Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-08-03
MERE-MENTlON.


The Citizens Bank Of Southern
Pines, N. c., was closed Friday. G. A.
Kimball, cashier, is away on his va
cation, and it is alleged that a short
age Of several thousand dollars has
been discovered. ID. II. willard,
a prominent insurance man, Is held
under $1,000 bond at Johnson City,
Tenn, to answer to the charge Of en-
bezzling $642 from a Virginia insur-
ance company John II. Wisdom,
81 years old, who became famous In
the south in 1866 by a daring night
ride of sixty-seven miles from Gads-
den, Ala, to Rome, Ga, to warn Gen.
Forrest of the approach Of a Union
force, thereby saving the iron foun-
dries at Rome to the Confederacy,
died at Gadsden, Ala, Thursday. e.
Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, aged "a, has
been elected superintendent Of the
public schools Of Chicago. The posi-
ton pays $4,000 a year. Evelyn
Nesbit Thaw declares that she will
sue Harry X. Thaw for a divorce. She
will reside at Reno, New, as pre-
liminary step to the suit. -. One man
was killed and ten persons were in
jured at Memphis, Tenn, Friday In q
collision Of a switch engine with
trolley car. The United States
League Of Building and Loan associ-
ations, in session in Philadelphia last
week, will hold its next annual con-
vention at Charlotte, n. C...... The
Virginia Republican state convention
in session at Newport News, last
week, nominated w. P. Kent for gov
ernor and declared for local option on
the liquor question. "A kewanee,
ILL.,, woman put $1,000 in bills in the
cook stove oven for safe keeping and
later started a fire, forgetting the
money. The bills were destroyed. -.
A New York dispatch of Friday says
that the railroads Of the country have
contracted for and are in the market,
for about 10000 freight cars, the
New York Central having placed an
order for 2,400 cars especially for
22 years old, committed suicide at
Salem, N. c., early Sunday morning
by jumping in front Of train, after
having fired several shots in an at
tempt to kill his wife, who refused to
live with him. He only slightly injur-
ed his wife. 80. Four persons were
killed and a number were injured In
Chicago and vicinity Thursday by
lightning. The 1909 Minnesota
wheat crop is estimated at 235,000,-
900 bushels, valued at $300,0O0,0O0
at present prices. John H. Freese,
a New York lawyer, Is under arrest
on the charge of aiding and abetting
the passage of worthless checks.
Freese's game seems to have been to
get the checks by women tools and
then blackmailing would-be prosecu-
tors not to press the charges. =.
Ten persons were killed and sixty
others were injured IN a head-on col
lision of two electric trains at Cald-
welle, Wash, Saturday afternoon. -.
Osaka, Japan, was devastated by fire
during Friday and Friday night;
more than $4,000 buildings, covering
an area four miles square, being
burned. 80. "A Tokyo, Japan dispatch
Of Saturday tells Of terrible flood in
the province Of Chang Chun, Man
churia. More than 1000 people have
been drowned and 1000 houses sub
merged, with the water still rising.
80. Count Zeppelin of Germany,
made a trip Of 220 miles in dirigible
balloon Friday and Saturday.
Saturday evening at Wellston, Ga,
Sim Anderson, negro "Peeping
Tom" was lynched by a mob. An
explosion of gasoline at st. Paul,
Minn., Saturday caused the death Of
five persons, the injury Of six, and
four others are missing, and the de-
struction Of a four-story building.
..... Fire destroyed the Hotel Ty-
bee at Tybee island near Savannah,
ing 6. loss of about $50,000. About
100 guests fled from the burning
building in their night clothes.
N. B. Williams, a policeman, was ac-
quilted Of the charge Of numbering a
negro at Winston Salem, N. c., on
Saturday, after a trial lasting several
days. -. Cornelius c. Cuyler, pres
ident of a New York trust company,
died at Biarritz, France, Friday night,
the result of an automobile accident.
..... w. H. Mitchell, of Thomasville,
Ca, prominent in business and soci-
ETY. in South Georgia, will have to
serve a year on the chaingang for as
sault on the person Of a Miss Linton,
whom he tried to abduct a year ago.
The Georgia court Of appeals has af-
firmed the verdict Of the trial court.
"A strip of country in South Da-
kota ten miles wide and thirty five
long, was swept by hail storm on
Friday. The damage is estimated at
400,000.... In the local option
Fla, Saturday, on petition Of the sa-
loon element in an effort to regain
lost territory, the "drys" won by a
majority Of about 800 votes. :. After
a visit to France last week, the cZar
of Russia Is now on a visit to King
Edward of England. 80. The trial
Of the case in which Harry K. Thaw
at White Plains, n. Y, Is trying to Sc
cure his release from the Matteawan
insane asylum. still drags on, and
promises to be as lengthy as the orig
inal trial Of Thaw for numbering
Stanford White. Wholesale ar
rests of locker club proprietors are
being made by the police Of Birming-
ham, Ala, in an effort to enforce the
state prohibition laws.