Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-03-16
TUESDAY, MARCH I6, 1909,
MERE-MENTlON.

The schooner Asa J. Trainer, Nor
folk. Va, to New York, dismasted and
half submerged was rescued Thursday
by an ocean going tug that had been
summoned to the relief Of the schoon-
er by the wireless apparatus Of a pass
ing steamer. President Taft has
approved the finding Of the court mar
tial, which convicted First Lieut.. Gott-
lieb Of the coast artillery corps Of pre-
senting fraudulent claims to the gov
ernment and fraudulently obtaining
money from private parties. Gottlieb's s
sentence is dismissal from the service
and five years in prison. 49,. President
Taft has become a member OF the Op-
timist Club of America, of which An
drew Carnegie is president, and whlcn
has 250,000 members. Jos. M. Janer
Of Brooklyn, N. Y, was convicted at
Baltimore, Nd, Thursday or felonlous
assault upon the person or catherine
Loerch, IL years old, whom ne hao en-
ticed from her home In Brooklyn. jan
er's sentence was twenty-one years IN
Frank Chapman of Chester, w. Va,
has been indicted on charges OF per-
fury. He is also accused Of planning
assaults on q former chief OF pohce -
Chester. Ulysses Grant Click, con-
fidential adviser and right hand man
of T. Coleman du Pont, (head OF the
powder trust and Delaware member
Of the Republican executive commit
tee), was arrested Thursday on the
charge of soliciting political contripu-
tions from government employees at
Wilmington, Del. II convicted Click
NAV get a sentence of two years In
prison. The United States Steel
company has announced reductions In
thu price of tin plate amounting to 80
to Sc per ton; reductions in structural
steel amount to IS to 81 per ton and
other reductions are probable. .......
Adyices from China are to the effect
that the government will spend $780,
900, 900 in building up navy. -. .Jno
C.. Lumsden, formerly OF Raleigh, N.
c., was convicted in New York last
week of manslaughter, his victim be-
ing II. B. Luydam, curb broker.
Lumsden was sentenced Friday 10
eighteen years in Sing Sing. james
H Christianson, former state treasur-
er of Utah, is under arrest at Salt
Lake City, a confessed embezzler
of $4,000 Of the states funds. :. VIM.
]. Bryan's mascot mule, which ne or
fered to the county in the United States
showing the largest per cent or gain In
the number of votes cast for him In
the November election, has been
awarded to Esmeralda county, Nebras.
ka, which showed an average gain OF
694 per cent .....A "A fast freight train
on the Southern railway was wrecked
near Hickory, N. c., early FRIDAY
morning. More than twenty horses
were killed. Three railroad men
were killed near Newton, N. j., Satur-
day by a collision Of runaway cars
with an engine on the Lehigh and
Hudson railway. 49,. The police OF
New York have declared a war OF ex-
tinction for the Italian BLACK Hand
society in the United States. The war
is the result of the killing in Palermo,
Sicily recently Of Detective Jos. Petro-
sini, who was in Sicily investigating
a Black Hand crime. The police de-
partments of every city in the country
are to be asked to wage war on the
Italian society. -. .Fernand Ravenez,
a wealthy Frenchman, invited a large
number Of his friends to supper Fri
day night and as finale to the nights
pleasure committed suicide. All the
day and Sunday schools Of Lewes,
Del, have been ordered closed for an
indefinite period because OF virulent
epidemic Of diphtheria. All children
are ordered to stay off the streets. -.
w. M. Richards, negro, charged with
attempting to assault two young girls
at Pittsburg, Pa, FRIDAY, nad very
narrow escape from being burned at
the stake. The police had to put up
a hard fight for his life. Senator
Bacon of Georgia and Congressman
Gaines Of Tennessee, are quite i'll at
Washington, due to the bad weather
at the time Of the Inauguration cere-
monies. The coal mine operators and
the coal miners Of Pennsylvania being
unable to agree as to wages the miners
are on the verge Of a strike. 49,. The
wages Of about 5000 iron workers In
the Lehigh Valley Of Pennsylvania are
to be cut 10 per cent or more.