Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-12-07
MERE.M MENTION.

quantity of ammunition and field-guns
on board, grounded in the Delaware
river near Delaware City, Thursday
afternoon after she had started from
the Philadelphia navy yard under
sealed orders, her destination presum-
ably being a Nicaraguan port.......
Abraham Ruef, the San Francisco
briber, who is under sentence Of four
teen years, has been released under a
bail bond of 100000 pending an ap-
peal. Ruef has been in Jail since Mo-
vember of last year. Baltimore suf-
fered to the extent of 100000 by fire
Thursday evening. The fire started
within a short distance Of where the
big fire of February, 1904, had Its
origin. 49,. Mrs. Dora E. Doxey Of CO.
lumbus, Neb., Is held by the authorities
Of st. Louis, Mo-, charged with the
poisoning of former husband, who
died within three months after his
marriage to the accused. go. An un-
named alumnus of Yale university, has
set aside a fund of 100000 to be
awarded as a prize to the person or
persons who discover and perfect a
cure for tuberculosis. ......A London
rumor in diplomatic circles, Is to the
effect that either Japan or Germany,
or perhaps both, are giving President
Zelaya Of Nicaragua, encouragement
and backing in his tilt with the
United States. The Consolidated
Gas company Of New York, has to-
tailed up its gas and electric light bill
against the city Of Greater New York
and finds that the city owes 1t $11,-
100000. To offset this amount the city
has charges against the gas company
of $1O,0O0,O00 for taxes, etc. The
public debt CT the United States, ex-
elusive Of certificates and treasury
notes, on December l, was $1,295,71S,-
727, a net increase for the year OF
$571,325. National bank notes out
standing aggregated $797,433,457......
During the first five months Of the cur
rent fiscal year the customs receipts of
the port Of New York, have, totaled
an increase of $19,S91,666. The in
crease Is said to be largely due to
more strict enforcement Of the GUS
toms laws under the direction Of Col
lcctor Loeb. .... DR. Jean T. Zimmer-
man, president of the National White
Cross league, Is authority for the
statement that the white slave traf-
fc" of the Urited States represents
total Of $4,000, ,000.. When ]. Pier
pont Morgan last week bought the con-
trolling interest in the Equitable Life
Assurance society, the total capital
and resources Of the companies under
his control reached the enormous sum
OF S3,644,O 100000. Mr.. Morgan Is u
years Of age. -. Because Of a strike
Of the switchmen for higher pay, 1t
Is estimated that the railroads enter
ing Minneapolis, Mimi, are losing $5,-
100000 a day in freight and passenger
business. Unless the strike Is brought
to an end soon there Is very likely to
he a flour famine throughout the
EOTInW6.teTH SldlSS are
from the mills of Minneapolis. .......
Tex .Rickard, a fight sport from Neva-
Ga, has been awarded the Jeffries-
Johnson prize fight. Richards bid was
$l01, 900 and two-thirds Of the moving
picture receipts. The fight will prob
ably be pulled off at Salt Lake City.
Utah, or at San Francisco, and is to
take place July 4, 1910. The Brit
ish ship Thistlemor went down In
Barnstable bay, off the English coast,
Friday, during a terrific gale. 1t is
believed that more than thirty Of her
crew were drowned. .... Mrs. Mabel
Campbell, postmaster at Cammal, Pa,
is missing, and $1,1OO Of the postal
funds are unaccounted for. :. Mrs. L.
]. Atkinson was acquitted at Dawson,
Ga, Friday. of the charge Of murder
ing her brother-in-law, by placing
strychnine in his coffee. The per
capita circulation Of the United States
on December /, according to the treas
ury report of that date, based on an
estimated population Of S9,524.000, was
$34.98. .... John r. Walsh, the con-
victed Chicago banker, has been denied
rehearing by the Federal court of
appeals. Walshs sentence is five years
in the Federal prison at Fort Leaven-
worth, Kan.