Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-25
MERE-MENTION,

A forty-mile an hour gale hit the
Tennessee and Montana last Monday,
shortly after these two vessels, Presi-
dent Taft aboard the Montana, left
Guantanamo, Cuba, for home. The YES
sells were tossed considerably; but the
president is said to have enjoyed the
experience. Mrs. Levi Hester was
killed at Gainesville, Fla, last Monday
by the overturning of an automobile In
which she and her husband were rid
ing. .... The Mexican revolutionists
are said to be enlisting large numbers
of Yaqui Indians to fight against the
government. .... Louis P. Stony, the
undertaken who made the coffin in
which John Brown was buried after
his execution, died at Charleston, W.
Va, last Tuesday, aged SO years. 49,.
The navy department has just given
out contracts for six new torpedo boat
destroyers. .. The Acme Match COM
pany of Roanoke, Va, has been placed
in the hands Of receiver. ..... Wise
county, Va, has authorized bond is
sue of 100000 for good roads. 80. "A
Washington dispatch reports that
United States Senator Thomas Carter
of Montana, is to be a member of the
court Of commerce, created at the last
session of congress. An Anson coun-
ty, n. c., farmer claims to have pick
ed 1000 pounds of seed cotton from an
acre and a quarter of land and to
Charles William Hayes, chief of the
United States geological survey, says
that the chances that the Panama ca
nal works will ever be disturbed by an
earthquake are not one in a hundred
million. Octave Chanute, who is
known as the father of the aeroplane
for the reason that he invented the
kite upon which the Wright Bros.
principle is based, died in Chicago last
Wednesday, aged IS years. 1t is
said that DR.. Crippen tried to commit
suicide a few days before his death by
opening a vein with a broken spectacle
glass. John w. Knight, of the firm
of Knight G. Yancey, the big Hunts
vile cotton firm that failed recently
under suspicious circumstances. has
been indicted for fraudulent use of the
mails on five separate counts and re-
leased on a $4,000 bond on each count
Memphis Tennessee has signed
l,,F,, tf.nf 40 for or M
held on November 3O...... Robert E.
Clowry, president of the Western I'm
ion Telegraph company, rendered his
resignation, Wednesday,, and Theodore
N. Vail, president of the American
Telegraph company was elected in his
stead. .... Quite a number of Annapo-
lis cadets have been made seriously i'll
as the result of using sugar mixed with
salt, the mixture having been brought
about in some manner that has not
yet been explained. ..... According to
statistics of the thirteenth census just
made public, the population of New
York state is 9,113,279 and that of the
state of Ohio 4,767,121. New York has
increased 25 per cent in ten years and
Ohio has increased II per cent. .... "A
reef that is considered very dangerous
to navigation has made a sudden ap-
pearance in the Caribbean sea, where
there was formerly an unobstructed
way covered with 200 fathoms of wa
ter j. Armstrong DreXel has broken
all aeroplane height records by going
up $3.50 feet. The previous record
held by Johnstone who was killed at
Denver the other day, was 9,714 feet
President Taft is quoted as saying
that he will not call an extra session of
congress-