Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-08-17
TUESDAY, AUGUST II, 1909.

day, who had planned to rob a bank
messenger of a package containing
100000. The plotters were over
heard making their plans by a rail-
road hand, who reported the matter to
the police. 49,. The department of
agriculture has six cases for trial in
the Federal courts of as many states,
of charges against flour manufacture
ers for violations of the bleached
flour rule of the department, which
prohibits flour bleaching under the
pure food laws. -. Thirteen white
children were born in Washington, d.
c., on Friday, the 18th. Mr.. and
Mrs. Lloyd Judd Of Clinton, Ia, cele-
brated the sixty-seventh anniversary
Of their marriage on Saturday. They
have 327 living descendants. -. .Ra-
fael Cascone, an Italian, died In
New York hospital last "Wednesday
morning from a pistol shot In the
back. Before he died Cascone con-
fessed to six murders, four of them
committed In this country and two In
Italy. He was tried for murder in
New York several years ago and con-
victed, securing a new trial ne was
acquitted. He was shot to death Dy a
brother Of one Of his victims In Italy,
who swore that he would avenge the
death of his brother. Cascone's frst
murder was committed when he was
IL years old. 49,. Booker I. WASH
ington. in an address TO 5000 negroes
i'm Chicago on Friday, told them that
II they did not get to work and stamp
out vice the race would be eradicated.
William Bache, son or New
York millionaire and a motor cycle
speed maniac, was killed Saturday by
running his machine into a tree. -.
The July excavations on the Panama
canal totalled 2,843,260 cubic yards,
about $4,000 yards less than was ex-
cavated in June The naVal coun-
Gil of Chile has recommended the
construction of two war vessels Of the
Dreadnaught class. The Nation
al Irrigation congress, in session at
Spokane, Wash, last week, passed
resolutions to ask congress Tor the Is
suance Of $5,000,000,00O OF per cent
bonds, to be used for drainage, irri-
CATION, deep waterways, good roads
and forest preservation. The Bal
timore and Ohio railroad has recent
ly placed orders for freight and pas
senger cars Of various types, locomo-
tives and steel rails amounting to
nearly 100000 George J:
Roesch. q prominent business man OF
Philadelphia, has been indicted py
the grand jury on the charge or OBJ
tanning $4,000 from the Quaker CITY
national bank by false pretenses. -.
The Southern railway tunnel at
Lynchburg, Va, caught fire Wednes-
day and burned all day Thursday. the
fn than XlUU.- /
600 and several months will be re-
ouired to repair the damage. The
il-year-old ruler of Persia doesn"t
like the position of ruler, and has
made several attempts the past week
to get away from Teheran. He pre-
fers to 20 into exile with his fatner'
the deposed shah, and his mother.
A mother killed her daughter ana
then committed suicide in Philadel- |
phia on Friday. On the same day In
the same city, a husband murdered
his wife and then committed suicide. |
The mothers crime was due to power |
ty, the mans was because his wife re-
fused to live with him. Two white
men are in jail at Cartersville, Ca
charged with criminal assault upon
young white girl. The men are said TO
have confessed the crime. IA hus-
sian submarine boat blew up at 81.
Petersburg on Saturday, injuring
fourteen men, one fatally. L. r.
Thompson, q road contractor, was
convicted at Winston-Salem, n. u,
Saturday of selling cocaine to his EN-
ployes. He agreed to leave the coun-
try IL allowed to go with fine. -.
Eight persons were killed and hfty
more or less injured in head-on
collision on the Denver ana NO
Grande railroad at Hustled, Col, Sat
SS ,norn;no Iucinda Davis
colored, ate FIVE watermelons In
contest at Louisville, KY, Friday
night, and died from the overdose.
Mrs Marie Handzel, chicago
woman, on Sunday committed suicide
by gas and at the same time slew her
three baby boys. 49,. The natlonal
Brotherhood Of Locomotive Engineers
met in annual session at savannah
Ga, this morning. BY an earth
quake in central Japan on Saturday
afternoon, more than thirty lives were
lost, 822 persons we're injured and S62
buildings destroyed =. Bow Kim,
the most beautiful Chinese woman OF
New York, and wife of an American
lied Chinaman, was found dead sun
day, the victim Of q knife stab. The
husband Of the woman Is under ar
rest About 10000 textile work
ers in the vicinity of Philadelphia are
on the verge of strike, because tne
mill owners have shown no DISPOSE
tion to keep a promise of higher
wages in the event of a favorable tar
III law. When President Taft visits
New Orleans about November 1st, 1t Is
expected that plans will have been
perfected by which the presidents OF
Cuba and Panama will be there TO
greet him. The Argentine Repub-
lie has lifted its embargo against cat.
tie from the United States because OF
the placing of hides on the free list
"A score of miners are reported
to have burned to death in mine at
Real Del Monte, state OF Hidalgo,
Mexico. during Friday and Saturday.