Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-07-13
TUESDAY, JULY I3, 1909.
MERE.M ENTIoN.

Representative Rodenberg Of ILL
nois, has introduced bill in congress
making the kidnapping Of person
under 12 years Of age, a capital crime.
The second trial Of Patrick CAL
houn. on charges Of bribery, at San
Francisco, Is to begin on July 10. The
first trial lasted more than five months.
.Fifty-six women were arrested
at West Mineral, Kan, Thursday, for
wrecking four saloons, because the
proprietors refused to sell them beer IN
buckets. Kansas is supposed to be a
dry state. -. Miss Camille Lonstrof
Of Chicago was fined $4,000 In the
Federal court at Trenton, N. ]. Friday
for failure to declare furs valued at
$2,500, for duty, on her recent return
from Europe. Eugene Wiltbank, for
mer paying teller Of the Second Ma
tional bank at Atlantic City, N. J'
charged with stealing $4,000, has sur
rendered to the authorities after an
absence Of several weeks. The two
burglars who shot Mrs. Sophie Stabler
to death at Flatbush, N. Y, early
Thursday morning, were later captur-
ed by the police and confessed the
crime. One of the burglars had been
shot twice by a son Of the dead wo-
man with a pistol torn from the hands
of one Of the thieves. .....A Mexican
millionaire has been sentenced to death
for murder, and must pay the widow
of his victim 100000 damages. ......
A new union railway station costing
about $20,000,000 Is to be erected at
kansas CITY, Mo. The agricultural
department estimates the 1903 corn
crop at 3,161, 100000, an increase OF
4O0,00O,000 over last year. .Jno; ..
Early, the North Carolina lepeT Is
now In a New York hospital and II Is
said that 1t would take microscope
to find blemish on his skin. ;...; ;Jno. in
d. Rockefeller has added anotner WV,
00o. 600 to the funds Of the General
Education Fund, making his total
contributions $52,000,000 Vincent
A. Altman, 80 years old, an ex-poice-
man, has been arrested IN chicago,
charged with the many recent pomo
explosions which have damaged SO
much property In that city during the
past few months. -. The bodies OF
VIM. Bates and his bride were recov-
cred from San Diego, (Cal) pay FIJI.
day. They were drowned the nignt
before by the capsizins Of the boat
wbile rowing with a party Of friends
About 5000 marriages perform
ed by justices of the peace, OF Chica-
go. are held by the municipal court OF
that city to be Illegal. -. John Mad
son IA under arrest at San Francisco
ON the charge Of bigamy. He Is saln
to have ten wives in different parts OF
the country. Bishop d. II. Moore
of the Methodist Episcopal church, In
an address at Steubenville, o.. salo
FRIDAY night, Knowing the Chinese
character as I do, In the face OF the
awful murder Of the mission worker
in New York, I would not permit
daughter Of mine or any woman, young
or old, to teach In any Chinese mis-
sion In the United States.". SNEAK
thieves stole SIS, 900 in gold notes from
the general postoffice at Vienna, Aus
tria, on Friday. A Southern rail-
way train was derailed near EtoWah,
N. c., Saturday by spreading rails ana
eleven passengers were more or less
injured. =. =. Maj. Jas. w. Long, U. ..
A.. was knocked down by an automo-
bile Friday in Washington, and later
died from his injuries. .....J. V. White
was convicted at Mariana, Fla, sat
urday, of second degree murder, ne
having shot DIR. H. Alexander, den
tist, to death several months ago, De-
cause the latter kissed Mrs. White
while having her teeth treated WHITES
sentence will be life imprisonment
He claimed self f-defense. Col. Mar
cellus Pointer, q stan offcer unaer
Gen. Joe Wheeler in the civil war. aiso
in a Bowery lodging house, New YORK,
SATURDAY.. Thirteen prisoners es-
capped from the jail at Paducah, KY,
Saturday, while the jailers were at
dinner. John w. Hodges and Ru-
fus Lucas, well-to-do citizens or On
YER, Ga, had pistol duel In the for
mers store Saturday, and as the re-,
suit Hodges Is dead and Lucas Is IA
tally wounded. They quarreled over
a trivial matter. .... Three tra1nmen
killed, one fatally injured and trahc
tied up for twelve hours, was the re-
suit of a head-on collision near Cisco,
Utah, Saturday. 49,. M. Sakao, presi-
dent of the Japan Sugar company, re-
Gently convicted with twenty-one 9TH
ers, on charges of grating, committed
suicide Saturday by shooting himself
with a pistol. -. During wind
and rain storm at Gouveneur, N. Y,
thousands Of small frogs fell, cover
ing the sidewalks to such an extent
as to make walking difficult. "A
Silesian Judge, according to a Berlin
dispatch. has been granted a divorce
because his wife insisted on dieting
herself to become slender enough to
wear the fashionable garb OF the
day. The home Of Amedo Frun-
ri, the Italian political boss Of Ger
mantown, Pa, was blown up with
dynamite early Sunday morning,
supposedly by political enemies. One
daughter was badly injured. Fiji
teen persons were more or less in1ur-
ed in a rearend collision OF trolley
cars on the Williamsburg bridge,
New York, Sunday. =. President Taft
laid the corner stone of Ingram Me-
mortal church at Washington on Sun
day. .... New York and western
capitalists are behind a project to
build railways in Peru and western
South American countries that will
reduce the time from interior Peru
Wan points to New York from thirty
TO twelve days. 1t has been ne
cessary on account Of rioting OF the
striking coal miners to call out troops
at Sydney, Cape Breton, during the
past few days. The twenty-fourth
annual convention OF the lnterna-
tional Christian Endeavor society Is
in session at st. Paul, MINI. .... The
hearing into the mental state Of Har-
ry K. Thaw was opened at White
Plains, N. Y. Monday. the court hav-
ing denied the plea Of District Attor-
ney Jerome to a change Of venue to
New York county. .... The town
ship authorities Of Franklin. n, j.,
have passed an ordinance forbidding
barkeepers in the township to sell
Intoxicating liquors to all persons
whose names are furnished by the
% of Iya ahrfo
This board has furnished long
blacklist to the barkeepers and the
township is much stirred in conse-
uuence