Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-03-30

people at times, there Is no reasonable
doubt of the fact that right and justice
will prevail in the end.
MERE-MENTIoN.
Owing to an epidemic Of smallpox in
Jones county, N. c., Judge Cooke, who
was to open court at Trenton, the
county seat, yesterday, ordered that the
term Of court be indefinitely postponed
until conditions grew better, as he did
not care to place the people Of the
county who would have to attend court,
in danger Of catching smallpox. .....
Crown Prince George Of Servia, has
renounced his title to the throne Of
Servia. He had been accused Of be-
ing implicated in the death of a SER
want. ..... The steamship Merton ar
rived at Philadelphia on Thursday with
500 immigrants from European ports
on board. Two Of the steerage pas
sengers had developed smallpox in its
most virulent form. The vessel was
quarantined and everybody on board
vaccinated. e. "A 300-foot section Of
the relocated Panama railroad sunk
thirty, feet Thursday. The sink is at
the same place as the one that occur
red in November. 80. Rabbi Solomon
Goodman, 70 years Of age, Of Boston,
has developed leprosy and has been
sent to the leper colony Of Massachu-
setts in Boston harbor. The Opti-
mists' Club Of America has started a
movement to designate April 1st Of
each year "Optimists' Day." instead Of
"All Fools Day." President Taft is
member Of the Optimist club. .....
Count Zeppelin, the German aeronaut,
is to build a dirigible balloon to carry
forty-five persons and stay in the air
for thirty hours. 80. Last Thursday
at Daytona, Fla, Walter Georke, Of
Brooklyn, N. Y, rode q motorcycle
sixty nine miles in one hour. The best
single mile record was made in 43 2-5
seconds by an Alabama rider. $50. .Po-
lice Commissioner Bingham Of New
York city, stated last week that at
the beginning Of his term Of office he
was offered bribe Of $4,000 by GRIM
inal interests for merely negative
attitude toward crime. The Long
Island Railroad company is asking for
bids on 120 steel motor passenger cars
for its New York terminal service un-
der the East river. The cars will cost
about $2,000,000. The test Of the
scout cruisers Birmingham, Chester
and Salem last week, demonstrated
that the Birmingham, equipped with
reciprocating engines, consumed much
less coal per hour than the other YES
sells. 49,. The assets of Otto Heinze &
Co., the New York bankers, who fail
ed in October, 1907, have been an
nounced as 100000. The liabilities
are given at $4,000, 900. :. French and
English capitalists are to invest $780,
600, 900 in Mexico building steel plants.
-. Ralph Sterling and his wife were
drowned near Tampa, Fla, Friday, by
the capsizing of a sail boat. Geo.
H. Bell Of Swainsboro, Ca, formerly a
member Of the legislature, and recent
ly released from the state insane asy-
lum, committed suicide Thursday
morning on a Central Of Georgia rail-
road train. .... Mrs. Pierre Lorillard
committed suicide in her Washington
home Wednesday night by inhaling
gas. The Louisiana game commits
sion reports that 100000 muskrats
were killed in that state during the
past year. .. Three negroes were con-
victed at Powhattan, Va, last week
on charges of murder and sentenced
to the electric chair. ..... An Atlanta,
Ga photographer was fined $1O0.75
Saturday, for making obscene pictures
of negro women. Governor Hughes
of New York, has begun a state cam
paign for the selection Of state officers
by the primary system. Miss Hell
en- Gladys Emery, daughter Of Bishop
Emery Of the Protestant Episcopal
church Of California, had to go to Vic
toria, B. c., to be married to Gunjtro
Aoki, a Japanese. She could not marry
the Oriental in California. ....... 1t is
announced from Washington that the
new tariff law will be passed by April
Is. One man was killed and anoth-
ar was seriously injured in an auto
mobile explosion at West Palm Beach,
Fla, Saturday. ... Rev. Dennis Liv-
ingston, a Methodist preacher, was
convicted at Florence, Ala, Saturday,
Of manslaughter and sentenced to five
years in prison. Three persons
killed. two probably fatally injured and
fifteen others more or less hurt, was
the result Of a trolley collision near
Pittsburg, Pa, Saturday. :. Five men
were arrested in San Francisco on
Saturday charged with conspiring to
secure confidential manuscripts Of
evidence of value to the defense in the
graft cases from the office Of the dis
trict attorney. .... The Amalgamated
Iron, Steel and Tin workers Of eastern
Pennsylvania, representing 10000 men,
on Saturday decided not to accept the
reduction Of wages proposed by the
manufacturers. -. Bishop Warren A.
Gambler of the Methodist Episcopal
church, South, has declared himself
against the "live- like Christ" move
ments started in various parts Of the
country. go. James H. Boyle and his
wife, kidnappers Of the Whitla boy at
Sharon. Pa, have been taken to Jail
at Mercer, Pa. The Boyle woman now
claiming that she thought her husband
was keeping the boy temporarily for
his father. ..... Representative Henry
of Connecticut has introduced bill to
reduce the postage rate on rural free
delivery routes. A bill to appro-
pirate s56,000,000 for railroad construc-
ton and improvement has been intro
duced in the Russian diet. :. Congress
will hold night sessions in order tol
expedite the passage of the tariff bill
now before that body. ....... The COM
mittee appointed by Governor Hughes
to investigate the methods Of doing
business on the various New York
exchanges, will make report on April
10. 49,. After April 1st, neither opium
nor any mixture or compound contain
ing the drug can legally be brought
into the United States except for
strictly medicinal purposes. .. Jas. P.
Whitla, the father of Billy Whitla,
the kidnapped boy Of Sharon, Pa, has
refused an offer of $4,000 from ar
eastern theatrical concern, which
wanted the boy for show purposes. ..
Crazy Snakes band of Creek Indians,
negroes and half breeds. are giving the
authorities of Oklahoma considerable
trouble at present. The trouble began
Thursday and up to Sunday six men
had been killed and a number wound
ed. State troops have been sent out
with orders to exterminate the gang,
which numbers about ZOO