Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-04-06
TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1909.
MrsE.MENTIoN.


seriously burned at Bradford, Pa, Fri
day. by an explosion of gas following
the shooting" of an oil well, the gas
taking fire from an engine boiler fire.
AS a result Of limitations put
upon new business Of life insurance
companies by the insurance laws OF
New York state, the New York Life
Insurance company has announced that
on May /, 1t will discharge 1000 OF It's
agents In various parts Of the country.
80. The Mexican National Securities
company has been organized under the
laws of the state of Delaware with a
capital stock of $16,000.000. 1t is be-
lieved that the comnay is to be strong
rival Of the beef trust. Eight cases
of scarlet fever are reported among me
crew Of the battleship Missouri, at Ihe
Charlestown, Mass, navy YARD. Inc
present session Of the Pennsylvanla
legislature has passed appropriations
bills amounting to $63,000,OO0, or apout
SIS, 100000 more than the estimateo
revenues Of the state. During tne
month Of March, there were OF new
cases and % deaths from puoonlc
plague. and 10S cases Of yellow feVer
with so deaths in the republic, Ecua-
dor Admiral Cervera, commanoer
of the Spanish feet at the oattie Oh
Santiago. died at Puerto Real, SPAN,
Saturday Sergeant Cortes ana MS
son. Vicente, have been condemned 10
death by a Cuban military court IN
connection with the recent revolutlon-
ary uprising at Vueltas. -. .John Inom,
as, a Chicago street car cond9ctor, nau
one of his eyes gouged out fIloay Wy
coming in contact with the rim or
..nerry widow" hat. The Mermentau
dam at Grand Chenieve, La, construct
ed by rice growers at a cost or $l0o,Ooo'
was recently destroyed by dynamiters,
alleged to be cattle raisers who are
onnosed to the dam. The eighty.
sirth annual meeting Of the Natiollai
Association of Cotton Manufacturers
will be held in Boston on April 70 anu
20 Since the outbreak or cnolera
in Russia in September, mere nave
heen 1O.2SS cases and 1902 deaths. -.
SvIvanis Burnham, a wealthy ranch
owner of Tulin, Tex, has been arrested
on q. suspicion Of numbering a woman
at Terre Haute, Ind, thirty-two years
ago 1t Is announced from New
work that beginning May 1. the United
steel corporation will cut the wages
of ESQ. 900 employees from 10 to 10 per
cent. effecting a saving or S2o,oOo,ooo
wear About 1000 electricians aho
steamftters of Chicago are on a STRIKE
for higher wages. -. SergsahI Iruitad oH
WalSn, o. yCdio OiNs - sI
states army, has completed round
trin tramp from Boston to San Fran
cisco. 100 miles in 156 days. VIM.
+ Downs. a. S1,400-a-year clerk In the
citv engineers office Of Baltimore, is
under arrest on charges OF embezzie-
ment It Is believed Downs stealing
will probably total 100000. He Isl
held under an sS1, 200 bond. "A
"paiama tea" is the latest fad OF tne
Young society women Of Oakland, CaL
Men are barred. -. Twelve members
% the crew of the French tank bark
Jules Henry, were killed and twenty OF
more were injured at Marseiiies,
France. Thursday. by an explosion
which destroyed the vessel. ~. .Ihos. |
A edison has been honored with tine
Adelskiold gold medal, awarded by the
Royal Academy OF Sweden once In eV-
ery ten years on account OF some no
table invention. .RepresentatNe
Lowden Of Illinois, has introduceu oa
bill in congress to appropriate siVo'OO0
to rid the country Of hog cholera. ....'
Count Zeppelin, the German aeron-
ant and a company Of twenty army
Officers had a most thrilling experience
In one of the counts balloons on Thurs-
dav The balloon started with It's pas
seneers from Friedrichafen for Munich,
hut a. high wind carried the party over
the latter place at such speed that
landing was impossible and LANDING
was not made until after eleven hours
in the air, at Dingolfng, Ill miles from
the starting point. The pubic oeot
of the United States at the close Oh
business March 81, less the amount Oh
cash in the treasury, amounted 10 w.
nos. 1920. which is an increase for the
the month Of $S,0SS,574. The leg
islature of Nebraska has passed a law
limiting the "open" hours OF saloons In
that state from a. m. to 8. p. m. 80.
MT. Roosevelt and party spent hal1
day at Gibraltar on Friday and were
due to arrive at Naples, Italy, yester-
The legislature OF Arkansas
has passed resolution for a constitu-
tional amendment exempting from
taxation all cotton mills locating IN
that state The formal opening OF
the Virginian railway from Norfoik,
Va, to Deepwater, W. Va, distance
~ 44s miles. occurred at Norfolk, Fri
dav This road is owned and was built
Nv n ri Rogers of New York. -. May |
wheat reached the highest price In
eleven wears in the Chicago grain pit
on Saturday, the high price OF tne oay
being $1.223 bushei. .GeneI
Gustave A. Mas, prominent sociaIy
and a noted Indian fighter OF Mexico,
has been sentenced to death at Mexico
CITY for the murder Of Lieut.. DaVlo
CIiyaraz, whose sister the general had
wronged A bill to make SUNDAY
legal holiday will be introduced In the
legislature Of New York state under the
auspices Of the Liberal Sunday league