Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-07-01
MERE -MENT

gallery into the orchestra Of the Thea
| tire Colon at Buenos Ayres, Argentine
Republic Sunday night during a per-
| formance. Twenty persons were seri-
ously and six mortally wounded. Sew
enty arrests have been made and the
police have offered a reward of $780,
600 for information leading to the con-
viction of the assassin. ...... The So
called doctors trust" after failing
| it's efforts to get bill creating ma
tional department of health through
congress, has begun it's efforts in the
| various states, having succeeded in
getting the following paragraph insert
ed in the proposed Republican state
platform of Vermont: I'VE favor the
passage of bill creating a national de-
partment of health. ....... The New
York department of weights and meas
ures has begun fight on the practice
of meat packers in making their Gus
toners pay for the wrapping paper and
purlap on meats at the price paid for
| the meats. Swift & Company admit
ted Monday that they charged the
market price for meats for 225,O00
pounds Of wood used as "spreaders' in
beef and hog carcasses during 1909.
Three masked men held up a
train on the Oregon Short Line rail-
way at Ogden, Utah, Monday morning
and got away with $4,000 in cash and
jewelry .. President Taft insists that
in the future all appropriations for
river and harbor improvements must
be strictly on a basis of merit. ........
John B. Lombard, town treasurer of
birmingham, Mass, who confessed to
forging town notes to the total of
100000, during the past ten years,
was on Monday sentenced to serve a
term Of not less than ten nor more
than fifteen years In state prison.
Lombard is 60 years old. d........ Louis
Levine was on Monday sentenced to
fifteen years in prison by Brooklyn,
N. Y, Judge, on conviction OF having
poisoned rival teamster's horse. ....
An imperial decree has been issued at
Pekin refusing the popular demand for
the immediate conVocation OF ma
tional parliament. The parliament will
not be convened until October, 1919....
The preliminary hearing of Porter
Charlton, on the charge of being fu-
gtve from justice, wanted in Italy for
the murder of his wife, will be held at
Jersey City, n. j., on July S..... Two
killed, one fatally and two seriously
hurt, resulted when a freight train on
the Central of Georgia railroad struck
an automobile on grade crossing at
Monticello, Ga. Monday evening". 49,.
The gubernatorial race in Georgia be-
tween Joseph Brown and Hoke Smith,
has been made a three-cornered affair
by the entrance of Attorney General
j. &. Hart as a candidate for governor.
....A Mississippi man by the name
of Jones, claims to have succeeded in
lengthening the staple of common
short staple cotton by cross breeding
cotton with okra plants. VIM. Wat
son, a Detroit, Mich, man, on Monday,
choked his 11-year- old niece to death
after assaulting her, and then COM
mitted suicide. .....A violent earth
quake shook the east coast of Italy
on Monday, doing much damage to
property. No lives are reported lost.
.Wardani, an Egyptian student,
who assassinated the premier of Egypt,
Boutros Pasha, in February last, was
secretly executed at Cairo early Tues
day morning. ... United States Sem
ator Samuel D. McEnery Of Louisia-
na died suddenly at New Orleans on
Tuesday. He had been senator since
1896. ....... The arena at Reno, New,
erected for the big fight next Monday,
has a total seating capacity of $4,000
and tickets range in price from $50
down to SIS each. .... President Taft
went to Beverly, Mass, Wednesday,
fn ba c,,r,poar DESTROYED
$3.50 900 worth of property at Pater-
son, n. j., Tuesday. Three firemen
were badly injured. .... VIM. r. Pitt
man, the Boston man captured by the
MadriZ forces while fighting around
Bluefields, Nicaragua, has been tried
by courtmartial and sentenced to ten
years i'm prison. ... f. f. Powell, who
has been on trial at Warrenton, n. c.,
for the murder of Chas. w. Dunn, chief
of police of Scotland Neck, was on
Wednesday sentenced to serve thirty
years in the penitentiary. A verdict of
murder in the second degree was ac-
cepted by the defense and agreed to by
the state. Powell is over 20 years old.
On March 4, he shot Dunn to death
and wounded two other men. 1t is be-
lieved that he is insane. 49,. The in
terstate commerce commission on
Wednesday, rendered a decision af-
fecting class and commodity freight
rates on transcOntinental lines operat-
ing between Atlantic and Pacific coast
points. Rates to internal cities in the
middle and far west are reduced from
20 TO so per cent. .... DR.. b. G. Hyde,
recently convicted of the murder OF
Col. Thos. II. Swope at Kansas City,
Mo, was on Wednesday refused new
trial and sentenced to life imprison-
ment. ... Mrs. Jos. McC. Bowyer,
widow, and Midshipmen Mason and
Thomas of the naval academy, were
drowned in Chesapeake bay, near An
napolis, Md, Tuesday afternoon, while
bathing. .. Edwin S. Holmes, the stat
istician of the department of agricul-
ture, who was involved in the cotton
leak" case, pleaded guilty in the Fed
eral court at Washington Wednesday,
and was fined $4,000. .... AS the result
of a flood in the Licking river. in east
ern Kentucky, caused by a cloudburst
in the mountains on Tuesday, ii is be-
lived that lot less than nine lives were
lost. Five bodies had been recovered
up to Wednesday. .... Twenty three
members of the Southeastern Under
writer's association were convicted and
fined $500 each at Newport News, Va,
Wednesday, on charges or unlawfully
conSpiring to control insurance rates
battleship Delaware at Norfolk, Va,
Tuesday night, demolishing the wire
less telegraph mast. ON the deck at
the time was 1900 pounds of dynamite
and enough 6-inch shells to blow the
vessel to pieces. The vessel was con-
siderably damaged. :. Three men were
killed and three seriously injured by
a Baltimore and Ohio railroad engine
running into a gang of bridge workers
near that city Wednesday ..... +. s. +.
Terrell, wealthy citizen of San Anto-
nio, Tex, and former minister To Bel
gium, committed suicide Wednesday
by firing a bullet into his brain.
German cities are quarantining against
the cholera in southern Russia.
Rev. F. c. Hickson Refused Divorce.
We clip the following from the
Times. published at Oklahoma City,
under date of June 18th: