Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-02-22
MERE-MENTloN.


MERE-MENTioN.
ellison Gardner, well known news
paper writer Of Washington, recently
left that city for Egypt, where he will
meet Mr.. Roosevelt and lay before
him a complete record of political
events in the United States since the
ex-president sailed for Africa In April
of last year :. 49, The National Duck
Mills of Atlanta, Ga, has gone into
bankruptcy, with liabilities Of $27,-
544.31 and assets OF $8,642..... m.
Rosenberg and N. Barit Of St Peters
burg, Russia, have been condemned
to death by the terrorists, for having
betrayed Gregory Gorshunin, a ter
rorist, to the police. On account Of
strike of union steam filters Of New
York, $4,000 allied union workers are
threatening to go out on sympathetic
strike. Governor Noel has sent q
special message to the Mississippi Leg
islature. urging the passage of law
prohibiting the mortgaging Of grow
ing crops. -. Governor Hughes Of
New York, has appointed commits
sion to investigate alleged crookedness,
in connection with the sale Of large
tracts Of forest land In the Adiron-
dack mountains. Mr.. Roosevelt and
party ended their African hunting
trip at Gondokoro, Soudan, last Thurs
day More than 10000 specimens win
be added to the Smithsonian Institute
at washington as the result Of the ex-
petition. .Ex- Governor Hoke Smith
will probably oppose Governor Joseph
Brown in the next gubernatorial con-
test in Georgia. :. New Orleans hotel
managers are contemplating estab-
fishing line Of airships between their
hostelries and other gulf port hotels.
1t is proposed to use dirigible balloons
and flying machines. DR.. Fred A.
Cook, the arctic explorer Is at Santi-
ago, Chile, on visit to friend Of his,
who was with him on one Of his ex-
petitions to the north. The Is :
land Of Crete was severely shaken by Z
an. earthquake on Friday. One VII
lage is reported as being entirely de-
stroyed -. William end Orvis Sey-
ler brothers, were arrested at Peters
burg, Va, Thursday charged with
the abduction and murder Of Jane
Adams, an 1S-year-old girl, at Attain
tic City, N. j., the previous week..
Willard Webb, negro, was hanged at
10 MI q criminal
assault on a white woman, committed
several months ago.. .....In shot
gun duel, between E. M. Robinson.
steamboat captain, and 8. e. Wall,
a millionaire lumberman. at Whites
Ferry, La. Friday, both men were
fatally shot. In test run OF
an electric locomotive between
New Rochelle and stamford,
Conn.,, last week, thirty loaded freight
cars were hauled at speed Of fifty
miles an hour over an ice-coyered
track. Greater New York Is plan
ming to add forty-three miles to her
underground railway system at a cost
of $ll3, 100000. 80. Mohammed Ap-
dullah Of Southland, East Africa,
known as the Mad Mullah," who mas
given the British and Italian govern
ments much trouble during the past
few years, is again on the warpatn.
and Is slaughtering tribesmen and
burning villages in every direction.
From one village he and his folio srs
last week drove off $4,000 camels. -.
The Chilian cruiser Ministre Zenteno,
rescued eighty eight persons from the
British steamer Lima In the strait Oh
Magellan on Tuesday. The Lima
stranded on February s. Another
steamer had taken 20S passengers
from the stranded ship. 49,. The to-
tai exports Of gold from the United
States to Argentine for the seven
months ending January 81, was $4s,-
126, Imports into the Unit
ed States for the month Of January
totaled s133,65S,064, and exports to-
tailed S144,015,350, making an excess
of exports Of $l0,357,2S6. For seven
months ending January 81, the total
imports were valued at $S91,272,496
and the total exports were valued al
an excess VI cApOrS
of Sl92,96S,329. :. .Lupo, "the wolf,
So called chief of the black hand soci-
cites in the United States; Giuseppe
Morrello, chief Of the Sicilian counter
feiters in America and six Of their
were convicted In the
Federal court Of New York city on Sat
urday and given sentences in the Fed
eral prison in Atlanta, varying from
fifteen years and $1,000 fine, to thirty
years and $500 fine. Lupo Is under
of thirty years in prison In
Italy for murder. The majority
Of the street car conductors and mo-
tormen of Philadelphia, went on
strike Saturday afternoon. The walk
out of the men was the occasion Of
much rioting in various parts Of the
city. The supply Of hogs through
put the west is said by Chicago stock
yard experts to be forty per cent less
han 1t was a year ago. BY the
collapse Of a theatre floor at Johns
:own, Pa, Saturday night, 500 people
we're precipitated into the basement
,ne being killed and many injured.
49,. George Stephens, an engineer, on
at Birmingham, Ala, NOR
tally wounded his three children, shot
4 negro nurse and committed suicide.
The civil war in Nicaragua Is still
going on. In a bloody battle on Fri