Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-04-02
MERE MENTION.


sions.
MERE MENTION.
A dancing bear that escaped from
band of gypsies in the vicinity OF
Pachuca, Mexico, Monday, Rugged two
women to death. .An the private
industries of Georgia which have here
tofore been using convict labor began
using free labor yesterday, the convict
leases having expired "Wednesday
night. .....A dispatch from Bluenelds,
Nicaragua gives details Of the sinking
of the sloop Kearsarge of the Nicara-
guam coast on March 13, when nineteen
lives were lost. .... Mary Farmer, the
murderess Of Sarah Brennan In New
York state, was the second woman to
be electrocuted in that state. she
made q confession exoneratlng her
husband, Jas. D. Farmer, from any part
in the crime. King Peter OF Servia
has given up his throne and fed with
his family to Switzerland. .....A re-
cent statement Of the American Tele-
phone and Telegraph company Cthe
Bell system) shows total wire mile
age of 9,830,11S miles, over q million
miles being added during the past year
80. Moving picture shows In Penn
sylvania have been forbidden to ex-
hibit pictures alleged to detail the
Whitla kidnapping story. The mar
riage Of Miss Emery Of California TO
Gundjiro Aoki, Japanese, few days
ago, Is already causing that lady a
peck Of trouble Her mother wants
to arrange affairs and Mrs. Aoh dis
agrees. while Aoki sides with his moth
erin law. DR.. Moses Glegg, bac-
teriologist Of the Bureau OF Science,
Manila, has succeeded in cultiyating
the leprosy bacillus. A leprosy vaccine
ments. :. George B. Cortelyou, former
United States treasurer, has been elect
ed to the presidency Of the Console
dated Gas company Of New York. at
a salary Of $4,000 year. go. Nine
teen Italians have been arrested In the
vicinity of Fairmount, w. Va, charged
with Black Hand outrages. The
Pennsylvania and New York, New Ha-
ven and Hartford railroads will spend
$25, ,000, 900 in building bridge across
He'll Gate in New York harbor to con-
meet the two roads. "A trained nurse
at Cumberland, Md, has contracted
blood poison by kissing a dying patient
afflicted with blood poisoning ........
The new cantilever bridge connecting
New York and Long Island cities was
officially opened Tuesday afternoon.
The bridge cost $4,000, 900. 80. Clark
county, Ohio, in which is located the
city of Springfield, went "dry" Tues
day by a majority Of IL. The city OF
Springfield gave its majority vote to
the wet" side. ......A mail robbery
amounting to $4,000 is reported from
Georgetown, KY. Two negroes,
brothers, were lynched at Eldorado.
Ark, Tuesday. They were charged
with killing deputy sherin. Eight
persons were killed and seven injured
at Indian Creek, o., Tuesday, by the
explosion Of $40 pounds Of dynamite.
tionalists and Royalists at Tabriz,
Persia, on Tuesday, thirty persons
were killed. Rear Admiral George
A. Converse, u. 8. N, retired, died at
his home In Washington, Monday.
The county Of Buckingham, England,
is excited over the fact that all the
marriages performed at the parish
church Of st. James, Bradwell. during
the past fifty years, have been declar-
ed illegal, because the church never
was licensed to celebrate marriages.
..... After eleven weeks the twelfth
Juror in the case Of Patrick Calhoun,
charged with bribery at San Francisco.
was selected Monday. There will
probably be changes In the Jury before
the trial begins. "A reported attack
on the life Of ex-President Roosevelt
aboard the steamship Hamburg, Is de-
MED Two fires destroyed property
of the Havana Central railroad at Ha-
vana, Cuba, on Monday, valued at ST.
900, 900. President Taft has given
the senators and representatives to un-
derstand that he will appoint Federal
court judges without regard to political
recommendations from them. "A
Forsythe county, N. c., woman recent
ly gave birth to three girls and two
boys. Mother and babies are report
ed as doing well. -. The Lorain Steel
company Of Ohio, has received a con-
tract to supply large quantity OF
rails and fish plates to railroad COM
differences between the coal mine
operators and miners of Pennsylvania,
have been amicably settled and there
will be no strike Of the miners. .......
Judge r. P. Tuller, sitting in the COM
mon pleas court of Cumberland county,
Pa, on Tuesday scratched 106 names
from the list Of 108 presented to the
court from which to draw flfty-six tu-
rors. The Judge informed the sheriff.
who prepared the list, that the 106
scratched off were not fit for jury ser
vice, ana tnen prepared q new hSC
...... President Eliot Of Harvard
university, will be appointed ambassa-
dor to the court Of st. James, England.
by President Taft. ...... Judge Foster
Of the New York court of general ses-
sions on Tuesday. suspended sentence
on a 20-year-old boy convicted OF
larceny, but told him that IL he ever
married or attempted to marry with
out his consent, he would send him TO
prison for long term. II do not pro-
pose for you," said the Judge, ito mar
ry and raise a family Of thieves" ".....
A New York theatrical manager on
Monday won $4,000 at Monte Carlo at
the roulette tables. -. The California
Practitioner, Is authority for the state
ment that DR.. John w. Trueworthy will
receive a fee Of 100000 from the estate
Of Lucky Baldwin, for professional SER
vices.