Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-08-06
MERE-MENTION.

The mOnOplane IN Whlch Nj. BlerlOt
crossed the English channel, has been
purchased by Paris newspaper, and
will be presented to the government
museum. ID. 1t Is reported from Paris
that the French government will call
an international conference to discuss
the question Of aviation as applied to
warfare. Five cadets at the mill
itary academy at West Point, are to be
expelled as the result Of an investiga-
tion into the hazing of Cadet Sutton,
who was brutally beaten on the night
of July. 20. Sutton has been In the
hospital since the hazing.. The
British steamship Waratah, from
Sydney, Australia, to London, with g.
900 passengers aboard, Is reported as
being lost. Louis Grant, an Ameri-
can, Is under arrest at Manila, cnarg-
ed with an attempt to smuggle 460
pounds of opium and seventy-two
ounces Of cocaine into that port. Since
the importation Of opium has been
prohibited in the Philippines, the
price has jumped to SIS can.
The legislature Of Georgia has passed
and Governor Brown has signed, a law
forbidding the use Of trading stamps"
in that state. Trading stamps are
used as trade inducers. Mrs. Tony
and stabbed Mrs. Peter PiZanni to
death with butcher knife at Canton,
O., Sunday. The Panilla woman had
followed her husband and the Pizan-
nj woman from Deans, N. j., and, In
a jealous rage killed them both. .....
Edward O'Reilly, a cowboy, left San
Antonio, Tex, on Sunday for Wash
ington, D. c., on horseback, carrying
an invitation to the president to visit
Texas. The distance Is 2,200 miles
and the rider expects to average thir-
ty-five miles day. During the
month Of June there were 1,176 per-
sons drowned in the United States,
and 106 in Canada, according to re-
port Of the United States life saving
bureau, just issued. The legisla-
ture Of Georgia has killed bill pro-
viding for a tax on incomes In that
state. ;. Throughout the district re-
Gently visited by earthquakes in Mex
leo, thousands Of persons are suffer-
ing from hunger and exposure. .....
The mosquitoes have been so bad in
the vicinity of Lake Charles, La, the
past week, that many head Of cattle
have been killed by the insects. .--..
Child No. 20 was born to Mrs. Chas.
Dickey at Canaan, Me-, Monday. The
couple has been married seventeen
years and all the twenty-five children
are living. 80. Two children, boy and
girl of a wealthy Italian Of st. Louis,
Mo-, were kidnapped Monday and the
kidnappers are demanding $4,000
ransom. The Chicago board or
review has increased the $10,000,00O
personal property assessment against
the executors Of the Marshall Field es-
tate to $12,500,000 This is the largest
personal property assessment in the
country and the tax will exceed $780,
900. -. The legislature Of Alabama
has passed a bill agreeing to an in
come tax amendment to the constitu-
ton of the United States. Two
Jurors have been secured for the sec
ond trial of Patrick Calhoun at San
Francisco. The second trial is now in
its third week. The new one cent
piece Is now being circulated from the
Philadelphia mint. The new design
bears a bust of Abraham Lincoln in
stead of the bust Of an Indian. Sew
eral million Of the new cent pieces
have been turned out, but the demand
exceeds the supply. George john
son, white, was lynched near Platte
City, Mo-, early Monday morning, for
a murder committed June 20.
President Diaz of Mexico, has sub
scribed $1,000 to a fund for the relief
of widows and orphans Of Spanish
soldiers killed in Morocco. ... Two
fire companies and hose cart were
called out in Atlanta, Ca, Tuesday, to
extinguish a fire which destroyed the
peach basket hat of a young woman
in the union station. That hat was
ignited by coming in contact with a
cigar lighter. ..... Three men were
drowned in the Pee Dee river near
~ nf
the drowned men was the ferrymen and
the others were trying to rescue two
other men from the water and were
drowned by the capsizing Of their
boat. &C. A. Kimball, defaulting
cashier of the Citizens bank at South
ern Pines, N. c., has returned to that
place and confessed to the embezZle-
ment of the banks funds amounting
to more than $4,000. He was re-
leased on a $4,000 bond. 49,. The
Great Northern railroad has inform
ed Governor Sanders Of Louisiana,
that it will assist the good roads
in that state by hauling all
road materials free Of charge. .....
In a state election held in Texas on
Tuesday, the people voted to adopt a
constitutional amendment validating
$3,0O0,000 of school district bonds
which the courts had held to be lille
gal. A great irrigation reser-
voir in Weld county, Colorado. used
for irrigating 10000 acres of land,
broke Monday and cut swath half
mile wide through the richest farm
ing lands in that section. The damage
is more than 100000. Fifteen
of the seventy-three lumber concerns
of Mississippi, indicted by the state on
charges Of violating the antitrust
laws Of the commonwealth, have COM
promised with the state by agreeing to
pay penalties Of $500 each. The 9TH
err fifty-eight concerns will be prose-