Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-09-28
mERE.mENTIoN.
The Cramps shipbuilding compan!

or Phllalelphia, has just compieeeo
building a torpedo boat destroyer Tor
the United States navy, which on It's
trial run attained a speed Of thirty
two knots an hour, just four knots
more than the contract called for.
The new flyer is named Smith. .....
Twenty lives were lost and more than
100000 property damage done in
the province of Pinar del Rio, Cuba,
by the hurricane Of last week.
Otto ]. Barnard, president Of the
New York Trust company, has been
nominated by the Fusion" party for
mayor of New York in the coming
mayoralty election in November, in
the fusion fight against Tammany.
The Fusionists will be made up Of in
dependent Democrats, Republicans
and all the other parties except
Hearst's Independent Leaguers....
The case of the government against
the Carroll Springs Distillery COM
pany of Baltimore, for violation Of
the Federal re"enue laws, has been
fine Of $4,000. 30. President Taft
on Thursday, opened the great Gunni-
son tunnel in Colorado, which is to ir-
rigate 100000 acres of land in the
valley Of the Uncompahgre river. This
Is the largest irrigation project yet
undertaken by the government In the
west. -. Frank A. Munsey, the
New York magazine Publisher, is
Icredited with having cleaned up more
than $5.0O0,000. by buying stocks Of
various corporations during the time
Immediately following the panic Of
1907. Mr.. Munsey bought his stocks
against the advice Of his friends.-..
The French army dirigible balloon,
Republique. exploded near Moulins,
France, Saturday, while about 500
feet in the air. The four occupants
Of the balloon were killed. -. Fate
Taylor, a white man, was convicted
at Baxley, Ga, Saturday on the charge
Of assassinating w. A. Belcher on Au-
gust 16, last, and was sentenced to be
hanged. i. Abel Hartshorn, a wealthy
farmer Of Danville, VT, on Friday
shot Mrs. Kate Frye, a neighbor's
wife, to death and then committed
suicide by taking strychnine and
shooting himself. Hartshorn had
been enamored Of Mrs. Frye for more
than a year, and had tried to induce
her to leave her husband for him. He
leaves a widow. .. John X. McClen-
don and Miss Ella c. Burke were killed
in an automobile accident at Ameri-
Gus, Ga, Thursday night. Tho car
ran off an embankment, turned tur-
tle,. caught fire and burned the occu-
pants to death. 80. Howard Bragg,
white man, was electrocuted In the
state prison at Richmond, Va, FRI
day. >. The twelve members Of the
crew Of the United States revenue
cutter, Sora, were murdered by Philip
pino pirates at Mora, Philippine is
lands. during Thursday night. ..-..
An electric car jumped the track
on a curve on one Of the streets OF
Yonkers, New York, Friday and
racing across the street crashed
into a saloon, wrecked the place and
crushed the motorman to death. -.
The death roll as the result Of the
floods in Louisiana last week now to-
tails more than $50 persons and the
list Of the dead is not yet complete.
...,. The death sentence Of Walter
Zeller, the 19-year-old boy Of Vine
land, N. j., who was convicted Of the
murder of his grandfather several
months ago. has been commuted to
life Imprisonment by Governor Fort.
Young Zeller had been reading blood
and thunder novels and killed his aged
grandfather to obtain money to go
west to fight Indians. His two COM
panions, who assisted In the killing,
are now serving terms In prison. -.
Forty persons were hurt In q trolley
car wreck at Seattle, Wash, Friday.
The car jumped the track a short dis
tance from the fair grounds entrance.
..... John ]. Holland, secretary to
the jury commissioner; Willis ]. Ray
burn, a real estate dealer, and Mich
olas lIartin, secretary to a city alder
man, have been indicted by Chicago
grand jury on charges OF conspiracy
to defeat justice, in that they were
falsifying public records and attempt
ing to corrupt the jury lists; In other
words, they are charged with attempt
ing to fix" a jury. The supreme
court Of Nebraska has rendered de-
cision in which 1t holds that the state
has a right to regulate express rates
Under the Sibley act express rates
were reduced 26 per cent in that state:
go. .Ex-Mayor r. M. Adduddell OK
Flora, ILL.,. was on Saturday sentenc-
ed to prison for thirty years for the
murder of City Marshal Shipley in
January last. The murder grew out
of the fact that the mayor thought
the marshal was too active against
violators Of the liquor laws. .Sena-
tor Chaumer, member Of the Munich
pal council Of Caracas, Venezuela,
was shot to death Saturday by Elue-
torio Garcia, president Of the council.
The former had openly accused Gar
cia Of defrauding the city and de-
stroying the books showing the record
Of the defalcation. ....-A number OF
Pennsylvania ex-bankers, who have
been serving terms of Imprisonment
at the Western penitentiary at Har-
risburg, for various crimes against
the national banking laws, have been
transferred to the Federal prison at
Fort Leavenworth, Kan. These men
recently demanded that the warden
of the Pennsylvania prison give them
privileges not enjoyed by other con-
victs. -. The war department has
closed a contract for the erection Of
an S2-foot white marble monument
at the national cemetery near Salem,
N. j., to the memory Of Confederate
prisoners of war who died at Fort
Delaware during the civil war. .......
The estate Of the late Governor John
A. Johnson amounts to but $4,000.
.... The Pennsylvania Railroad
company has purchased fifty acres Of
land near Seaford, DEL, and will con-
duct an experimental farm for the
benefit Of farmers in Delaware and
Maryland.
Anderson, September %: Judge
A Aldricb In fhe sessions court today,