Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-07-02
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Mich, Monday, In. which a physician
was on trial for the murder Of hi
nephew for alternating the affection
of the formers wife, Judge w. F
Connolly said to the prospective jul
rors: "In this state no man has
right to kill another person to aveng'
his private wrongs, even though the!
may involve the honor Of his wife,
John Freeman was killed II
Brooklyn, N. Y, Monday in a pecu
liar manner. He noticed a fire abou
the bottom Of an iron telephone poll
which had been started by lightning
Freeman got a bucket of water ant
throwing it on the fire instantly fel
dead, the electricity travelling back te
him on the water thrown on the fire
The city of San Francisco or
Monday transferred $1O,000,0OO ir
gold from a bank to the city hal
vaults. The money was loaded on
truck drawn by fourteen of the finest
truck horses in the city and was
guarded by twenty-five mounted po'
licemen. Joseph B. Hamilton,
farmer, who lived near Salem, lnd.
dug his grave in the family buryine
ground and then committed suicide by
shooting himself through the heart
with a shot gun. He pushed the trig-
ger with his toe. 1.-THE CUBAN
budget as passed by the house OF rep
resentatives on Monday, carries ap'
preparations Of $33,000,000.........
Broughton Brandenburg, the maga-
zine writer, tried in New York on the
charge Of forging the name of the late
ex-President Cleveland, was acquitted
by a jury Tuesday afternoon. line
first bale of the 1909 crop Of cotton
was sold at Dallas, Tex, Tuesday, for
$l.2O a pound. .....A bulletin lssueo
by the interstate commerce commits
sion shows that for the quarter end
ing March 31st last, there had peen
$50 persons killed and 1912 persons
injured by the railroads of the coun-
try. James Dillon, policeman
of Brooklyn, N. Y, was sentenced
Tuesday. to serve not less than seven
wears in Sing Sing for second degree
murder A Hornell, N. Y. boy
found a can of powder Tuesday and
invited a number Of children to NEAR
the big noise" He dropped a light-
ed match in the can, and four OF the
BOYS were injured, two probably IA
tallv Three French avlators, all
with different types of flying ma
chimes, are on the coast OF France
awaiting favorable wind and weather
conditions to make an attempt to ny
across the English Channel in compe-
tition for a $4,000 prize offered by q
London newspaper to the aviator
making the first flight across the
channel. Calvin Lttlepage on
Tuesday night at Des Moines, Ia.' sho'
the father and mother of his divorced
wife to death and then kidnapped MS
former wife and child .Donalo
M. Balm, a prominent insurance man
of Atlanta, Ga, shot E. G. Williams
to death in the Prudential building II
that city Tuesday afternoon. Inc
killing was the result Of a practical
Joke. Jack Blackburn, negro
prize fighter, was sentenced to serve
fifteen years in the state prison py
Philadelphia judge on TUESDAY
Blackburn was on trial for the Kill
ing of Alonzo Polk, and plead guilt!
to second degree murder. "A motor
TO set aside the second indictment o.
Patrick Calhoun, on charges of offer
ing a bribe, was overruled by Judge
I.awlor at San Francisco on Wednes
DIR. Chas. w. Eliot has beer
made president emeritus of Harvard
university, and was on wednesday
presented with a fund Of nearly So,
600 90 subscribed by graduates OF TIT
institution as mark Of appreciation
General George B. Crosby, aget
GO wears, one Of the few surviving brig
adler generals of the Confederate
army. committed suicide at Oakland
Cal, Tuesday, by inhaling gas.
Rev. G. R. Robbins, Baptist preach
er Of Cincinnati, o., on Tuesday re-
ceived an Internal machine through
the mails, with a warning to stoI
preaching against the BLACK Hand
society. President Taft ATTENDED
the commencement exercises at Yale
university, New Haven, Conn, Wed
neSday. -. After nursing a grudge
for four years, c. c. Walker Of Fay
cite, Mo-, on Wednesday, shot Jane!
Dorsey in Chicago. Dorsey, fatal!
shot, wrenched the pistol from th'
hands of Walker and shot him twice
Walker will recover. Seven per
sons were killed and scores were In
iured and thousands Of dollars dam
age to property, was the result OF
tornado, which swept over Benson
county, N D., Wednesday.