Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-05-04
TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1909.

marriage settlement. 80. The village
Of Golden, Mo-, was destroyed by cy-
clone Friday. Twelve persons were
killed and twenty or more were injured.
Eight persons were burned to deatn
and fifteen or more were seriously IN
jured in New York tenement fire FRI
day, supposed to be due to the Black
Hand society. The New York leg
islature adjourned Friday after a ses-
sion of several months. Twenty-Five
Of the twenty mine measures urged by
Governor Hughes were passed. The
appropriations made by the body
will total $4,000, ,000. -. Two mask
ed bandits held up a Northern Pacific
express train at Hauser Junction,
Wash, Thursday night, cut the express
car from the train and then made the
engineer pull the car a mile down the
track, where they robbed the car at
their leisure. -. John and William
Brown, father and son, negroes, were
electrocuted at the Virginia state pris-
on at Richmond on Friday, for partici-
Mrs. Mary Skipwith and Walter john
son in Powhatan county. Two more
negroes are to be executed tomorrow
and fifth on Friday, all convicted OF
the same crime. They murdered their
victims and then set fire to the house
to cover the crime. Three other ne
groes are yet to be tried for participa-
tion in the crime. .... The American
Sugar Refining company last week
completed payments aggregating nearly
81, ,000, 900 to the United States govern
ment, In settlement Of fines and claims
made by the government for the col
lection of duties fraudulently evaded.
1t Is probable that criminal prosecu-
tions will be pushed against officials
OF the sugar company. The postal
receipts Of the fifty largest cities Of the
United States showed an increase for
March over the same month Of last
year, Of $1,17s.921, or 1870 per cent.
New York was visited by snowstorm
Thursday, the latest date for snow
since 1891. The body OF Kuang-
Saturday on its journey to its final
resting place in the Western tombs,
eighty miles from Peking, where It will
occupy tomb costing $1,000,000. The
journey will consume four days. The
body Of the dowager empress will not
be finally inferred until next fall. .....
The May Day celebration at Buenos
Aires, Argentine Republic, resulted In
riots, in which twelve person were kill
ed and more than 100 were wounded by
the police. .....W. b. Earthman, for
mer president Of the Murfreesboro,
Tenn, National bank, has been indicted,
on a charge Of embezzling $4,000 OF
the banks funds by the Federal grand
jury at Nashville. The National
Peace congress, with 1,500 delegates In
attendance, Is In session In Chicago
this week. =. Twenty-Five mules were
burned to death in coal mine at
Smithdale, Pa, Sunday. Jas. Hazen
Hyde, former vice president OF the
Equitable Life Assurance Society, has
been sentenced to prison for thir-
ty days by Paris court for running an
automobile into public cab. -. Don
Manuel Amador, first president Of Pan
anna, died Sunday at his home at Pan
anna, aged rs years.. w. w. Robin
son, city editor Of the Peoria, Qll)
Star, lost his life Sunday night by in
haling flames from an exploded moving
picture machine, while trying to pre-
vent a panic. Mrs. w. e. Leadford
and her child were killed Sunday morn
ing at Elyton, Ala, by being thrown In
front Of an electric car Two chill
dren. a boy and girl and years
old. mysteriously disappeared from
their homes at Latrobe, Pa, Friday
and although hundreds Of people are
searching for them, no trace OF the
children has been found.