Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-03-23
INTERVENTION.

Neutrality-suspicious.
Robt. ]. Maloney, a New Orleans
notary public, charged with embezzling
$500, 900, entered plea Of guilty Thurs
day on one count Of the indictment
charging forgery in the sum Of s1,500.
His sentence will be fourteen years in
prison. There are still fifteen counts
against Maloney. .... The cash reserve
of the Bank Of England, now totals
nearly 100000 pounds. equivalent to
$500. .000, 900. -. Harry d. Brown,
broker. has disappeared from Los An
geles, Cal, with $4,000 belonging to
his victims. 49,. Governor Wilson OF
Kentucky, will use the state militia TO
put stop to night rider operations In
Caldwell and Galloway counties OF
that state. -. The legislature or Della
ware has voted to reject the primary
plan of selecting United States sena-
tors. The Cambria Steel company
of Pennsylvania, has announced cut
of 10 per cent in the wages OF It's en-
ployees, effective April 1st. The cut
affects $4,000 men. The net earn
ings of the United States Steel corpor-
alton for the year ending December 81,
1908. according to its latest statement,
were $s1,S47,711, a decrease from the
year 1907 Of s6s.116,sSS. The gross
receipts for the year were $4s2,SO7,S4o.
Congress has awarded silver
medal to Miss Mary McCann Of Wash
ington for heroism in the saving OF
the lives of nine children at the time
of the General Slocum disaster, near
New York in 1904. The British gov
ernment is considering the advisability
OF buying three battleships OF the
Dreadnought class, now building In
England, from the Brazilian govern
ment. The people Of England are much
exercised over the rapid progress OF
Germany as a naval power. The
navy department has placed a contract
with the Bethlehem Steel company OF
Pennsylvania, for 1000 10-inch armor
piercing shells at $1S1.41 each, and for
1000 s-inch shells at $S7.1S each, and
with another concern for 5000 12-inch
shells at S197.50 each. Mrs. Frances
]. Ridley, a wealthy widow Of Atlanta,
Ga. was arrested in Newark, N. j.. on
Thursday. charged with the theft Of
jewelry, belonging to another woman
while on a Pennsylvania railway train
between Washington and New York,
she SAYS a mistake has been made and
her conduct can be satisfactorily
explained. Because 1t did not meet
the requirement Of the pure food laws,
500 cases Of catsup, 15,600 bottles. were
dumped into the waters OF Narragan-
sett bay one day last week. -. One
person dead, eleven injured and $780,
600 property loss, was the result OF
fires in New York city Friday. -. .The
officials of the Missouri Pacific Rail-
way company are contemplating the
issuing Of $l50,oO0.000 Of refunding
bonds. ;. ;. Charles B. Norton OF chi
cago, has given up a position paying
him $4,000 year to accept the posi-
ton of assistant secretary OF the treas
ury at a salary of $4,000 year. Mr..
Norton was engaged in the insurance
business in Chicago. 1900. The scout
cruisers Birmingham, Chester and Sa-
lem left Newport, r. l., Sunday on a
racing trip Of 1000 miles down the
coast, to test their engines, each cruis-
er being equipped with a different type
of engines, one with a reciprocating
and the other two with American and
English turbines. Joe Brown,
white man, was lynched at Elkins. w.
Va, Friday, for the shooting Of Chief
of Police White. White will recover.
Three persons are dead, two IA
tally injured twenty houses were de-
molished and twenty were flooded by
the bursting Of two water tanks which
supplied the city Of Parkersburg, w.
Va, Friday morning. The total dam
age will exceed s250,000. The Beth
lehem Steel company Of Pennsylvania,
will receive the contract for building
two battleships for the Argentine Re-
public, at a cost of S10,000,o00 each. -.
Ben Gilbert, white, was electrocuted at
the Virginia penitentiary early Friday
morning. Gilbert murdered his sweet
heart at Norfolk in July, 1908. The
18th birthday anniversary Of the late
Grover Cleveland was celebrated In
New York on Friday, President Taft
was the principal speaker Of the occa-
sion. Secret service men arrested
gang Of counterfeiters and secured
their outfit at Hosford Park, Ind. 49,.
Alfred Allen was sentenced a. Wet
umpka, Ala, Saturday to rs years in
the penitentiary for wife murder. .....
Six children were burned to death at
Mexico City, Friday night, in fire re-
sulting from an exploding lamp. p......
The strike Of the telegraphers of the
postal department of France, which be-
gan In Paris a week ago, has grown
into ugly proportions and much trouble
is expected. The telegraphers have
been Joined by other union workers
and a political revolution is not i'm
probable. ...... Three men were killed
and forty more or less injured In
shipyard at Barrow, England, on Sat-
urday by the collapse Of a gangway
..... Five men were killed and score
injured in a coal mine explosion at
Sunnyside, Ind, Saturday The pub
lie service commission Of New York
city has under consideration various
proposals amounting to $5OO,O00,0Oo
for building subways in that city. ......