Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-07-08
FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1910.
MERE E-MENTION.


town. o.. Monday, by colliding with
a freight train. Twenty persons were
killed and many were injured. .....
Jared Young Sanders. governor of
Louisiana, has been elected to the
United States senate to succeed the
late Senator McEnery. Senator San
ders started life as a printers devil.
....Yeggmen blew open the safe Of an
amusement park near Columbus, o.,
early Tuesday morning, and got away
with $1,000 i'm silver. All paper mon
ey had been taken away the night be-
fore. .....I 1t is announced that Govern
or Hughes of New York, recently ap-
pointed an associate justice, will be
appointed chief justice of the United
States supreme court to succeed the
late Justice Fuller. A SeabOard Air
Line passenger train was wrecked at
Marietta, Fla, Monday, by running in
to a cow. The engine turned over and
the engineer and fireman were crushed
to death. .... In a 200 mile automobile
race on track at Indianapolis, Ind,
Monday, the winner made the distance
in 163a minutes, lowering the worlds
record for the distance by ten minutes.
Since signing the agreement to fight
and up to and including the end Of
the mill, Johnson has received $145,600,
and Jeffries has received $4,000. JEFF
fries portion of the $101, 900 purse was
$40, 400. 80. The Holt farm i'm David
son county, n. c.. this year produced
4,021 bushels of wheat on 130 acres.
The average yield was 81 bushels to
the acre. On 90 acres the average was
433 bushels. go. "A big automobile was
smashed to splinters on the track OF
the Southern railway on grade cross
ing thirteen miles from Charlotte,
Tuesday. Five persons were in the car
and just as the car got on the cross
ing the motors choked. Before the car
could be moved from the track fast
passenger train ran into it and smash
ed 1t. The occupants Of the car had
was struck. .....J. B. Allison Of Ashe-
vile, N. c., on Tuesday afternoon,
mortally shot Floyd MCGEE, and then
beat him on the head with hammer.
The trouble Is believed to be about q
woman. Allison had killed two other
men, and killed MCGEE without giving
him any warning. 80. A negro entered
lunch room at Raleigh, N. c., Tues
day morning and asked for a Jack
Johnson pie" He got a large beer bot
tie broken over his head and was bad
ly cut by glass. .Messrs. Leblanc,
Latham and Labouchere, noted
French aviators, will take part in
an international aviation meet to be
held in the vicinity Of New York next
October. ..... An extra session Of the
United States senate has been sug-
confirm appointments by President
Taft to the United States supreme
court bench on account of the num-
ber of important cases now pending
before that tribunal. .... Antonio
Avechi, an Italian, shot his wife to
death, mortally wounded his step
son, wounded another Italian and
committed suicide at Waterbury,
Conn.,, Tuesday, The finance
committee of the Indiana Republican
state committee, has decided not to
accept campaign subscriptions from
corporations. "A wealthy New
York woman was arrested in that
city Tuesday, for the theft of goods
to the value of $1.S1 from a depart
ment store. At the time Of the theft
she had 500 on deposit in the stores
banking department. ...... Wilhelm
Beckert, at one time chancellor Of
the German legation at Santiago,
Chile, was executed Tuesday by be-
ing shot. In February, 1910, Beckert
an attempt to cover up an embezzle
ment Of legation funds. 80. The
government Of Guatemala Is negotiat-
ing with American bankers for a
$40, 100000 loan to refund outstand
ing bonds and reorganize its monetary
system. ..... During the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1861, 1,962,392.19 worth
Of foreign goods were received
through the port Of New York. This
was $163, 100000 more than was re-
ceived during the previous fiscal
year. :. The funeral services over
the remains of Melville w. Fuller, late
chief justice Of the supreme court,
took place at Sorrento, Me-, Wednes-
day. The interment will be in Chica-
go. .Thos. Kincaid, an automo-
bile driver, was killed on the race
track at Indianapolis, Ind, Wednes-
day. His car left the track on curve.
:. Peter Smith, Newark, N. c., man.
in order to win a bet Of 81 Wednesday.
drank seventeen glasses of whisky.
He died shortly afterwards. ..... "A
big strike of union cloak makers be-
gan in New York on Wednesday. The
union leaders claim that 10000 work.
ers will be included in the strike.
The home of Rev. r. B. Fisher, a
Presbyterian preacher Of Neoga, ILL.,,
was wrecked by dynamite Tuesday
night. The preacher had been COLI
ducting a crusade against bootleg
gers. Ringing Bros circus
tents were wrecked by cyclone ana
destroyed by fire at Brookings S. d.,
Tuesday night. ..... The town of
Cornucopia, Wis. is girdled on three
sides by forest fires and the only
means of escape is by way of Lake
Superior. VIM. j. Bryan has an
nounced to the Democratic party of
Nebraska that he will fight for the
reforms he advocates, regardless OF
the action of the party. ..". Mayor
Maddox of Atlanta, estimates that
there are $500 automobiles in Geor-
gia, and that their purchase has
drained the state of fully $4,000
0OO.. ......A mob of Georgetown,
Ark, Tuesday, in order to avenge
the killing of hotel proprietor, killed
negro who ran at the approach OF
the mob. and finding their victim to
be innocent, kept on until they found
the murderer and then shot him to
death. .... The appropriations COM
mittee of the Georgia house of repre-
sentatives has approved a bill pro-
viding an appropriation of $lOO,OOO
to erect a Confederate monument at
Atlanta. Up to July s, the total
tax collected from corporations by the
Federal government amounted to