Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-06-07
MERE MENTION.

MERE-MENTION.
| An appropriation of $4,000 has
been put in the sundry civil bill by
congress, to enable the secretary OF
agriculture to test such woods and
plants as may be advisable, To ascer-
Itain if they are suitable for making
paper. The United States Is now prac-
tically dependent upon Canada Tor
wood pulp. "A summer theatre at
| Lakewood, near Augusta, Ca, was
wrecked by windstorm Thursday
night None of the audience were IN
ljured. The Masonic fraternity OF
Columbus, Ga, has taken up the mat
ter of crime, and its Increase In that
state and will undertake a state cam
paign TO improve conditions. 80 Ihe
government Of Peru notified the Unit
ed States on Friday that 1t would
Withdraw its troops on the Ecuadorl-
an border on Saturday and cease war
| like preparations against Ecuador,
awaiting mediation by the United
States, Brazil and Argentina. Ecuador
continues silent on the proposition. 80.
| Gov. Deneen of Illinois, has issued
| a signed statement in which he de-
clares for a thorough investigation Of
| the Lorimer bribery charges. In part,
| he says: The whole nefarious plot
should be exposed. The crime or briD-
cry Is one of the most insidious ana
dangerous. 1t makes farce OF par
| ties and Of elections" wholesale
arrests were made at Toxic on Friday,
to frustrate a revolutionary plot which
has for its chief object the assassina-
tion of Premier Katsuro. .... .Chas. >.
Rolls, an Englishman, crossed and re-
crossed the English channel Thursday
in a flying machine without stopping,
and will try for the $4,000 prize Of
fered by Lord Northcliffe for flight
from London to Edinburgh, distance
Of 500 miles and return. 49,. King
George of England, was As years Of
age last Friday. .... Henry smith,
NEGRO, was electrocuted at Richmond,
Va, Friday, for the murder OF an ar
tist at Alexandria in March or last
lyear. Three negro accomplices are to
be electrocuted next Friday. .Evi-
dence brought out by the grand jury
Investigating the bribery charges at
Springfield, ILL.,, Saturday, made 1t
clear that 1t was common practice
to make the passage or nom passage OF
legislation a matter of dollars and
cents. Harry Lemm, wealthy fish
dealer Of Pekin, testified that he had
been paying money to kill fish legisla-
ton for twenty-five years. .-- MRS.
Dora f. Doxey, charged with the MUIR
der of VIM. j. Erder, was acquitted at
st. Louis, Mo-, Friday night, after
trial lasting nearly three weeks. She
was rearrested Saturday on charge
Of bigamy. Her living husband, DR..
l.. b. Doxey, is to be tried on the
charge of murder, as an accomplice OF
his wife. The health Of both the
king and queen Of Spain Is In such a
state that much alarm Is felt at the
probable outcome. In case Of the death
of the king, it is feared that 1t will
mean the end Of the monarchy. Il.
H. Steinman, a former banker, was
sentenced to five years in Federal
prison, at Pittsburg, Pa, Saturday. He
was charged with misapplication OF
national bank funds. .... Governor
Kitchin of North Carolina has called
an extra session of the legislature for
June IA to consider the inability OF the
state treasurer to dispose OF $3,4OO,-
900 per cent 40-year bonds Only
$1,219,000 of the bonds were subscrib-
ed for when the bids were opened May
l2S. The field troops OF President
Madriz were crushingly defeated by
1.-The insurgents under General Mena at
Rama, Nicaragua, Friday. In three
hour battle more than 100 were killed
land 400 wounded. The losses OF the
insurgents were small. .... The Fed
eral arbitration board, which Tor
some time has been considering the
controversy between $1,000 engine
men and forty-nine railroads west OF
Chicago, Saturday handed out their
decision which gives the enginemen
so per cent of their demand for a ia
lper cent wage increase Norman
e. Mack of Buffalo, n. Y, chairman
of the Democratic National commit
ltee, in an interview Saturday, said
that at present it looks like that eth
er Mayor Gaynor of New York, Gov
ernor Harmon Of Ohio, or ex-Goyern-
or Folk of Missouri, will be the DEM
ocratic nominee for president In 1917.
.... .Thirty-two near bear" saloons
of Asheville, n. c., went out OF busi-
ness Saturday night because of an In
crease in the license on soft drink
emporiums from $3.50 to $1,000 each:
"A bronze equestrian statue oil
Major General George A. Custer,
martyr Of the Little Big Horn," was
unveiled at Monroe, Mich, Saturday.
President Taft was one OF the speak
ers -. Sixteen prominent citizens or
Schenectady county, n. Y, have been
indicted by a grand jury on a charges
of grating .... The police OF every
foreign country with which the Unit
ed States has extradition treaties, will
be asked to assist in the search for
Joseph Vending, who is wanted In
louisville, KY, for the murder OF Alma
Kellner, the S-year-old school girl,
whose mutilated body was found in
the cellar of Catholic parochial
school building last Monday.
4 Big Four railroad train crashed into
a market wagon on a graded crossing
at Dayton, O., Saturday, and killed
three persons. The fruit and vege-
table crops of northern New York
state were badly damaged by heavy
frost Saturday morning" The house
lcommittee on interstate and foreign
| commerce commission of congress, to
(which was referred the bills to estab-
lish the proposed department OF pub
| lie health made it plain Saturday that
Ithese bills stand no chance whatever
Iof enactment. ...... Because Of the re-
cent rate suit instituted by the govern
ment against the various trans-conti-
mental railroads, the New York Cen
Itral railroad has halted improvement
plans involving $15,O00,000, and call
ed off a sale of $11,5OO,0OO worth or
| Improvement bonds. VIM. p. Pitt
ham, Of Boston, fighting with the in
surgents i'm Nicaragua, was captured
| by the government troops few days
ago and Is now a prisoner, awaiting
trial by court martial. The United
States government has warned the Mic
araguans not to make a Cannon and
Groce affair of the trial. The New
York police raided a gambling joint In
| that city Saturday, gaining an entrance
| by means of axes. Five arrests were
made ..... A Russian emigrant, 20
years old, arrived in New York on
Saturday, and said he was going to his
father in South Dakota. His father Is
| los years old ..... w Bourke Cock
ran. ex-congressman, gained the ac-
quittal of negro charged with muir
der after a trial lasting week. The
prosecution stood mainly on an alleged
confession obtained by the third de-
gree" process of the police. Mr.. Cock
ran was assigned to the defense by the
court 49,. Jas. P. Craig, a steeple-jack,
| fell from the top Of a 75-fOot fiagpole
at Fort Lee. n. j., Saturday. After
being revived by physician, he again
ascended the pole and completed the
job. A Baltimore and Ohio ex-
press train jumped the track at East
Junction, Del, Saturday night One
man was killed. In wreck on the