Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-04-09
MERE-MENTION.


bill prohibiting the drinking of In
toxicants on trains in that state.
Mrs. Georgia Allyn Sampson is on trial
at Lyons, N. Y, on the charge OF muir
dering her husband, Harry Sampson,
in November last. 49,. Thirteen school
boys were drowned at Kamentz, Rus
sia, on Tuesday, by the collapse OF
bridge from which they were watch
ing the flooded river below. 49,. Hen
ry w. Amos was shot to death by his
sister-in-law, at Buena Vista, Va.'
Tuesday. At the time he was shot,
Amos was seeking a reconciliation
with his wife with whom he had quar-
relied. Dave Alexander, a negro,
was lynched at Pensacola, Fla, early
Tuesday morning. The negro had
murdered q policeman on the Sunday
previous. .... Mr.. Roosevelt and party
left Naples. Italy, Monday night on the
steamer Admiral for Mombasa, East
Africa Charles E. Ellis, aged "A
years, one of Philadelphia's wealthiest
citizens, committed suicide in that city
Tuesday. He had been in poor health
for sometime. :. .Thos. G. Hayes, for
merly receiving teller of the American
National bank, Washington, has been
sentenced to the Federal prison in At
lanta for five years for embezzlement.
:. President Diaz Of Mexico, has an
nounced that he will again offer for
reelection to the presidency of Mexi-
CO. Mr.. Diaz announced a year ago
that he would retire at the end OF his
present term. but has been prevailed
upon to stand for one term more.
General William Booth, head Of the
Salvation Army, will celebrate his
SOth birthday tomorrow. 1t Is be-
lieved in New York that the Prince of
Wales will issue a challenge to the
New York Yacht club for a trial at
the Americas cup. OF Kentucky
119 counties, 95 are now in the dry
column. DIR. Rogue Saenz Pena,
Argentine minister to Italy, has signi-
fed his willingness to accept the post
Of arbitrator in the pending questions
between Venezuela and the United
States. Mrs. Bertha Taylor is in
jail at Birmingham, Ala, on a charge
of numbering her husband and her
father by means Of poison. -. Roy M.
Wright, a railway mail clerk, Is held
in Washington, D., c., on a charge of
obtaining about 100000 from parties at
Boise City, Idaho, by false pretenses'
..... In the recent race Of dog teams
from Nome to Candle, Alaska,
a distance of ALP miles and re-
turn, AL Bergers teams finished first,
winning a purse Of $1,000. More than
100000 was wagered on the result of
the race. 49,. Senator Cullom has in
troduced a resolution in the United
States senate to change the term of
office of the president from four to six
years and prohibiting a second term.
..... Five hundred and eighty-nine
saloons in Michigan are doomed to be
put out of business by the elections
Of Tuesday, the dry" element carry
ing twenty out of twenty-seven coun-
ties. :. . Harry Thomas, aged 13 years,
shot his father to death near Delmar,
New, Saturday, when the father in a
drunken frenzy attempted to hang
three Of his younger sons. 49,. New
York's legislature has passed law
fixing a term of fifty years in prison
as the punishment for kidnapping. 80.
1t is announced in Washington, that
Spencer B. Adams Of North Carolina,
has been appointed commissioner OF
internal revenue, vice John G. Capers.
A story sent out from Naples,
Italy, is to the effect that an anarchist
plot to assassinate Mr.. Roosevelt was
frustrated by the secret police and the
assassin threw himself to his death
over a cliff rather than return to
America and face the plotters who had
sent him on his mission. May wheat
went to sr.25a in Chicago grain pit
Wednesday. The police Of Paler-
mo, Italy, believe that they have the
murderers Of Lieut.. Petrosino, of the
New York police department Three
suspects are under arrest, two Of them
having sailed for Italy from Brooklyn
in February last. Governor George
L. Lilley of Connecticut, is critically Ill
with a stomach and heart trouble. .....
The city of Tabriz, Persia, is in the
ic hnin o.
besieged. Thousand Of persons will
starve to death If the siege continues
and tens of thousands will be massa-
cred in case the city Is successfully
attacked by the royal troops. :. .Clar-
ence Hartline, years old, while skat-
ing on the streets of Reading, Pa,
Wednesday, lost control Of himself,
because of high wind, and was blown
under a trolley car losing both legs.
-. Avery Blount, charged with muir
dering three persons at Amite City,
La, was convicted Wednesday Of first
degree murder. .... The British tor
pedo boat destroyer Blackwater, was
sunk off the coast of Scotland, Tues
day, the result of colliding with the
Hero. The crew was saved. ..... John
V. Ripperger, a lawyer Of Philadel-
phia, has been convicted and sentenced
to prison for seven years for falsifying
a certificate for divorce for a client.
As a protest against the reduction
of the duty on hosiery, Pennsylvania
manufacturers are preparing to have a
parade of from 10000 to $1,000 hosiery
mill girls in Washington, to impress
congress with the desirability Of the
higher duty in order to give the girls
work. :. Wind storms did great dam
age and caused several deaths through
out the states of Indiana, Illinois, Ohio,
New York and Mississippi on We'd
nesday.
Pope Hill, a leading lawyer of Ma