Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-03-12
MERE-M MENTIoN.

By the terms of a general amnesty
bin recently passed by the Cuban con-
gress, nearly 500 prisoners, some OF
them desperate criminals, were re-
leased from Cuban prisons on TUESDAY
The Russian douma has author
lied the appropriation Of $23,O0O,OOo 1or
the purchase Of munitions OF war tor
the army and navy. 49,. AN lmposter
who represented himself as the GOV
ernor Of Idaho" was close observer
of the Taft inaugural ceremonies In
Washington last week. The real gov
ernor was not present. An S-year-
old girl sent to Harrisburg, Pa, nos
pital suffering with enlarged tonsils,
was operated on for appendicitis by
the surgeon in charge on Tuesday. The
oneration was successful" TWO
mills of the Dupont Powder company
near Wilmington, Del, exploded early
Monday morning. One man was killed
and the property damage amounted TO
thousands of dollars. "A charter
commission is at work on a new char-
ter for the city Of Greater New YORK.
Among other things, 1t is proposed 10
abolish the board Of aldermen ana ere
ate a council Of thirty-nine members
to serve without pay. 1t Is also pro-
posed tc make the mayors salary Vs.
600 per year. The United States
district court at Kansas City, MO-, has
handed down a decision holding that
the 2-cent-rate laws Of Missouri are
void because they are unremuneratlve
and confiscatory. 80. 1t Is not improp-
able that President Taft will appoint
Mrs. Edward w. Carmack postmaster
at Columbia, Tenn. The suggestion
that Mrs. Carmack be appointed was
made by a former postmaster at Co
lumbia, and Mr.. Taft has referred the
matter to Postmaster General Hitch
cock for final decision. g. {. Mrs. Leavitt,
daughter of VIM. ]. Bryan, has been
granted a divorce from her husband.
The town Of Brinkley, Ark, was
almost totally destroyed by tornado
Monday night. Thirty eight persons
are known to have been killed and the
property damage exceeds $1,O0O,00O. 80.
Lester Elkins, aged 20, a balloonist,
assembled 1000 feet at San Pedro, CAL,
Monday, and descending in a para
chute, fell in the bay and was drown
ed. Rev" Joseph ]. McMaster, 35
years old. posing as prison evangei-
list, Is held at Galveston, Tex, having
become known as Joe Wilson, a des-
perate cracksman. Wilson claims to
have $4,000 buried in a hole in Can
ada, the proceeds of three hauls made
at Minneapolis, Mimi, several years
ago. George T. Oliver, owner and
publisher of the Pittsburg Gazette
Times, has been nominated by the Re-
publicans Of the Pennsylvania legisla-
ture to succeed Mr.. Knox in the Unit
ed States senate. .... Miss Augusta
Mapes, Is years old, the daughter OF
a Westchester, N. Y, millionaire, eloped
Monday with q carpenter. The local
option bill backed by the Anti-Saloon
League, was killed by the Pennsylva-
MIA legislature Tuesday. .... Hinton
Rowan Helper former United States
consul at Buenos Ayres, and the orig
inal propector Of a railroad line TO
cross North, Central and South Amer
lea, committed suicide in Washington
on Tuesday. .... Mrs. Augusta Zach
arda was shot to death by her di-
vorced husband in Baltimore on Tues
day in a quarrel over the possession OF
one of their children. The esti-
mated expenditures for old age PEN
sions in England for the year 1909-10
Is S43,500, 900. The 200 employees Of
a hat factory at Woodbine, N. j., went
on a strike Monday and there has been
some rioting since. The legislature
Of Delaware has passed a bill which
seeks to put stop to the marriage OF
"affinities"-married men and women
who leave their own husband or wife
and marry some other man or woman
on the theory that the new partner was
made especially for them. The whip
ping post is prescribed as the check
valve for affinity" marriages.