Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-05-20
MERE-MENTION.

| Two women and six children were
drowned in the Gossatlot river near
Gilham, Ark, Tuesday evening while
attempting to ford the swollen stream
in a wagon. Senator Lee Over
man Of North Carolina, says in a re-
cent interview that Mayor Gaynor of
New York or Governor Harmon Of
Ohio, will be the Democratic presiden-
tial nominee in 1912. .Advices
from Marking, China, are to the ef
fleet that the Chinese Of the province
of kangsi, are preparing for an upris-
ing against the reigning dynasty and
foreigners similar to the Boxer upris-
ing Of 1900. ...... Marguerite Ander-
son, years old, was killed by a troll
| ley car in Atlanta, Ga, Wednesday. .
| When the doors Of Westminster hall,
London, were thrown open Wednesday
morning to give the public an oppor-
tunity to view the body Of the late
King Edward VII, more than 100000
persons were waiting to pass before
the bier. .... In a desperate attempt
to gain his freedom a negro convict in
the stockade Of an Alabama coal COM
pany in Bibb county, on Monday set
| fire to the stockade and he with thir-
| ty-four other prisoners perished in the
| flames. ..". John A. Ryerson, Chi
cago business man, committed suicide
Monday, by jumping from the thir-
teenth floor of the Chamber of Com
merce building. .... The house on
Monday killed the proposed amend
ment to the Federal constitution
which provided for changing the date
| of the presidential Inauguration by
only one vote. John W. Gates, the
fnancier, and Jno. E. Madden, a
prominent New York horseman, on
Monday settled an $1,000 law suit by
the flip Of penny, after three years
in the courts. Mr.. Gates won. DIR.
Frederick A. Cook, the discredited
arctic explorer, arrived in New York
| last week and it Is announced that he
will leave in June for Etah, to recover
his records. .... Wade Cowan, a far
mer Of Moulton, Ala, believing that
| Halleys comet would set the earth on
| fire, on Tuesday committed suicide.
-. Frank N. Hoffstot, president of the
Pressed Steel Car company, wanted in
Pittsburg, Pa, on a bribery charge,
| is making a fight against extradition
from New York state and will carry
his case to the United States supreme
court :. The Chicago police are max
ing a search for fiend who they be-
| lieve to be of the Jack the Ripper
class. His latest victim, found Mon
day, is a 20-year- old-girl.- 80. An At
lanta, Ga, man, arrested a few days
Il ago told Recorder Broyles that he was
81 years old and hadn't worked any in
thirty years. The recorder said, well,
will give you a vacation by binding
you over to the state court for va
grancy.". ......A lumber plant en-
ploying 700 people, at Pensacola, Fla,
was destroyed by fire Tuesday, with a
loss Of $1,000.000 in the plant and dry
lumber. q. q. Republican leaders Of con-
gress express the opinion that an ad-
journment will not be reached before
July Is. .... Maurice Lustig, New
York detective, was convicted by
jury Sunday, on the charge of muir
dering his wife by strychnine poison
ing to secure the proceeds OF $4,000
life insurance policy Lustig Will be
Ielectrocuted. -. Antonio Misiani, an
Italian black handler, was convicted In
New York on Monday on the charge
of attempted extortion. He was SEN
fenced to serve a minimum term OF
three years and eight months in Sing
Sing. Misianis intended victim was
Caruso. the famous Italian tenor.
battery of seven steam boilers at
the plant Of the American Sheet and
Tin Plate company, Canton, o., eX-
ploded Tuesday afternoon, killing
twenty and injuring forty or more,
several fatally .... To save the lie
of boy whose arm had been caught
in a machine in a knitting mill at
Rome. \. Y, Monday, the foreman of
the mill cut the boys arm off below
the elbow with his pocket knife. .....
An explosion of dynamite in the ruraleS
barracks at Pinar Del Rio, Cuba, We'd
nesday afternoon, killed 125 and
wounded 200 or more. 80. The boiler
makers of the Central of Georgia rail-
road went on a strike Thursday. 49,.
The Chicago Democratic Bulletin, the
official Democratic paper of Chicago.
is demanding the defeat Of every Dem
ocratic legislator who voted for United
States Senator LOrimer. .......T Thirty
thousand dollars mysteriously disap-
peared from the Adams Express COM
pany's office at oil City, Pa, early
Wednesday morning. The thieves LETT
no clues. .....I In hand-to-hand fight
between American and French sailors
at Toulon. France, Wednesday night.
Sailor Adams of the New York, was
seriously stabbed. ..... The Worlds
Sunday School convention opened at
Washington yesterday with $500 dele
gates in attendance. The delegates are
from fifty-two countries, representing
26,000.000 Sunday school students
DR.. T. B. Meyer of London, is presi-
dent of the association. The death
of 265 miners at the st. Paul coal
mine at Cherry Hill. ILL.,, in November
last, was due to the violation of the
mining laws with the consent Of mine
inspectOrs according to the verdict of