Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-02-19
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1e, 1909

live in a tent on the Texas prairies for
several months in an effort to regain
his health. Thirty persons are re-
ported dead at Sivas, Asiatic Turkey,
as the result of an earthquake on Tues
day. Several government buildings
were destroyed. -. The legislature OF
Idaho has passed a local option bill.
An election will be ordered In any
county on the petition of forty per
cent of its voters. -. .President-elect
Taft arrived in Washington on Tues
day morning. One woman was KILL
ed and three others were seriously hurt
in Baltimore on Monday, by runaway
team attached to a carriage IN which
they were returning from a funeral.
The Jack the Ripper" Of Ber-
lin, is still plying his trade. UP to
Wednesday his victims numbered
twenty. -. The lower house Of con-
gress has passed the bill providing for
separate statehood for Arizona and
New Mexico. The arrest/of two
men in Pittsburg, Pa, on charges OF
Jury bribing, has brought out the al
legged fact that "jury fixing" is a reg
ular business in the county In which
Pittsburg is located and that the cost
of fixing q jury" is SIS and upward.
49,. The king Of Spain has arranged
for a fight with the Wright brothers In
their flying machines at Pau. France.
Michael Hennessey, go years old,
accused by his wife Of giving too much
attention to young woman visitor,
saturated his wife's clothing with oil
and set her on fire. Hennessey Is In
iail. His wife will die. Carl Fisher
Hansen, lawyer, is on trial In New
York on a charge Of bribing witness
to give false testimony. The Penn
sylvania railroads New York Chicago
flyer ran into a 15-ton boulder near
Newton Hamilton, Pa, early Monday
morning while running at the rate OF
forty-five miles on hour. The rock had
been washed down on the track and
when the engine struck 1t the big mo-
gul turned over The cars left the
track, but remained upright. Aside
from bruises only one person was in
iured. The cars were all Of the steel
type and suffered little damage.
The Waters Pierce Oil company has
paid its $4,000 fine recently imposed
by the courts Of Missouri for violation
of the states antitrust laws. 80. Al
bert Twining, formerly president Of As
bury Park, N. J., bank, convicted OF
speculating with the banks funds and
out on a $50,000 bond, awaiting the
result of his appeal, and living in New
Mexico, has disappeared on learning
that the New Jersey court decision
was against him. His bondsmen are
liable for the face Of the bond. .....
Three criminal insane men made their
escape from the state hospital at Nor
ristown, Pa, Monday night, killing one
Of the keepers. One Of the escapes has
been recaptured. There mas peen
such a decrease Of production Of broom
corn that the prices Of finished brooms
will probably double from what 1t was
a year ago. 80. The Texas OIL COM
pany, an independent concern, has
broken ground at Bayonne, N. ]. for
the erection Of an $1S,000,000 oil re-
fnery. A 81 gold piece, minted at
Dahlonega, Ga, in 1861, was sold In
New York on Tuesday for $3.50. .......
Owing to the milaness or the weather
throughout the north, the winter Ice
harvest has been so small that fears
af
summer in northern cities. ....... The
Harrison and Gould railroads entering
Memphis, Tenn, have broken ground
for the building Of $2,000,000 termi-
nal station. 80. -Four men walked on
the ice across Niagara river from the
American side to Goat Island. within
a few feet of the brink Of the Falls on
Tuesday. This is the first time on
record that such feat has been per-
formed The lower house Of con-
gress has passed a bill which will ef-
fectively put an end to bucket shops"
in the District Of Columbia, If passed
by the senate. The penalty for viola
ton of the proposed law is $1,000 fine
or a years imprisonment. .....A bill
has been introduced in the Russian
douma providing for a building fund
for the erection of 14S,179 primary
schools throughout the empire. .....J.
Frank Sunderland, president Of the
Central Trust company Of Providence,
r. l., now in the hands of receiver,
has been placed under $50, 900 bond, on
a charge Of obtaining $4,000 from a
Mrs. Newell Of that city by false pre-
tense. m. F. Cofer, a former su-
pervisor, was convicted at San Fran
cisco on Wednesday. Of accepting
$4,000 bribe in connection with a
trolley line franchise Bishop VIM.
G. Crowdy, colored, head Of the
Church of God and Saints Of Christ"
a negro sect known as the foot
washers" died in Philadelphia a few
days ago, leaving an estate valued at
$4,000. Up to date, three widows"
are claiming his worldly goods. .......
Two men were killed and several
were more or less injured in head
on collision Of freight trains on the
Tuesday night. The accident was due
to a careless operator. Oscar r.
Hull, wanted in Savannah, Ga, on
charges of stealing 100 express or
ders and cashing sixty Of them, was
arrested at Revelstoke, Canada, We'd
nesday.. y.......A London news agency
has received a dispatch from Tehe-
ran, Persia, to the effect that between
1000 and 5000 persons were killed
by an earthquake in the province of
Luriston on January 23.. The
tender Yankton, the advance guard
Of the around-the- world battleship
fleet, arrived at Hampton Roads on
Wednesday. Thieves made haul
of $4,000 worth of jewelry from the
express office at Pinehurst, N. c., on
Monday Of this week.