Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-10-29
mERE.MENTIoN.

Mrs. A. D. Winship, aged IS. of Ra-
cine, Wis., has entered the Ohio state
university at Columbus for the regular
collegiate course. She attended the
summer school for two years. -. An
explosion of three steam boilers In a
brewery at Milwaukee, Wis. Monday,
killed one man and caused property
damage Of $3.50, 900. .. "A New York
syndicate has purchased for $18,000,-
900, the Garner cotton print mills OF
Newburgh and Gainesville, N. Y.....
Two men were arrested by customs in
5pectors at New York on Monday for
attempting to smuggle In jewelry,
watches, etc., by means Of false vests
worn under their shirts. The two
men had 254 pieces Of jewelry, mostly
diamond rings, hidden In their clothes.
-. Following a quarrel at their home
In Wise county, Va, Monday after
noon, Chas, Rhinehart fatally shot his
13-year- -old wife and then committed
suicide. .....W VIM. 8. Myer, formerly
assistant cashier Of the Baltimore
postoffice, has been convicted Of en-
bezZling postal funds and sentenced to
the Atlanta prison for thirteen months.
Election experts Of New York
are beginning to make figures showing
that Barnard, Republican Fusion. will
defeat Gaynor, the Tammany candi-
date, in the mayoralty contest by pos
sibly 10000 plurality. Bannard's cam
paign is being conducted by Congress
man Parsons. The New Liberal
ministry of Spain will make an effort
to pacify the Moors and bring the cost
ly Moroccan war to an end. A Paris
dispatch Is authority for the statement
that the estate left by Francisco Fer
rer, the recently executed Spanish So
cialist and agitator, Is worth at least
$500, 900, most Of which was given him
by admiring women. John l.. kes-
ter is in Jail at Yonkers, N. Y, on the
charge Of bigamy. He owns up to
having five living wives. THE ver-
dict is a palpable miscarriage OF JUS
tice," was the comment Of Judge Bit
tenger at York, Pa, Monday, as he SEN
fenced Mrs. Minnie Tracey to solitary
confinement in the Eastern penitentfary
for a term Of three to twelve years, al
ter a verdict Of manslaughter on the
charge of poisoning her husband. The
evidence, in the opinion OF the court,
established your guilt beyond a rea-
sonable doubt, and not only justified,
but demanded a verdict Of guilty OF
murder in the first degree" The
death rate in the United States for the
year 1908, according to census bureau
figures just issued, was 1873 per 1000
population. Seven hundred and
twenty four railroads, covering 216,-
1872 miles, or SO per cent of the rail-
road mileage Of the country, report
gross earnings for August Of s225, 49,
923, an increase Of $27,560,148 or 1892
per cent, and net earnings Of $85,S80,-
447, an increas Of $13,720,823, or 1901
per cent. -. Mrs. Maybelle Beauchin,
a wealthy widow Of Boston, committed
suicide in a Jacksonville, Fla, hotel,
Tuesday, because Of i'll health. :. Five
children were burned to death in fire
that partially destroyed the Presbyte-
rian church orphanage at Lynchburg,
Va, early Tuesday morning. 80. "A gt-
gantic tidal wave swept over Santa
Rosa, state of Tobasco, Mexico, Non
day night, causing property damage
of s5,000,000 and the loss Of ny
lives. -. VIM. ]. Gaynor, Tammany
candidate for mayor Of New York, Is
suing the New York Evening World, for
libel. Judge Gaynor asks for 100000
damages. Mr.. Pulitzer, proprietor OF
the World, claims that the alleged IL
belous article was written by Arthur
Brisbane. editor of Hearst's New York
American More than 1000 chrys-
anthemum plants are on exhibition at
the eighth annual exhibition Of the
agricultural department Washington.
this week.