Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-09-07
MERE-MENTION.

One man was killed and seven wo-'
men and children were more or less
injured in an automobile accident in
Atlanta, Ga, Thursday night. The
car was running at high rate of
speed, struck a standing trolley car,
skidded fifty feet, turned bottom up
wards, and caught fire, pinioning the
victims under the car. -. AT Grady,
Ala, Friday, VIM. Stephenson shot his
1S-year-old step-daughter to death,
and fatally shot his wife. Husband
and wife had not lived together for
sometime past. Stephenson was ar
rested. -. George F. Simons Of Potts
vile, Pa, after killing his mother the
previous week, committed suicide Fri
day. He killed his mother in order
to get money to pay his wedding ex-
penses, and in fear Of detection COM
mitted suicide. The next inter-
national aviation contest will proba-
bly, be held at Indianapolis, Ind. More
than $4,000 in cash will be offered in
prizes for aeroplanes, dirigibles and
balloons. ;. The Roosevelt party has
shipped $500 specimens Of birds,
mammals and snakes to the United
States for the Smithsonian Institution.
..... The firm Of Freeman, Rollings
& Co., New York stock brokers, sus-
pended Friday with liabilities Of about
100000. They were short on United
States Steel common when the stock
made sudden advance in price.
James Dunlap, a prominent business
man Of Philadelphia, is under $4,000
bonds, charged with embezzling $751;
900 Of the funds of the James Dunlap
Carpet company. The name Of
Senator Joseph Bailey has been
launched as a candidate for the presi-
Dental nomination by the Democrats
in 1912. ..... Emily Snyder, claiming
to be a sister Of a wealthy Chicago
man, and Allen Posner were arrested
in that city Friday, charged with rob-
bing mail boxes in the better class Of
apartment houses. The 'Dr. Cook"
hat is the latest production of the mil
liners art The hat is described as be-
ing as high as the cartoonist's ideas Of
the heighth Of the north pole, is made
of brown fur and is given further
chilling effect by a snowlike spray or
aigrette high up on its left side. IA
New York court holds that the thir-
teen directors Of the Trust Company
of the Republic are personally respon-
sible to it's stockholders for about
$350,000, lost through loans made by
the president Of the company without
the knowledge of the directors; the
court holding that if the directors did
not know Of the loans it was certainly
their business to know, and their ig-
norance could not excuse them.
The Schuylkill river north of Read
ing, Pa, is so low that the river bed
can be crossed on foot without wetting
the feet. The river is lower than it
has ever been before. ,... The Mid
vale Steel company of Pennsylvania,
is just completing 14-inch gun for
the United States navy. When COM
pleted the new gun will be fifty-three
ana a nalI Ie6l lOilS, lIS wight SiAtS
three and one-third tons; it will re-
quire 365 pounds of powder to fire the
shell weighing 1,400 pounds. The gun
will have an extreme range of twen-
ty-five miles, and an effective fighting
range of five miles. -" Saturday was
Japanese Day at the Alaska Yukon
Pacific exposition at Seattle and sew
eral thousand Japanese attended the
fair. Clyde Fitch, a noted Amer
lean playwright, died at Chalons Sur
Marne, France, on Saturday. May
or Franklin P. Stoy, mayor Of Allan
tic City, n. j., was placed under a
$4,000 bail bond Saturday afternoon,
for failure to obey notification from
State Attorney General Wilson to en-
force the Sunday closing law at the
seaside resort. 80. Three adults and
an infant were drowned in South
pond, near Pulaski, n. Y, Saturday,
by the overturning of small boat.
The cotton crop on 1900 acres
in southern California are now being
harvested, the first cotton ever grown
in that state. ... In riot at Frank
fort, KY, Saturday night between
state militiamen and civilians, two