Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-08-24
MERE-MENTION.

MERE-MENTIoN.
William Cooper, a young white
man, was fatally stabbed by a negro,
John McAfee at Marietta, Ga, Satur-
day night, while he was assisting a
policeman with two negro women
prisoners McAfee was arrested. .....
Investigation by the provisional gov
ernment of the affairs Of the city OF
Montreal, Canada, has developed the
fact that the city has lost millions OF
dollars in the administration Of city
affairs by a well organized gang OF
grafters, who have run the city gov
ernment as they pleased for years..
committee, composed Of convicted
bankers, serving time in the Western
penitentiary Of Pennsylvania, have re-
Gently completed an audit Of the in
stitutions' books and found that there
is a deficit Of $4,000 in the prisons
finances. 49,. w. H. Oakley, paymas-
ter for construction company at
Rock, w. Va, was assassinated Satur-
day and robbed of $4,000 which he
was to use to pay off the company's
laborers. The assassin escaped, close
ly followed by a posse. Geo. A.
MacLean and his son, George A. Jr.,
were killed in an automobile accident
near Brunswick, n. j., Saturday after
noon. Besides the killed, there were
four ladies and the negro chauffeur In
the car and all were more or less seri-
ously injured. The steering gear went
wrong and, threw the car against
tree 80. "A. M. Borque, a driver, and
Harry Holcombe, machinist, were
killed in an automobile wreck at In
dianapolis, Ind, late Thursday after
noon, while contestIng in a ESQ mile
automobile exhibition race. On FRI
day on the same track, an automobile
while going at a speed Of nearly 100
miles an hour, skidded on curve
and ran into a mass Of spectators at
the tracks side, killing three persons
and injuring several others. Seven
cadets have been dismissed the past
week from the West Point Military
academy for participation in a hazing
escapade. .Cloudbursts in the noun
tains of Colorado the past week have
done untold damage to crops and
other property Along the Arkansas
river many people have been render
ed homeless, many homes being inun-
dated and their contents washed away.
Twenty casks and nine cases,
containing the skins and bones of an
imals shot by Mr.. Roosevelt In Africa,
have arrived at New York, for the
Smithsonian Institute at Washington.
The annual convention or the
National Farmers Union will convene
at Birmingham, Ala, on September
and 8, an extra large number or dele
gates are expected to be in attendance.
Basil Hayden, hermit Of Mel
son county, KY, Is dead, leaving an
estate of over 100000. Hayden step
ped outside Of his own yard only once
in forty-seven years. .--J. P. Morgan
& Co., on Friday purchased the Chica-
go and Great Western railroad under
chase price was $4,000, 900. Mari
on Blakely, the famous incubator
baby of the st. Louis worlds fair,
was kidnapped by two men and wo-
man from her home at Topeka, Kan,
Friday. 1t is stated in dispatch
from Omaha, Neb., that Edward n.
Hartman, the railroad magnate, Is
suffering from cancer Of the stomach
and that his death may be expected
within three months. 80. Donald M.
Balm, on trial in Atlanta, Ga, for the
murder Of E. G.. Williams, was acquit-
day night. Balm claimed self-defense
80. The plague Of mosquitoes IN
the southern part Of Louisiana still
continues, having been in progress Tor
a month. Hundreds Of head Of cattle,
mostly calves, have been killed by the
insects. People living in the affected
strip, go to their beds before dark and
are sleeping under double mosquito
bars. The Chicago and Northwest
ern and the Atchison, Topeka and
Sante Fe railroads last week placed
orders for rails, cars and locomotives
amounting to 100000. "A London
dispatch is authority for the state
ment that the English government
will spend $10,000,000 in an effort to
equal Germany in the art of building
dirigible balloons and flying ma
chimes. Prof. VIM. R. Faunce OF
Brown university, said in recent ad-
dress that American colleges are turn
ing out an alarming proportlon Oh
graduates who are actually llllterate'
men who cannot write a decent busl-
ness letter, nor express themselves In
plain English. 80. Three women ana
one man were killed near Seattle,
Wash, Friday, by an automobile
which broke the guard rail and fell on
of a bridge. John and Marion
Roberts have been arrested in Ken
tucky on charges of counterfeltlng.
They had 81, 900, 900 in Mexican pesos,
i'm a large trunk, which the secret ser
vice officers captured. ..... Charles F.
Willard, an aeroplanists, made a re-
cord of a mile in one minute at Mine
ola, Long Island, Friday, in flying
machine. The strike Of employees
of the Pressed Steel Car company at
McKees Rocks, Pa, still continues,
and the situation is daily becoming
more strained All along there has
been more or less rioting and quite a
number of casualties have resulted.
The end of the strike appears to be a
long way off -. Thomas Lawson,
the stock speculator and manipulation,
is predicting another panic in the
stock markets. The steamboat Frad
Swain was burned to the waters edge
on the Illinois river near Peoria, ILL.,,
Friday. The twenty-five passengers
and fifteen members Of the crew made
their escape. w. Brooks Lessig, |
a young lawyer, and Miss Virginia Jef-
freys of Philadelphia, were drowned
in the surf at Wildwood Crest, n. j.
Friday afternoon. go. Fire during
Thursday and Friday destroyed $l,-
600, 900 worth of timber in the y1cin- |
ity Of Lake Coeur d'Alene, Washing-
ton. The width of the burning timber
was three miles. and up to saturday
morning had not been brought under
control -. President Taft has accept |
ed an invitation Of President Diaz, to
meet him at Ciudad JuareZ Mexico, |
on October 16. Mr.. Diaz will visit Mr.. |
Taft at Ell Paso, Tex. George F. !