Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-02-05
MERE-MENTioN.

MERE-MENTIoN.
The contributions for the relief Of
the Italian earthquake sufferers have
passed the $16,O00,000 mark, and 1t is
probable that no further contributions
will be made, as there is now on hands
sufficient money to supply immediate
needs. ..... The British steamship Clan
Ranold was wrecked off the coast Of
Australia few days ago, and the cap
tain and crew Of forty-five were lost.
49,. The city school board Of Chica-
go has made appropriations of SS,S7S'-
900 with which to build and equip for
ty-six modern school buildings. .....
President Roosevelt and party Will sail
from New York on April 1 on their
African hunting trip. Secretary or
War Wright has issued an order elm
mating the automobile from army SER
vice in and around Washington. The
cost of keeping the machines In run
ming order was too great. The
steamship Hamilton Of the Old Do
minion line, was badly smashed In
collision with a railroad barge In
Hampton Roads on Saturday night.
Wireless telegraphy was used in sum-
moning aid and enough tugs respond
ed to save the vessel from sinking. -.
On February 15, In Philadelphia Dr.
John B. Deaver will be rendered ban
auet by 100 persons, many OF them sur
geons, from whom the doctor has re-
moved the vermiform appendix. .....
George Busse, brother Of the mayor OF
Chicago, accidentally shot Mrs. Luclus
C. Tuckerman to death IN that city
Sunday night. Busse was showing an
other woman how to shoot a pistol,
when II was fired and killed Mrs. TucK-
erman, who was in another building.
Busse was exonerated by coroner
iury A board Of eminent physi-
clans, appointed by the surgeon gener-
al of the army. has recommended the
use of anti-typhoid vaccine as pre-
ventive of typhoid fever among OF
ficers and privates Of the army. only
such as volunteer to undergo the
treatment will be vaccinated. In the
past few years $4,000 men have been
treated in this way with excellent re-
suits. AT least 200 lives were lost
at Canton, China, Monday, in a hre
which started in a fleet Of flower boats.
The house Of representatives on
monday voted to prohibit all importa-
tions of smoking opium into the Unit
ed States. The United States SEN
ate on Monday adopted joint resoiu-
ton looking to an, amendment OF the
constitution to provide for the success
sion to the presidency, in TIE event the
successful candidate should lie before
TRANSFORMATION. Henri Lemoine, a
krenchman, who attained much noto-
riety a few months ago, by claiming the
discovery of a method OF manu1actur-
ing real diamonds, has been sentenced
to ten years in prison on conviction Oh
obtaining money under false pretenses.
Lemoine is a fugitive. The govern
ment's receipts in January were eH-
ceeded in expenditures by $l5'54S'S4z.
Inc total amount of cash on nand jan
uary 80, was Observation-Disclosures
retrial of the $29,00O,OOO fine case
against the Standard Oil company has
been scheduled to begin in Chicago On
February %, before Judge A. b. An
derson. A Bridgeport, Conn. cir
Gus man, representing a syndicate mas
offered Mr.. Roosevelt $4,000 week
for thirty weeks TO head an aggrega-
ton to be known as "Roosevelt's Con-
gress of Rough Riders" The president
will not accept. 49,. Train NO. s. Oh the
Southern Minnesota division OF the
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Pau rail-
way, with 100 passengers aboard was
lost for several days in a blizzard. .....
Mrs. Wiedy Heide has filed suit against
w. H. Mitchell in the city court Oh AT
lanta, Ca, alleging $4,000 damages lor
slander, claiming that Mltcneh hao
falsely accused her Of the THEFT OF the
cemetery lot in which her husband
was buried. .......A "A wireless signaling
tower will be built by the government
at Washington at a cost of $lsO'O0o.
The cold snap the first Of the week
did much damage to the fruit trees and
vegetable crops Of southern Georgia
and Florida. :. The estimated per cap
ita circulation in the United States on
February l, was $S5, the largest IN the
history of the country. The Ma
tional City Bank and the Natlonal
Rank of Commerce of New York, are
to be consolidated. The merger Will
give the new bank a capital OF $So'-
100000 and deposits Of $400,OOO,OOO'
making it by far the largest banking
institution in the world. Five whlte
men and twelve negroes were killed In
a coal mine explosion at Short Creek
Ala, on Tuesday. .... The pollce Oh
Pittsburg on Tuesday put out drag
net" and arrested 200 negro vagrants.
The arrests were the result Of numer-
Gus hold-ups and assaults on school
children by negroes. Considerable race
feeling has been engendered. .... TWO
men were shot to death and two were
seriously wounded at Gatesville, Tex,
Tuesday, in the county court room oy
Miss Vera Ware, during the progress
of the trial of VIM. Mulhouse on a
charge of seduction. Albert L. Pa
trick, a lawyer, convicted several years
ago Of numbering VIM. Marsh Rice
and sentenced to electrocution, whose
sentence was later commuted to life
Imprisonment, is to appear before the
appellate court of New York on a writ
Of habeas corpus on the legal conten-
ton that the Communication of his SEN
tence to life Imprisonment by the late
Governor Higgins was not warranted,
in that it was a change Of punishment
not provided by statute.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
- Columbia State, February 8: Sen