Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-10-19
mERE.MENTIoN.

rory persons are repOrteu uedu Dc
the result of tornado and hail storm
which swept over parts Of Georgia
Alabama and Tennessee during Thurs
day afternoon and evening. The prop
erty loss is estimated as being in ex-
cess Of s2,000,000......In In obedience
to imperial DEGREES, constitutional
form Of government was instituted
Throughout the Chinese empire on
October 18th. ;. Avery Blount, white
was hanged at Amite, La, Friday, fol
participation in a triple murder In
January last, growing out Of a fam.
lily feud. "A petition asking Pres
ident Taft for the pardon Of Chas. w
Morse, the convicted banker, is be.
ing circulated in New York city,.
Sir Thomas Upton Of London, Is on
his way to the United States to make
an effort to arrange a series Of yacht
races in competition for the Americas
cup. Wilbur Wright received
$4,000 for the exhibition flights in
his aeroplane made at New York dur
ing the Hudson Fulton celebration
week. {. i. The chief Of police Of Chi
cago has Issued orders to all police
men that In future there must be no
more drinking by police officers while
on duty, and to show that he meant
business, six men, round guilty OF
drunkenness on duty, were dropped
from the police rolls. The bandit
who held up bank in Chicago sub
urb last week and got away with
$500, and later being pursued by the
police, committed suicide, has been
identified as Lamar A. Harris, law
yer Of Los Angeles, Cal. -. The total
registration Of voters for the mayoral-
ty election of New York Is $4,000. :.
Philip Allen, Jr., vice president Of the
First National bank Of Mineral Point,
Wis, is under arrest charged with the
embezzlement Of s168,000 Of the
banks funds. ;. The periodical revo-
luton against the government OF
President Zelaya is in progress in Nj
caragua. The revolution Is headed by
General Estrada, and the revolution
lists are in control of q number OF
towns and cities on the Caribbean
coast. 4. . President Taft's official resi-
dence has been moved from Beverly,
Mass, back to the White House al
Washington. ...E. B. Cowan, an At
lanta, Ca, business man last week
gave his wife $4,000 in cash on con-
dition that she withdraw her suit for
divorce, which she had instituted be-
cause Of his drinking. A day or two
later Cowan was sentenced by the po-
lice court judge to serve two weeks in
the stockade for raising disturbance
in his home. :. Jack Johnson, the
negro heavyweight pugilist, knocked
Stanley Ketchel, white, out in the
twelfth round in a fight at San Fran
cisco, CAL, Saturday afternoon.
The Pittsburg team of the National
Baseball league won the worlds
championship from the Detroit team
of the American league at Detroit,
Saturday, winning four Of the series
of seven games. The paid admissions
for the series totaled $145,444, with
total receipts of $1SS,S32.70......
President Chas. s. Barrett Of the Ma
tional Farmers Union, says that there
is now no doubt that the p opposed
Farmers Union university will be es-
tablished and that 1t will be the big
gest institution Of its kind in the world.
Offers of land and cash are being re-
ceived from all parts Of the country.
-. The execution Of Francisco Fer
rer, the eminent scholar and anarchist,
who was sentenced to death by court
martial at Barcelona, Spain, last week,
has raised a great turmoil throughout
southern Europe. There has been
considerable rioting in Spain, Portu-
gal, France and Italy as a result of
the execution and King Alfonso Is vir-
tually a prisoner in his palace at Mad
rid, threats having been made against
his life.. Two men convicted at ROCK
ford, ILL.,, Of systematic robbery OF rail-
road trains at that point, have been
given prison sentences aggregating l4O
years each. The 1903 output of gold
from the Tanana Valley district or
Alaska, Is estimated as totaling $l1,-
100000.