Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-06-18

electrocuted at Auburn, N. T., Monud.
for the murder of his mother, whom
he shot in the back Of the head. ....
President Penna Of Brazil, died at Rit
Janeiro on Saturday night. .... .P6sta
authorities in California are making {
search for registered mail sack, sale
to contain $4,000, which has disap'
peared between Los Angeles, CAL, ant
Bisbee, Ariz. .Advices from st. Pc
tersburg are to the effect that Russian
troops have slaughtered 5000 tribes.
men In the vicinity of Tabriz, Persia
during the past few days. .....A New
York syndicate headed by j. p. Nor
gan & Co., Is preparing to place MIL
lions of American money In China. 80.
Two men were badly bitten by rabit
horse at Newark, N. j., Sunday. The
horse has been killed. .... Government
statistics show that from December
26, 1908 to June II last, there We're H.
7O3 cases Of smallpox with deatf
rate Of only fifty-two. In 1902 there
were 54,014 cases and the reduction IN
the number Of cases is said to be due
very largely to compulsory vaccination
The lumber production OF the
United States for the year 1908, was
33,2Ss, 1863, 900 feet, a decrease from the
previous year Of 17.3 per cent. .....A
petition containing the names OF 4,ool
voters has been presented to the city
council Of Atlantic City, N. j., asking
the council to allow Sunday baseball
Senator Clay of Georgia, says
that the present extra session VIII
probably last until September 1st.....
Nine Italians, alleged members OF q
Black Hand society, and charged with
conspiracy to rob and kill orazio Be-
redelli, were convicted at Fairmount
w. Va, Monday. The Isthmian ca
nal commission on Monday placed
contract for 10,OOO,O0 pounds Of dyna-
mite. Secretary Wilson Of the de-
partment of agriculture, has ordered
a rigid investigation Of packing house
conditions at East st. Louis, Ill.,.
The price of steel billets was advanc-
ed 81 a ton in the Pittsburg market on
Monday =. . Henry Needham, prom
inent citizen of Greenfield, Tenn, was
assassinated Tuesday night while
attending a lawn party. 49,. Samuel
Untermyer, a prominent attorney OF
New York, said Tuesday, that the su-
gar trust has been q consistent law
breaker ever since its birth, but that
It is no worse than many Of the other
trusts In it's criminal methods and not
SO bad as some 80. The navy depart
ment is asking for bids for the con-
struction of two 26,0O0-ton battleships
to be named the Arkansas and the
Wyoming. These will be the heaviest
battleships ever built. -. Mrs. Eva
Smith Cochran, who died last year, left
instructions in her will for the pay
ment of $1,000 each to $50 employees OF
a carpet mill at Yonkers, N. Y, In
which she was interested. The checks
went to employees who had worked In
the mill for twenty years and longer
Paul Endermann, paying teller
of a branch Of the Jefferson bank OF
New York, has disappeared. He is
short in his accounts from $4,000 to
$25, 900. u. Sorenson, q blacksmith,
invented an aeroplane. When he was
ready to try it Tuesday, he attached 1t
to gas balloon and ascending to a
height of $500 feet, attempted to
fly gracefully to earth. The machine
wouldn't work and the inventor fell to
the earth. The machine was smashed
the blacksmith being only slightly in
jured. -. DIR. Eugene Davenport, dean
of the university Of Illinois, says: 1--WE
have seen the last of cheap bread In
this country, which means that the
population is beginning to overtake the
food supply. Mrs. Myrtle Thompson
Cress, a divorcee, Is years old, Is under
arrest at Colorado Springs, CAL,
charged with the murder Of Chas,
Philips in December last. When ar
rested Tuesday, Mrs. Cress was array
ed for her second marriage. ....The
Russian douma adjourned Tuesday
until October %. .. Cholera has again
become virulent at St Petersburg, fif-
teen new cases being reported Tuesday.