Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-02-12
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contributed a fund Of 500, 900 to found
the Bureau Of Municipal Research, the
purposes Of which will be to formulate
plans to guard the city against waste
full extravaganza In municipal affairs.
$50. Harry ]. Bauman, alias DR.. Her.
man Brandt, has been sent to prison
at Joliet, Ill, from Chicago, on charges
Of swindling. Bauman Is said to have
married not less than fifty women and
swindle them out Of not less than
$500.000. He is wanted In a dozen or
more states. 4. An unknown man shot
another In Chicago moving picture
theatre Sunday night in a quarrel over
5-cent seat. 49,. Mrs. Georgia Samp-
SON has been indicted by the grand
jury Of Wayne county, New York, on
the charge Of numbering her husband.
..... Denman Thompson, famed as an
actor and author Of 'sThe Old Home
stead" is critically Ill from pneumonia
at his home near Keene, N. H.. Fire
did damage to the extent Of 100000
in the docks Of New London, Conn,
early Monday morning. -. Joseph
Janer, Of Brooklyn, N. Y, who Is held
by the Baltimore police on. charge Of
felonious assault on the person Of L.
year-old Katherine Loerch, Is said to
be worth 100000; but his property Is
under the strict control Of his wife,
and she refuses to help him out Of his
trouble. A Brunswick, Ga, lumber
company has a contract to furnish
Panama canal. -. :. The Anti-saloon
League and w. c. T. u, have begun an
active campaign for statewide prohi-
bition In Kentucky. 1t costs the
United States government an average
Of $109,856 year to keep its first -class
battleships in proper repair. -. The
tide Of immigrants from European
countries has again turned to the United
States for the first time In more than
a year. r..... King Edward Of England
Is on visit to his nephew, Emperor
William, at Berlin. This is King Ed
wards first visit to Berlin during
twenty-one years. Relations between
the two rulers have not been altogether
pleasant for several years. The
illinois Central railroad Is preparing to
issue $110,000,000 of bonds for refund
ing and construction purposes. .Roby
Baskin, negro, was lynched at Hous-
ton, Miss, Tuesday afternoon by 3
mob Of 800 white men. Baskin had
murdered Rev. w. T. Hudson. 49,. The
anti-alien bills before the legislatures
Of Nevada and Oregon, and aimed at
the Japanese, were killed Tuesday,.
france and Germany have signed q
treaty which settles their differences
relating to Morocco. The worst
snow storm and blizzard Of the past
dozen years is reported from the Da-
kotas, Wyoming and Idaho. -, The
standard Oil company has acquired
controlling interest in the Chesapeake
and Ohio railroad. 80. The postoffice
at Canton, Ga, was entered by yegg-
men early Tuesday morning, who
cracked the safe and got away with
$4,000 worth Of stamps. ....... All the
citizens Of Rosario, Argentine Repub-
lie, including merchants, bankers and
5000 dock laborers are on a strike
against an increase in municipal taxes.
Americans, were killed on the Central
railroad Of Peru, Tuesday, by the col
lapse Of a bridge. .... Oscar r. Hull,
formerly an employee of the Atlantic
Coast Line railway, Is wanted by de-
tectives Of the Southern Express COM
pany on charges Of cashing forged ex-
press money orders totalling $5,000....
According to Chief Engineer Goethals,
up to February l, 100000 cubic yards
OF material had been excayated on the
Panama canal work, leaving 111,000,-
600 cubic yards yet to be excavated.
The total cost is now estimated at
$297, 900, ,000.. In a fire at Philadel-
phia on Tuesday, caused by dropping
a lighted match In q can Of gasoline,
$4,000 worth Of motor cars were de-
"A New York and New
Jersey interstate bridge commission
has recommended the erection of a
bridge across the Hudson river at New
York, to cost about $30,000,000. It will
be the costliest single structure in the
world. 80. An explosion in the Cath
crime coal mine at Yuzovka, Russia,
on Tuesday, imprisoned 125 miners.
Four members Of the rescuing party
were killed. Jack Binns, the wire
less operator Of the steamer Republic,
was given great reception upon his
arrival at Peterborough, England, his
home town, on Tuesday. -. "A deter
mined crusade is being made in Phil
adelphia by clergymen and laymen to
put an end to the production of the
opera "Salome," in that city, on the
ground Of its blasphemous and immoral
Miss Josephine Hood,
Of Asheville, North Carolina, who
In 1905 was married to a John c. Ca
vendish, a bigamist, who claimed to be
an English lord" and who later desert
ed her, has been located at Tucumcari,
Mexico, after search which extended
all over the world. The young woman
was supposed to have committed sui
eide after finding that she had been
duped by Lord" Percy Reginald Shol-
to Douglas. 80. The jury which is to
try Patrick Calhoun at San Francisco
on seventeen indictments charging him
with bribing public officials, was COM
pleted Wednesday after the court had
spent four weeks in an effort to fill the
Jury box. go. More than 100 Farmers
Union cotton warehouses Of Georgia,
have been amalgamated under one