Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-01-12
TUESDAY, JANUARY IL, 1909
ENTlON.

Mrs. Florence NJ. Erb and her sister,
Mrs. Catherine Beisel, who were charg-
ed with the murder Of Captain ]. Clay
ton Erb, the husband of Mrs. Erb,
were acquitted at Media, Pa, Thursday
night after a trial lasting for two
weeks. E. Forty hve prisoners tunneled
their way out of the Jail at Oklahoma
City, Okla, Wednesday night; but on
reaching the outside decided that the
zero weather was too much for them,
and returned TO the prison. go. Moses
D. Brown, SO years old. the oldest prac-
ticing lawyer of Chicago, was convict
ed last week with two accomplices, of
conspiracy to commit murder in order
to get possession of the estate of an
aged widow. Brown was fined $1,000
and his accomplices were given inde-
terminate terms in prison. ....... The
American Locomotive company has
prepared plans for a locomotive plant
at Gary, ILL.,, that will give employment
to 10000 or $4,000 men. E. Plans and
specifications are being prepared by the
Bureau of Construction of the United
States navy which will provide for a
battleship of 26,000 tons displacement
This is at least 5000 tons greater than
the largest battleshipS now atioat. ....
The moving picture film manufacturers
of the United States are preparing to
merge into one company with capital
of $4,000, 900. ..... Count Louis Ha-
mon, alias "Cheiro, the palmist, allas
John Warner has succeeded in fieeclng
several American women, residents OF
Paris, out of stocks and money to the
value of 100000. Hamon has been
arrested in London. Walter Zeller
the lS-year- old boy, tried at Brldgeton,
Y. J., last week for the murder of his
grandfather, was found guilty of muir
der in the first degree. .... Since the
profit sharing plan of the United States
Steel company, was introduced in 1903,
il has paid its employees in dividends
and bonuses close to $4,000, 600. .Ihe
government of Russia is preparing to
place a loan of $225,OOO,OOO at A per
cent. t...A New York grand jury has
indicted the publishers Of the New
York American on charges of criminal
libel. Jno. D. Rockefeller, Jr, is the
complaining witness. .... Colonel "a
yarnitsky, chief Of the Russian secret
police at Vladivostok, has been SEN
fenced to four years penal servitude on
conviction Of manufacturing evidence
in political cases. ..... -Four hunaTeu
Sicilians arrived at New York Thurs
day and learned Of the earthquake IN
Italy for the first time. e....... .Housseh
KiaZim Bey, the first Turkish ambaS-
sador to the United States, has arrived
at Washington. The bill TO increase
the salary Of the president OF the Unit
ed States TO 100000 per year, has been
fayOrablv reported to the senate and
will probably become a law. Dur
ing the year 1908 beQueSts tOtaling
$4,000, 900 were made to the various
universities, colleges and charitable IN
stitutions located in the United States:
DR.. j. T. WaySon Of the territorial
board of health of Hawaii, has an
nounced that he has discovered defln-
ite cure for leprosy. .... Hundreds OF
people are actually starving to death
in the province Of Anatolia in Turkey.
An appeal for aid has been made TO
the outside world. The distress Is due
10 a total failure of the crops. ..... VIM.
Edwards. lately appointed commission
er of street cleaning of New YORK,
startled the board of estimate or that
CITY Friday, by telling them that ne
could get along without an increase al
lowance of $13O.109 for his department.
which his predecessor had SAID was
Necessary. Naval Constructor fol-
den 4. Evans Of the United States navy,
is asking for a divorce from his wife
at Vallejo Cal, on the ground that the
social ambitious of his wife prevent MS
giving proper attention to his duties.
.F. E. Signor is under arrest at
Oakland, Cal. on charges of forging the
name Of James H. Murray million
uire TO various notes. aggregatlng Sl,-
400 ,O0O. Two cotton ginnerleS IN
Cleburne county, Okla, were burned by
night riders Friday night. The anti
prohibition forces Of Alabama, VIII at
tack the constitutionality Of the prohi-
hition laws of that state in the United
States courts One woman was Kill
ed and five other persons were injured
two probably fatally, in feud hsht on
the streets of Williamson, KY, Satur-
dav morning. Revenue officers de-
stroyed six moonshine stills and 5000
gallons of beer in the York settlement
Of the South Mountains OF Nortn Car
Gina. Friday. Justice IOmpklhS u
the New York courts, at Nyack, on
Saturday, in habeas corpus pIoceeuiiisS pl 80 -
declared that Harry X. Thaw was not
n criminal, having been acquitted by
iurv. and that he was entitled TO trlal
as TO his sanity. Three railroad men
arrived at Mobile, Ala, Saturday, stat
ing that they had just been released
from a Mexican prison at vera Cruz
after being imprisoned for eight years
They stated that they were IN charSe
of a locomotive that killed peon ana
that they were imprisoned without
trial Chicago dispatch tells
story to the effect that Dr. Kirke stan
lev of New York. is suing Mrs. jean
nette Deere Chapman of Chicago for
S15O 600 damages for breach OF prom
ise of marriage Mrs. Chairman Is re-
puted to be worth $25.O0O,OOO ana IS %
Years old. The International Har-
vester COMPANY has lost an appeal 10
the Kansas supreme court trnm NeI-
dict bv which ii was fined Sl2.60O 1or
violation of the antitrust laws OF that