Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-11-09
MERE-MENTION.

A Philadelphia committee Of sew
entv Is irving to raise a fund Of $685.
600 with which to prosecute alleged
election frauds in that city last Tues
day. .Pisach Gurewitch, Rus
sian immigrant, held at Ellis Island
n. Y, for deportation, boasts that he
committed twelve murders In ODESSA
and will kill more when he goes back
For the first time since 1879
United States bonds, Panama 2 per
cents. sold below par on Friday IN
New York. The decline Of the price
Is due to continuous sales or smali
blocks Of the bonds by nationai
banks. In a battle between OPP
posing Chinese tongs Of New fork
on Friday night one man was Ia.ay
shot and another was seriously
wounded. Scores of Cinnamon wsre srs
arrested John Stewart Kennedy,
So wears old. who died in New YORK
on Sunday Of last week from Whoop-
ing cough, left will in which ne
disposed of $500 700 to various re.
ngious. charitable and educational
institutions throughout the country.
.During her four-hour stand
ardization trial at 81 knots an hour
off the New England coast fri9ay,
steampipe on the battlesnip Norll
Dakota bursted and four men Were
more or less badly scalded. me snip
engines developed $4,000 morse power.
of Lima. O., was sentenced Friday TO
life IMPRISONMENT for the murder OF
Mrs. Maude Dilts, a white client.
walter Ford, a negro, was sentenced
at washington, D. c., Friday, to serve
thirty years in prison at Fort LeaVeh-
worth, Kan, for assaulting ana roo-
bing white girl in Prince George
county, Maryland, three weeks ago.
When District Attorney jerome
of New York retires from once III
January, after serving eight years on
a salary of $4,000 per annum, 1t IS
said that he will have to work hard
for a living for his family, as ne mas
saved nothing from his salary. .....
DIR, 7. M. Elliott, the veterinary sur
geon who was to be hanged at La
Grange. Ga, Friday, was granted
rasnife of two weeks by Governor
BROWN because of the fact that on
THURSDAY night DR.. Elliott attempted
suicide by swallowing nine grams oI
bichloride of mercury, and al tne
time set for the execution hao not
sufficiently recovered his reason ~ W
pay the penalty OF MS CRIME. r ,me
der of her husband and step-mother
continues at Faris, France. The most
prominent features Of the trial are
tbe brow-beating tactics or M. De
Wales. the presiding judge, and the
wonderful nerve Of the accused wo-
man .Nightriders burned the
tobacco barn Of Thos. STAFFORD, IN
Jessamine county, KY? fnursoaS
night. The barn contained tooaccS
valued at $4,000. .--T The postal
revenues for the quarter ending June
40. totaled $S7,735, 1856. ~. L.
Fleming and Harry Skinner. Jr., were
killed in an automobile accident near
Greenyille, n. c., Friday afternoon.
The machine, going at high speed
ran into a tree while trying to pass
wagon loaded with lumber. "A l0-year-
old boy of Thurso, Ontario, mas Deeh
sentenced to serve six years In prison
for horse stealing. .--. MRS. n. "A.
Arnold of Florida, Is the first woman
to buy an aeroplane.. New
york city is to have another hundred
million dollar bank, by the merging
of the Mechanics National and the
National Copper bank. &C. l.. war,
riner of Cincinnati, o., formerly local
treasurer Of the Big Four railway, is
facing charges Of embezzling SlOO.-
600 Of the railroads money. Warrl-
ner claims that he was forced TO give
the money to a Chicago man by pIacK-
mail 1ne CdSlllCl VI viz
dian Express company at Niagara
Falls. was sandbagged by two thugs
on Thursday, and robbed of pack
age containing $14,156. New York
experts estimate that the worlds pro,
duction of gold for the year 1909 Will
total $3.50, 900, 900. "A New York
dispatch says that Andrew Carnegie
and Mrs. Sage will probably donate
81 900, 900 each for the fight on pei
lagra and consumption. -Four per-
sons were killed and scores were IN
jured Saturday near the jersey Cty
Terminal. by a fast running passenger
train ON the Pennsylvania railroad
coIlidfhg with an engine on a trestle.
The accident was caused by a mis-
placed switch. The Norfolk and
Southern railway shops at Newbern,
N. c.. were destroyed by fire early
Saturday morning.