Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-04-16
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Chief Crazy Snake sent word to the
Oklahoma authorities Tuesday, that he
was willing to surrender as a prisoner
Of war. District Attorney Gregg sent
the renegade word that he didn't want
him. Rochester, N. Y, was visit
ed by a s2,OOO,OOO fire Tuesday. More
than six city blocks were fire swept
The sheriff of Mercer county, Pa-'
has learned Of plot to liberate the
Boyles, kidnappers of the Whitla boy
and has put a strong guard In the jail
for emergencies. ...... Arthur w. L.
Beck, a we'll known lawyer OF Bing-
hampton, N. Y, committed suicide,
Tuesday morning, rather than race
trial at Coopertown on a charge OF mis-
appropriating county funds wmle
clerk of the board of supervisors. .....
Henry M. Flagler, builder Of the Flor
ida East Coast railway, has retired
from the active presidency Of the COM
many. Capt. Peter c. Haines, who
shot VIM. E. Annis to death at Bay
side. L. l., last summer, will be put on
trial Monday, charged with murder
Haines is trying to work the insanity
game. His wife, it is alleged, says he
is as sane as anybody. .... An English
miner appeared at Los Angeles, Calr
Tuesday, after being in the remote
mining districts Of Nevada for fifteen
wears. He didn't know Queen Victo-
ria was dead, and had never heard OF
Roosevelt. &. . Aurora, Kan, was BAD
ly damaged by tornado TUESDAY
and a number of people were killed
and scores injured. .....A new island
has been spewed up out Of the sea In
the vicinity of the Bogosloff group, OH
the Alaskan coast. John McShayne,
an iron worker, was blown from the
new Manhattan bridge across the East
river at New York on Tuesday by the
bursting Of a compressed air tube and
fell to the water 115 feet below and
killed. ... Six policemen, six rioters
and three soldiers were killed at Velar-
dena, Mexico, Saturday and Sunday In
riots growing out Of the celebration
of Good Friday. go. The brokerage
firm of Ennis & Stoppani, New York,
went into bankruptcy Tuesday, with
liabilities of $1,500,000, and assets OF
s4OO, 900. Five Hungarian quarry
men were killed by a cave-in of a
stone quarry at Granville, N. Y, Tues
day. . Sarah Koten, a young woman,
is on trial in New York on the charge
of killing DR.. Samuel Auspitz, whom
she claims betrayed her under prom
ise of marriage. The libel suit OF
John d. Rockefeller, Jr., against the
New York American and Evening
Journal, has fallen through. .... More
than 1000 soldiers are under arms at
Meru, France, to suppress the riots OF
striking button makers. AT the
opening game Of league baseball at
Philadelphia on Monday, 3O,162 tickets
were sold and $4,000 persons were turn
ed away, unable to get in the grounds.
The lawyers who have brought
Lucky" Baldwin, the California mil
lionaire, without court litigation, are
to receive fees aggregating $6OO,OOO...
Bernard Carlin, aged %, was electro
cuted at Sing Sing. New York, Mon
day morning for the murder of his
mother. The United States supreme
court has affirmed the decision OF the
Texas supreme court, fining the Wa
ters-Pierce Oil company s1,600,000 and
ousting the company from the state
for violation of the antitrust laws OF
tie state. The body of Lieut.. Pc
trosino, of the New York police force,
recently assassinated at Palermo, Italy,
was buried at Calvary cemetery, Long
Island, Monday. More than 5000 peo-
pie, including hundreds Of Italians, at
tended the funeral. An advance alb
stract Of statistics of American rail-
ways for the year ending June 30, 1908,
state that the gross earnings of all the
railways during the temporary finan-
cial depression" show a decrease Of
$3.50, ,O00, 900 as compared with the pre-
vious year. Owing to the fact that
the United States army is now recruit
ed to its full strength of 1900 men, no
enlistments are now being made, eX-
cept of honorably discharged men.
Hugh H. Smith, of the Chicago board
Of examining plumbers, was arrested
Tuesday, for extorting a bribe. He
was caught by means of marked bills.
The Delaware peach crop has
been severely injured by frost. May
or VIM. p White of Lawrence, Mass,
having confessed to accepting bribe,
will be removed from office by the state
supreme court 49,. John S. Steen, a
Princeton graduate and Union Theo-
logical seminary student, has been re-
fused a license to preach by the New
York presbytery. Steen declared he did
not believe Christ raised anybody from
the dead, and said that Christ was an
uneducated man, and that original sin,
as taught in the confession Of faith,
was not compatible with reason.
Heavy snow storms and blizzards have
prevailed in the northwest during the
past few days. 49,. New York customs
officials recently captured a number
of trunks containing 100000 worth of
dresses that were being smuggled in
to the country from France. q. :. "A Chi
nese society of Philadelphia had the
bodies OF 115 Cinnamon disinterred in
that city Tuesday for shipment to Chi
ma w Secretary of War Dickinson
and a party of officials will sail from