Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-25
MERE-MENTION.

Prof. II. G. Carel, OF the University
of Minnesota, claims to have discov-
cred a new germicide that Is eight
times as strong as carbolic acid, ana
is not poison. He calls it benetol. -.
Admiral Deweys old steamer, Zafiro,
which carried the coal supply for the
America fleet at the battle Of Manila
Bay, has been sold to the Mexican
government. The vessel was recent
" bought from the American govern
ment for 10000. Mrs. Lola Ash
ley, Of Gadsden, Ala, has got YER
diet of $4,000 against *. K. McMa-
han, who was some time ago sent to
the penitentiary for life for the muir
der Of her husband McMahan's de-
fense at the trial for his life was that
he and Ashley had agreed to commit
suicide. Ashley had carried out his
agreement and he had failed to make
good. The family of Senator Ell
kins denies that the senator's condi-
ton Is as serious as has been report
ed Senator Nelson w. Aldrich of
Rhode Island, was painfully injured
in New York the other day by being
knocked down by street car.
w. Bourk Cochran, the most noted
political change artist in America,
has become an advocate Of Roosevelts s
sons were killed and two ohers were
seriously hurt near Glen Hazel Pa,
last Wednesday, as the result of the
bursting of the tire of an automobile
in which they were riding. Court
land S. Winn was elected mayor OF
Atlanta last Friday over Jim Wood
ward .Seventy-five mountaineers
descended on the Jail of Nelson coun-
ty, Va, last Friday nj i;ht and res
cued Jno. Moore who is under sentence
of death for murder. ..... New MeXi-
co claims about 200 square miles OF
Texas territory by virtue of what Is
claimed to have been an unauthorized
change in the original boundary line.
j. p. Morgan has given SlOO,OOo
for the purpose of the worlds confer
ence for church unity. Great Brit
ain, France and Spain have agreed
to recognize the new Portuguese re-
public. An attempt to assassinate
Major General Pino Guerra, comman-
der of the Cuban army, was made Sat
urday night as he was leaving the
presidential palace. He was serious
Ily wounded in the leg. George
Smithers. a 10-year-old convict, tried
to make his escape from a road gang
in Coffee county, Ga, Friday. by run
ming off with an automobile. He
couldn't manage the car and was
thrown into a tree and quickly re-
captured John Carlton, his wire
Nellie, and son Rupert, were found
guilty of second degree murder at
Pristol, Tenn, Friday They were
given sentences of fifteen years each.
The revenue cutter Forward
rescued SAT passengers from the
French liner Louisiana. which was
blown ashore on Sombrero reef dur
ing the Cuban hurricane last week.
The cutter took off part OF the pas
sengers and made a run to Key West
and then went back for the remain
err. The crew of ninety-three MEM
bers and the captain remained on the
vessel. John Withrow. white, was
convicted of the murder Of his wife
at Blue Ridge Ga, Friday and sem
fenced to be hanged November 1S.
Frederick Gebhardt was convicted at
Riverhead, y. Y, Friday Of the muir
der of his wife. Anna Luther, whom
he had bigamously married in order
to get her savings. He will die In the
electric chair. r..... Two inches or
snow fell over the Panhandle section
of Texas. Thursday night. ....... One
hundred and twenty-siX cases for di-
vorce are on the docket of the supe-
rior court of Bibb county, Ga.
Mayor Gaynor of New York has re-
moved Police Commissioner Baker
and appointed Jas. c. Cropsey. fol-
lowing charges that vice is rampant
i'm the city. Frost was reported In
nearly all Of the cotton states last Sat
urday: but it did not do much damage.
..... Birmingham, Ala, had a chance
last Saturday for a 100000 ton order
for coal from New Orleans; but was
unable to accept, because it was inn
possible to get the cars with which to
handle the business. ..... Col George
Goethals. chairman of the isthmian
cana! commission, left New Orleans
last Saturday for Panama. He Is sure
that the canal will be finished on
schedule time, by 1915. ......lt is be-
lieved in New Orleans that the Crown
Prince and the Bluefeld two vessels
plying between New Orleans and Cen
tral and South America ports. were
sunk i'm the Yucatan channel during
the recent hurricane. They had 81
people aboard. 49,. The Florida East
Coast railroad has announced that all
storm damage south of Key West has
been repaired. &c.. William j. Bryan
is speaking in the Sixth Illinois dis
trict against the reelection of Speak
er Cannon. TO defeat Mr. Cannon. Mir.
William l.. Condiff, the Democratic
candidate, will have to overcome Re-
publican majority of 10000.