Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-06-29
MERE-MENTION.

ABOUT the ndIlullHS VI llc iuiiu.
News and Courier
MERE-MENTIoN.
BY the collision of two electric cars
near Wilmington, Del, late Thursday
night, forty members of church pic
mic party were seriously injured, six
being probably fatally hurt. =: Stock
holders of the Prudential Life 1nsur-
ance company of Newark, N. j., have
brought suit against the corporation
to compel the payment Of s16,ooo,OoO
to it's stockholders instead of turning
this amount of surplus back to Its
policyholders. :. The Canadian Paci-
fic railway has offered a reward Of $5,-
900 for the arrest Of the train robbers
who held up one Of its trains at Ducks,
B. c., last Tuesday. The Fort Will
liam Henry hotel at Lake George, N.
Y, was destroyed by fire Thursday
with a loss Of $25O,0O0. Frank H.
Roland, the prince Of 10y riders" of
New York, has been sent to Sing Sing
for two years on the technical charge
of stealing the use of an automobile.
Sanford Robinson, the New York
lawyer, tried in the Federal court on
the charge of impeding the admins
tration Of justice, was convicted
Thursday. ..... The postoffice depart
ment at Washington, Is making Its
own ice at a cost of IS cents ton; the
other departments buy Ice from pri-
vate dealers at cost Of $7.65. The
Southern Pacific Railroad company OF
Mexico has been incorporated at Tren-
ton, N. j. The company's purpose Is
to build a line Of railroads down the
west coast of Mexico and will proba-
bly, extend the system to Panama.
Vice President Sherman appeared In
the senate on Friday wearing suit
of clothes, made from cotton that was
grown, ginned, spun into thread, WOW
en- into cloth, dyed and tailored In
Muskogee county, Ga. ...... During the
twenty-four hours ending Friday at
noon, there were 80 new cases OF
cholera, 40 suspected cases and "a
deaths at st. Petersburg, Russia. -.
The government of France has taken
steps to put stop to the lottery
schemes that are worked throughout
France "A mob Of more than 1000
men and boys chased a Chinaman In
Philadelphia, Friday night, in the be-
lief that the Chinaman was Leon Ling
the New York murderer. The Young
Turks now estimate that Abdul Hamid
has $21,OOO,OOO deposited in German
banks and are wondering how they can
secure the money. Police Com
missioner Bingham of New York city
is suing VIM. ]. Gaynor, a supreme
court justice, for 100000 damages fol-
defamation of character. Big
Florrie" Sullivan, one Of the leading
Tammany politicians of New York
died in that city Thursday. big
Florrie" became famous several years
ago by cleaning DE Ate" (eighth) ward
of houses of ill-fame, after the police
professed that they were unable to dc
so. ION the opening OF the Phila-
delphia hospital for contagious diseases
on Friday, $50 patients suffering from
scarlet fever, were transferred to the
new hospital. Katherine Clemmons
Gould has been granted a separation
from her husband, Howard Gould, and
is to receive $4,000 year alimOny...
The steamship Jefferson has arrived
at Seattle, Wash, from Alaska ports
bringing $3,200,000 in gold. ....... The
case against Mrs. Francis j. Ridley OF
Atlanta, Ga, who was arrested at
Newark, N. j., on March s, charged
with the larceny Of jewelry from a
fellow passenger on q Pullman car
has been mol pressed. Mrs. Ridley will
sue the Pullman company for 100000
damage for false arrest. .... An engine
and three cars of the Murphy branch
of the Southern railway were buried
by the cave in of Cowie tunnel west
of Asheville, n. c., on Friday. The
road will probably be blocked for sew
eral weeks. There were no fatalities
......A Chicago saloon was damaged
$4,000 by 4 bomb early Friday morn
ing This is the thirtieth Chicago sa-
loon to be damaged in this way during
the past few months. Three ne
groes were sentenced to electrocution
by the court at Alexandria, Va, Friday
They are charged with the murder OF
a Chicago artist. .....A bill providing
for an amendment to the constitution
so as to provide for biennial sessions
in the Georgia senate. George Free
man, negro, under sentence to die on
the scaffold at Paducah, KY, Friday
committed suicide just one hour be-
| fore a reprieve granted by the govern
or, arrived at the Jail. e. A New York
magistrate announces that one depart
ment of his court will be for the pro-
lection of husbands who are henpeck-
ed. Secretary Wilson says that
one of the chief causes of the high
price of foodstuffs is the lack of farm
hands to work the crops. The 5000
union street car workers of Pittsburg
Pa, have been ordered out on strike
after q failure to come to terms with
the street railway management on de-
mands that have been made. ......
John Early, the North Carolina leper
who has been detained near Washing
ton, is to be transferred to New York
| for observation and treatment, Spe-
cialist in the latter city claiming that
| Early is the victim of a malignant
skin disease and not leprosy. A
Chicago surgeon has successfully
grated section of the bone Of lamt
to Il mans leg that had suffered g
compound fracture. The lambs bone
was grated on, rather than amputat,
| the mans leg. 80. Five separate eX-
plOSiOns of nitrOglycerine at Wheeling
Junction. O.. Saturday. destroyed $780,
900 worth of steel sirders on a freight
train. The explosions are supposed
to be the work Of SympathiZers 0l
striking iron workers. .... The annua
sun dance of the ArapahOe and Navajo
| Indians is in progress at Watonga
Okla More than 1000 Indians are par
ticipating in the dance. .....A petition
2O5 feet long and bearing more thar
5000 names vii be presented to the
Georgia legislature this week asking
for the passage of compulsory
| Iaducati tion law