Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-07-20
TUESDAY, JULY 40. 1909.

rel less than 1t can be bought In the
open market, and at the same time
Is paying the wheat growers IA cents
per bushel more for wheat than they
can get for the grain In the open
market. -. Having almost COM
plete monopoly of potash for ferun-
zers, the German government Is con-
sidering the advisability Of placing
an export tax of $40 per ton on the
output. This will materially increase
the cost Of fertilizers to southern far
mers. .-.. "A negro woman whose
name Is Remember simmons, was
nned $25.15 by Recorder Broyles In
an Atlanta, Ca, police court Friday,
tor contempt OF court and then plac-
ed under bond of $500 on a charge
OF perjury in case against woman
charged with violating the prohibi-
ton law. dispatch from Ath-
ems on Friday tells OF an earthquake
in the province Of Ellis, Greece, on
Thursday night, by which 1t is esti-
mated that 800 lives were lost. .....
DR.. VIM. L. Miller and Mrs. ]. B.
sayler, widow of J, B. Sayler, who
MlIier shot to death last Sunday
night because Of his infatuation for
Mrs. Sayier, are In jail at Watseka,
Ill. Feeling against the pair is strong
and the jail is strongly guarded. Miss
Golda Sayier, Is years OLD, say4 she
Will do everything in her power to
avenge the murder Of her father...
-FOUR rrainmen were killed at Royal,
Ill.,, Friday by The collision OF two
passenger trains caused by q mis-
placed switch, supposedly the work
or wreckers.. Archibald Heron,
condemned to death for the murder
or Rev. samuel Prickett In Middlesex
county, n. j., and afterwards declar-
ed to be insane, will be electrocuted
should he recover his sanity, accord
supreme court. An American visi-
tor to London, declared to Scotland
Yard authorities on tTiday that he
had seen Leon Ling, the Chinaman
wanted in New York for the elsie 81
gel murder, in London that morning,
claiming he knew Ling In New York.
..... Leonardo Gebbla, an Italian,
was hanged at Hahnyille, La. FRI
day, for murder committed In the
name Of the Black Hand society,".
Ihe chief Of the police OF Hanover,
Germany, has issued a warning to
women against wearing long hat
pins, stating that several accidents
have occurred recently from the pins.
ana that women wearing long pins
IN the future which may cause acci-
dental injuries to other persons will
be liable to arrest for assault. ......
Three yeggmen cracked the safe In
savings bank at Ashland, N. H, early
| friday morning and got away with
only $500. 1t is stated In q New
York dispatch Of Friday, that the
American Telephone and Telegraph
company has underway plan TO abb
sorb all the telephone companies OF
the United States. The capital of the
corporation will be increased
to $970,000, 900. American imports
from foreign countries for the month
of June totaled $124,6s3.4s7....--
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad Is
asking bids for the furnishing of 81
600 freight cars, 20 passenger cars,
and SIS locomotives. The equipment
expenditures will total nearly $40,
900, 1000. .r'our hundred and nifty men
stopped work on the Manhattan
bridge, New York. Friday. after an
accident which unstrung their nerves.
A scaffold broke precipitating four
men downward. One fell to the river,
100 feet below and was killed. The
other three caught beams below
them as they fell and were rescued
by their comrades. Edward Pay
SON Weston, the 70-year-old pedes-
trian, reached San Francisco on
Thursday. making the 1000 mile
walk from New York to San Francis
CO In 104 days and 5 hours. Two
men were killed, two were probably
fatally shot and a fifth seriously in
Jured at Union, Miss, Saturday In q
pistol duel in quarrel over an old
cow that was worth possibly $780,.
Glenn II. Curtis. an aeroplanist,
made a flight Of 24.7 miles In 81
/ uf
Hampstead, Long Island, Saturday.
...... Four persons have died at Syl-
vania, Ca, as the result Of the explo-
sion Of an automobile In which the
family Of Mr.. Geo. M. Hill were riding
last Tuesday afternoon. Orders
have been issued by the war depart
ment forbidding the purchase Of to-
baccos by the department for the ar
my from any concern controlled by
the tobacco trust, which Is under In
dictment by the government
the Western Federation " Miners, Is
in jail at Los Angeles, CAL, charged
with killing one man and seriously
wounding two others. Mrs. Free
mont B. Chesbrough, wife Of very
wealthy New York ship owner, has
been indicted by a Federal grand jury
on the charge Of smuggling pearl
necklace valued at $4,000 into the
country. 80. When the tax assessor
ten, the Chicago wheat speculator, at
what figure he should place his per-
sonal property for taxation, Mr.. Pa
ten said, "Just make It double what
II was last year.. IA disDatch OF
July 16, from Lake Naivasha, British
East Africa, says President Roosevelt
on Thursday shot a big hippopota-
mus, the animal Weighing about three
tons. -. DR.. Oswaldo Cruz, direc-
tor general Of the Brazilian sanitary
service, has announced the discovery
Of the microbe Of smallpox, and says
the microbe Is Of animal origin. ....
Ten persons were drowned In lower New
York bay by the capsizing Of an ex-
cursion sloop by sudden squan. .....
Four persons were killed and twenty
were more or less seriously hurt at
race track in Berlin, Germany, Sunday
afternoon by the explosion Of motor
cycle and resulting fire. About
$4,000 men are affected by a strike
against the United States Steel COM
pany and subsidiaries in Pennsylva-
MIA The iron workers are striking for
recognition Of their unions, while the
corporation says II will have open
shops. There has been much riotins
and not few lives have been lost in
conflicts between the strikers on one
side and the police and state constab-
ulary on the other. The foreign ele-
ment Is giving the most trouble.
Don Carlos, pretender to the throne Of
Spain, died at varese, Lombardy, Sun
day.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Chester special Of July 19 to The
Charlotte Observer: Jesse and John
Chalk, aged 10 and IL. respectively,