Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-03-19
MERE.MENTIoN.

The United States government has
decided to keep three war vessels In
Central American waters, because OF
the unsettled conditions down that
way. The railroads of Missouri
desire to return to the cent fare, and
the governor says he will exhaust all
the powers Of the state before he Will
permit it. w. E. d. Stokes, Ken
lucky horse breeder, has recently re-
fused an offer of $4,000 for thor
oughbred stallion, Peter the Great, from
the Russian government. He last week
sold a 3-year-old col. for $4,000.
A plot Of ground 73.1x73.2 feet was sold
in New York last week at the rate OF
1907 per square foot. Harry II.
Brown, president Of defunct bank OF
Napa county, Cal, Is under arrest In
Washington, d. c., on a charge OF en-
bezzlement. ...... Mr.. Roosevelt Will
leave New York on his African hunting
trip next Tuesday. The telegraph
operators of the French postofflce de-
partment are on strike at Paris, and
the military is required to preserve
order. AS yet there has been little
rioting. 80. Curtis Jett who is serving
a life sentence in the Kentucky peni-
tentiary for the assassination Of Jas
3. Marcum and Jas. Cockrell, has given
out a confession in which he states
that he is guilty of all the crimes laid
at his door. -. Hundreds Of Indians
are dying in the northern districts OF
Canada from an unknown disease. e.....
George T. Angle, editor Of Our Dumb
Animals, died in Boston on Tuesday
at the age Of SO years. Emile Ford,
a negro, was lynched at Athens, La,
Monday night. The negro had entered
the sleeping apartment Of white wo-
man. 1t is announced in Philadel-
phia that 500 Pinkerton detectives
have been employed to work In the
coal mines of Pennsylvania to antici-
pate trouble in case of a strike among
the coal miners. lathe Pennsylva-
MIA Steel company has announced
10 per cent reduction in the wages OF
it's employees, effective April 1. The
reduction affects 5000 men. The
navy department has placed contract
for the erection and equipment of a
wireless telegraph station at Washing
ton, capable Of sending messages 5000
miles. The Krupps Of Germany,
gunmakers, are to establish guncot-
ton factory in Mexico. The city
council of New York has under consid-
Grafton the idea Of offering large re-
ward for the arrest and conviction of
the murderer or murderers Of Detec-
tive Joseph Petrosino, the New York
detective who was aSsassinated at Pa
lermo, Sicily, Saturday night. Petro-
sino was investigating the Black Hand
society at the time of his death. .....
Edward Payson Weston, II years old
a professional pedestrian, left New
York on Monday on a walking trip to
San Francisco. He expects to reach
his journeys end on July S.-The St.
Patrick's Day parade in New York on
Tuesday was participated in by $4,000
persons. Patrick H. Carroll, saw
maker, was shot to death by Jas. NJ.
Shelton, a Pullman car porter at In
Ind, Wednesday. The ne
gro was arrested. 49,. The court Of ap-
NP Manitoba hoc confirmed fhQ
decision of a lower court by which the
plumbers union Of Winnepeg was fin
ed $25000 damages as a result Of a
strike. The legislature Of Nevada
has passed a bill placing games Of
bridge whist, eucre and other social
card games played for money and
prizes, in the same class of gambling
as poker, roulette and faro. Charles
Chanler, brother Of ex-Lieut. Gov.
Of New York, accidentally kill
ed a man named Gillard, at the Chan
ler home near Charlottesville, Va,
Monday evening. Gillard's wife had
asked Chanler for protection from her
husband. Gillard forced an entrance
to Chanler's dining room and attack
ed his wife, threatening to shoot her.
In a struggle for the pistol the weapon
was discharged and Gillard fell dead.
Chanler was exhonerated. Six per-
sons were killed and five injured at
Canada, Wednesday morn
ing by runaway engine jumping the
track and plunging through the wait
ing room Of the terminal station. 800.
By a decision Of the New York court
Of appeals, John r. Hegeman, president
Of the Metropolitan Life Insurance
will have to stand trial on
a charge of perjury, the specific count
being falsifying a report to the state
insurance department in 1905. 5........
A civilian fought duels with two army
officers at Eisenach, Germany, Tues
day, with pistols, and killed both OF his
opponents.