Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-06-08
TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1909.
mERE.MENTloN.

MERE-MENTloN.
The strike of street railway workers
of Philadelphia, came to an end on sat
urday with concessions from both sides.
The strike continued for week and
there was considerable rioting and vio-
lence. The government OF the Do
minion of Canada is preparing to build
a navy as an auxiliary force to Great
Britain. Judge Gaynor, OF the ap-
pellate division of the New York su-
preme court, may be Tammany's can
didate for mayor of New York city
next fall. =. The executors Of an Eng
lish estate last week paid to the BRUSH
treasury $4,000, 900 on account OF the m
heritance tax Double this sum Will De
paid before the estate Is settled In tuli.
IAN eccentric bachelor, proprietor
of large department store OF Paris,
died last week. He set aside $4u,ooo
some years ago for his funeral expeh-
ses, and had a sarcophagus costihs
$4,000 erected as the receptacle for
the $4,000 casket In which he was 10
be buried Six of the most proml-
nent fire insurance men or Rocnester,
N. Y, have been indicted by q grand
Jury on a charge of conspiracy 10 keep
nm insurance rates. u. q. CLICK, 1or-
mer manager of the Republican state
committee of Delaware, was conVicteG
at Wilmington on Friday In the Feoerai
court and fined $500 for soliciting cam
paign funds on Federal premises. .:...
A Masonic lodge composed OF American
citizens has been instituted in London,
under warrant of the grand lodge OF
England. VIM. Darragh, an auto
mobile driver, was sentenced 10 sing
Sing for seven years on trlday Dy d
New York Judge. Darragh ran down
and killed q 15-year-old boy. harry
X. Thaw has lost out in his night for
freedom from the insane asylum at
Matteawan, n. Y, according 10 d u
cision of the appellate court OF new
Work rendered Friday. Leo f. Nc
Cullough, president Of the Boston COM
mon council, and Attorney Jas. L. cas-
sidy. recently convicted OF conspiracy
and stealing 5000 by a false order, were
sentenced Thursday, the former 10
serve two years and the latter one year
i'm the state prison. Alderman Battis
was given three years for larceny Oh
Fourth of July celebration prize money.
IA movement has been started IN
Pbilsdelpbia to remove the body OF
VIM. Penn. the founder of Philadelphia
from its burial place in Buckingham
shire, England, to Pennsylvania: 49,:
John Moxey, q negro, was lynched at
Frankfort, KY, late Wednesday night
for having shot b. G. Bowers, circus
man Sheriff Cazales of Mobile, Ala,
has been ordered removed from once
by the state supreme court for derelic-
ton of duty in allowing a negro prls-
oner to be lynched. hundreds OF
lumbermen are on a strike at McCloud,
Cal, and bloodshed and destruction OF
much property Is feared. Lew Fay,
a Chinamap, imperial inspector OF In
dustries, was murdered at Hong Kong,
a few DAYS ago by some one OF his fel-
low-countrymen, who had followed MIN
from the United States. Fay had sold
worthless mining stock to Cinnamon In
all parts of this country and the SWIM
die led to the murder. The Chinese
government has offered $50,0OO reward
for the arrest and conviction Of his
murderers. Fifteen tackles" made
a sensational escape from United
States warship in San Francisco mar
Dor Thursday night. Albert L. Pat
rick, the famous New York murderer,
who has been making fight against
the Communication of his sentence rom
death to life imprisonment, has lost MS
case in the supreme court OF that state
Patrick is a lawyer and was convicted
of numbering VIM. Marsh Rice, mil
lionaire. and attempting to steal his
money by a forged will. During the
month of April 100000 yards of cot
ton goods were exported from the
United States to China, against 7,O00,-
900 yards in April Of last year. .......
Forest fires covering an area or over
100 miles, are raging in western Can
ada. It Is feared that many lives Will
be lost. 80. A score OF constables raid
ed a bucket shop in Cincinnati, o, Sat-
urday morning, gaining entrance by
means of axes and crowbars. Six men
were arrested. Mrs. ]. M. Green OF
Richland, Tex, killed herself and three
children Saturday morning, the result
of domestic troubles. The number
of employees actually at work on the
Panama canal now totals 26,S35.....
Eight prisoners and two wardens were
killed and four wardens and two SOL
diers were mortally wounded In pris-
on at Tifiis, Turkey, Saturday. The
prisoners were attempting to escape
Col. Alexander X. Mcclure, noted
as a newspaper editor, died at his home
near Philadelphia, Sunday afternoon
aged 81 years. -. Mike Morris, ne
gro, condemned to be hanged for the
murder of Sheriff Langston, was taken
: from Jail and lynched by mob at Tai
lahassee, Fla, Sunday morning. Nor
ris has begun to show symptoms OF in
sanity, and the mob did its work to
prevent possible escape from the GAL
lows . During the current fiscal year
the national banks of the United States
have received individual deposits
amounting to S4,S26,060,3S4. The ag-
gregate capital, surplus and profits Of
the national banks reporting April %,
amounting to $1,729, ,057, ,010, an increase
over last year of $5S,5S6,42S. The per
capita circulation on June l, 1909, was
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