Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-10-01
MERE.MENTION.

trip of 1000 feet underground into the
Leonard copper mine. Slight earth
quake shocks were felt at St Louis,
Mo-, Monday. The shocks covered q
territory Of six states, Of which st.
Louis was the centre. Mrs. Chaun-
cey NJ. Depew was seriously injured
in an automobile accident In Paris on
Monday, as the result Of which she
may lose the sight Of an eye, caused
by broken glass. 1.-The fruit steam
er Gere, Philadelphia to Sagua La
Grande, Cuba, foundered off Cape Hat
teras on Sunday afternoon, and IL
of the crew Of eighteen were drowned.
President Brown Of the New York
Central railroad, is predicting a seri-
GUS shortage Of freight cars all over
the country. He estimates the grain
shipments of various kinds will total
s, 900 ZOO, 900 bushels. The figures for
the fortnight ending September 1S'
show a reduction in the number OF
idle cars to 6S,5O2, decrease Of 49,
It's. :. An explosion Of moving pic
ture films in vault In a Pittsburg,
Pa, building on Monday, caused
100000 property damage and injured
more than fifty persons in the build
ing. The explosion was caused by an
electric spark. -Four men killed,
three seriously injured, was the result
Of a collision between a freight train
and hand care at Edgar, Wis, Sun
day night. .... Alexander Moore, 20
years-old, a farmer while playing
shortstop in a ball game at Green
Vile, Tenn, Monday, was struck In the
mouth by swiftly knocked ball and
instantly killed. A Chicago wo-
man is threatening to sue Alexio de
Queiroz Riderio de Sotto-Major dAl-
meide Vasconcellos, Count OF Santa
Eulalia, who married Mrs. Stetson,
widow Of John B. Stetson, the wealthy
hat manufacturer Of Philadelphia,
claiming that the count owes her the
money because she made 1t possible
to make the very desirable match. .....
Rev. F. A. Lott of Newport, Pa, has
DS6H Cdllcu " lhC poolOioSC "a sAAS
Presbyterian church at Marksboro, N.
j., at salary of $500 per year, but
refuses to accept the call unless the
presbytery allows him to accept sal
ary Of only $700 a year. Mr.. Lott
says he needs only $500 year and
will not accept larger sum. Albert
Chrisman, a Chicago man, on Sunday
threw dice to decide whether he would
go to work or kill himself, wife and
child. Two skies up and he would
go to work; two aces up and he would
do murder and suicide. The aces
turned up first and he murdered and
suicided. -. Five teams Of motor cy-
clists are running a six-day race at
Brighton Beach, N. Y. The contest
will end tomorrow night. =. Prof. Claus
Hansen Of Berlin, conceded to be the
highest authority on leprosy, says that
portion Of the skin Of John Early, the
North Carolinian, who has been de-
clared free of the disease, shows un-
mistakable signs Of leprosy. Early
was recently discharged from a New
York hospital. :. Lee Oliver, 16 years
old, was placed on trial at Franklin,
La, Tuesday on the charge Of muir
dering DR.. Allen King, in May last.
divers defense will be the "unwrit-
ten law. "..... Nine persons were kill
ed and a score were injured by rear
end collision on the Chicago. Milwau-
kee and st. Paul train near Chicago
early Tuesday morning. A fast pas
senger train ran into cattle train. -.
One man was killed and two were Sc
riously wounded in a saloon on York
Road, Phila delphia, Monday night by
a desperate, who attempted to hold-up
the place. -. VIII Price, a negro, on
Wednesday at Yazoo City, La, signed
a confession that he murdered John
Weltcher a white man and prominent
for SIS, which was paid by the dead
mans wife.