Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-01-26
TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1909.
MERE-M ENTION.

has shut the door on the only haven
of refuge open to fugitives and Grim
inals from the United States :. Rep
resentative Townsend of the Delaware
legislature, has given notice that he
will introduce a bill providing for
capitation tax on bachelors. .... The
government of Great Britain for the
year ending December 81, paid old age
pensions, amounting to $38,750,000 to
59603S persons. .....A About 5000 en-
! ployees Of the United States Rubber
company mostly working In the New
England states, have been thrown
out Of work for an indefinite period be-
cause of an accumulation Of unsold
stock, largely due to the mild weather
..... The District of Columbia COM
mittee of the house has refused to re-
port a bill putting the District In the
prohibition column. =. E. q. Elliott A. Ar
cher, a resident and property owner Of
Seattle, Wash, Is to be taken back to
Newark, n. j., to answer to charges Of
| forging $4,000 Of warehouse receipts
after an absence Of five years. :. Mrs.
Susie NJ. Burdette, widow Of Creek
county, Oklahoma, has filed suit in
| the United States circuit court to re-
cover 100000 from several life insur
ance companies which have refused
payment Of the face value Of policies
on the life of her husband. The insur-
ance companies claim that Mr.. Bur-
claims that he was victim Of assas-
sination. .....A Bloomington, ILL.,, wo-
man committed suicide Friday by get
ting into a trunk, closing the lid and
uncorking bottle Of chloroform. $50.
The Italian government and the out
side movement associated with 1t In
relief work, has the task Of providing
food for 100000 to 100000 refugees as
the result of the earthquake. 80. The
bill to prohibit the manufacture Of in
toxicating liquors in Tennessee after
January l. 1910, was passed by the
Legislature on Friday. 800. The equal
suffrage for women amendment to the
constitution Of South Dakota, has been
passed by the senate Of that state....
The Kentucky court of appeals In
| decision handed down on Thursday, de-
clared that there cannot be a union
between the Cumberland Presbyterian
church and the Presbyterian church
of America, holding that the presby-
teries of the Cumberland Presbyterian
church had exceeded their constitution
al powers in forming the union. ...
The third wife Of the sultan of Tur-
key died on Thursday. .... Six Chin
ese miners were killed near Johannes
burg, Transvaal, Thursday. The kill
ing was done by police officers who
were trying to quell riot amongst the
Cinnamon, who were on a strike. ....
Fire started, 1t is believed, by a ci-
garette stump, burned 100 bales OF
cotton Friday on the Clyde Liner pier
at New York. .... Ten white and $50
native miners were drowned in a
South African mine Friday, by the
flooding Of the mine, due to a broken
dam. ..... The legislature Of Nebraska
will pass a law authorizing the election
vote of the people. 1t is said that the
object of the law is to give VIM. ].
| Bryan a chance Of being elected sem
| ator. 80. Arthur Barlow, a justice of
the peace at Trenton, n. j., has been
sentenced to two years In prison for
eXtorting money from ignorant for
eigners.. .... Edward Payson Weston,
| the noted pedestrian, will leave New
York on March Is, his 10th birthday,
to walk to San Francisco, and says
| he can cover the distance in 100 days
..... The sentence of Herman Billek,
the noted Chicago murderer, has been
| commuted to life Imprisonment by
| Governor Deneen. Billek was respited
six times. .... DR.. VIM. T. Bull, not
ed surgeon of New York, has been
critically Ill for several months as the
| result Of cancer. He was told that he
could not possibly live beyond a GER
| tain time. He Is improving, however,
and expects to come south for the
| winter. He has received beneficial
results from a new cancer treatment
| 900. Andrew Carnegie says that Gov
ernor Hughes Of New York, is the man
to be made the next president Of the
| United States. 800. The United Mine
Workers, in convention at Indianapolis,
| Ind, has appropriated $4,000 for the
defense Of Gompers Mitchell and Nor
rison, in the contempt of court pro-
ceedings 80. Jacob Weise, a produce
dealer was fined $6250 by a Philadel-
phia judge Friday on conviction Of
selling bad eggs. The conviction was
under the pure food laws. 49,. Homer
G. Tabor former president Of bank
at Los Angeles, Cal. has been indict-
ed by a grand jury on nineteen counts
charging embezzlements totaling $780,
900. 49,. Beach Hargis, the famous
Kentucky feudist, who was recently
tried on the charge Of numbering his
father, which resulted in a mistrial,
and now out on a bail bond Of $4,000,
went on a rampage Friday, finally in
flcting a dangerous wound In his
foot The legislature Of Illinois Is
in deadlock over the election Of q
successor 10 SeIldlOF t1OphlHS. "a
negro was lynched at Mobile, Ala,
early Saturday morning. The negro
had shot deputy sheriff to death. .....
Three persons We're killed and six in
jured in a rear-end collision on the
Pennsylvania railroad at Summerhill.
Pa, Saturday morning. The accident
was due to a dense fog. ..... VIM. F.
Woods, former cashier of a National
bank, was convicted at San Antonio,
Tex, Saturday on charges Of embez-
element and misapplication Of funds
and was sentenced to eight years in
a Federal prison. 49,. .Larue county,
KY, in which Abraham Lincoln was
born, has gone for prohibition by a
vote of four to one. ..... Judge Taft
left Charleston yesterday on the bat
tleship North Carolina for Panama.
The battleship Montana goes along
as convoy. .. Bishop E. w. hampton