Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-12-14
MERE MENTloN.

MERE-MENTloN.
Senator Smith of Michigan, has filed
a protest from the Grand Army OF the
Republic of Michigan, against the plac-
ing of the statue of General Robert E.
Lee in statuary hail at the Capitol at
Washington. d. . Three tenement houses
in Brooklyn, N. Y, were destroyed by
fire on Friday, supposedly started by
blackhanders. A family Of five is miss
ing. Walter Seybold, Is years old,
shot Laura Branen, aged 16 years, to
death at Washington, Pa, Friday. The
boy, when pursued by police and cit
izens, committed suicide. 1t was a love
affair. The treasury Of the Nation
al Daughters of the American Revo-
luton, has lost several thousand dollars
through embezzlement by an employe.
The employe has been dismissed and
she will not be prosecuted. ...... The
capital stock of the state banks
throughout the United States aggre-
gates $416,O59,O00; individual deposits
total $2,466,95S,665; total resources are
,33S,669,134. Savings banks to the
number Of 1,703, show aggregate de-
posits of s3,713,405,7 ,709. ..... During a
terrific storm that swept over the Great
Lakes on Wednesday and Thursday a
number of vessels foundered and many
lives were lost. ..... Two carloads OF
steers were sold in the open market OF
Kansas City, Mo-, Friday at $10.50 per
hundred pounds. This Is the record
price for steers. Donald c. Abbott,
embezzling teller of the New National
bank of Columbus, o., confessed Thurs
day to stealing $3.50 and was SEN
fenced to the Fort Leavenworth, Kan,
prison for a term Of six years. .......
Former United States Senator ]. c. s.
Blackburn has resigned as a member
of the Isthmian canal commission.
The job paid $4,000 a year. Tine
jury in the case Of the nightriders at
Union City, Tenn, was completed
Thursday and the trial was begun by
the taking Of testimony on Friday.
Frances ]. Heney the prosecuting at
tcrney Of San Francisco. is suing VIM.
H. Croker, a San Francisco banker,
for $250,000 for alleged libel. ..... After
the jury in the case Of the state or
Arkansas against w. Y. Ellis, charged
with murder at Pine Bluff, on Saturday
afternoon reported that 1t was unable
% agree in it's verdict, Ellis entered a
plea of guilty of manslaughter and
threw himself on the mercy Of the
court. The cruiser Prairie was
.oated eff the mud in the Delaware
river Saturday and in a few days will
proceed to Nicaraguan waters with
cargo of war munitions and several
hundred marines. 1.-TWO white Wo-
men were killed and third fatally in
,ured by an assassin at Savannah, Ca,
friday afternoon, using an axe as an
instrument Of death. ]. c. Hunter, the
husband CT one of the women, is held
IN suspicion of being the murderer on
the strength Of delirious statements by
ais wife, who Is the only one of the
three who was not dead when found.
The police suspect a negro who was
seen about the premises at the time
the killing Is supposed to have occur
red A reward of $1,000 kas been Of
fered for the arrest and conviction Of
the assassin. 80. DIR. George D. Dor
ough of Quitman, Ga, was perhaps IA
tally injured Friday night in a collision
of his automobile with freight train
on a street crossing. The doctor was
running at high speed and did not
see the train until too late to stop his
machine. Mrs. Carrie Nation of Kan
sas, is serving a short term in the
work house of Washington, D. c., for
smashing the whisky bottles in the
barroom Of the Union Railway station
last week. %. E. Boley, an escaped
lunatic was shot to death near ShreVe,
o., Friday, after he had been at liberty
for two days, during which time he
had killed Sheriff Bell Of Holmes coun-
ty, and terrorized the country for miles
around. .... Harry E. Hayes, junior
member of a brokerage and banking
firm of Cleveland, o., was convicted
Friday of embezzling $19S,000 in rail-
road bonds and sentenced to serve five
years in prison. His father is to be
tried on the same charge. E. Two men
were killed at ST. Paul, Mimi, Friday,
while unloading dynamite from a rail-
road car. They dropped box Of car
tridges. -. The congressional library
at Washington, now has total of l.
IO2,6S5 volumes. 80. Information has
been received at Washington of the
death of Red Cloud, the famous Sioux
Indian chief, at the Pine Ridge reSer-
walton in South Dakota. Red Cloud
was sc years Of age at the time of his
death.