Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-08-27
FRIDAY, AUGUST AZ, 1909.
MERE.MENTIoN.

MERE-MENTlON.
President Taft has issued an order
which will reduce the strength OF the
regular army about eight per cent
About 5000 men will be discharged be-
tween now and July 1st Of next year.
This Is In accord with Mr.. Taft's pol
Icy for an economical administration.
..... During the month of August,
twenty-five tourists have lost their
lives In the Alps mountains. The July
death roll totaled sixteen. The DO
lice Of Sunbury, Pa, have arrested a
Chinaman and are very positive that
the prisoner Is Leon Ling, the muir
derer Of Elsie Sigel, the New York
worker, who was MURDER
ed in that city several weeks ago. 80.
District Attorney Jerome Of New York,
has announced that he will be a can
didate for reelection as an indepeni-
ent. In a feud fight near Santa
Rosa, Mexico on Sunday, six men were
killed and ten were wounded. The
forest fires in the state OF Washington
are yet beyond control and more than
100000 feet Of timber have been de-
has closed ninety-four day schools in
the province Of Barcelona, on the
ground that they are seditiously in
clined in their course Of instruction. 80.
Two thieves held up an electric car near
Lake Compounce, Conn, Sunday night
and robbed the conductor Of $42..
Two women were killed and five 9TH
ers were more or less injured at Kan
kakee, ILL.,, Monday, when Big Four
locomotive ran down their automobile
on grade crossing. -. More than
1000 families were rendered homeless
Sunday and Monday, by q fire which
practically destroyed the city of Krem-
the Waters-Pierce OH company in
Texas, will be sold by order Of the
courts, to meet the fine of $2,000,000
assessed against the company for vio-
lation Of the antitrust laws. Five
persons were killed and twelve injur-
ed by the explosion Of the city gas plant
at Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday.
During the two weeks ending last
Saturday, there were 110 deaths from
bubonic plague at Annoy, China and
thirty three deaths from cholera dur
Ing the same period >. The Lords Day
Alliance Of Atlantic City. N. J., have
been making determined fight the
past few months on the barrooms and
gambling dens Of that resort. The
Of these places have OPEN
ly defied the association, being backed
by the mayor and city officials. The
state government has now decided to
take q hand and prosecutions and Inn
peachment Of city ofiicials are prom
fsed as result. 49,. There are said
to be more than 100 cases Of peliagra
In Clark county, Ala. Society wo-
men at Lenox, Mass, on Tuesday, at
tended a reception rendered to a poor
little monkey, which belongs to q New
York woman. The monkey Is valued at
$4,000 and sleeps In a gold cage valued
at $4,000. Champ Clark in an ad-
dress at Omaha, Neb., said, 'It doesn't
take as much sense to be president
as 1t does to be q congressman or SEN
ator these days. Governor John
A. johnson of Minnesota, win on Sep
tember 1st undergo his fourth opera
tion for appendicitis. The special
session Of the Alabama legislature, ad-
journed Tuesday night. The bat
tleship South Carolina on her Official
Standardization trip on Tuesday, ex-
ceeded the required speed by almost
Of knot per hour. =.
Union county, Ind, was added to the
dry" column on Tuesday, and az q
result a large number Of saloons will
close their doors. 80. Steve Brown,
q 2ogro. was shot to death at Bron-
son, Fla, Tuesday. by Bart Faircloth.
because the negro had attempted
a criminal assault on the person of
Mrs. Becky Snowden. The woman's
screams brought Faircloth to her aid
and he shot the negro with pistol as
he was trying to make his escape.
Spain now has $4,000 troops In Nor
rocco and an additional 10000 trsops
are awaiting transportation to help
carry on the war against the Moors.
..... The Arabians In the southwes-
tern part Of Arabia have begun q
holy war against the Turkish govern
ment, and are indulging in massacres
and pfllaging. .Hobson City, Ala,
the only exclusively negro admins
tered city In the United States has
cent session of the Alabama legisla-
ture. It was found that the govern
ment Of the city had been unwise and
The charter was, therefore withdrawn.
.-- The town of San Lorenzo, Italy,
was almost totally destroyed by
earthquake on Wednesday. A large
number Of persons were injured.
many Of them fatally. The earth
quake zone extended over a territory
Of about twenty miles. ..... "A band
Of masked riders In the full regalia
of the old Ku Klux Klan, rode into
Dalton, Ga, Tuesday, and giving the
editor Of The Newc communication
with a request for its publication,
ion was q warning for gamblers, va
grants, blind tigers, loafers, and keep
ers of houses OF ill-fame that It was
lime for them to move to some other
MRS. Stephen Hart, wife
,f the superintendent Of coal mine
1t Carlisle, Ind, was fatally shot
Tuesday. while mob Of strikers
we're trying to capture her husband
'or the purpose Of lynching him..
The United States government Is to
charges Of peonage against
he Pressed Steel Car company at
McKees Rocks, Pa, where II Is
charged strike breakers are being
held In peonage.. -. Postmaster Gem
here will shortly be an increase OF
.wo cents in the fee for registering
etters and packages. ). Fifteen mi
lers were killed and thirty injured by
he falling of an elevator cage In the
Ia Paz mine at Mateahaula, Mexico,
Tuesday evening. The cage fell 1900
eet. -. The United States navy
cam has won the national rife team
match at Camp Perry. O., by the
core Of 1901 points, 684 points
lhead of the winners Of last years
rophy. The Massachusetts, National
Iuard team won second place. .....
Barney Oldfeld, professional racer,
IN Wednesday broke the worlds rec
,rd for q mile in an automobile, COW
ring the distance In / minute, IA 30
on q half mile track. .....
Idw. II. Hartman, the railroad mag
late, returned home from Europe on
where he went for the ben
,fit of his health. He Is a very sick
nan and is now at his summer home
4 Arden. N. J., resting in seclusion in
IN effort to regain his strength.
President Taft, says a Washing
on dispatch, is leaving nothing un-
lone to make it clear that he does
lot intend that the census work and
,olitics shall be mixed. Acting Sec