Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-11-16
MERE MENTION.

A lone robber entered the Mer-
chants National bank Of New Albany,
Ind, Thursday, and in attempting to
hold up the officers, shot the cashier
to death, and fatally wounded the
president, and then shot a negro au-
tomobile driver who refused to help
him make his escape. The bandit
was captured by the police and mar
rowly escaped lynching at the hands
Of a mob. The explosion Of two
Of the Du Pont powder mills near
Wilmington, Del, Thursday, shook
the whole country for radius of
fifty miles. Three workmen were
killed -. The Reading railroad,
whose principal lines are in Fennsyl-
vania, has set aside 200 Oil tank cars
to haul water along its Shamoakin
division, to relieve the water supply
of the various towns because OF the
drought. The American Fedora
ton of Labor, in convention at To-
ronto, Canda, went on record Satur-
day as favoring woman's suffrage, an
eight hour day for postal clerks, and
the establishment of postal savings
banks in the United States. .... A
dispatch from Bluefields, Nicaragua,
is to the effect that a cruisr equipped
with heavy siege guns and 500 ma
TlneS mas ltll mOuiiS Loi oio"'~taS
to help President Zelaya In his
fight against the provisional govern
ment ... President Taft Is authori-
ty for the statement that the Philip
pine policy Of the government has up
to date, cost approximately S600.00O.-
600. Hamburg Belle, a $4,000
thoroughbred racing mare, the prop
erty of H. M. Hanna Of Cleveland.
O., died on a farm near Thomasviile,
Ca, Thursday, Of pneumonia.
The coast artillery Is doing considera-
BILE night target practice work at
Fort Starke, Newcastle, n. e., firing
at regulation targets by use Of search
lights, at distances Of $500 and $500
yards. Many hits are effected u: F..
Bendernagel, an official of the American
Sugar Refining company, has been
indicted by a Federal grand jury at
New York, on charges Of conspiracy
to defraud the government by false
weighing of sugar. Six other high
officials of the company were indicted
at the same time under similar
charges. William J. Gaynor, mayor
elect Of New York, has filed state
ment in which he swears that his elec-
ton expenses were nothing. The
secretary Of the National Committee
Of the Unemployed, declares that there
are 100000 unemployed men and wo-
men in New York city who are will
ling to work, but cannot find employ
ment. "A dispatch of November 10th,
tells of great damage throughout the
northern portion of the island Of ia
maica by reason Of floods. Banana
plantations were devastated, public
utilities wrecked, etc. An Atlanta,
Ca, woman on Saturday found $1,000
secreted in an old feather bed. having
been put there by a former husband.
She Immediately went to millinery
store and bought $35 hat. The
jailer and his deputies at Somerset,
KY, Friday night prevented the lynch
ing of two men held on charge of
murder by threatening to fire on the
mob If they approached the jail.
Archer Christian, a football player Of
the University Of Virginia team, was
fatally hurt in game with George
town university, District of Columbia,
Saturday. SO. Eight inches of snow
fell in Michigan, Friday night.
80. -Four hundred miners are dead
in the st. Paul coal mine, near Cher
ry, H., as a result of fire and explo-
sion, caused by smouldering straw,
which set the mine timbers on fire.
The catastrophe occurred Saturday.
John G. Carlisle, secretary Of
the treasury in the Cleveland cabinet,
Is quite i'll in New York hospital. -.
Mrs. Margaret Byers was convicted at
Doylestown, Pa, Saturday, on the
charge of arson.