Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-11-02
MENTION.

Two women, whose aggregate ages
were 2O7 years, died in Chicago on Fri
day. James Mcmahon on Friday
pleaded guilty to the charge Of muir
dering his sister and brother-in-law
at Kansas City, Mo-, and was sentenced
to life Imprisonment in the peniten-
tiary. >. ;. Norman e. Mack, chairman
of the National Democratic executive
committee, says that he does not think
VIM. j. Bryan will be the Democratic
presidential candidate In 1912. -. An
American exposition will be held In
Berlin, Germany, in 1910. j. Pierpont
Morgan Is to be honorary president Of
the enterprise. During the first six
months Of this year, the death rate OF
France exceeded the birth rate by 28,-
205. ;. Emmanuel Goodhart and Mel
Vile Kline, were convicted In Chicago,
Friday Of obtaining money under false
pretenses. Their scheme was posing as
publishers Of business directory and
are said to have secured as much as
$500, 900. The battleship NORTH Da-
kota, the first Of the Dreadnought
class to be equipped with turbine en-
gines, was given her builders trial last
Friday, and proved highly satisfactory
both In speed and steadiness. .Er-
nest r. Langish, a clerk In the ofice
of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance
company, Philadelphia, during his abb
sence from work on account Of an at
tack of appendicitis, has been found to
be an embezzler to the amount OF $l4,-
985. Philip Musica, q member or
a New York firm Of cheese importers,
who pleaded guilty a few days ago In
the Federal court In that city to de-
frauding the government by means OF
false weights, was on Friday sentenced
to one years imprisonment In the Eli
mira reformatory and a fine Of $4,000.
Jas. J. Jeffrfes, the undefeated
heavyweight pugilist, and John A.
Johnson, the negro claimant Of the
heavyweight championship, on Friday
signed an agreement for O. forty-fve
round fight to take place on or before
July S, 1910. The winner is to get
per cent of the purse and there Is to
be $4,000 as q side bet. ...... Count
Zeppelin, the German aeronautist, says
he will cross the Atlantic ocean In a
dirigible balloon within two years. -.
During the year ending June 80, there
were 2,791 persons killed and $500
persons injured. by the railroads OF
America, decrease OF 973 KILL
ed and 5,o6s injured over the previous
fiscal year. The Baldwin, Loco
motive works Of Philadelphia, have re-
Gently completed for the Santa Fe rail-
road, two locomotives which weigh
100000 pounds each. These engines
will use Oil as fuel. The govern
ment Of Chile has let q contract to a
British syndicate for the construction
of q railway from the frontier Of Peru
to the Strait Of Magellan. The contract
price Is $3.50, 900. -. Nine persons
were burned to death and seven others
were more or less seriously injured IN
"a fire which destroyed the principal
business block Of St Johnsburg. VT,
Saturday morning. ..... Cadet Byrne
of West Point Military academy. broke
his neck while playing football at West
Point N. Y, Saturday, against team
representing Harvard university. .....
Harry F. Grant won the Vanderbilt cup
in an automobile race on Long Island.
Saturday covering the distance OF
278.08 miles In 4 hours, 25 minutes and
AZ seconds. Out Of fifteen starters
there were only two who finished the
race. Statistics compiled by the
British chancellor Of the exchequer,
show that since the revenue tax on
spirits has been raised in England.
there has been q decline In the con-
sumption Of liquor in Ireland Of 80 per
cent and In Scotland Of 10 per cent.
Secretary of War Dickinson will be
candidate for the United States senate
from Tennessee, to succeed Senator J.
B. Frazier.