Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-04-22
MERLIN ENTION.

Miss Marjorie G. Gould of New
York. and Mr.. Anthony Drexel of
Philadelphia. were married in New
York on Tuesday afternoon. The
bride had rejected proposals of mat
rimony from several titled foreigners
The bridal presents are estimated as
being worth several million dollars...
Nelson w. Aldrich, United States
senator from Rhode Island since 1881
and leader of the Republican party
in that body, has announced his inten-
ton to retire to private life after
next March. E. Roger Merritt, a negro,
after two convictions in the Fulton
county, Ga, courts on a charge Of
criminal assault on a white girl, has
been sentenced to hang on June 3rd.
.. A landslide on the Trans Conti-
mental railroad near Koucokache,
Quebec province, Canada, buried a
ing six persons fatally. $50. Jeff Crow
was fatally shot by T. NJ. Braswell
near Union City, Ga, Sunday after
noon and died Monday afternoon. The
men were drinking and fell out about
a card game. :. Governor Patterson
of Tennessee, has announced his can
didacy for a third term and in the
same card bitterly dcnounces the Pro-
hibitionists of the state and all who
have criticised his action in pardoning
Colonel Cooper. Thomas Reeves, IS
years old, killed his father, a wealthy
farmer, with a rock on Tuesday
and then attempted to commit suicide.
Petitions containing 10000 names
have been presented to President Taft,
asking for q pardon for John r.
Walsh, the convicted Chicago banker,
now serving Il term in the LeaVen-
worth, Kan, prison for bank wreck
ing. .... The Georgia court of appeals
has handed down a decision in which
it holds that an officer who kills a
person in attempting to make an ar
rest in a miSdemeanor case, is guilty
of voluntary manSlaughter, even
though the party may be attempting
to escape. Senator kiSSell of New
York, introduced bill in the state
senate Tuesday, providing for the
creation Of a commission composed of
Roosevelt, Hughes, Odell, Hill. Shee-
han and Hearst To investigate legiSla-
tive and other cOrruptions in that
state. Jewish residents of Kieff,
Russia, are again undergoing terrible
prosecutions at the hands of the Rus
slams. On April 2S, 1900 Jews are to
be expelled from Kieff. :. Live hogs
dropped IS cents Il hundred pounds
at the Chicago stock yards Tuesday.
nptr L. 1rn1 ha n
the highest price of March. =. A Chi
cago astronomer estimates that Hal
ley'S comet was 100000 miles from
the earth on Tuesday, and says that
ii probably cannot be seen for several
days because Of its nearneSS to the
sun. and that when il becomes visible
its tail will stretch away to the south.
-. More than 5000 employees of the
Pressed steel Car company at SchOen-
vile. Pa, are on a strike .... Ten
girls We're killed in a match factory
1T Budapest. Hungary. Tuesday, by
the explosion of a boiler. The Ma
tiOnal Association of Insurance com
missionerS is in session in Chicago,
and is giving especial attention to
ways and means of dealing with fake
fraternal insurance orders which are
flourishing in various parts of the
United States. .....A worlds fair will
be opened at Brussels. Belgium. on
April 25. The United States will not
be represented with Il national exhibit.
... The 1000 striking street car
workers of Philadelphia. have return
ed To work after being on Il strike for
about two months 1t is estimated that
the strike cost all concerned not less
than $4,000, 900. Three mail clerks.
the engineer. fireman and Il trainman
We're killed in an Illinois Central
railroad wreck near Jackson. Miss.
Monday. Seventeen other persons
were injured .... During the three
months ending December 81. 1909.
there We're 1899 persons killed and
22.491 persons injured on the rail
roads Of the United States. .. Mr..
Roosevelt and party arrived iii Paris
yesterday from Budapest. Hungary.
where they We're most royalty treated.
James :. Havens. Democrat, in
Il special election in the Thirty-sec-
ond congressional district of New
York on Tuesday. defeated Geo. w.
Aldridge, Republican. by big ma
jOrity. This is the first Democratic
victory in the district i'm twenty years
and is taken as an indication of the
way the political wIruS are blowing
i'm New York and throughout the coun-
try. knight. Yancy e. Co. of
Decatur. Ala. one Of the largest cot
ton firms of the south, failed WedneS-
day with probable liabilities of 81
600. 900. The student body of Ober-
lin college. Oberlin. O.. has made a
positive stand against tn" c"ntnua-
tiOn of the policy existing heretofore
as to social equality of the negro stu
dents of tho institution.