Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-04-20
mERE.MENTIoN.

When the receiver for the bankrupt
firm of Ennis & Stoppani. brokers OF
New York, who failed last week with
liabilities of s1,5oo,0OO, opened the
safe Of the concern, he found only $500
in cash, which together with the office
furniture represents the available as
sets. Mr.. Roosevelt and party VIII
arrive at Mombasa, East Africa, to-
morrow morning and will proceed at
once to the ranch of Sir Alfred Pease,
whose guest he viii be for two weeks
Forty deaths from the smallpox have
occurred during the past few days at
Nairobi, where the Roosevelt party
was expected to stop for q short stay.
The lower house Of the Missouri
legislature has passed a resolution to
submit q constitutional amendment to
the people in the general election OF
November. 1910, on the question OF
prohibition. II the amendment car
ries It will close every barroom, brew
cry and distillery In Missouri. .... The
police department Of Chicago has be-
gun a war Of determination on bucket
shops in that city. Nine were closed
Thursday on evidence furnished by
the Board of Trade. Governor john
SON Of Minnesota, has signed q bill
which makes 1t a misdemeanor to
manufacture, sell or give away cigar
cites or cigarette paper In that state.
Six years In the state penitentiary
Is the sentence imposed on John An
drews, former assistant comptroller OF
Atlantic city, N. j., on his plea OF
guilty to the charge of forging city
pay warrants on four counts. There
were thirty indictments against Young.
Among the bridal presents OF
Mrs. T. Suffern Taller Of Baltimore.
Nd, at her marriage last week. was
q check for $1,000 900. =. Fourteen OF
the rioters who took part In the Good
Friday riots at velardena, Mexico.
have been executed under orders of O
drum head courtmartial and there viii
be others. The district attorney
of Pittsburg, who has been investigat-
ing the grating city councilmen OF
that city, has announced that 1t is USE
less for any Of the grafters to attempt
to run away to avoid the grand jury.
He says they will come back some day
and he will get them when they re-
turn. He has full confession OF a
grating councilman to help him IN
the work. 49,. The legislature Of New
York has passed law making 1t
misdemeanor to sell or wear the plum
age of any species Of the heron family
This will stop the sale Of the ajgrette
for women's hats in that state. .......
During the progress Of a fire In one
of the public schools Of Cleveland, O.,
Thursday, 1900 pupils were marched
out under the fire drilP without in
jury or panic. 1900. The attorneys OF
Duncan B. and Robin ]. Cooper, re-
Gently convicted of the murder Of Sem
ator Carmack, in making motion for
new trial Thursday, filed their ex-
ceptions giving forty-six separate rea-
sons why the Coopers should be given
new trial. /. :. The final ceremony
of the beatifcation of Joan of Arc,
the French heroine, was celebrated
at st. Peters Cathedral at Rome, on
Sunday. More than 10000 people went
to Rome from France for the ceremo-
ny. The Baldwin Locomotive works
Of Philadelphia, have just completed
two locomotives for western railroad
which are said to be the largest ever
built. Each Of the locomotives. COM
plete with tender, weighs approximate
ly 100000 pounds. The engine itself is
mounted on twenty wheels, sixteen Of
them being drivers, coupled up In
groups Of four pairs each. ...... Mrs.
Eva A. Ingersoll Of New York, has won
a verdict in the Federal circuit court
at Boston, by which she is to get the
sum Of $13S,S10, which represents an
unpaid attorneys fee charged by her
husband, the late Robt. G. Ingersoll, in
a case in which will was to be broken
by contesting heirs. 80. The Waters
Pierce Oil company, under the recent
decision Of the United States supreme
court, will pay the state Of Texas near
ly $2,000,000, fine and penalties, for
violation Of the states antitrust laws.
..... Many of the manufacturing
plants throughout Vermont and New
were put out Of business
last week by the spring
freshets Of the rivers. go. Addison s.
Beardsley, confidential man for New
York real estate firm, is under arrest
charged with stealing $4,000. His
stealage extended over a period Of sew
eral years. Nv. F. Galloway, prin-
cipal Of a grammar school at Savan-
nah, Ga, has been arrested and re-
leased on bond on charge Of unnec-
essary cruelty in whipping school
boy. 80. -Four persons were drowned
in Glace bay, Massachusetts,, Friday
by the capsizing Of a sail boat. .......
John Sykes, one Of the best known
lawyers of New Jersey, is being sought
by the police Of Trenton, because of
alleged to total $4,000
in connection with the settling Of an
estate. .....A $10,000,OO0 silk plant Of
France is to be moved to the United
States and will probably be located at
Patterson, N. J..... Nine members Of
the lower house of the Japanese diet
have been arrested on charges Of graft
Ing and bribery. III. P. Freeman, a
former city tax collector Of Tampa,
Fla, has been convicted Of embezzle-
ment and sentenced to five years in