Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-01-19
MERE..ME ENTlON.

The senate last week passed a bill
to permit the use Of the pension build
ing tor the Taft inaugural ball. ....
he Japanese Of California have 6
strong lobby at Sacramento, which
will make a determined effort to defea
the bills before the legislature that are
aimed at Japanese residents Of tha
tate. "A government investigation
of the powder trust in progress a.
Philadelphia, last week brought ou
the fact tnat on a capitalization o!
$55,000,0 900, largely water, the company
in four years paid dividends amount
ing to $8,000,000, and added $9,929,61;
to it's surplus and undivided profit;
fund. .....A Cleveland, Ohio, physi-
clan says that John D. Rockefeller viii
live to be 100 years Of age, by sticking
to his plans of life, which are never
worrying, open air exercise, moderate
eating. "A report received at Sar
Francisco Is to the effect that 10000
Moros, of the Island of Baslin, are In
revolt. There have been several bloody
clashes between the rebels and Fill
Limo scouts. =. Harry Keener OF York
Pa, on Thursday, calmly confessed tc
the killing of a stranger who hac
sought shelter at his home on July q
last, and then showed the police where
tim. Keener was betrayed by a servant
girl. .... Vice Admiral Rojestvensky
commander Of the Russian fleet, which
was annihilated by Japan In the Sea
of Japan in 1905, died Thursday at ST
Petersburg. During the year 1908
1857 persons were sentenced to death
throughout the Russian empire, OF
whom 1872 were executed. Sixty three
newspapers were suppressed during
the year. j. F. Reinhart, former
president Of the Farmers and Mer-
chants Bank of Waynesboro, Pa, was
convicted at Pittsburg on Friday on
charges Of looting the institution and
was sentenced to fifteen years in the
state prison. ...... Thornton j. Hams
who has been on trial for several
weeks, at Flushing, n. j., on a charge
Of being accessory Of his brother Cap
tain Peter Hains, who shot VIM. E.
Annis, a publisher, to death several
months ago, alleging undue intimacy
of Annis with Mrs. Peter Hains, was
acquitted Friday. "A bill to prohl-
bit the issuing Of licenses for the sale
of liquor has been introduced In the
legislature of Arkansas. go. Elmer Y.
Morgan, former cashier Of a National
hank at Friendly, w. W, was convicted
Thursday of misappropriating funds
and making a false return to the
comptroller of the currency. Five
years Is his sentence. The message
of the newly inaugurated governor OF
West Virginia, Dawson, sent to the
legislature on Thursday contained
$4,000 words. ...... Judge Thomas G..
Jones in the United States court at
Montgomery, Ala, has denied an in
junction to restrain the operations of
the Carmichael prohibition law In that
state. 49,. The house committee on
postoffices and postroads has reported
that $234,000,000 will be required for
the postal service during the fiscal
year 1910. This Is an inscrease of
$l2,000,000 over the present fiscal year.
a movement has been start
ed in Cincinnati to enroll the 100000
young Christians of the Methodist,
Baptist and Presbyterian churches OF
the country in an endeavor to do what
Jesus would do. President RooSe-
vent on Wednesday last rode horse
back a distance Of 9S miles in II hours
and 10 minutes. Several horses were
used in relays. ID. Because of the riot
ing attending the guillotining Of con-
demned prisoners in France last week,
a law will be passed requiring that ex-
ecutiOns of the future shall be private.
......A 5-year-old child was rescued
at Reggie, Italy, Thursday after being
buried in the ruins Of the earthquake
for eighteen days. The child was un-
injured. .... In vetoing a bill author
izing the construction Of dam across
the James river in Missouri for the
production of hydro electric power,
President Roosevelt states that unless
the interests of the public are properly
safeguarded by law, monopoly will
eventually be established that will be
much worse than that of the Standard
Oil company. .... Henry l.. Rosenthal,
wealthy merchant of Boston, receiv-
ed a suspended sentence; Benz Kar-
per was given two years and Joseph
Sloane was sentenced to three years