Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-07-09
FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1909.
MERE ENTlON.


Pittsburg, Pa, Monday. The weight
of the flag. 5000 pounds, tore the flag
pole and several tons Of tiling from
the roofing. -. One woman was kill
ed and another was fatally injured ir
an automobile runaway on Wilkesbarre
Mountain, Pa, Tuesday. ...... The
casualty list for the Glorious Fourth
throughout the country includes sixty
two deaths and 6,246 injuries, some IA
tally. There were more than 100 fires
with loss exceeding s5O0,ooO, due to
the celebration. 80. A San Francisco
aeronaut, jumped to his death at Port
land, Me-, Monday. He jumped before
the balloon had reached sufficient
height to allow his parachute to open
In its decent. AT San Francisco
early Monday morning, 150 horses
were burned to death In the destruc-
ton Of a livery stable by fire. The loss
Is estimated at $175,000. Mrs. Lii
liam Hoag of Los Angeles, Cal, on
Tuesday, completed a fast which last
ed for forty-nine days. This Is the
longest period Of fasting on record. :.
An English physician has recently
made successful tests with an airship
of the dirigible balloon variety, having
covered a. distance Of $50 miles In
one flight. The outfit is 12o feet long
and is equipped with 30O-horse pow
er motor. :. Francis w. Cushman,
congressman from Tacoma, Wash,
died In a New York hospital, Tuesday
from an attack Of pneumonia. "A
band Of Moro outlaws, including the
famous chief, Jikiri, was exterminated
by United States soldiers, marines and
constabulary in the Philippines on
Sunday. One American was killed
and twenty-four were more or less
wounded. ... .One man and five chill
dren were burned to death in their
home at South Boston, Mass, early
Tuesday morning. Henri Lemoine'
the Frenchman, who attained notoriety
several months ago. on claiming his
ability to make diamonds by a newly
discovered process, has been sentenced
to prison for six years for fraud. ......
Rev. E. L. Langley, aged S5 years, was
seriously shot near Grayson, Ga, Mon
day, while acting as peacemaker In
fight between his own son and another
young man, who were engaged In
drunken row. -. The 300th anniver-
sary of the discovery Of Lake Cham
plain is being celebrated this week at
Port Henry and other nearby New
York and Vermont towns. President
Taft and Ambassadors Bryce OF Eng
land and Jusserand Of France are
prominent in the programme. Ten
soldiers were killed in head-on COLI
sion of railroad trains near Beudet,
Haiti, late Sunday night. The presi-
dent of the republic, General Simon,
was on one Of the trains and had
narrow escape. d. United States Sen
ator Clay has been unanimously re-
elected by the Georgia legislature for
another term. Harry K. Thaw, the
noted slayer of Stanford White. has
won the first point in his fight for free
dom from the Matteawan insane asy-
lum. He has been removed from the
asylum to White Plains to await a de-
cision of the court as to where the trial
as to his sanity will take place. 49,.
Emily Morgan, colored, died at Colum-
bus, Ca, Tuesday, aged III years.
More than 5000 coal miners are on
strike at Sydney, Cape Breton. 1t is
a contest between rival labor organi-
cations. In a free-for-al fight at
a dance at Foley, w. Va, Monday, one
man was killed, one fatally shot and
several others more or less wounded.
The fight started because one man
danced with another's sweetheart. -.
Mrs Silvey Speer Thomas, daughter
of w. A. Speer, prominent in Atlanta,
Ca, society, who married Russell j.
Thomas, her fathers chauffeur, last
September, has been granted divorce.
Mrs. Thomas declared on the stand
that she was drugsed and threatened.
The total assessed valuation OF
property in New York this year Is ST.
250,500,559, Of which s6,S07,17s,7o4 Is
is real estate. . p. Levi and Alfonso
N. Gaddis, employees Of the Atlanta
Terminal company, Atlanta, Ga, have
disappeared, and are charged with for
gerry, embezzlement, fraud, etc. "A
revolution has broken out In the re-
public of Colombia, against President
Reyes, who is in London. Several CO.
lombian towns are in the hands Of the
revolutionists. -. An unknown tramp
saved q passenger train and 200 pas
sengers on the Rio Grande railway
near Canon City, Col, Wednesday, by
tagging the train and warning the
engineer Of the undermining Of the
track for distance Of two miles just
ahead Of the train. The Pennsyl-
vania railroad on Wednesday issued
orders for the "firing-up" Of 400 loco
motives which have been idle for many
months. Three persons are dead
and six are missing, and thousands Of
dollars Of damage to lands and crops
Is the result of cloudburst in the vi
cinity of Chillicothe, No. during Tues
day night and Wednesday. ..... The
New York Audit company has just
completed the auditing Of the books Of
the county commissioners Of Ohio
county, w. Va, of which T. c. Moffat,
was clerk for seventeen years. All
sorts Of grating has been unearthed,
among others being an item by which
the clerk paid himself per diem for
400 days in one year as jury commits
sioner. The deposed clerk is a broth
er of the president Of Washington and
Jefferson college. 80. .Chas. ]. Mag
ness, husband of the daughter Of the
late Senator German, is to be released
from the naval prison at Portsmouth,
n. H., where he was sentenced for one
year on conviction of desertion..
w. F. McRee was assass!nated by
Henry Patterson, a negro employee,
at Americus, Ga, early Tuesday
morning. The governments of Great
Britain and Russia have Joined in
plan whereby 1t is intended to save
the government Of Persia from the