Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-10-05
MERE.MENIIoN.

Four men and two women were ia
tally hurt in an automobile accident
near San Antonio, Texas, Friday. The
machine jumped into ditch and
caught fire. :. Because she was Tilted
and lost twenty-five pounds In weight,
Miss Luella Lowstetter, school
teacher Of Pittsburg, Pa. is suing
Prof. Earl w. Reed, principal Of the
school, for $25,000 damages. 80. .Foy
w. Dulaney, the absconding clerk Of
the court of Washington county, Tern,
recently captured in Jamaica, has been
brought back to Tennessee, and asks
time to make good his shortage. DR..
e. P. Nicholson of Rising Fawn, Ca,
is dead from poison taken by mistake
for cough medicine. He was "a years
old. 1t Is reported from Los An
geles, Cal, that United States Senator
Flint will not be candidate for re-
election. He says It Is too expensive
to be a senator. w. L. Gillespie,
farmer Of Roans Prairie, Tex, was
shot to death Friday by his son-in-
law, Lester Taylor, who had eloped
with Gillespie's daughter some time
previously. 80. The captain and seven
members of the British schooner Mar
itana, were picked up 140 miles north
west of Havana, Cuba, on September
90, by the Norwegian schooner, Fort
Gaines, after the crew Of the wrecked
British schooner had been adrift with
out food or water for three days. "A
white man, convicted Of murder, and a
negro, convicted Of criminal assault,
were hanged at the state penitentiary
at Nashville, Tenn, early Friday morn
day morning. 80. The Rev. d. F. Car
rick has resigned the pastorate OF the
Christian church at Lawrence, Kan,
and taken a job as conductor on a
trolley car line, because, he says: Il
don't believe a preacher can live a
really honest life. II he breaches the
truth he will be condemning the lives
Of most Of his congregation Tam
many Democrats Of New York have
nominated William ]. Gaynor, a JUS
tice on the supreme court bench, for
mayor of Greater New York. The can
didate Of the fusionist Is Otto Barnard,
banker. On her last eastbound
trip reaching New York on Thursday
again lowered her best record by forty
four minutes. Two days Of the voy-
age were against adverse winds and
heavy seas. The steamship Irak
left Galveston, Tex, Thursday for Liv-
erpool, carrying in her hold a cargo of
26,873 bales of cotton. valued at ST.
300, 900. ..... According to the estimate
OF the Canadian department or the IN
terror. just issued, $4,000 families, with
an average capital of $1,000 each, have
gone from the United States to the
Canadian northwest during the past
twelve months as homesteaderS. ......
The national banks Of the United States
on September 1st, showed individual
deposits Of s5.009. .S93.OS0: the paid-in
capital stock of the 6,977 national banks
totaled $944,642.067, and a surplus fund
$597,971, 1916. Because of
a sharp trade war between the Ger
man potash syndicate and independent
German potash miners, 1t is quite
probable that American farmers will
get their potash at lower prices the
coming year. The syndicate has an
nounced that It will very materially
reduce prices. 80. .Quarreling over a
crust Of bread In the Holmesburg
county, Pa. prison. Friday morning
Antoine Zachish stabbed his cell-mate,
Peter Gimbronia,, to death with bro
ken razor blade. go. The New York