Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-02-09
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1909
MsRE.MENTIoN.

MERE-MENTloN.
The Spanish government has placed
a contract with an English shipbuild-
ing company for warships totaling s40,-
100000. Jos. M. Janer OF Brooklyn
N Y, married man with children. is
held in Baltimore on charge Of felon-
ious assault on the person of Catherine
Loerch, 12-year-old Brooklyn girl
whom he enticed to Baltimore. If con-
victed, Janer will be hanged. Mrs.
Janer says she will do nothing to help
him. d. H. Hallack. one Of Okla
homa's wealthiest citizens, has been
convicted In the Federal district court
at Guthrie of subornation Of perjury
in connection with the location Of pub
lie lands. His sentence Is $1,000 and
three years Imprisonment. An Eng
lish steel maker has discovered a pro-
cess by which tool steel Is made four
times harder than has been possible
heretofore. Harvey Hazel, 17-years-
old. convicted at Toledo, O., Of mur-
derirg his mother and robbing her of
$57, has been sentenced to life tmpris-
onment. VIM. II. Edwards, the new
street cleaning commissioner or New
York, last week discovered graft
scheme worked by eight employees of
the department which would cost the
city $4,000 a year. The men were
arrested and will be prosecuted by Ed
wards. i. The bill prohibiting the man
ufacture Of intoxicating liquors In Ten
nessee was on Thursday passed over
the veto of Governor Patterson. The
law becomes effective January l. 1910.
-. .Adolph Bertchey, a gentleman
burglar" was found guilty of murder
at Toms River, n: j., Thursday after
the Jury had deliberated for twenty
seven hours. Bertchey was sentenced
to the electric chair. (. Carrie Nation
was fined $3.50 in a London police court
Thursday for breaking a window glass
in an underground railway. The glass
was covered with cigarette advertise
ment. The railroads of New Eng
land and Middle Atlantic states having
western connecting lines, are engaged
in freight rate war on import freight
for the interior states. Rates have been
considerably reduced. Senator Bev-
eridge has introduced resolution pro-
viding for experiments on rural routes
In four counties, to be selected by the
postmaster general, to determine the
practicability of the parcels post sys-
tenn. The resolution provides that
packages must originate and be deliv-
cred within the country. The rate is
fixed at cents for the first pound and
2 cents for each pound additional. The
express companies are fighting this
bill with every influence possible. 49,.
The losses by fire last year In the
United States totaled $23S, S,000. 900. per
capita loss Of nearly SO. In Europe
the per capita loss was less than 33
.ents. The movement In Chicago
to secure 100000 names on petition
necessary to secure the placing OF the
question Of excluding saloons from
that city, on the April election ballots,
has failed. The petition was signed by
less than $4,000 voters. .....A new
chemical substance named oxybenzyl-
methylenglycolanhy to be called
baekelite for short, Is soon to be placed
on the market 1t Is a substitute for
hard rubber for electric insulation. -.
AS a result Of the decree Of the Kan
sas supreme court against the Inter-
national Harvester company, which
ordered the company out Of the state
and pay fine of $4,000, the company
has agreed to a supervision OF Its
prices by the state. The Texas house
of representatives on Friday by vote
submit statewide prohibition to q
popular vote. The Prohibitionists lack
ed two votes Of the necessary two
thirds to pass the bill. "A thief threw
a brick through the display window Of
a Chicago jeweler Friday, and made
his escape with $4,000 worth Of jewell
ry and watches. :. The people Of Eng
land are almost In q panic over the
possibility of an invasion Of that coun-
try by foreign foe in the event OF
hostilities, and frantic efforts are be-
ing made to recruit the "interterrito-
rial" army. ;. :. The beef trust Is being
investigated by a Federal grand jury
in Chicago and sensational disclosures
are promised. II is claimed that the
combination of beef packers is stron-
ger now than ever before, despite the
antitrust laws. :. .Ex-President Cas-
tro has been dismissed from Berlin
hospital after serious operation and
says he will return to Venezuela, des-
pite charges made against him there
Jack Johnson, the negro pugilist
and heavyweight champion. has issued
a challenge to James ]. Jeffries, the un-
beaten pugilist, for battle for the
championship. ....... The friends OF
Governor Haskell Of Oklahoma, are
denying a rumor to the effect that he
will resign the governorship because
Of his indictment by q Federal grand
jury for land frauds. .....A man was
rescued IrCIn the ruins VI huSSSiid oh
Friday after being buried for thirty
eight days. His chances for recovery
are said to be good. ........Rev. James
Peden, q Baptist preacher, was horse
whipped at Oklahoma City, Okla, Fri
day, by Mrs. L. ]. Charlton, who al
legged the preacher had slandered her.
For the year 1909 the state Of
Georgia has received $126,134 as IL
censes for the sale of near-beer. The
liquor license of 1907 totaled $234.2S2.
-. The grand jury Of Venango county.
Pa, has indicted the officers Of the poor
farm, their wives and several other
persons. Criminal assaults and graft
ing ...e among the charges. 49,. About
twenty persons were killed and thou
sands of dollars worth of property were
destroyed in Mississippi, Arkansas and
Texas on Friday by tornadoes.
Alphonse Baudin, a workman Of Pu-
teaux, France, last week shot his wife
to death to end her intolerable suffer-
ings from an incurable disease. The
case Is a most unusual one and Is the
cause Of much interest throughout
France. q. Lucy Mitchell, white, IT.
years old, has been convicted OF second
degree murder at Roanoke, Va, and
sentenced to prison for eighteen years
Her victim was Minnie Mcbride, IT.
years-old, and the killing was on the
eve Of the latter's wedding. .... The
negroes Of Pittsburg, Pa, are giving
the police authorities Of that city
great deal of trouble, because OF as
saults and attempted assaults on white
women and girls. 1t appears to be only
a question of time until bloodshed Will
result. The battleship Delaware, the
most powerful yet built for the United
States navy, was launched at Newport