Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-04
Straps and facts.

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county. Secretary of state-Edward
LaZansy, Kings county. Comptroller
William Sohmer, New York. State
treasurer-John J. Kennedy, Erie
county. Attorney general-Thomas ].
Carmody, Yates county. State engi-
neer and surveyOr-John A. Benscel,
New York. Associate judge of the
court of appeals-Frederick X. Coffin,
Chemung county.
Eagle Pass, Texas, October l: One
hundred and fifty miners. possibly
more, are entombed and believed to be
dead in mine No. .. at Paula, Mexico,
in the Las EsperanZas mining dis
trict, operated by the National Rail-
way lines of Mexico, as a result of two
explosions, presumably because of an
accumulation of gas last night and
early today. The men entombed are
mostly native and Japanese miners,
although the victims are said to in
clude several Americans. At the time
of the explosion the entire night shit,
estimates as to the number vary from
$50 to 5000, were all at work. OF these
none had reached the surface at a late
hour today. In all probability all are
dead. The second explosion occurred
shortly after a rescue party had de-
scended. That this was killed is
thought certain. However, nforma-
ton reaching here is not official. No
official statement has been issued,
William Hollis, mineral agent for the
government railway, under whose su-
pervision the mines are conducted, has
proceeded to the mines. Paula is To-
Gated near the town of MusquiZ in the
state of Coahuila. An explosion oc-
CURED in the same mine year ago.
several hundred Mexican and japanese
miners losing their lives at the time.
Louisville, Miss, October 3: The
trial of Swinton Parmenter. the son
of a prominent planter near here'
charged with numbering his eighteen
year-old sweetheart, Miss Janet Sharp
was comemnced here today amid dra-
matte surroundings. The trial. when
will probably be the most sensational
of its kind in the recent annals OF
criminal court history in Mississippi.
has resulted in Transforming this VII
lage into a camp of armed men. Two
rival factions, each armed with Win
chester rifles, are encamped on TWO
sides of the town, while the court
house and Jail are surrounded by
detachment of militia, armed and IN
structed to shoot to kill If violence
breaks out. Janet Sharp was the belle
of Rural Hill and had many suitors'
Among these was Parmenter, dash
ing young chap and the son of promi-
nent and well-to-do parents. The girl
was found murdered and the autopsy
showed she had been criminally as
saulted. Indications pointed to the
guilt of Parmenter. The youth was
arrested and secretly taken to jail,
the whereabouts of which was Kept
hidden. Two factions instantly form
ed, one representing the Sharp clan
and the other the Parmenter family.
The friends and relatives OF the Sharp
family threatened death to Swinton
and the Parmenter clan threatened TO
wage open war upon the Sharps II
Swinton was harmed before the trial.
Indications promise a state of bloody
warfare through the county if either
side makes a move.
Los Angeles, Cal, was badly stir
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dynamite outrages. The office Of the
Los Angeles Times was blown up and
there was also an attempt to blow up
the residence of General Harrison Gray
Otis, the publisher of the paper. The
destruction of the Times property was
complete There were two buildings, one
beside the other, and the dynamite was
placed in the alley between. Several
people were killed by the explosion
and the property loss is supposed TO
amount to something like $50O,OOO. The
internal machine that was intended to
blow up the residence Of Gen. Otis was
discovered by detectives and removed
before the hour it was set to explode
arrived. The machine was concealed
in a suit case that had been hidden in
a bunch of vines under a bay window.
When the detective attempted to open
the suit case, there came Whlrrlng
noise, followed by smoke. He threw
the machine as far from him as possi-
BILE and when it struck the ground.
there was a terrible explosion that dug
a hole in the ground and tore the side
walk curbing for quite a distance on
either side. Another Internal machine
was found in the residence of Secre-
tary Zeehandelaar, of the Merchants
and Manufacturers association, an
anti-labor organization. 1t is believed
that all the Outrages were perpetrated
by labor organizations to which the
Los Angeles Times had long been an
active enemy. Rewards aggregating
100000 have been offered for the ap-
prehensiOn and conviction of the party
or parties who perpetratcd the dyna-
hitting.
Twenty sailors of the battle
ship New Hampshire lost their lives in
loo Saturday NIGHT
by the overturning of a barge. Two
hundred or more sailors were on what
is known as short shore leave and in
their rush to get back to their ship
overcrowded the barge that was leav-
ing the dock for the last time that
night. Some distance out from the
dock, the barge was caught in the swell
of a passing vessel and capSiZed. The
men were thrown out and in the dark
ness there followed a terrible struggle
for life. Several of the sailors behaved
heroically. At least two or three went
down from exhaustion after they had
saved from two to a dozen of their
fellows who could not swim, the brave
resCuers refusing to accept safety as
long as they had reason to believe that
helpless men were struggling in the
water. Sunday night the officers 81
the New Hampshire gave out that as
many as twenty N-ullle were plpbdblN
drowned: but this was only a careful
~ considered estimate, as there was no
way of knowing exactly how many
people were on the barge in the first
place and in the second place, it is pos
sible that some of the men on shore
leave had not attempted to get back
that night at all The harbOr police
of New York have been making stren-
uous efforts since the accident to find
the bodies of the dead; but because OF
the swiftness of the tide that was run
ming at the time, it is thought that the
bodies may have been carried long dis
tanCes and only a few were recovered
1t will take some days before all the
unfortunates can he accounted for.
- Chicago. October l: Aviators VIII,
are entrants for the 100000 Chicago
to-New York flight unlimited theiI
machines at Hawthorne track to day
and gave exhibitions before large
Ia oft tt roach New