Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-09-24
MERE.MENTIoN.

Six negroes are in jail at Columbus,
Miss, charged with having hanged J.
w. Smith, a white man and rich
planter, who lived ten miles from CO.
lumbus, and then mutilating the body.
One Of the negroes is said to have
confessed to the crime. ...... Bishop
Seth Ward, of the Methodist Episcopal
church, South, whose home was at
Houston, Tex, died at Kobe, japan.
Monday. .....A bulletin recently Is
sued by the government bureau Of for
estry states that during the past tnir-
ty-nine years forest fires have destroy
ed an annual average Of $50,000,000
worth of timber in the United States,
and that there has been an average
loss of fifty lives each year from the
same. The postal authorities at
Washington, have little hopes Of Sc
curing the passage of the postal say.
ings bank bill at the next session OF
congress-. Speaker Cannon is said to
be opposed to the measure. -. John
Harper, white, who was to have been
hanged In Atlanta, Ga, today for the
murder of Sheriff Ben Keith OF MUIR
ray county, has again been respited,
this last respite being the eighth time.
:. One Of the most savage outbreaks
of Russian peasants In years, began
at Kieff, Russia, on Thursday Of last
week, and continued through Wednes-
day. Scores Of Jewish men were muir
dered and the women were horribly
maltreated and many OF them murder
ed by the brutal Russians. .One
man was killed, one fatally hurt, and
ten women and two men seriously In
iured in an automobile accident In
Brooklyn, N. Y, Tuesday. ..... .Abram
G. Eby, lawyer and former mayor
of Burkeville, Va, who was arrested
several weeks ago for attempting 10
defraud officials of the Pennsylvania
railroad out of $4,000 by threats OF
violence, was convicted In the Federai
court at Philadelphia on Monday, on
charges of using the mails for fraudu-
lent purposes. Sentence was deferred
..... The net increase OF the popuaa-
tion of the United States the last Ms
cal year. by the arrival Of aliens, was
|673571, an increase Of 209,S67 over
the previous fiscal year. The largest
single race represented was tne
italian, of whom there were 7S,7S0,
Between 100000 and 100000 chill
dren will take part In the Hudson-
Fulton celebration in New York on
October 2. and of the total there VIII
be more than $4,000 children In cos
tune. The Sovereign Grand Lodge
Of the Independent Order OF goo rsl-
lows of the United States and Canada,
Is In session at Seattle, Wash, this
week, with $4,000 members OF the or
der in attendance. About 200 OF
the 500 pupils OF the public schools OF
Bridgeport, Pa, are on q strike De-
cause of the fact that the school board
recently passed resolution providing
that the Bible and the Lords Prayer
be dispensed with In the opening or
closing of the schools Three
men, murderers, guilty OF twelve MUIR
ders and more than 200 robberies,
were guillotined at yalence. France.
wednesday. A great crowd witnessed
the execution and applauded the de-
capitation OF each victim OF the knife.
Captain F. L.. Ferber, an avia-
tor, was killed at Boulogne, France,
wednesday, while testing his Tying
machine Robert Hoe, head OF
the r, Hoe and Co., press builders,
New York, died in London on We'd
nesday, aged so years. u. A. Fat
ten, the wheat speculator who corner
ed the wheat market in Chicago the
past summer, is now predicting that
cotton will 60 to IL cents and perhaps
to 20 cents a pound BIZ Ma
cabee, naval veteran, celebrated his
1O6th birthday at the Naval Home,
Philadelphia, Wednesday 0