Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-12-16
MERE-M ENTlON.

James NJ. Huston, treasurer of the
United States from 1889 to 1891, Har-
vey NJ. Lewis of Cincinnati, and Ever
EFT Dufour of Washington, were con-
victed in the criminal court of the Dis
trict of Columbia last Tuesday of US
ing the mail with fraudulent intent in
connection with the operations OF the
National Trust company and other
concerns. The penalty Is two years
Imprisonment and $4,000 fine. The
compressor plant of the Columbia Gas
and Electric Co.. near KenoVa, w. Va,
blew up Tuesday night, killing one man
and wounding several others. The loss
Is more than 100000. .... All northern
Italy is suffering from almost unprece-
dented floods and the Tiber river Is
21 feet above it's ordinary level at
Rome. -. Macon, Ga. Is considering
the idea of raising the near-beer IL
cense from $500 to $1,000 and the near
beer dealers are fighting the PROPOSE
ton, claiming that 1t will force num-
ber of them out Of business. 49,. An
drew Carnegie has given $10,OOO,OO0 OF
5 per cent steel bonds to be used to
hasten the abolition of international
war by the furthering of the influence
of the Hague tribunal. .... The state
of Alabama on Wednesday celebrated
the 91st anniversary Of her admission
into the Union. 80. Nashville, Tenn.,
Is said to be dominated by reign OF
terror because of the number and bold
ness of the hold-ups that are being
perpetrated in the city. John X.
Thomas of Lima, o., has been awarded
damages to the amount of $1,655 be-
cause of an electric shock sustained
while he was sitting on wire fence.
The wire fence was shown to have
been charged from the trolley lines or
the West Ohio Railroad company ...
A new international bridge between
Brownsville, Texas, and Matamoras,
Mexico, has been opened for traffic.
The ferry boat which has been operat-
ed between the two cities for fifty
years has been discontinued. Hook
worm has been discovered in Chinese,
Hindoos and other immigrants arriv-
ing from the far east on the Pacific
coast. Horace Havemeyer has re-
signed his connection with the Amer
lean Sugar Refining company. This
years pension bill as passed calls for
an appropriation Of $153,614,00O, and
this is $4,000 less than was proposed
by the bill as presented. Augustus
r. Post, the balloonist, has brought
suit for the annullment of his marriage
on the ground that his wife had law
full husband at the time he went
through the ceremony with her. "A.
H. May, a New Orleans cotton specula-
tor. aged 81 years, committed suicide a
few days ago by drowning himself In
the Mississippi river. .....The British
general election though not quite over,
promises to be without result in solv-
ing the great constitutional questions
involved because as things look now,
there will be no change in the COM
pleXion of the house OF commons. 49,.
Claiming that he could not live on his
salary of $4,000 a year, Herbert Put
man, librarian of congress, last week
asked for raise: but congress refused
to grant 1t. 800. Robin Cooper, one or
the men tried for the murder of Sena- |
tor Carmack and set free by the hocus
pocus of political accessories. was mar
ried at Louisville yesterday to Miss
Eva Lee Smith, daughter of President |
Milton H. Smith of the Louisville and
Nashville railroad. !