Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-05-07
covered several weeks ago

discovered several weeks ago.
Hermann Trouterman, Brooklyn, N
Y, butcher, committed suicide Tuesday
claiming that the exhorbitant prices OF
the beef trust made it impossible fol
him to make living. .....A giant cir
cular saw whirled off it's mandrel at 9
saw mill at Ashland, o., Tuesday and
killed a man who was standing thirty
feet away before he could dodge. .... "A
bill providing for the execution OF
criminals by electrocution has been in.
troduced in the Florida legislature. -.
A Chicago man has left that city In 9
motorboat on a 5000 mile cruise. He
will pass through the Chicago drain
age canal to the Mississippi, dowr
that stream to the Gulf Of Mexico
thence up the Atlantic coast, VI
the st. Lawrence river and through the
Great Lakes to Chicago. 1t is prob
able that District Attorney Jerome vii
be a candidate for mayor in the nex
mayoralty election in New York.
Clifford G. Raynor, a young clerk OF
the Jenkins Trust company Of Brook
lyn, N. Y, which failed in 1907, has
been sentenced to the reformatory al
Elmira In connection with the disap-
pearance of $4,000 Of the institutions
money. Although the trust company
was wrecked by its officers, who stole
l, 30 Nd ~ 1nllo nf fhf
peoples money, Raynor is the only one
who is made to suffer at the hands OF
the law. .Advices received at Wash
ington are to the effect that In addition
to the epidemic of smallpox that is
raging in the Armenian district Of Tur-
key, thousands are literally starving
to death, notably in the vicinity OF
Adana. Wilbur and Orville Wright
the aeronautists, are on their way home
from France. AS a result of the
famous Walsh failure in Chicago In
1905, forty banks of that city will sus-
tain losses aggregating $9,000,000. 0......
Women, horses and the stock market
are said to have brought about the
downfall of Ellis w. Niles, bank tel.
ler of Minneapolis, Mimi, who is un-
der arrest on q charge Of embezzline
$37,S67. A sealing vessel has ar
rived at st. Johns, New Foundland
with skins Of $4,000 seals. -. The police
of San Francisco have arrested Jear
Raoul, who is regarded by the author.
tiles Of France as one Of the most des-
perate criminals in the world.....
Patten got into the Chicago wheat
market again on Wednesday and the
price of May wheat went to $1.2sa
bushel. 1t is estimated that the
number slain in the massacres of Asia
tic Turkey now total $4,000 PERSONS:
At Pittsburg, Pa, on Wednesday, sever
men, including councilmen, banker
and hotel keeper, convicted Of bribtne
city councilmen and jury fixing, were
sentenced to prison for terms Of eigh'
teen months to three and a half years
with fines ranging from $500 to $l,5o0
Mrs. Jno. D. Rockefeller, ST., Is
critically i'll with pneumonia at Hot
Springs, Va. 800. Lincoln, Neb., votee
"dry" in Wednesdays election. Jas
c. Dahlman, Democrat, was reelected
mayor of Omaha. Seven men were
killed and four seriously injured a
Nimrod, Mont, Wednesday by an ex-
plosion of dynamite, which was struck
by a steam shovel. .... Two French
men fought duel over the affections
Of a widow near Paterson, N. j., Mon
day night One of the duelists was
shot to death, and the other was
wounded Not less than 100000
workingmen Of Bueno ,Ayres, Argentine
Republic, are on a strike as a protest
against the May Day clash between the
people and the police.