Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-09-13
MERE ENTlON.

MERE- MEN lON.
Mrs. Amelia Block. aged SO, an in
mate of n private asylum ut Green
Farms. Conn. on Friday strangled
LNnia Fuchere. aged %. to death.
with her bare hands. In another room
of the institution she had almost kill
ed Il nurse i'm the same way. Two
men were asphyxiated in a Rochester,
y. Y. hotel Friday by gas from a
leaking pipe..... The Mallory line
steamship Sabine, Tampa to New
York. was tied up at Key West Fri
Spanish firemen. The sovereign
grand lodge of the Independent Order
of odd Fellows will convene i'm Allan
ta. Ga. September 49,. The inVes-
tigatiOn by a Federal grand jury of
the beef trust. which has been in
progress i'm Chicago for more than a
month. is nearing completion, and it
is expected that n number of individ-
a former clerk in the money order
department of the Atlanta, Ca post
office. has been arrested on charge
of embeZZlement and bound over to
the Federal court. ..... Two thouS-
and tower signalmen of the New York
Central railroad between Buffalo and
Albany. are on n strike. AS the
result of the locking out of $4,000
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land is said to he facing one of the
most disastrous sympathetic strikes in
the history of Great Britain. The
Jury i'm the case of Lee O'Neil Browne,
with the election of United States
Senator Lorimer. on Friday returned
verdict of not guilty. ..... General
VIM. G.. Oates aged IS years, eX-gov-
ernor of Alabama, died at Montgom-
cry Friday. :. Lloyd w. Bowers, So
licitor general of the United States.
died in Boston, Friday, following a re-
cent operation for the removal of his
tonSils. Four thOusa' | native dia-
mond miners are on a strike at Kim
berly, South Africa. following a dis
pute over the pay for overtime. More
than 600 arrests were made Saturday
following riot upon the arrival of
the military police. Three men
were hurt, i'm n wreck on the South
ern railway at Laurel, Tenn. Satur-
day morning. The train ran into an
open switch. .... .Thirty-fOur persons
were drowned in Lake Michigan Fri
day. by the sinking of Pere Mar
quette railroad car ferry boat. On
the boat at the time were tnirty-two
heavily laden cars The cause of the
disaster is not definitely known, but
is supposed to be due to improper
loading. w Robert Mickler, Il well
known citizen of ST. Augustine, Fla,
is in Jail i'm that city to answer to the
charge of numbering his brother
about a month ago. 1t is report
ed at Newport, r. l.. that Reginald
Vanderbilt. who was said To be i'll with
typhoid fever, was in reality suffering
from a pistol bullet fired by the hus-
band of a young married woman.
Senator VIM. LOrimer has rendered
his resignation as member OF the
Hamilton club of Chicago, as Il result
of the slight put upon him by Mr..
Roosevelt, when Il guest of the club
last week, when the former president
refused to attend banquet given by
the club if Senator LOrimer was to be
present. .... BY a vote of 5 to the
city council of indianapolis, Ind, has
adopted a resolution referring To the
Impeachment committee charges
against the mayor of the city to the
effect that ne had given the saloon
keepers and gamblers of the city tip
that they might operate on Sundays.
Magistrate T.. CASTOR Higgin-
botham, the Brooklyn, y. Y, magis-
trate, has been bound over To the spe-
cial sessions court on the charges
made by Mary Hickey last week, to
the effect that the magistrate had
made an attempt to assault her In MS
office. ....A family of six at Marion,
o.. has developed diphtheria. follow
ing the use of a drinking cup in which
Il tramp had been given drink of
water. professor of the College
of the City of New York. has figured
il out that the earth weighs 1000
000, ,0O0, 600 tons. New York City's
public schools opened yesterday with
an enrolment of 700. 900, and because
of lack of room i'm the 52S school
buildings of the city. over 10000 Will
be on part time. .... Mayor Gaynor
of New York, has positively declined
to allow the use of his name as can
didate before the Democratic state
convention as IL candidate for govern
or. The General Electric COM
pany has let Il contract for the build
ing of Il $l2.OOO.OO0 plant on Lake
Erie. near Erie. Pa. When complet-
ed the plant will employ 1900 men.
An insane negro was beaten to
death by two white insane inmates of
Il lunatic asylum i'm Philadelphia Fri
Since the beginning of the
cholera epidemic in Russia there has
been Il total Of 71,4G6 cases. y slight
improvement is noticeable during the
past two weeks. The damage done
to the battlcship North Dakota at
Hampton Roads on Thursday by the
explosion of fuel oil. was not as great
as at first supposed and the ship was
due to ioin the practice fleet yestcr
ON September ! there was
$2.155.726.S47 in circulation in the
United States and the nations wealth
per capita was $3i.S3 The CEN
SuS department gives the population
Of Boston ut 67O.5N5 in 1910 against
$50. Sg2 in 1900. an increase Of 1916
Der cent Boston is the fifth largest
city in the United States. Barney
Oldficld. the professional automobile
racer. broke the worlds mile record
ON Il circular track at st. Paul. Mimi.
Saturday by making the milc III ~"
seconds ...T The Appalachian expo
sitiun opened at Knoxville, Tenn, yes
tcrdHy and will continue until Octo-
Der II.
The Cart Before the Horse.-Re-
uuiring that voters register for the
general election. which under existing
conditions i'm South Carolina, is merely
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