Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-05-27
MERE-MENTION.


MERE-MENTIoN.
The Western Trunk Line associa-
ton. which includes the railroads hav-
ing port connections on the Atlantic
seaboard has announced an increase
Of the freight rates on sugar and cof-
fee in carloads to points in the middle
west, averaging 16 to 80 per cent. -.
Eleven Republican congressional nom-
inees Of Ohio. are pledged against the
reelection Of Speaker Cannon, If
elected to congress. Political proph-
cts Of Ohio are predicting the re-elec-
tion Of the eight Democrats now serv-
ing in congress. with the probable ad-
dition of one or two more..... Had
ley Hall, the science department of the
University Of New Mexico, at Albu-
querque, was destroyed by fire Monday,
Hetty Green was much riled at the
verdict of a New York jury on Mon
day, which gave a safe deposit COM
pany a verdict of 1863 against her for
the storage of a safety deposit box
containing papers valued at $17.O0O.-
900 for a period of five years.
John Breckenridge, a blacksmith and
ex-cowboy Of st. Joseph, Is candidate
for United States senator from Mis-
souri,. ..... The 16-months-old baby
of Ernest Allen of Syracuse, n. Y,
got on the New York Central rail-
road tracks in that city Monday and
an engine and forty cars passed over
him without injuring the child.
The proposed new bridge across the
st. Lawrence river, at Quebec. is
estimated to cost between $12.000,00
and $14,000.000. $500. Isaac Chauncey
ANtyfDN Of 70 No
who died few days ago, left an estate
of more than $10,000,000 to Princeton
University, Princeton, n. j. The
money will be used for the establish
ment Of a graduate college, and 1t Is
predicted that Princeton will be placed
at the head of American universities
as an institution Of learning. 80. A
national campaign of terrorism has
been instigated by the anarchists
Spain and government au-
thorities are much alarmed over the
.... The steamer Frank
H. Goodyear was rammed by the
steamer James B. Wood on Lake HUI
ron, Tuesday, and eighteen Of the
crew of twenty Of the Goodyear were
drowned. John Bell, a condemned
recovering from smallpox,
made his escape from the pest house
IltdT MODlle, Aid, L utSudy, dlleI ONeI-
powering his guard. 80. The home
of George keenan,, prohibition lead
er of GAINESVILLE, o., was blown up by
dynamite Tuesday morning, supposed
ly by members of the wet" forces.
No one was killed. ..... -Four Boys
were drowned in the East river, New
York, Tuesday, by the capsiZing Of a
raft on which they were playing.
The dry dock Dewey which was tow
ed from Baltimore to the Philippines
in 1906. was sunk in seventy feet Of
water at OlOngapo, LuZon, on Tues
day. 1t is believed. at Manila. that
the sinking of the Dewey Is due to
wreckers. The big floating dry dock
is 500 feet in length, 1876 feet in
width, weight about 1000 tons and
cost $1.125.000. A little more than
six months were required to tow the
Dewey from Baltimore to the Philip
pines. -. Striking miners fired on
the state militia at the coal mine Of the
Pennsylvania Coal company, near
Wilkesbarre, Pa, Tuesday, and two
men were wounded. The Ameri-
can Medical association is sending a
circular letter to physicians through
out the country urging them to work
on their congressional candidates to
support the owen bill. which seeks
to have a national department of
health, with cabinet officer estab-
lished by congress. The League for
Medical Freedom claims that such a
will cost the people of the
United States by direct and indirect
taxation, not less than $1OO,OOO,OOO
a year. .... Dispatches from San
Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua, say that
there has been some sharp fighting
OF hot tl,n
government and revolutionist forces
hours of fighting, 40 revolutiOnists
are said to have been killed, with but
small losses to the governments ar
my. ...... Twenty-Five persons were
drowned in the English channel Tues
day, by the sinking of the steamer
SkerryvOre after q collision with the
German bark, j. G. Vinnen..
The whole membership of the Louis
lana legislature. including more than
200 persons, are in Washington to
appear before the house committee
on foreign affairs for the selection OF
New Orleans as the site for holding
the Worlds Panama exposition In
1915. Five men, two of them
white. were killed in race war near
La, Wednesday. More
trouble is feared. Cyclones ana
rain storms did hundreds of thousands
Of dollars of damage in Delaware and
on Tuesday Whining
ton, Del, was damaged more than
800. 900. The keel Of the AGO.
razado, one of the Argentine Repub-
lies $1l,000,000 battleships, was laid
At the yards of the Fore River Ship
company at Quincy, Mass,
Wednesday. The battleship will be
the largest in the world. ... With
i'm the past few weeks the Southern
has spent $7,290,000 for loco
cars, rails and other equip
ment .Advices from China are
to the effect that the Chinese revolu-
.ionists have control of a territory of
several hundred square miles and are
destroying much property, and are
directing war of eXtermination
against all Christians. Five white
prisoners made their escape from the
Floyd county Jail. Rome. Ga. Tues
lay. 1t is probable that a de-
mand will be made by southern sena-
tors that the senate investigate the
of bribery made in the cleo
ton of United States Senator Lorimer
If Illinois. Raymond Johnson.
l9-yearS-old. was instantly killed at
st. Elmo. Tenn, Monday night by
pistol ball fired from a weapon which
lropped from his pocket as the boy
was helping his mother from a car
'iage. Mrs. Dora +. DOXey, ac-
used with her husband, DR.. Loren r.
DoXey. is on trial at st. Louis, on the
.harge of numbering VIM. j. Erder.
rhe woman had contracted biga-
nous marriage with Erder.. "A
Michigan Central railroad train of an
.ngine and twelve cars, recently made
he run from Detroit. Mich, to Nj
lgara Falls. Ont. pa miles in 21I
.....M More than Il score of
persons are dead i'm France as the re-
ult of terrific storms. water spouts
md cyclones. which prevailed