Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-06-04
FRIDAY, JUNE n 1909.
MeRE.mENrIoN.

MERE-MENTIoN.
Rain fell at San Luis Potosi. Mexico.
Monday, for the first time In eighteen
months. ;. "A statue Of Abraham LII
coin was unveiled at Hodgenville, KY,
Monday. Henry Watterson delivered
the chief address CT the occasion. So.
Rev. George Briggs, formerly OF Texas,
South" was arrested In New York on
Monday, charged with stealing a char
ity collection box. The former pastors
downfall is due to the drug habit. .....
John Spencer Phillips, Englands most.
prominent banker, died Monday at his
home in Shrewsbury, England. .. >. La
than, Alexander & Co., estimate the
1909 cotton acreage at 31,799,015 acres,
against 33,370,0o0 acres last year,
reduction OF AZ per cent. -. -Four
masked bandits held up the occupants
of dining room at Petersburg, Col,
Tuesday 4 and got away with money
and valuables amounting to $3,l50....
One of the largest and most elaborate
ly equipped gambling joints OF Chicago
was wrecked by bomb Monday night.
Several persons were injured The
1000 employees of the navy yard at
Brooklyn, N. Y, are threatening to
strike unless their demands for higher
wages are complied with. .Dr. Hal
dane Clemenson is under arrest In chi
cago on the charge Of numbering MS
wife. s.. The Alaska Yukon Pacinc
exposition at Seattle, Wash, was for
mally opened Tuesday afternoon at
o'clock. The Nevada docks at Port
Costa, Cal, were destroyed by hre
Monday afternoon, entailing loss OF
more than $1,000,000. More than 900
tons of wheat and 100 tons OF hops
were destroyed Calvin Johnson,
negro, was convicted at Alexandra,
Virginia, last Tuesday, Of the muir
der Of Walter F. Shultz, a Chi
cago artist. Johnson will be electro
cuted at Richmond. -. Two inches OF
snow fell at Leadville, Col, Monday.
This is the latest date on record Tor
snow at that point. 49,. Twenty-seyen
grand masters representing as many
Masonic grand lodges Of states east OF
the Mississippi are In convention In
Philadelphia. George Baglin, vice
president of the United Copper compa-
ny, has been committed to jail by Judge
Lacombe of the Federal district court
of New York, until the books Of the
copper company, which have disap-
peared, are produced for use In the
trial Of F. Augustus Heinze. spot
wheat reached the price Of $1.62
bushel at st. Louis on Tuesday. .....
John Hall, Former United States dis-
trict attorney at Portland, Ore, has
been sentenced to pay fine of $1,000
and serve two months In jail for con-
spiracy to defraud the government IN
land deals. ). Mrs. George Shea OF
Duluth, Mimi, was robbed Of $4,000
In currency by a sneak thief at Seattle.
Wash, Tuesday. She had taken the
money to Seattle to invest 1t In real
estate. >. "A suit involving title to land
was completed at Pottsville, Pa, Tues
day after q trial lasting several weeks.
The case was first started In the courts
in 1871. 49,. In an address at Lincoln
university, a negro school at OXFORD,
Pa, to the graduating class. Booker 7.
Washington advised the graduates 70
go to the south TO help their race. 1850.
During the past twenty-five years there
have been 1884 lynchings, including
men, women and children, In the Unit
ed States, according to figures given
by Mrs. Ida Wells Barnett at the Ma
tional Negro conference at New York
on Tuesday. Mrs. Emma Kaufman,
wife of wealthy brewer. Is on trial at
Flandreau, s. D., for the murder or
servant girl. Mrs. Kaufman on her
first trial was convicted Of manslaugh-
ter. I. Patrick Reagan died In a New
York hospital Monday night from nose
pleading, caused by blow on the nose
In fight three weeks previously. ..-..
fenced to hang at Centreyille, Ia, for
the murder of Miss Clara Rosen, q
choir singer. The execution Of the ne
gro will not take place until July 70,
1910, q state law requiring more than
q year to elapse between the time or
sentence and execution. The pub
lie debt Of the United States on May
81, less cash In the treasury, amount
ed to $1,000, 0,129, $40. The total govern
ment receipts for the month were $685.
332,310 and the expenditures were $685.
7S6,265. Two high officials and lob
other employees Of the Moscow and Tif-
liz (Russia) railroad, have been ar
rested, charged with systematically
robbin2 the railroad during the past
two years. The thieves are alleged to
have cleaned up more than $12,600,000.
1t Is expected that not less than
10000 union employees of the Ameri-
can Sheet and Tin company, viii go
on a strike on June 10, at which time
the tin company says II will cease rec
ognizing the Amalgamated Associa-
tion Of Iron, Steel and Sheet Iron work.
ers and declare open shops. "A. d.
Oliver. who poses as a millionaire, Is
in Jail at Climax, Ga, on charges of
swindling. During his six months res
idence in that section of Georgia, OIL.
yer has bought banks, sawmills and
other industries In a reckless manner.
Since his arrest, postoffice inspectors
have recognized him as an escaped con-
vict, fugitive from Justice, and q
man with an alias for every day Of the
week. The first carload Of Georgia
peaches was shipped to the eastern
markets on Wednesday. 1t Is estimate
ed that the state will ship 5000 cars.
,. The life insurance companies of
the United States and Canada distri-
buted $330,811,00 during the year 1908,
according to figures compiled by the
Insurance Press.