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

The United States treasury depart
ment last week completed the move
ment of S225,5OO,O00 from the mint IN
San Francisco to the mint in Denver
Col, The treasure was moved because
the vaults in San Francisco were hlleu
10 overhowing and were not consider
ed especially safe. The Denver vaults
are the largest and strongest in the
country. Despite the fact that lie
was charged with arson, John Nj. Car
roll of Camden, y. j., last week gained
i verdict in the United States circuit
court at Philadelphia, against Bergah
4. SNYDER, insurance agents OF that CITY,
for unpaid balances on insurance poh-
cies Hundreds of ltaiians are
leaving the United States for italy anu
Slcly TO search for relatives In the
cartnuuake districts. -. Count Bonl oe
CastelIane who has been suing ms for
Iner wife, who is now Princess Anna
GouId de Sagan, for the possession ol
his three cnIdren, has failed of his ell
fcrt in the trencn courts. In TO-
cal option erection at Roanoke, Va, last
week the "drys" carried the day, ana
forty-two saloons and six mall-order
liuuor houses must close up Wlthlh
ninety days. The police department.
of Chicago, aided by the Law and Or-
der league, is making a crusade to pre-
vent women from gambling. The eulct
upplies 10 cinch, whist and euchre par
NJ "A
cninaware, etc. 1t is declared that pll-
vate residences will be ralded If neces-
sary. .Wm. l.. Mathues, eN-state
treasurer, and one of the convicted
pratters ir connection with PennsylVa-
ma state capitol, died at Media, Pa,
Wednesday, John H. Sanderson ana
Jas. NJ Shumaker, two otner convicted
grafters, are critically ll......The va
oui Indians, who have been carrying
on q prolonged war in Mexico, have
signed q treaty of peace with the gov
ernment and now promise to be good
The savings banks Of New YORK
on January l, paid TO their deposltorS
$4,000 900 in interest on deposits. Inc
combined deposits of the savings banks
total SI5O, 900 900, and there are nearly
100000 separate savings accounts.
An unsuccessful attempt to assassinate
Premier Clemenceau of France on
Thursday evening, by Il disaffected Cor
sican named Bonedetti. .....An aerial
warship, 100 feet long, capable of car
rying lvU passengers is TO be built at the
Nixon shipyards near New York. The
giant air craft is to cost more than
81 ,OOO, 900. Wilbur Wright, the Amer
lean aeroplanist, made Il flight of ,
hours, 9 minutes, at lie Mans, France,
Thursday, and won the Michelin cup,
valued at $4,000. He covered distance
of over 80 miles. ..... Among the large
contributors 10 the Italy earthquake
sufferers are the Anheuser- Busch
Brewing company and the United
States Steel company, $4,000 each;
JOhn D. Rockefeller and j. Plefpoht
Morgan, $1,000 each; the San Fran
cisco renef committee contributed S0O,-
Forty eight bodies nave oeeh
recovered from the lll-fated LICK
Branch COlhery near Blueheld, W. Va,
in which an explosion occurred lueS-
dav. Passenger travel across the
Atlantic during the year 1903, shows Il
decrease of 100000 passengers as
compared with 1907, owing to the n
nanCIal depression. +. a. >. Blake'
= contractor, has been convicted at San
Francesca on q charge OF attempting
to briDe a juror in the trial OF Reul'
and sentenced to four years IN San
Quentin prison. The government OF
Belguim has given up control "t the
pekin- -HankOw railroad on the pay
ment by China of $3O,0OO,OOO, the re-
demption price. .... Prohibition laws
went into effect in Louisiana, MlSSlSSlp-
nj and Alabama on New Years Day.
Professor Gordy of the New YORK
university, committed suicide Friday,
immediately after the death or MS
child, whom he had nurSed through q
uying illness. .. More than 5000 per-
sons attended the presidents reception
at the White House on New Years Day.
There were 1903 less cases OF
drunk" before the police courts Of At
lanta last year the first under the pro-
bibition regime. than during l9OI......
charles f.. Hughes was inauguratcd for
his second term as governor OF New
York on Friday. ..... Tom Estes Shot
rour men to death at Anderson, Texas
Friday, the result of general quafrel.
The police Of Chicago are search
inS for Elijah Raffty. whose wife has
disappeared. Human bones have been
found i'm the ashes of the furnace on
the fiat they occupied. A New YORK
man picked up a bundle containing
$40 1000 from the floor of a restaurant
early Friday morning ~ monument
to the Confederate prisoners or war
buried at Green Lawn cemetery. WASH
inptnn. is To he erected under direction