Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-07-05
MERE-MENTlON.

hanged on July ~. lne MelnphiS
News Scimitar, a leading afternoon
paper of Memphis, Tenn, has abandon
ed the publication of its Sunday edi-
tions, because of lack Of patronage. -.
James Patten, the successful Chicago
speculator in wheat, corn, oats and
lately in cotton, has announced his
permanent retirement from business.
Mr.. Patten Is So years old and started
his business career in Chicago as a
grain Inspector. =. The New York leg
islature, in extra session, again de-
feated Governor Hughes direct prtma-
ry bill last Thursday. Mr.. Roosevelt Is
said to be taking decided interest In
the passage Of the Hughes measure.
The internal revenue tax on chew
ing and smoking tobacco, on July 1st.
was raised from six to eight cents
pound under the Payne-A -Aldrich tariff
law. Mrs. Augustine Cicolo, aged
% years, was found strangled to death
in her apartments In New York on Fri
day. Her husband died In a Brooklyn
hospital a few hours before from pis-
tol wounds inflicted by an assassin on
the Sunday previous. 1t Is believed
that the man who killed the husband
also strangled the woman. The state
Of Georgia spent $1.OS per capita on its
county roads last year. .....T The Geor-
hibiting the running Of automobiles In
that state by persons under 16 years of
age, OH public highways. Vast areas
of forest in Minnesota, Michigan and
Wisconsin are being swept by forest
fires. g.. . Two men were killed and two
seriously injured in an automobile ac-
cident near Prairie, o., Friday. :. Ray
Bradley, aged 25, was instantly killed
at Albany, Ind, Thursday night, when
he fell from a balloon 1.500 feet to the
earth. His parachute failed to open.
$500. Violent riots occurred In Paris
early Friday morning on the occasion
of the execution Of Leaboueff, an
Apache, who killed policeman sever
al weeks ago. The Socialists inspired
the rioting and as the blade Of the
guillotine fell on the neck Of the con-
demned man, they shouted, death to
President Fallieres," who had signed
the death warrant. More than eighty
persons were sent to the hospitals on
account of wounds received during
the riots. 49,. The government Of Chile
has placed an order with an English
firm Of shipbuilders for $4,000 ton
battleship to cost $15.000.000. 1t will
be the largest of its class afioat when
completed. go. VIM. j. Bryan suggests
that the United States government
should build and own few transports,
to be used in time Of peace, for devel-
oping trade by leasing them to car
riers. -. Congressman Eugene N. Foss,
Democrat, who was recently elected
from the Eleventh district Of Massa-
chusetts, over a Republican, says he
will not stand for reelection. He de-
feated his opponent on the tariff plat
form. The senate committee ap-
pointed to investigate the coercive
methods Of the police departments or
the country, known as the third de-
gree" has begun its sessions at wash
ington and will probably suggest legis-
lation to end such abuses. The def
icit of the postoffice department for
the current fiscal year is about $5-
SOC, 900, against $14,500,000 for the fis-
cal year ending June 80 Of last year.
....... More than $3,000,000 worth OF
gold has been taken from the mines or
Alaska during the past six weeks. go.
Angelo Hamilton, a white man, was
electrocuted at the Virginia state pris-
on at Richmond early Friday morning,
for the murder Of Mrs. Sallie II. HX
at Lynchburg, in June Of last year. -.
o. G. Lowder. cotton merchant OF
Charlotte, N. c.. accidentally shot him.
self to death Saturday afternoon.
The negro Holiness church at Hutchins,
Kan, held special services yesterday to
pray that Jack Johnson might defeat
Jeffries in the fight yesterday. Five
mares and three colts, all thoroughbred
racers, were killed near Lexington,
KY, Saturday by a bolt Of lightning.
The official history Of the Boer
war has just been completed by the
British government at a cost OF $780,
600. The work is in four volumes OF
2,603 pages. .... Ewing Watterson, son
Of Col. Henry Watterson OF Louisville,
KY, shot and mortally wounded Mich
ael ]. Martin, hotel proprietor, at
Saugerties, n. Y, Friday afternoon.
Watterson has been suffering from an
affection Of the mind for several years
and was only recently released from a
sanitarium There were many
deaths in northern and western cities
on Friday and Saturday on account or
the high temperatures. .... The ag-
gregate public debt Of the United
States on June 80, including both in
terest and non-interest bearing. was
S1,296,939,969. The total cash in the
treasury was s1,725,6S3, ,064.. 80. War
rem, o., is the first applicant for the es-
tablishment Of a postal savings bank
under the recently passed law.
During the fiscal year ending June 80,
1.O37,545 immigrant aliens were ad-
mitted to the United States, and 24,200
were debarred. The indianapolis,
Ind. Sun says: "Beveridge is marked
for defeat If money, crooked politics.
and the political stiletto can defeat
him.. 1t Is claimed in Pittsburg,
Pa. that on account Of small demand.
pig iron has been sold on the market
recently at figures less than cost or
production. .... Scores OF cotton mills
throughout the New England states
o.. Lodi a q
from one to four weeks. More than
10000 operatives are affected. E. Mr..
Roosevelt has positively declined to al
low the use of his name as a candi-
date for the office of governor of New
York to succeed Mr.. Hughes. A $5O.-
600 fire in New York on Saturday, was
caused by the explosion of picture
films coming in contact with an cleo
trio wire. 80. Clifford B. Harmon, an
amateur aeroplanist, broke the worlds
record for continuous flight, at Garden
City, n. Y, Saturday. He was in the
air two hours, three and one-half
minutes. =. After negotiations extend
ing over q period of several months
between the fourteen railroad systems
south Of the Potomac and east OF the
Mississippi, and the 10000 conductors
and trainmen, an agreement was
reached at Washington on Saturday,
whereby the pay of the men Is to be
materially increased. .Asbury Ham,
mond, a farmer of WicOmico county,
Md, recently plowed into brick vault
on a hillside on his farm and on exam
ination found inside skeleton and two
sacks of gold coins of American and
Spanish mintage. The value of the
coins totaled $32 1000. go. Orders hav"
been sent out from Washington by the
heads prohibiting govern
ment employees from taking an active
part in the political campaign. Min
lister O. Guide of Norway, died sudden
" at White Sulphur Springs, w. Va.
Friday night, following stroke OF
apopleXy.