Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-09-14
MERE.MENTIoN.

year 1908, totalled $25S, 200, 900. From
the United States the Orientals i'm
ported goods to the value of $27,015,-
936, an increase over 1907 of nearly
100000 Cotton cloth imports from
America increased 100000 yards for
the year. The tea imports received
at United States ports for the six
months Immediately preceding the
passage Of the new tariff law, totaled
10,938,231, as against 5,57i,145 pounds
for the same period of 1908. The tea
was rushed to this country on the as
sumption that duty would be put on
1t by the new tariff law. -. "A close
investigation of the dispensary at Sa-
vannah, Ga, has resulted in the res
ignation Of T. B. Durham, the dis
penser. .Wray Aldred, publisher
of the Indian Socialist, the organ Of
the Indian Socialists Of Europe, has
been sentenced to year in prison for
promulgating seditious literature in
England. "A Worcester, Mass, aero
nautist on Friday attained q height Of
$500 feet in dirigible balloon, 500
feet higher than the record Of Count
Zeppelin, the German aeronautist.
j. p. Altberger, superintendent of the
Philadelphia Altoona, Pa, district OF
the Western Union Telegraph COM
pany, Is under arrest on the charge Of
larceny, In that he sold information
obtained from messages sent over the
wires to parties who had no right to
the information. Altberger made a
speciality Of messages relating to
transactions on the various exchanges
...... The charges Of peonage against
the Pressed Steel Car company Of Nc
kees Rocks, Pa, have failed, the gov
ernment being unable to make out q
case. The strike Is at an end and g.
600 men were at work Saturday morn
ing. New York city property own
ers will pay $3.50, 900. 900 in taxes to the
city treasury for the current year,.
Advices from Monterey, Mexico, are
to the effect that the total number Of
persons drowned by the recent river
floods in that vicinity will total not
less than 10000. -. Hundreds Of
Mexicans are said to be mobilizing
along the Texas border preparing to
join the revolution against the gov
ernment of President Diaz. Efforts
are being made to get Texas cowboys
to enlist with the revolutionists. -.
During the year ending June 80, 1908,
the railroads Of the United States, east
Of the Mississippi river. paid out $685.
100000 for ''loss and damage" and
injuries to persons" claims, an in
crease Of about s11,000,000 over the
previous fiscal year, according to q
bulletin recently issued. -. Mrs Lu-
cinda Treat, aged II years, of Hook
anum, Conn, last week eloped with c.
A. Goddard, aged 81 years, q book
peddler Of Hartford. Mrs. Treat Is a
wealthy woman. Goddard is a law
student at Yale university. -. The
American Bankers association is in
session in Chicago this week. -. Jas.
]. Hill, the great northwestern railway
owner and builder, says that the pop
ulation of the United States Is catch
ing up with the wheat production of
the country at the rate Of 100000
a year, and that unless there Is con-
siderable increase In the area Of wheat
lands and increased production, 1t will
only be question Of very few years
until the United States will be making
large imports Of wheat from foreign
countries. -. Two men were scald-
ed to death on the U. s. cruiser Colo
RADIO on Wednesday, by the bursting Of
a steam pipe as the vessel was en-
route to the Hawaiian islands. .....
Iron Age, published in New York city,
and one of the best known trade pa
pers published in the United States,
changed hands last week, the pur-
chasers paying $1,500,000 for the
property. -. New York manufactur-
ers of clothing estimate that the
American people will pay $120,000,-
900 year more for their clothing un-
der the Payne-Aldrich tariff law than
they have been paying under the
motive Works Of Philadelphia, last
week received orders for sixty loco
motives. -. The American Cement
company is to erect $500 cement
plant at Norfolk, Va, having capac-
ity Of 1000 barrels day. .... John
Butram, pupil In a school in Donald
county, Mo-, was shot to death by his
teacher, A. T. Kelley, Friday after
noon. Butram had threatened to
break up the school and drew knife
on the teacher, who shot him to death.
During the week ending Satur-
day, there were 256 new cases and LOG
deaths from cholera In three provin-
ces Of Russia. 1t Is estimated that
2,O96,000 yards Of concrete will be re-
quired for the Gatum lock of the Pan
ANA canal, and that 2,250,000 barrels
Of cement will be necessary for the
work. ...... The Queen Victoria fund
for the relief of the families Of the
Spanish soldiers who are fighting In
Morocco, has reached a total Of $780,
600. A regiment Of Spanish rough RI
ders has recently been formed in
Spain for service in Morocco. .......
Glenn H. Curtiss, the American avia-
tor, won $4,000 of a $4,000 grand
prize at Brescia,. Italy, Saturday, COW
ering 31.05 miles in AZ minutes and
"a seconds. Rougier, a Frenchman,
won the balance Of the grand prize,
$4,000