Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-05-31
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wears. LII. hOCIl III 1909
the discovery Of the tuberculosis ba-
cillus The new battleship South
lCarolina has established new worlds
record for big gun shooting. With
her forward turret 12-inch guns she
lmade sixteen bull's-eye hits out of six
teen shots at moving target in four
minutes and fifty-one seconds. ....
The New York Herald's and Atlanta
Journals good roads touring party,
including fyty or more start
ers, will leave Atlanta, Ga, on June
6, and it is expected that the run to
New York will be made in seven days.
Although strenuous efforts were
lmade to raise the French submarine
lPluviose, which sank in the English
channel Thursday in 100 feet of wa
ter after a collision with a passenger
steamer, all efforts failed owing to the
swift undercurrent which moved the
vessel from its first resting place.
Louis Stall, a young giant, fell into
the cofferdam of caisson fifty-feet
underground in New York, Saturday.
The cofferdam was full of boiling wa
ter and Stall was finally rescued after
swimming in the place for ffteen
minutes. He was fatally injured. ....
j. c.. Hunter, a white man, was con-
victed at Savannah, Ga, Saturday
morning Of the murder of his wife
and two other women. Hunter was
sentenced to be hanged June 1O....:
There will be double hanging in the
Fulton county, Ga. Jail, at Atlanta,
Friday, both of the condemned men
being negroes, one convicted of MUIR
der and the other of criminal assault.
Six large factories were destroyed
by fire at South Minneapolis, Minn.,
Saturday morning, entailing loss OF
S1,750,000. Geo. w. Thomas, said
to be one of the most desperate post
office and express robbers in the coun-
try was arrested at Marlborough \.
Y, Saturday. where for four years he
has been living on a farm and one of
the most highly esteemed citizens OF
Ulster county Thomas is wanted in
berries. .... Kaiser Wilhelm of Ger
many is suffering from what is feared
TO be bloodpoisoning in his right hand.
State Senator Holstlay of Illinois,
who was indicted on a charge of per-
Jury on Friday in a state house furni-
ture deal. confessed Saturday that he
sold his vote for Lorimer for $4,000,
and later got $500 from the Jack
pot" Harry w. Walker, Jean
M. Voelker and James F. Halligan, CO.
defendants of Chas. r. Heike, secre-
ltary-treasurer of the American Sugar
Refining company, on trial in New
York on charges of customs frauds,
pleaded guilty Friday and confessed
to their parts in the frauds. Gov
ernor Hughes of New York, has call
ed an extra session of the New YORK
Legislature to meet June 20. The body
lonly adjourned last week. -" TWO
deputy sheriffs were perhaps fatally
shot from ambush in Clay county,
KY. Friday, while looking for muir
derer in the mountains. .... b. w.
Eblen, a wealthy citizen Of Hender-
son. KY, was shot TO death by his
wife on Friday. The murderess also
fired two shots at negro woman. she
then surrendered to the sheriff. ....
1.-THE street car men of Albany, y. Y,
went on a strike Friday ... Jesse
lMatson, a negro, who killed a deputy
sheriff. was lynched by mob near
Exmoor Ala, Thursday evening. ....
;. j. c. Napier. wealthy negro of Nash
willie, Tenn, on Friday declined a di-
plomatic appointment rendered by Mr..
Taft Two students Of Brown uni
versity. Providence, r. l., have been
leXpelled from that institution because
of stealing articles from the pockets
of students who left their coats in the
gymnasium. The thieves were caught
by an electric device which gave
warning in an adjoining room. ......
Ten persons were killed and forty
more or less seriously injured in a
wreck on the Lehigh Valley railroad
near Wilkesbarre, Pa, Saturday The
wreck was caused by broken rail.
Ten thousand live fowls were roasted
in a New York poultry warehouse fire
Saturday night. .....At peace fes-
tival" held by negroes near Calhoun,
La. Saturday, nine negroes were shot,
three Of them fatally, in a free-for-all
fight among the factions present. 49,.
Mr. Roosevelt and party are due to
10 in, Landau
June 18th. $500. Beef, lamb and pork
have dropped two cents Il pound on
the Chicago wholesale market within
the past two weeks. .... Mrs. Eliza
beth Richmond, proprietor Of hotel,
was convicted at Cambridge, Mass,
Saturday. of numbering one of her
boarders. She was given Il life SEN
tence. .... Lieut.. Adolph Hofrichter,
of the Austrian army, has recently
been tried by court martial on the
charge of murder and rumor has it
at Vienna that he has been convicted
and sentenced to be hanged. Hofrich-
ter is an ambitious officer and is al
LEGGED to have sent poison to ten Of
ficers of the general staff. his idea be-
ing that if these We're removed, it
would accelerate his OWE promotion
.The Great Northern railroad
has given orders for l2.O00,0OO feet
of lumber to enlarge and strengthen
its system of SnowShedS in the cas-
cade mountains of Washington.
John w. Heron of Cincinnati. O.. the
| -, 4, Oh
ill. 5000. The fighting between the gov
ernment forces and insurgents of Mic
aragua continues with undated fairy.
In Il battle on Sunday the government
soldiers were moved down with ma
chine guns in the hands of Americans
who are fighting with the insurgents.
...... The body of Alma kellner, s.
years old. who has been missing from
her home in Louisville, Ky. since De-
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