Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-01-01
FRIDAY, JANUARY I, 1909.
MERE.M ENTION.


heir to half million dollars and hav-
ing high place in Baltimore social
circles, has been sentenced by a Los
Angeles Cal, police judge to serve
six months in the workhouse for va
grancy. -. A Caracas, Venezuela, cable
Is to the effect that efforts may be
made to extradite ex-President Castro
on the charge Of melting the recent
plot TO assassinate President Gomez.
As a result Of a riot caused by
an order to the natives to cease plant
ing opium poppies, eleven persons are
dead at Tungan, China. The two
cent fare law Of Pennsylvania, Is to be
repealed at the next session of the leg
islature of that state. .... President
Roosevelt has extended invitations to
the governments Of Canada and Mex
leo to a conference at Washington look
ing to the conservation Of the natural
resources Of North America, to be held
February 49,. Dr. Carroll Fox, OF
the Marine Hospital service, has dis
covered a new species Of flea, which
infested rats infected with bubonic
plague, and in turn communicated the
disease to human beings. The new
| flea is brown in. color, is without eyes
and has a row Of six teeth. 80. The
present wealth Of France is estimated
at more than $45,000, 100000, or more
than S1,1O0 for every man, woman and
child. Henry Dillinger Of East Fin
| ley, Pa, is the son-in-law of his son,
David, who married the mother Of his
fathers wife. Chas. Dillinger, broth
er Of David, married his fathers wife's
sister. They all live in one house. ......
A fight promoter Of Sydney, Australia,
Is making an effort to pull off a finish
fight between Jas. ]. Jeffries, the e2n>
champion heavyweight pugilist, and\
Jack Johnson, the negro champion, for
purse of $50,000. james j. Hill,
the railroad magnate, Is backing
merger Of Texas ranches to include T.
100000 acres of land and valued at
SIS, 900, 900. 80. Western Kentucky was
shaken by an earthquake Sunday night
... Mrs. NJ Florence Erb and her sis
| ter Mrs. Catherine Beisel are on trial
at .Hedia, Pa, on the charge Of muir
dering Captain ]. Clayton Erb, hus-
pand of the former, in November last.
...... he gross foreign business Of the
port of Philadelphia, for the year 1908,
SHOWS a falling off Of $20,000,000, as
compared with last year. go. An un-
successful attempt to assassinate the
shah of Persia, was made on Saturday
at Teheran. .Manufa cturers OF food
supplies throughout the United States,
who use sulphur, benZoate of soda and
ether preservatives in their products,
are making d determined fight for the
removal Of DR.. Harvey w. Wiley, chief
of the bureau Of chemistry Of the de-
partment of agriculture, because they
do not like the manner In which DR..
Wiley is enforcing the national food
laws. 1t is probable that Francis
J. Heney, the prosecuting attorney,
who convicted Abraham Reuf, the San
rancisco CRATER, will take a hand in
the prosecution Of the grafters Of the
Pittsburg, Pa, city council. 80. The
American battleship fleet has entered
the Red sea on its homeward journey.
Three boys were killed by an ex-
press train at York, Pa, Wednesday.
They were throwing snowballs at the
time of the catastrophe and lost sight
Of the fact that they We're on the rail-
road track. 49,. Sixteen Spanish gyp-
sizes are to be garroted at CordoVa,
Spain, during the next few days.
Thousands of the unemployed poor OF ,
London, England, are literally starving/
to death. The police are having greaC
difficulty in suppressing street riots,
started by agitatcrs, who are preach
| ing pillage and loot. .President-elect
Taft will visit Atlanta on January 15,
and will make an address at a banquet
| on that occasion. .... .Abraham Reu1,
| the notorious San Francisco boodler
has bean sentenced to fourteen years In
the San Quentin prison. -. Arthur ).
Cheney, the American consul at Messi-
ma and his wife, lost their lives In the
great earthquake last Monday. ......
There is some fighting going on In
Venezuela between adherents Of former
President Castro and the present ruler,
| Gomez. ......A correspondent Of the
Charlotte Observer, estimates that $2,-
100000 worth of whisky was shipped
from Salisbury, n c., during the hol-
| idays q. . 1t has been settled that Theo.
E. Burton Of Cleveland, Is to succeed
]. 3. Foraker as United States sena-
| tor from Ohio. Foraker and Chas. T.
Taft have withdrawn from the race.
The United States supply ship Celtic
which Is loaded with $150,000 worth OF
provisions for the returning battleship
| fleet left New York yesterday with In
structions to turn her supplies over to
the Italian earthquake sufferers. She
has on board food sufficient to last 50,-
900 persons a month, $4,000 worth OF
clothing and enough tents to accom-
moderate 1000 persons.