Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-05-28
MERE.MEN1ION.


It is reported from Dunkirk, N. Y,
that the Union Pacific railroad mas
placed an order with the American Lo-
comotive company for 100 locomotives.
..... George White was arrested at
Chicago on Sunday, while on his hon
eymoon trip, charged with embezzling
money from a bank at Staunton, Va.
Richard Donegan, murderer, COM
demned to electrocution at Trenton, N.
j., during the week Of July 5, will have
to be carried to the electric chair, be-
cause Of being paralyzed as a result
Of q fall In an effort to escape from
prison. :. President Taft has been
elected q trustee Of Hampton Normal
and Agricultural Institute Of Hampton,
Va. 80. Miss Pearl Rambo, 15 years
old, Of Council Bluff, Ia, tips the scales
at $50 pounds ..... 1t Is reported from
Washington that John Hays Ham
mond, the man who receives 100000
q year, as mining engineer, has been
offered the appointment Of minister to
China, but declined. :. Although $780,
900 has been offered as a reward for
the arrest of the four bandits who re-
ger train, no clue to the identity Of the
robbers has been secured. -. An At
lanta, Ca, woman has been granted a
divorce from her husband by a jury,
principally upon the ground that he
would not get up at o'clock in the
morning and start fire. Seventeen
pairs Of baby shoes, the most costly
ever made in America, have just been
completed for the baby princess Of
Holland by Brockton, Mass, shoe
factory. -. Albert Aiken, a negro, was
taken from the jail at Lincolnton, Ga.
early Monday morning and lynched by
a mob. Aiken had fatally stabbed a
Lincoln county farmer on Thursday.
May 20. The national convention of
Railway Mail Clerks association Will
be held in Atlanta, Ga, next week, June
1 to 5...... The wholesale price OF
fresh meats In the western packing
centers has been advanced "a cents to
4 cents a pound, due, 1t Is said, to
the high price Of corn. 80. The United
States supreme court has rendered a
decision to the effect that states can
not prevent the delivery Of liquor by
states to dry counties. Congress alone
can give the necessary law to govern
liquor shipments to dry states. .Lo-
vett Davis, a negro, was taken from
the Jail at Pine Bluff, Ark, Tuesday
by a mob Of 200 unmasked men and
hanged to a telegraph pole. Davis had
attacked a 16-year- old girl. >. Henry
Culp was shot to death at Europa, Mo-,
Tuesday, while kneeling in prayer In
church. The shooting was done by
Chas. Champ, Culp's brother-in-law.
Culp killed Harry Champ In August
last and was acquitted. DR.. Much
of Berlin. has discovered an anti-cobra
poison serum, developed by insane
persons, and believes 1t will prove very
efficacious In the treatment Of mental
disorders. Secretary of War Dick
inson is planning defenses for both
ends of the Panama canal to cost ST.
900, 900. President Taft has pruned
$36,0O0,000 from the estimates Of the
war department for the support Of the
military establishment of the govern
ment for the fiscal year 1911. The es-
innate totaled $171, ,000... "A true
bill has been returned against ]. d. Har-
ris, school teacher at Warrenton, Va,
for the murder Of w. A. Thompson. as
sociate editor of the Warrenton Vfr-
ginian. The killing occurred in April.
The Argentine Republics inten-
ton to build three battleships Of the
Dreadnought class, has been changed
to the purchase of 100000 tons of steel
rails, which are wanted at once.
Mayor John T. Carmody of Cedar
Rapids, Ia, was shot In the abdomen
by burglar Monday night. t..... Three
lives were lost in the harbor at Buff
falo, N. Y, Monday, as the result OF
a lake steamer colliding with a tug
boat. :. Julius Jacobson. an Ameri-
can. and six other excurstonists were
drowned on the river Tiete, In Brazil,
Monday. The boat was wrecked by a
sunken rock In the river. 80. John w.
Beam, a negro lawyer, shot Mrs. Es-
tella M. Diltz. young widow to death
at Lima, O., and attempted to COM
NIT suicide Monday when a mob had
finally driven him to bay. Beam was
married, but tried to court the widow.
80. :. The mail steamer Dora arrived
at Sewad, Alaska, Monday, with l94
survivors from the wreck Of the steam
er Columbia, which occurred April 80.
Two former life savers were response
BILE for the saving of the other 1872 pas
sengers. by establishing a life line to-
the coast from the wrecked vessel. -.
Andrew Carnegie has given $1,000,0 900
for the establishment Of a "hero fund
in France similar to that existing In the
the United States. The battleship
Mississippi steamed from Natchez,
Miss, to New Orleans, 275 miles, in
fourteen hours Tuesday. An en-
gineer was killed and three train hands
seriously injured in collision OF pas
senger and freight trains at Fruitland,
Md, Tuesday afternoon. Five chill
dren were burned to death Monday
night at Central City, KY, during the
commencement exercises Of private
school. . :. More than 5000 miners are
on a strike in the coal fields Of Kama
wha, w. Va, because the mine opera
tors demand the long ton as basis OF
pay. Monroe county, Ind, voted
"dry" Tuesday by majority Of $780,.
Ninety-six of the 7S0 cadets Of the ma
val academy at Annapolis are unfit
for service. The Adams, United
States and American express compa-
nies are to be investigated by the in
terstate commerce commission to de-
termine whether they are in a combi-
notinn 70 kaan I'M aYnraas rates