
the railroad magnate, who purchased
the Central Of Georgia railway in 1907,
has turned the property over to the IL
linois Central. 80. John ]. Muller, who
shot his sweetheart to death near Bal
timore in March last, confessed his
crime Thursday and was sentenced to
life Imprisonment. Muller claims that
the spirit Of the girl appeared In
dream and drove him to a confession.
$50. An automobile driver at Crown
Point, Ind, Friday drove a 30-horse
power machine q distance Of 236 miles
In 4 hours, 81 minutes and 81 seconds.
:. Tom Boutwell, Is held at Bosalusa,
La, charged with the murder Of Ben
Sowell, who 1t Is said, Is BoutwelPs
of the Navy Herbert, Congressman
Hardwick Of Georgia, and David c.
Barrow of the University Of Georgia,
have been selected as q board OF arbi-
tration to settle the differences be-
tween the Georgia railroad and the
striking firemen. -. In q pitched bat
tie between train robbers and consta-
bles at Braggs, Okla, Friday, one OFF,
Ger was killed and one Of the robbers
was fatally shot. -. Clyde Carter, a
sawyer, and A. ]. Jonas, superintendent
Of a manufacturing company's mills at
Carriers, Fla, engaged in pistol duel
Thursday. Carter was fatally shot and
Jonas was dangerously wounded.
One person was killed and three injur-
ed by the wreck Of a Chicago and
Northwestern train near Fond duLac,
Wis, early Friday morning. 49,. .Sena-
tor Clay of Georgia, has offered an
amendment to the tariff bill by which
he seeks to place an annual tax OF 5000
on all brokerage concerns dealing In
grain, provisions, cotton, etc. .Ac-
cording to figures issued by the bureau
Of statistics the United States exported
5000, 100000 less merchandise during
the fiscal year which ends June 80,
than for the fiscal year ending last
June. The total value Of cotton ex-
ported for the eleven months ending
NAV 81, amounted to $4,302, ,925, TOT. -.
Chas. w. Morse, the convicted banker,
has been released from prison in New
York on $125,000 bail, pending an ap-
peal to the Federal court OF appeals.
Two additional tunnels under the
Hudson river connecting Jersey City
and New York city, will be opened for
traffic on July Is. The four tunnels
have been constructed In five years at
a. cost of $50,000, 900. The New York,
New Haven and Hartford railroad is
making arrangements to handle all OF
its trains between New York and Bos-
ton with electric power. The police
of Philadelphia arrested q street beg
gar Thursday, and on searching his
clothes, found bank books showing de-
posits of s14,140 in his rags. Rear
Admiral Schroeder Of the United States
navy has recommended the prohibition
of the sale of cigarettes on naval ves-
sells. :. The queen Of Italy last week
put q ban on the large hats imported
by the women Of fashion from Paris.
During the annual celebration OF
the battle of Bunker Hill at Charles
town, Mass, Thursday, sixty-five per-
sons were more or less injured by fire-
works, pistols, etc. George Schaef-
fer was convicted Of murder in the first
degree at Allentown, Pa, Friday, for
the killing of a jewelry peddler last
summer. Schaeffer killed his victim
with a hatchet, cut the body to pieces
and concerted the parts into a floor. I.
More than 200 physicians and surgeons
Of the United Staotes will attend the
International Medical congress, which
meets at Budapest, Hungary, In July. j.
The cornerstone of a 100000 Y. M. G.
A. building, was laid at Mexico City on
Thursday. :. {. i. Albert 8. Munroe and
his bride of week, were found dead
In their home at William5port, Pa, Fri
day. 1t Is believed that they were VIC
Tins Of poisoned candy. ..... There
was a light fall Of snow at Malone, N.
Y, Friday morning. -. More than
100 900 persons witnessed the presen-
tation Of medals to the Wright Broth
ers at Dayton, o., Friday. -. Dan
Tso Ac, 17-year- Navajo Indian,
pleaded guilty at Salt Lake City, Utah,
Friday, to numbering four persons, rel
atives, in fit Of anger. He was SEN
fenced to prison for ten years. New
York police are looking for Leong Ling,
a Chinaman with half dozen aliases,
on suspicion that he is guilty Of the
murder of Miss Elsie Sigel, whose body
was found in room occupied by the
missing Chinaman. on Friday. Miss
Sigel is q granddaughter Of General
Sigel, prominent Union officer In the
civil war. :. Five men and sixty eight
horses were burned to death In a livery
stable fire at Duluth, Mimi, Saturday
afternoon. 4. /. Edward Payson Weston,
the transcontinental pedestrian, reach
ed Uintah, Utah, Saturday afternoon.
There were thirty -four new cases
of cholera reported at st. Petersburg
on Friday and fifty-three on Saturday.
Ten deaths occurred during the twen-
ty-four hours ending Saturday at
noon. >. James Sharp, religious fan
attic who styled himself adam God"
has been sentenced to prison for a
term of twenty-five years by q judge
at Kansas City, Mo-, for q murder COM
mitted while in religious frenzy.
The government Of Norway Is prepar-
ing to subsidize mail steamship line
direct from New York to Bergen, Nor
way. Samuel Gompers, president
OF the American Federation of Labor.
Is touring Europe, studying labor con-
ditions. "A Black Hand agent entered
an Italians place of business at Gary,
Ind, Saturday and handed the proprie-
tor a blackmailing letter in which $500
was demanded. Before the agent could
get away he was shot five times and
probably fatally injured. %. Washing
ton friends of Commander Robert
Peary are saying that they believe the
explorer has at last reached his goal,
the North Pole However, they do not
expect to hear from Peary before Au-
gust or September. The famous
bribery case against Patrick Calnouh,
tried on charges of bribery, ended at
San Francisco, on Sunday at noon
with the jury failing to agree. The
trial lasted five months and one week.
:. An English nobleman has placed
an order for a quarter Of an ounce Of
radium at a cost Of $150.O00, to be used
in experimenting with 1t for cancer
cure. The cost per pound. at this rate,
would be $S,123.000. THE Wright
Brothers will begin. an official series OF
flights with their flying machine at
Washington this week. The govern
ment is to buy one or more machines
IL certain tests are met.