Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-01-05

of the war department. .... The United
States circuit court at Atlanta, has
appointed receivers for the Atlanta,
birmingham and Atlantic railroad. d.....
Three young men of Chicago broke the
ice in order to take a bath in Lake
Michigan on New Years Day. There
were 100 lynchingS in the United States
during 1908, against 63 in 1907. Mis-
siSSippi lead the list with 22, Texas
was second with p; South Carolina
had one. Ninety-three of the victims
were negroes. Yuan Shai-Kai, grand
councillor and commander-in-ch chief Of
the forces" Of China. and friend of
foreigners during the Boxer revolution.
has been ouSted from office in disgrace.
The dismissal of Yuan Shai-Kai has
caused CONSERVATION among the for
eign diplomats. ..... .Whan Chang, the
Korean, who shot Durham White Ste
venS, an American adviser of the ko-
rean government, at San Francisco
some weeks ago. has been sentenced TO
twenty five years in San Quentin prlS-
on. .... Because a fly fell into
five-gall0n can of milk and was in
stantly killed at Los Angeles, Cal, Sat-
urday, an examination was made OF
the fluid, and 1t was discovered that the
milk contained a large quantity OF
salts of vitriOl. a deadly poison. DR..
Alex A. Sharp of Kansas, last week
purchased a tract of 1885 acres Of land
near Houston, Tex, for which he paid
S262 200 Francis ]. Heney, pub
lie prosecutor in San Francisco, Sald
Saturday in an address at Philadelphla'
that f. II. Hartman, the railroad mag
nate. and not Abraham Reuf, was the
real cOrrupter of municipal life in Cali
fornia London surgeons are now
beginning a crusade to put stop 10
the removal of the VermifOrm appendix
from every patient afflicted with ap-
nendicitis. The United States su-
preme court has refused the petition
of the government for writ OF certl-
orari in the $29,000,000 fine case
against the Standard Oil company.
The case will now go before Judge
Lands for new trial. -" Three
prisoners made their escape from the
iail at bonneville, Ca, Monday morn
ing by saving the bars. ..... During
the last fiscal year 50,676 names were
stricken from the Federal pension
rolls because of deaths among the
pensioners. ...B. F. Akridge or
Thomasville, Ga, was captured by
might riders" Saturday night, who
after mistreating him in shameful
manner cut his throat from ear to ear.
Akridge is a prominent planter, and
although horribly injured ne VIII re-
cover. Several persons were kill
ed and sixty or more seriously wound
ed in a riot at Titteghun, India, Sat
urday, as a result of a police order
forbidding Mohammedan sacrifices
of COWS :. 1t is probable that Post
master General Meyer will be secre-
tary of the navy in Mr.. Tafts cabinet.
James ]. Jeffries, the ex-cham-
pion, refuses to meet Jack Johnson,
the negro champion heavyweight pu-
gilist, for purse of $4,000. Jeffries
says he has quit the game for good.
1t is probable that the propos-
ed postal savings bank bill now be-
fore congress will fail to pass. ......
The case against George L. Lilley,
governor-elect of Connecticut, on
charges of corrupt practices, has been
dismissed by the two judges who were
to hear the case, on the ground of the
unconstitutionality of the act under
which the case was to have been
tried. Tom Longboat, the Indian
runner, defeated Dorando, the Italian,
in a second Marathon race at Buffalo,
n. Y, Saturday. The italian quit be-
fore the finish.