Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-06-25
FRIDAY, JUNE as, 1909.
mEeE.mENrIoN.


The United States grand jury at
New York has begun an investigation
Of the affairs Of the sugar trust. The
department of justice has been pushed
on to make the investigation as stren-
uous as possible by charges that the
sugar trust was bigger than the gov
ernments legal department. ;. .Thos.
Jordan, cattleman, was acquitted at
Bartlesville, Okla, Monday, OF charge
of robbins a bank. Jordan presented
his check at the bank, where he had
money on deposit. The cashier refus-
ed to honor his check and Jordan pull
ed a gun, forcing the cashier to pay.
Bob Leung. wealthy China
man of Ell Paso, Tex, was convicted
in Chicago on Monday, on charges OF
smuggling Celestials across the Mex
lean border. .... Richard +. Price,
disbarred lawyer Of New York. Is su-
Catholic priest, for 100000 damages,
because the priest had informed
Prices wife Of his previous prison rec
ord, he having served two terms In
prison for larceny. The steamsnip
Mauretania, on her last east bound trip,
succeeded In lowering the time be-
tween New York and London TO nve
days and eight hours. This Is the best
time ever made..... The steamsnip
Monday, with 100000 In gold from
Nome, Alaska. Government appro-
priations for the fiscal year 1898, were
$485, ,002,044.72 and for the fiscal year
1910 the appropriations are $1,044.40l,-
857.12, gain In twelve years OF l40
per cent. The state Of Georgia is
suing the Western and Atlantic rail-
road for 100000 Of back taxes.
Melor Osman shot Mike Demick 70
death, seriously wounded Demicks
wife and committed suicide at Steu-
benville, O., Monday. They quarreled
about q cat Walter Wellrnan, the
Chicago newspaper man, Is preparing
for another trial at finding the North
Pole by means Of dirigible balloons.
He expects to start about August LIST.
Brazilian coffee growers are al
legged to be rushing large quantities
Of coffee to America on the theory
that the present session Of congress
is almost certain to put tax on coffee
as possible landed before the tax be-
comes effective. George Burge was
convicted In Atlanta, Ga, Tuesday OF
the murder Of his wife and sentenced
to be hanged on July %. Burge climb
ed In q window at o'clock at night
and stabbed his wife to death. They
had not lived together for some time.
| ..... Mrs. Minnie Tracy has confess
ed to the police Of York, Pa, that she
administered poison to her husband,
who died week ago under suspicious
i circumstances. Mrs. Tracy wanted
her husband out Of the way, 30 she
could marry her brother-in-law, o
widower. DR.. A. Y. Drake, @ ply
sician, was convicted In. the police
court Of Atlanta, Ga, Monday, Of sell
ing cocaine to negroes. Drake Ia
victim Of the cooke" habit and made
a pitiful appeal to the police judge for
| a dose" Of the drug. -. Mrs. Chas.
II. Smith, widow of the famous Geor-
gia humorist, "Bih Arp. died at her
home at Cartersville, Ga. Tuesday ~.
lYegSmen blew open safe in a bank
at Locke, N. z, early Tuesday morn
ing, and then had pitched battle
with citizens who were awakened Dy
the explosion. They escaped with 2S.-
500. Two bandits entered the once
Of the United States Express company
at Green Bay, Wis, Monday night,
and held-up the clerk, getting away
with $4,000. George Howell q
white farmer, was shot to death, and
his wife was mortally wounded by
negro named. Robert Jenkins. In
Emanuel county, Ga, Tuesday while
Howell was at work In the field......
Chas. r. Richardson was sentenced
Wednesday at Pittsburg, Pa, to pay
| fine of $500 and serve fifteen months
In the state prison on charges of bri-
berry In connection with the city coun-
| ell. Sanford Robinson, q lawyer,
is on trial In the United States circuit
court at New York on charges Of att
tempting to retard justice, in that he
secreted witness who had been sub
poenaed by the court. 81. A. Patten,
the Chicago wheat king has Just
wound up a deal In cotton by which
he added 100000 to his bank account
on October contracts. .,....A warrant
was issued Wednesday for the arrest
Of Cameron Currfe, q Millionaire bro
ker Of Detroit, Mich, charging him
with conspiracy to defraud. Currie
failed year ago with liabilities Of $2,-
600, 900. :. The legislature OF Geor-
gia convened In annual session at At
lanta on Wednesday. -. "A fishing
crew of four members hooked lump
of what they believe Is ambergris.
weighing $50 pounds, of Atlantic City,
N. J., Tuesday. II the lump is amber
girls, 1t is worth 5000 pound or $780,
600, 80. Jim Floyd, self-styled Mon
arch of Turkey Heaven Mountains"
notorious moonshiner Of Alabama, has
been sentenced to the Federal prison
at Atlanta, Ga, for a term OF nine and
q half years. w. ]. Piikingto1.
editor of the Iowa Trade Journal. has
taken charge Of every business house
Of Dexter, Ia, town Of 500 persons.
for seven months for the purpose OF
proving that city methods would benz
eft the dealers In small stowns. .....
The wife Of the Rev. r. C. Beaman.
pastor Of Centenary Methodist church
Of Durham, N. c., has disappeared and
Mr. Beaman believes she has eloped
with another man. Nine tourists,
presumably Americans, and two boat
men, were drowned In Killarney lake,
Ireland, Wednesday, by the capsizing
Of the boat. Minister Wu Ting
Fang, China's representative at Wash
ington, has issued an appeal to his
countrymen in America to give all pos
sible aid in the capture Of Leon Ling,
the Chinaman wanted In New York
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