Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-04-19
MERE-MENTION.

James Childers, wealthy ranch
man, was shot to death at Faulkner.
Okla, Friday. by Albert Russell. an
ex Rough Rider under Col. Roosevelt
Russell claims lf-defense. -. A bomb
was thrown through the window of the
home A. G. Howard. a negro. at Kan
sas City, Mo-, Friday night Howard
threw the bomb out again before it ex-
ploded. His white neighbors want him
to move his place Of residence. ..
Frank Haarman, a miner Of Negaunee,
Mich, on Friday, placed a stick of dy-
Mantle under the bed on which his wife
and @aughter We're asleep, and another
stick Under a bed which he occupied
with his son. The explosion killed all
but tine girl. The United States
Steel corporation has announced a six
per cent increase in the wages of it's
employees. "A violent wind and rain
storm swept over parts of Tennessee
on Thursday and Friday, doing very
considerable damage to timber lands
and railroad property. ...... George
Burge, white, was hanged in the county
jail at Atlanta, Ga, Friday, for wife
murder. He confessed his crime before
being executed. $3.50. Samuel l.. Glenn
ems, Mark Twain) is critically Ill at
his home at Redding, Conn. 49,. Many
Central American towns were badly
damaged by earthquake shocks on
Thursday night. Many Of the houses
in the cities have been deserted and
much damage to property has resulted.
The loss Of life at Costa Rica, Is said
to be very great. .... Violent anti-for-
eign riots took place at Chang Sha,
China. Thursday and Friday. An Eng
liSh Methodist mission station was de-
stroyed. The riots started because Of
the cornern~ of the rice supplies by
native merchants and the rioters took
vengeance on the missionaries. A
dispatch from Bluefelds, Nicaragua,
tells of the killing Of 800 soldiers in a
battle between government and insur-
gent troops on Thursday. -. On Feb
ruary 2, DR.. c. w. Hickman was as
sassinated and robbed in a suburb Of
Augusta, Ga, and although rewards
aggregating $4,000 were offered for the
arrest and conviction of the murderer,
nothing was found pointing to the
murderer until last week, when a negro
pawned the dead mans watch. The
pawnbroker had the number of the
watch and quickly identified It and no.
titled the police. The negro was ar
rested and is believed to be the assas-
sin. 49,. .Yesgman cracked the safe Cf
the First National bank at Spring City,
Tenn, Thursday morning and got
away with about 10000. Mr. Roose-
velt and son, Kermit, will be the guests
Of Emperor Joseph Of Austria, on Sat-
urday, at a brilliant state dinner. .....
Eight alleged night riders were found
guilty by jury in the Federal circuit
court at Covinston, KY, Saturday. on
charges Of interfering with interstate
commerce. Three were acquitted. go.
The explosion of an antiquated loco
motive boiler in the yards Of the Mex
lean National railway at Monterey,
Mex, Saturday, caused the death Of
eleven persons. The screwing down of
the safety valve caused the explosion.
Earl Wilson, a naval academy
football player, who had his neck brok-
en- in game on October 10th last,
died at Annapolis, Md, on Saturday
The 1911 convention of the Ancient
Arabic Order Mobiles OF the Mystic
Shrine will be held at Rochester, N. Y,
In July. -. BY the falling Of a balloon
near Reichensachsen, Germany, Sat-
urday evening, the crew Of four per-
sons were killed. 800. The Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western railroad has
prevented a strike of its employees by
granting all the demands Of the men.
..... Two masked bandits held up a
Southern Pacific mail train near Sprig,
Cal, Sunday morning, looted nine reg
istered mail sacks and made their es-
cape to the mountains. Hyde Park.
VT, was visited by a destructive fire
Sunday, and twenty families were rem
dered homeless. 80. In a family feud
fight near Lyons, Ga, Sunday after
noon. two men were killed, one fatally
wounded and several others more or
less injured. More than 100000
workers Of the building trades have
been locked out by the employers
throughout the German empire The
the labor unions. ...... Mrs. E. c.
Secor, a New York business woman
was summoned for coroner's jury
Saturday. She sent the coroner
word that she was too busy to serve.
..... George Corcoran was arrested
and fined IS in a New York police
court Saturday. because ne refused to
answer the questions of a census
enumerator.. The 1910 gambling
season at Monte Carlo, the notorious
French gambling place, is coming to
an end soon, with the net returns to
the stockholders of the enterprise Of
about 100000 more than last
years receipts. .... The trial Of AL
der Of Ruth Wheeler, a 16-year-old
girl, began in New York this morn
ing...... .Thos. Taggart, ex-chair-
man Of the National Democratic
Executive committee, Is a candidate
for the United States senate against
Senator Beveridge. Although
granulated sugar has steadily ad-
vanced in price during the past few
weeks, 1t Is said that the rise is not
due to either the tariff or the trust
but to the high price Of cereals and
beetS in Europe. ....- The Continen-
tai Congress Of the Daughters of the
American Revolution began its an
nual sessions in Continental Hall,
Washington, yesterday. ...... james
Simpson, a "Peeping Tom," was kill
ed at Evansville, Ind. Friday, by
circus woman. The Pennsylva-
MIA railroad has recently placed an
order with the Baldwin Locomotive
Works for eighty locomotives at
cost OF S1S 000 each