Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-01-15
FRIDAY, JANUARY rs, 1909.
MERE-M ENTION.


Monday in executing four murderers
of a notorious band. for the first time
in ten years. Eighteen other condemn
ed men are to be executed with the
guillotine. .... The lower house Of con-
gress on Monday went on record as
being against the use Of the pension
building for the inaugural ball on
March 4th. .... The estate Of the late
Marshall Field, the Chicago merchant.
has been appraised at $S3,459,032. .....
A dispatch from Tangier reports the
sudden death Of Mulai Mohammed.
,, brother of the sultan Of Morocco, and
at one time a pretender to the Moroc-
can throne. The Pacific coast OF
Washington and British Columbia.
was shaken by an earthquake Monday
afternoon. There were no serious re-
suits. .... The navy departments re-
quest for $75,O00,O00 with which to
construct thirty ships Of all kinds, has
been pruned down by the house COM
mttee on naval affairs to $29,0OO,00O,
which will provide for fifteen vessels.
.... Seventy new cases Of cholera
were reported in st. Petersburg during
the three days following the Russian
Christmas. Since the beginning of the
epidemic, there have been more than
5000 cases of cholera and 3,599 deaths.
.... DIR. Walter r. Amesbury at Ded-
nam, Mass, on Monday plead guilty Of
numbering his wife on Christmas, 1907,
and was sentenced to life Imprisonment.
.... .Twenty-si miners were killed
In coal mine explosion at Zeigler, ILL.,,
on Sunday. Forty thousand DEM
ocrats from all parts Of Ohio were In
Columbus on Monday to witness the
Inauguration Of Judson Harmon as
governor. 49,. Herbert S. Hadley was
lnaugurated governor of Missouri on
MONDAY He is the first Republican
governor Of Missouri since 1871.
senator Hopkins Of Illinois, has intro
duced an amendment to the Panama
canal appropriation bill providing for
an increase in the amount of bonds that
may be sold for canal purposes from
$l35, ,0O0, 900 to $500, 900. One hun
dred miners are reported killed by an
at Switchback, w. Va, Tuesday morn
ing. Fifty men were killed In this mine
two weeks ago. ......A Constantinople
dispatch Of Tuesday says that Turkey
mas accepted Austria's indemnity Of
fer of $10,800,000 for the annexation
of Bosnia and Herzegovina and that
this act ends all talk Of war. Frank
Donelly, aged Sc, shot his wife to death
at Hamilton, O., Tuesday, and then
shot himself five times and slashed his
throat with razor in attempting to
commit suicide. He later walked five
miles to oxford 49,. Governor Landa,
Of the Federal district in which Mexi-
co City is situated, has prepared an
ordinance limiting the number Of sa-
looms in that city to one in every 600
feet This will close nearly half Of
the saloons and pulque shops in the
Mexican capital. .....J. P. Morgan &
Co.. of New York, have agreed to A.
nance the Independent Fertilizer COM
pany, recently organized. with a capital
of $50,000,000. This company Is to be
a competitor Of the Virginia Carolina
Chemical company. Mrs. Una Cos
lin was awarded a verdict for $4,000
damages against Miss Annie Irene
Magher in a New York court Monday,
for alienation Of the affections Of the
formers husband. :. Mrs. Carrie Ma
ton was arrested at New Castle-Upon-
ing a saloon. . Colonel H. B. Short,
a wealthy citizen Of Lake Waccamaw,
~ c., committed suicide Wednesday
morning, owing to Ill health. go. The
on appropriations, has given 1t out that
it is not in favor Of increasing the pres
ident's salary from $50,000 to 100000
year. The presidents salary, extras,
incidentals, ETC., now total $38l,000
year. The trial Of Patrick Calhoun
on an indictment charging the offering
of bribe to number Of the board of
supervisors, was begun at San Fran
CISCO on Tuesday. 80. .Chas. S. Came
ron, president Of the Tube City rail-
road, was convicted at Pittsburg, Pa,
Tuesday, on a charge Of attempting to
bribe a city official. Cameron was con-
vlcted on the testimony Of a man
named Martin, who had previously
been convicted Of soliciting and re-
ceiving bribes from Cameron. .......
Twelve street cars were burned by a
mob at Rio Janeiro, Brazil, on Tues
day, because Of dissatisfaction with
some of the transportation company's
fares, service, etc. The street car COM
pany acceded to the demands Of the
NIB. 80. John w. Kern has failed to
get the Democratic caucus nomination
for United States senator from Indiana.
The nomination goes to former Con-
gresham Benjamin F. Shiyely. The
Federal department Of justice has TAX
en- steps looking to the bringing OF
criminal actions against the New York
newspapers that are held responsible
for the alleged misstatements in con-
nection with the Panama canal dealing