Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-06-21
MERE-MENIION.

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MERE-MENTION.
| Frank Karban, a Rochester, Pa,
boy, IA years old. wanted to learn the
sensations experienced by a man be-
ing hanged. He tried the experiment
Friday and when discovered was
dead ... Peter G. Thompson, GIN
cinnati, O., paper manufacturer, has
been indicted by a Federal grand jury
at Washington on the charge OF at
tempting to bribe an employe OF the
government printing office. Ser
verano Gonzales, IL Mexican, mas serv-
ed seven and a half years or q lie
sentence for murder in the San Quen-
tin prison. California, and only rev
days ago il was found that the man Is
Innocent. A pardon will be necessary
for his release ..... "A church organ,
placed in a Presbyterian church at
Dalton. O., under protest, was de-
Istroyed by a bolt of lightning Friday
afternoon. The lightning struck the
lchurch spire, descending into the au-
ditorium and smashed the organ.
There was no other damage. wal
ter P Brookins, a young aviator,
again broke the worlds record Tor
height in a Wright biplane at Indian
apolis, Ind, Friday afternoon. reach
ling an altitude of 4,S03 feet. On the
TUESDAY before Brookins attained an
altitude of 4,3S4 feet. .... the CEN
sus bureau reports that there were
Il1.OOO,O0O,00 900 conversations over the
Telephone wires of the United states
during 1907. The total number OF
miles of wire at the end OF that year
was 14,57O,142. The income to tele-
phone companies was 1884, ,461,747.
The Bell system owned 6S.S per cent
of the wire mileage. High tenn
peratures and low humidity caused
many deaths throughout the country
Friday and Saturday. There were
seven deaths in Chicago on Friday.
Nine deaths and an incalculable dam
age to buildings, shipping, shrubbery'
trees, etc, was the result OF a severe
rain and windstorm in New YORK city
and vicinity Saturday afternoon. 80"
Ed. Easily. a negro burglar, under ar
rest near Birmingham, Ala, Saturday,
suddenly fired upon the two officers
having him and three other negroes In
charge The officers returned the hre
and killed Easley. One of the officers
was seriously shot. The New YORK
police have another trunk-murder
mystery on their hands. The victim
was Moses Sachs, a jewelry salesman.
His body was found Saturday morn
ing, packed in a trunk, with bullet
wound in his head. He left home Fri
day afternoon with $4,000 worth OF
jewelry samples. The solution or
the mystery surrounding the murder
Of Mrs. Porter Charlton, the American
woman, at Como, Italy, appears far
distant according to the latest dis
patches The case against the SuS-
pected Russian adventurer, has ma
terially weakened. No trace Of the
murdered woman's husband, either
dead or alive, has been found. The
United States senate committee on
privileges and elections has authorized
a favorable report on resolution TO
make a sweeping investigation of the
charges of bribery by which Senator
Lorimer was elected to a seat I'm that
body. In a feud fight at Carters-
willie, KY, Friday, in which eleven
men participated and used guns,
knives and clubs, two men were NOR
tally wounded and two dangerously
hurt. "A prize fight scheduled to
be pulled off at San Francisco on Sat-
urday afternoon, was declared off
Saturday morning by its promoters,
following Governor GillettS order that
the fight could not take place.
The statehood bill admitting Arizona
and New Mexico into the union, was
passed by the house Saturday after
noon The signature Of the president
will make 1t law. Mexican revo-
IutioniStS, to the number Of sixty
three, were arrested at Cananea, Mex
| leo, Thursday night by Diaz soldiers.
Nearly 100 rifles were seized .....
King George will probably be crown
ed on May "a. 1911, Empire Day.
though as yet no date has been def
nitely fixed. .... A. B. Hatchett, In
charge of a track laying force for the
southern railway, was killed by the
locomotive of a work train at Marion,
| y. c., Friday. The next conVen-
| ton of the National Farmers Union
will be held at Charlotte, \. c., Sep
tember 18th and 18th. ..... The house
lcommittee on foreign affairs on Thurs
day authorized Representative Fassett
to report two Panama exposition bills
to the house. The bills requiring that
both San Francisco and New Orleans
raise fund of s7.500,0Oo for the ex-
position, and specifying that the city
which raises the required sum first
will be recommended as the exposi-
| tion city. The proposed exposition is
| to he held in 1915. .... Destructive
forest fires are in progress on the gov
ernment lands in the vicinity of Kaka-
kabeka Falls, Ontario. 800. 1t is esti-
mated that not less than 500 to 1000
persons were drowned by the floods
in Germany, Austria, Armenia and the
| Balkans last week. :. Frank Brooks,
a negro, was hanged at Atlanta, Ga,
| Friday, for the murder of another ne
gro. Brooks shot his victim when he
was caught trying to burglarize an
Atlanta home. 49,. Commencing Fri
| day $4,000 cotton mill operatives in
Rhode Island and Connecticut. have
been put on short time. owing to
small demand Of cotton mill products.
:. The annual session of the Geor-
| gia Legislature convenes at Atlanta to-
morrow. An epidemic of typhoid
| fever is in progress at Milwaukee,
Wis. Since January 1st there have
been 963 cases, and there are 800
ernment Of Austria has practically
told the Standard Oil company to get
out of that country. 80. Seven Chi
nese sailors tried to escape from a
British ship at Philadelphia on Fri
| day. Four were drowned in the
SChuylkill river and the others cap
| tured A contract for the digging
of 1874 miles of drainage canals In
| Florida, was let at Pensacola on
| Thursday. The average price of the
work is eleven cents a cubic yard and
three years will be required to do the
work. An unknown man committed
suicide Friday by jumping from the
bridge over Niagara Falls. 49,. The
Russian douma has appropriated s.
000 900 roubles ($4 4,000,000) to build
Notifications and barracks in Finland.
| 1t is alleged that German invasion
Of Finland is feared. .... An effort
is to be made to drain 100000 acres
of swamp lands in southeast Georgia.