Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-07-30
MERE.ME ENTION.

Nathaniel P. Willis of Indianapo-
lis, Ind, was shot to death in the
court room at Little Rock, Ark,
Tuesday, by w. Y. Ellis. the husband
Of Willis former wife. Willis was
suing his divorced wife for the pos
ed by Ellis. .... Hubert Latham
made another attempt to cross the
English channel in his monoplane on
Tuesday. He failed by about two
miles and falling to the water, his
machine was wrecked and he sustain
ed painful injuries He was in the
air only twenty minutes. go. After
a very bitter campaign, the "wets"
won in the local option election at
Shenandoah, Va, Tuesday, by a ma
jority of 19, in a total vote of III.
The town is now dry. 80. Noah r.
Marker, cashier Of the First National
bank of Upton, Ind, has skipped
from that city, carrying with him all
the money in the bank, amounting to
about $4,000. Marker had been
with the bank nineteen years, had
been mayor of the city, prominent in
church affairs and leaves a wife and
two children. During a political
riot at Guadaljara, Mexico on Sun
day twelve people were killed, more
than thirty were injured and there
have been over 200 arrests of partici-
pants, among them several Ameri-
cans. .....A bill has been introduce
ed into the Georgia legislature max
ing 1T felony for woman to ride
horse astride in that state. .Foy w.
Dulany, absconding clerk Of the court
of Washington, Tenn, whose alleged
shortage is $4,000, has been arrest
ed at Kingston, Jamaica. The
Women's Club of Ardmore, Pa, has
turned down the offer Of Mr. Carne-
gle to donate $1,000 for the erection
of a public library in that town on
condition that the ladies raise a like
sum. The club women will raise the
money and build their own library.
..... The members of the Miners
Confederation of Great Britain, with
membership Of more than a mil
lion, are threatening to 60 on a strike
in support of the coal miners Of Scot
land who are resisting a wage reduc-
tion of six pence a day. 49,. 1t is es-
timated that not less than 1000
Moors have been killed in the vicini-
ty of Melilla, Morocco, by the Span
ish troops. 49,. .Messrs. Wilbur and
Orville Wright have been decorated
with the Legion of Honor by the
French government for their achieve
mentS in aviation. Deal Jackson,
a negro farmer of Dougherty county,
Ga, sold the first bale of new crop cot
ton sold in that state this season, on
Monday Jackson holds the record
for the first bale in Georgia for sever
| al years past. His cotton this year
brought 20 cents a pound. 80. There
are 10000 workers in the paper, cot
ton, woolen and allied interests on a
strike at Stockholm, Sweden. A
club composed of disheartened fac
tory employees advocating suicide as
the only means of attaining the peace
of mind they crave, is believed to ex-
ist in Cleveland, o. A number of per-
sons, said to belong to the club, have
already suicided. ..... An industrious
hen, scratching under a porch at
Lakewood, y. j., a few days ago, un-
earthed $1,000 worth of jewelry
The jewelry was stolen from the
home in April last and it is supposed
that the thief hid his loot under the
porch, to be later dug up by the hen.
... Rev. DR.. VIM. r. Huntington.
rector of Grace Episcopal church, of
New York, and one of the leading
EpiScOpalian divines of the country,
died at Nahant, Mass, Monday, aged
II years. George Upshaw, an es-
capped convict, called on Governor
Noel at Jackson, Miss, Tuesday, and
laSked for an unconditional pardon
for himself and several of his fellow
prisoners. He was sent back to priS-
on. ....J. II. Jones. aged so years
a negro employee of the senate sta
tionery room at Washington, and the
body servant of President Jefferson
Davis, to whom was entrusted the