Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-10-12
MERE MENTION.


templating the expenditure Of 100000
600 during the next six or seven
years in building a navy. .....J. w.
Holman, official poisoner for the gov
eminent, reports that he has killed
10000 prairie dogs in the southwest
during the past eight months, and says
that he will kill 100000 more during
the next eight months. 80. .Olney Ar
mold has been nominated by the Demo-
cratic party Of Rhode Island for the
office of governor. 80. During the past
few weeks $1s,0O0,000 in gold has been
shipped from the United States to ia
pan. The Japanese government will
use the money for building up the re-
serves Of the state bank. The army
transport Buford which reached Mani
Ia on Thursday, reports that when 81
300 miles out from San Francisco 1t
established wireless communication
with stations on the Pacific coast OF
the United States. Five persons,
including four women, were burned to
death in a grocery store fire at Nash
vile, Tenn, Friday. .... A woman was
killed and two men were fatally shot
at Greenville, Miss, Friday, in a raid
of blind tiger boats on the river by
state officers. Fifteen Mexican la
borers were killed and ten others were
hurt in a railroad collision on the out
skirts Of Topeka, Kan, Friday. The
mayor, chief Of police and entire po-
lice force of Marshalltown, Ia, have
been indicted by Federal grand jury
for imprisoning government agents,
who were seeking evidence against
Marshalltown saloons. APPS Ard, q
negro, was lynched and his body burn
ed at Greensburg, La, early Friday
morning. Ard had made an attempt
on the life Of Senator T. B. Young. 80.
VIM. r. Hearst will be an independent
candidate in the New York mayoralty
race In November. :. Ruth Bryan
Leavitte, daughter Of VIM. ]. Bryan,
has announced her candidacy for con-
sress from the First Colorado district.
80. :. /. Samuel Gompers, president Of
the American Federation Of Labor, ar
rived In New York on Saturday, at
ter spending several months in Europe
studying labor conditions. After an
hour spent in meditation and prayer,
Martin Shulick Of Pittsburg, Pa, got
out Of his bed at daylight Saturday
morning and going to the bed Of his
wife, crushed her skull with heavy
griddle. The United States supreme
court began its fall session at Wash
ington, yesterday. -. Steamship ad-
vices received at New Orleans, Satur-
day, are to the effect that between
1000 and 5000 persons were recently
drowned on the islands of Yucatan by
a great tidal wave. -. George Nose
ley, a prisoner in jail at New Haven,
Conn, committed suicide Saturday by
getting on a car which Feeds a buzz
saw in a furniture factory, starting the
machinery and placing his neck in line
with the saw, and cut his head OF.
One man was killed and another was
seriously injured at De Soto, Mo-,
Thursday by an automobile accident,
caused by an exploding tire. .....A
meteor weighing more than 200 pounds
was found on farm near Norwood,
Mass, Friday. ......A $4,000 fire was
started In Brooklyn automobile gar
age Friday by the explosion Of gas
oline tank on one Of the automobiles.
49,. The Continental Telegraph and
Telephone company has been incor-
porated under the laws Of New Jersey
with capital stock Of $50,000,000. The
company will, to some extent, make use
Of the wireless telephone. :. "A case OF
pellagra has been discovered in New
York city. In an automobile race
ming car made the distance Of 200
miles in hours, 3S minutes, So 4-6
seconds. 49,. Wilbur Wright made
new worlds record for a flying ma
chine at st. Louis, Saturday, by going
500 meters, about 1,070 yards In SO 3-6
seconds. :. :. Rear Admiral Winfield
Scott Schley celebrated his 10th birth
day Saturday, and says he feels as
young as ne did thirty years ago.
Two engineers were killed and three
other persons were seriously hurt In
a head-on collision between a cattle
train and light engine at Allentown,
Pa, Saturday morning during fog.
......Tom L. Johnson Is candidate
for mayor, for the fifth time, of Cleve-
land, O., and has q good chance Of re-
election, although the Republican party
is putting forth every possible effort
in money and prominent speakers, to
defeat him. The Russian ministry
of railroads is asking the douma for
an appropriation of $31,000,000 for rail-
road construction In 1910. -. During
the past ten years, 47,416 persons tres
passing on railroad property have been
killed and $4,000 persons were injured
in the United States.