Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-01-22
MERE-M ENTION.

The United States supreme court on
Monday affirmed the decree of the
state courts Of Texas imposing a fine
Of $1,625,00 on the Waters Pierce Oil
company and ousting it from the state
for violating the Texas antitrust
laws. E. John H. Woodbury., the wide
ly advertised dermatologist of New
York, committed suicide at Coney Is
land, y. Y, Monday. .... An 1S-year-
old negro named Billiard, was lynched
at Hope, Ark, Monday morning, for
insulting a young lady clerk. .... Fire
destroyed 34S automobiles, valued at
$75O,0O0 in a Boston garage, Monday.
80. Henry c. Frick, the multi million
aire of Pittsburg, offers his palatial
home in that city for sale and wants
to move his family to New York, be-
cause of social slight to his daugh-
ter. 80. After five years of hotly con-
tested litigation, there are still 400
damage cases growing out of the Iro-
quois theatre fire in Chicago to be set
tied. ..... Rev. A. S. Gregg, Of the In
ternational Reform Bureau, Cleveland.
o., declares that opium Is responsible
for 100000 suicides annually. and that
s@00,0OO,OO0 is spent annually for the
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the United States during the year
1908 as compared with 1907, shows a
loss of about $50O,OO0,O00. According
to figures just made public by the
bureau Of statistics of the department
of commerce and labor. 49,. Manitoba
has been experiencing the worst snow
storms Of several years during the
past few days. Many trains have been
buried in the drifts. .... Five persons
LII Ia Ill. 4
by the wreck Of a Missouri, Kansas
and Texas express train at Beagle.
Kan, Monday morning. The train was
derailed by a split" switch. .... The
Republican caucus Of the New York
Legislature has selected Elihu Root. at
present secretary Of state in Mr..
ROosevelts cabinet, to succeed Thos.
c. Platt. as senator from New York. go.
The Tooth anniversary Of the birth of
Edgar Allen Poe, the poet, was cele-
brated throughout the country Tues
day. Governor Geo. E. Chamber
lain, Democrat, has been elected Unit
ed States senator from Oregon. Cham
berlain was nominated under the pri-
mary system. The senate on Tues
day passed a bill to increase the salary
Of the president of the United
States TO 100000 per annum. The
salary Of the chief justice Of the su-
preme court was increased to $4,000.
..... Senator Lee S. Overman was on
Tuesday reelected by the legislature
of North Carolina, as United States
senator from that state. Eight per-
sons were killed and considerable dam
age was done by an earthquake which
visited Phocaca, Turkey, Tuesday
morning. Paul o. Stensland, who
wrecked the Milwaukee Avenue State
Bank of Chicago, made his escape to
Morocco, was captured and returned to
Illinois, tried and convicted and given
sentence of Imprisonment at Joliet,
is applying for a pardon after serving
only twenty-eight months Of his term.
Thousands Of depositors in the bank
wrecked by Stensland are strenuously
opposing his pardon. go. Since the
United States began work on the Pan
anna canal in May, 1904 to the close
of 1908, 59,773,179 cubic yards Of ma
terial have been eXcavated; three flfths
Of this amount was moved during
1908. Up to October l, 1908, $S3,275,000
had been expended In construction
work. .....P. ]. Herman. a promoter,
wanted in connection with swindlng
schemes practiced on the Catholic
churches and institutions throughout
the country, surrendered to the police
Of Pittsburg, Pa. on Monday. :. Pres
ident Roosevelt has succeeded in tenn
porarily holding up the anti-Japanese
bills now pending before the legisla-
ture of California. 80. Senator Dennis
j. Harte has introduced a bill in the
New York state senate providing q
penalty of twenty years Imprisonment
in cases Of marital infidelity. Sec
retary Of the Interior Garfield Is ask
'ng congress TO give his department
100000 additional to pay the expenses
Nf ,apnrn,jnpr lands In VaTinnS
of the country taken from the govern
ment by fraud and valued at about
$ll0 000, 900. 3. Herbert Grigg, the sec
ond Of the boys to be tried for the
murder Of William Read at Vineland.
y. j.. was convicted Wednesday night
Of second degree murder, after the
jury had been out forty nine hours. -.
Six miners were killed and eight in .
jured in a coal mine at Chancellors,
Cal. Tuesday night. The jury to
try Ed Marshall, one OF the men
charged with the murder Of Captain
Rankin at Reelfoot Lake. Tenn, was
completed Wednesday morning. ......
ThOs. +. Ryan. the New York capital
ist, is building a 100000 COW barn on
his estate in Nelson county, Va......
Four men We're killed and ten injured
by an explosion Of four tons Of dyna-
mite in a powder factory at Lake
HOpatcong, n. j., Wednesday. E. VIII
Ward, negro. is in Jail at Clinton, ~
g. charged with criminally assaulting
Mrs. w. J. Mcleod of Sampson counS
ty. \ lynching was prevented Tues
day night by a company Of militia.
The Federal grand jury at Wash
ingtOn Is examining witnesses in the
case Of the government against certain
new papers for libel. .... Governor B..
B. Conner of Alabama, received ver-Si
dict of one cent damages in a case
against the Montgomery Advertiser for
s25.O00 alleged libel, in the city court
Wednesday.