Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-04-13
MERE ENTloN.


died at Sorrento Italy, Friday night
Mrs. Georgia Allyn Sampson
tried at Lyons, N. Y, last week on the
charge of numbering her husband, Har-
ry Sampson, was acquitted. Burning
oil from a 10000 barrel reservoir Oh
the Standard Oil company at Port
Richmond, Cal, spread fire over eight
acres of ground Friday. Two men lost
their lives. A grand jury at Ash
land, o., has indicted two common pleas
court judges, a state senator and a
bank cashier on charge Of embezznng
s15.555. A wealthy woman died, leav-
ing $4,000 to an orphan home, but be-
fore the estate had reached the or
phans, it had dwindled to $1.44. The
indictments grew out Of this bequest.
Two men were killed and seven
ty-five persons were injured at Wayne
N. J., Friday, by the explosion Of $4,000
pounds of powder at a powder mill.
Ethan Allen Hitchcock, secretary OF
the interior under President Mckin-
ley, died in Washington on Friday,
aged "A years. He was a native Of
Mobile, Ala. Mr.. Hitchcocks strong
est characteristics were his own hon
esty and his determination to stop the
land grating in the west. -. "A Wash
ington, Pa, Methodist church Is adver-
tising for the person who dropped a
$1,000 bill on the collection plate Sun
day of last week. The church officers
think the bill must have been dropped
on the plate by mistake. The Mex
lean government has appropriated $1,-
600, 900 for the erection Of monument
commemorating the Tooth anniversary
of Mexican independence next year. 49,.
At Manchester, N. H., Thursday, fire
destroyed seventy-five tenements and
rendered 5000 people homeless. .....
John Anderson, 81 years old, shot one
woman to death, wounded another and
committed suicide at Aurora, ILL.,,
Thursday. Anderson was insane. 800.
During the year 1908 there were SS
deaths among climbers Of the Alps
mountains of Switzerland. This is a
record number of fatalities. 49,. Mid
land, Texas, was visited by a 100000
fire Thursday. ... Tallahassee, chief
Of the Seminole Indians of Florida, Is
dead. He was about 80 years old. Tai
lahassee's religion was 'me no lie, me
no steal, me no kill. Big sleep come,
Great Spirit take me-. Since jan
uary l, 1908, there have been 101 per-
sons killed by automobiles in New
York city. .... Former Governor Han
ley Of Indiana, is to be a candidate
for the United States senate. He
wants the toga of Senator Beveridge.
A plant is being erected at Cor
dele, Ca, to manufacture news print
paper from cotton stalks. .....Six ice
houses, containing 100000 tons Of ice,
were destroyed by fire at East Water
boro, Me-, Thursday. The Bing-
hampton Trust company of Bing-
hampton, N. Y, with capital Of $780,
900 and deposits of s3,000,0O1. was
closed Friday by bank examiners.
On the arrival of twins at the home
of VIM. Hedinger, a Pennsylvania far
mer, Friday, the farmer committed
suicide and his mother -in-law dropped
dead from heart disease. -. In suit
involving $65 at Dalton, Ga, 200 wit
nesses have been subpeonaed. E. &. John
Jackson, charged with participating in
a night riding raid when two negroes
were murdered and five others wound
ed, has been sentenced to one year in
prison at Paducah, KY. The mayor
of McRea, Ca, has issued a lengthy
statement in which he claims that Pope
S. Hill, the Macon lawyer, was not
murdered, but committed suicide. .....
A New York judge discharged a boy
Saturday, who had been arrested for
the theft of six cents worth OF coal,
and told the boy never to steal any
thing again until he got to be at
least a railroad president. .... Jas.
A. Patten, the Chicago wheat king,
sold 5000 bushels of wheat Saturday,
to a miller at $1.3S bushel. Patten
says there will be no cheap wheat
again soon. :. Ben Brame, a negro,
was lynched in Trigg county, KY, Fri
day, for attempted assault.