Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-08-23
MERE-MENTICN.

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a New York dispatch says that
Mayor Gaynor's physicians have de-
cided not to try to remove the bullet
from his neck, claiming that it will do
no harm II left where II is. ... The
work of constructing telegraph line
across the desert in the vicinity Of
Wilcox, Ariz., has been suspended be-
cause of hOrdes of mosquitoes. ....
There have been 5O,2S7 deaths from
cholera in Russia this year. 1t is
stated that Japan is arranging to an
mex Korea. DR.. Crippen and the
Leneve woman were started back to
England on Saturday. ... The Orion
Great Britain's newest and greatest
battleship was launched and christen-
ed at Portsmouth, England, last Satur-
day. .... Miss Elsie Aykroyda, New
England woman, and amateur, won a
fifteen mile swimming match on the
Thames, through London last Friday
over 4S other starters in the race. 80.
Cablegrams received in New Orleans
from Bluefields by the local steamship
companies state that the revolution in
Nicaragua has ended and Madriz and
Estrada factions have agreed upon the
terms of peace. George s. Gastelli,
a detective, was murdered in a fight
with a rowdy crowd at a boat house
at Oyster Bay, N. Y, few days ago.
..... The post office at Media, Ga,
was broken into and robbed by safe
crackers last Thursday night. The
loss is not known. John L. Hart
shaw Of Parsons, w. Va, was lodged
in Jail at that place Saturday and held
without bail for sending poison to a
young woman Of that place, because
she had refused to marry him. 800.
The discovery of a can holding a
pound and one-half of giant gun pow
der in the coal bunkers Of the Rus
Saturday prevented what is believed
to have been a plot to blow up the
steamer and the one hundred passen-
gers on board. ..-. Florence Nightin-
gale. THE Angel Of the Crimea" who
died at her home in London Aug. 18th
was buried at Last Willow near Lon
don, Saturday, with simple ceremo-
nies. All the British nobility were
represented. $4,000 operatives have
been thrown out Of employment and
many more will be in the next few
days as the result Of the curtailment
Of the products of cotton mills In the
New England States. Nv. A. Nc
Gill, president of one Of the largest
hardware firms of Chattanooga,
Tenn, dropped dead on the street in
San Francisco, Cal, early Saturday
morning. IS. b. Lee, one of the
most widely known telegraphers in
the United States died of heart fail
ure at Jackson, Miss, Friday night.
..... j. Armstrong DreXell an Amer
lean aviator, has broken all altitude
records by ascending to a height Of
6,752 feet in an aeroplane. Hun
ter James, a prominent citizen Of Nor
folk, Va, committed suicide the other
day when he learned that his six chill
her suit for divorce. 80. The great
department store of Buenos Ayres,
known as the city of London" was
destroyed by fire last Friday. The
French wheat crop Is said to be sixty
seven million bushels short. -. The
cholera situation at Trani, Italy has
grown so serious that the whole king
dom has become thoroughly alarmed.
..... Col. Roosevelt denies most posi-
lively that there is any friction what
ever between him and Mr.. Taft. ..--
Figures just issued by the department
give the city Of Atlanta a population
Of 154,S39 against S9,872 ten years
ago. Lieutenant Cavaliere Vival-
di, an official aviator Of the Italian
army, was killed near Staurda by a
fall Of 200 feet in his aeroplane. .....
The Georgia state election Is in pro-
gress today and the principal interest
centres In the outcome as between Joe
Brown and Hoke Smith. 80. The
Democratic leaders of New York are
strongly in favor of the nomination Of
Mayor Gaynor for their gubernatorial
candidate E. Western Montana and
Idaho are being devasted by forest
fires that are including towns and viii
lagos in the path of their destruction.
Quite a number Of people have lost
their lives. .... Six men were killed
as the result of a collision between
two freight trains on the Vermont
Central railroad near Northfield last
Saturday. Former United States
Senator Wilkinson Call is in a dying
condition in a Washington hospital.
... James A. Patten has offered his
seat on the Chicago Produce exchange
for $4,000. :. Thomas ]. Phillips has
been removed from his position as
Mayor of Ottumwa, Iowa, by judicial
order for neglect OF duty. Stephen
Greene, a negro, arrested at Jericho.
Ark, last Saturday, on the charge OF
having murdered William Sadler.
wealthy farmer i'm February last, has
confessed to the crime. 49,. Herbert
Streubel, a rag sorter at Whippany,
n. Y, paper MILL few days ago
found $1,000 worth of diamonds con-
cealed in some old rags. Ten cases
of bubonic plague have been reported
at Guayaquil Ecuador, during the last
two weeks Fire was discovered in
the hold of the steamship Germania at
New York Saturday, just as she was
ready to sail for Liverpool. The fire
was put ont before it made any head
way. :. An earthquake destroyed part
of the town of Aumale, Morocco, Sat-
urday.