Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-06-24
NERE-MENTION.

Joseph Vending, wanted in Louis
Vile, KY, for the murder or Anna
Kellner, has been arrested at Hous,
ton. r Boston and Montreal
capitalists are preparing to build
great pleasure resort near Havana,
| Cuba. The project includes great
hotel, gambling pavilion, and tracks
for automobile and horse racing. More
than $4,000, 900 will be spent and 1t Is
proposed to make it the most alluring
! sporting resort in the world. col.
Samuel P. Colt is candidate for the
United States senate from Rhode Is
land, to succeed Senator Aldrich, VINO
| is to retire March 4th, next. Senator
Aldrich favors Henry d. Lippett. 80.
BY a vote of 1852 to 693. Birming-
ham, Ala, Tuesday declared for
commission form of government.
A strong effort will be made by the
Republican leaders of congress to pass
a ship subsidy bill at the next winters
session of that body. ..." Represen-
tatiye Saunders Of the Fifth Virginia
Congressional district has been un-
seated by congressional elections COM
mittee No. 2. John M. Parsons, Re
publican, was the successful contest
| ant. .Adolphus Busch, the st. Louis
multi brewer, says that
prohibition is the meanest thing IN
| the world Two ballOonists at
Itempting a flight from ST. Louis to the
| Atlantic coast, were fired upon by the
mountaineers in the Cumberland
mountains Of Kentucky on Tuesday
| And this with a violent wind made II
necessary to come down to earth. ....
Jack Elredge, 26 years old, on Tues
day reached San Francisco, after walk
ling from Boston, a distance of 4.OOO
miles, in seventy-seven days, beating
the record of Edward Payson weston
| by twenty-siX days. Leonard Johh-
| son. a negro was burned at the stake
near Lone Star, Tex, Monday night.
The negro confessed his crime. The
| Jeffries- Johnson prize fight Will be
pulled off at Reno, New, July 4, IN
stead of at San Francisco. John
Wesley, a negro, was run down ana
almost instantly killed by Southern
railway engine in Charlotte on Iues,
day The steamer YewS rammed
the steamer La Rochelle in the Eng
lish channel, during a thick fog, early
Monday morning, cutting the latter In
half and sending her to the bottom.
Eight men were drowned. ..... Two
persons were killed and four seriously
injured in Chicago on Monday, when
fast passenger train struck an au-
tomobile on a grade crossing. .Ihe
IattOrney general OF MISSOURI mas pe-
gun proceedings to drive the beer
trust out of Missouri. .... Portland.
Oregon, is the scene of the latest
trunk murder mystery. The trunk
was opened Monday at a railway sta
ton because it was noticed that blood
was trickling through its bottom.
Opening it disclosed the body of VIM.
Johnson. The wife of the dead man
and a man named Webb are held by
the police on suspicion of being the
perpetrators of the crime. .....A de-
termined fight for compulsory educa-
ton is to be made i'm the present ses-
sion of the Georgia legislature. 49,.
Sixteen persons. riding on the switch
back railway, an amusement feature
at Coney Island. y. Y, were hurled
from the track sixty feet to the ground
Wednesday morning, and six of the
party We're fatally injured. Count
Zeppelin. the German aerOnaut and
dirigible balloon inventor. landed at
Dusseldorf, Germany. Wednesday, af-
ter a journey of $50 miles through
the air from Friedrichshagcr. from
which point he had started ten hours
before with twenty passengers. go
Governor JudsOn Harmon has been
rcnOminatcd by the Democrats as the
nominee of the party for the govern
Orship of Ohio. .... .ThOS. f. Ryan.
the New York capitalist, is predicting