Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-07-26
Nj ERE MENTION.

ed at the stake at Relton, Tex. Fri
day night by mob of 900 men, wO-
men and children. Gentry had at
tempted To enter the home of a widow
and later in resisting arrest. had shot
Constable James Mitchell to death. He
was later wounded by posse and TAX
en- to Belton, where the mob took
charge of him and burned him to
death. .... Eleven thousand volts of
of Michael Foley at Porchestcr, y. Y,
Friday, and although very seriously
injured the man will probably recover.
Josephine ManZella, aged II,
the young Italian girl who killed the
slayer of her father in New Orleans
several weeks ago, was on Friday ac-
quilted of the charge of manslaughter
In q preliminary examination
Bonds valued ut $4,000 have myster-
lously disappeared from a safety de-
post box belonging to the Russo Chi
nese bank of New York during the
past few days. None of the bank en-
ployes are missing and there is no clue
10 the missing securities. Leon But
ier' a street car mOtOrman of Pitts
Durg, Pa, on Friday ran over and
killed his 11-year-old son who was
playing in the streets. Willis Coun-
seiman' Il Chicago broker, has been
adJudged in contempt of court and
sentenced to serve three months in
prison. The man obtained a divorce
py claiming that his wife had desert
ed him, when she was really in an in
sane asylum. He later married and
the court has set aside the divorce
proceedings. Harold Cramer. 70
years Old, and a reputed millionaire.
was In a Pittsburg, Pa, police court
Friday charged with being a suspicious
person. Twelve girls, ranging in age
from II TO 16 years. appeared against
MN. Cramer was fined $25 and warn
ed 10 leave the city for all time.
Jesse Hill. aged 20, is under arrest at
Walnut Hill, Ark. charged with the
assassination of his brother-in-law. A.
w. Shirey, a millionaire, last March.
......A Cincinnati, o., woman was
operated on Friday for ecshincoccus. a
ulsease sometimes caused by close as
soclation with dogs. It's DEVELOPMENT
IS que to a germ found only in the in
testlnes OF dogs, being eventually lodg-
ed In the human system through con-
stant association with the( animal.
The growth removed from the region
OF the woman's liver was the size of q
mans hat. ... Mollie CASTOR, a negro
woman, stabbed her husbands para
mour Hattie Brown, to death in Char
lotte' saturday night The woman was
arrested. August ROpke, the assis-
tant secretary and bookkeeper of the
rluellty trust company one of the
strongest financial institutions of
Louisville, KY, Is still in Jail at Louis
vile, being unable to furnish bail in
the sum of $4,000. 1t is stated that
his stealings will probably total ST.
i4O' 'OOO." -. Theodore Douglas Rob-
lnson, a nephew Of ex-president
Roosevelt, is running for congress
from the Twenty-seventh district of
New York. Carl Loose and Giu-
seppe Cambaro were electrocuted at
sing Sing prison, New York yesterday.
Loose killed his daughter and Gambia
ro murdered his brother. .Leibus
Br1iski. is in the Tombs prison, New
York. having been arrested on a war
rant from Belgium, charged with bur-
slary. He entered a vault and stole
bonds and. silver to the value Of 15O,-
600 francs. He will probably be ex-
tradited to Belgium for trial. "A
year ago Lieutenant Robt. r. Fletch-
er, U. s. A, stationed at the Presidio.
California, was 25 years of age, weigh
ed l65 pounds and measured 81 inches
around the waist, and was six feet tall.
AZ inches around the waist and is 6
feet 4 inches tall. Joseph Bush.
said to be the leader of the mob that
lynched Etherington at Newark, Ohio,
two weeks ago, has been arrested and
placed in Jail in that city. The
strike of $4,000 workmen Of the
Northeastern railroad of England,
has been settled. The estimate Of the
loss occasioned by the strike is Sc, ,OO0,-
600. 80. Revenue officers found a
60 gallon still and 900 gallons Of beer
under the home Of Chas. Pernell, a
recent candidate for sheriff, in Gle
burne county, Ala, Friday Two
thousand bales of cotton were shipped
from Columbus, Ga. warehouses, to
New York last week by fast freight
The value of the cotton was $3.50, 900.
....... Walter Hall, teller of the
Greenwich bank of New York city, is
missing, and the bank officers are try
ing to locate the whereabouts of $685.
600 or more. .... Frank Nix, a negro
was sentenced to seven years In prison
at Buchanan, Ga, Friday. for deadly
assault on the sheriff in trying to es-
cape from Jail. and an additional sew
enteen years on plea Of guilty to the
charge OF burglary. 80. Madame Ma
thilde Franck, the wife of an English
Journalist will compete in the propos-
ed New York to Chicago aeroplane
race. .... Mrs. Herbert Wadsworth, a
society leader and noted horsewoman
Of Genesee, n. Y, recently covered
2133 miles in Is hours and II minutes
on horseback. She used twenty horses
In relays and probably broke the
worlds record for long distance rid
ing. The government at Balti-
more on Friday filed suits to dissolve
the bath tub trust" the annual out
put of which totals 500, 200. 900.
The forest fires in Minnesota, Michi-
gan and Manitoba are still raging.
Several towns have been practically
destroyed, several lives have been lost
and the property loss will run into
the millions. .Senor Antonio Maura.
former prime minister Of Spain, was
shot in the leg by an anarchist, as he
alighted from a train at Barcelona,
Friday night. Jacob Schiff, a Ne "
York banker, and party of friends
who were making a tour of Alaska
have been forced to abandon the trip
on account Of the prevalence OF mos
quitoes in the interior. The Stand
ard Nitrogen company of New York,
organized with a capital of $4,000 900,
formed to manufacture fertilizers for
purposes ny producing
bacteria which were to absorb nitro
gen from the air, has been forced into
bankruptcy. =. Eight persons, six Of
them under 16 years of age and one
a girl, were drowned in New York and
vicinity Sunday. Twenty-Five per-
sons. after vainly fighting fire on
big gasoline yacht following an eXplo-
sion, were compelled to jump over
board into the Nanticoke river, an
arm of Chesapeake bay. Sunday. in
order to save their lives. All of the
party were rescued. .~. VIM. J. Bryan.
who has been advocating a local OPP
tion plank i'm the Nebraska state
Democratic platform. goes into the
platform convention today, over
defeated, unless he can
change the complexion of the cOnven-
tion by speech that he will make
local option before the
49,. Nine persons were
more or less hurt i'm a collision of
electric cars on the Williamsburg
bridge, New York. Sunday. Five
liremen were buried under falling
walls in Cincinnati. o.. Sunday. fol-
lowing an explosion of natural gas.
All of them were seriously injured. The
property loss was $250,O0O. .....
1t is reported in Il dispatch from To-
kiO. that the Japanese steamer Tet-