Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-07-12
MERE MENTION.

An inspector Of the agricultural de-
partment seized $4,000 pounds of fro
zen eggs in Brooklyn, n. Y. last
Thursday. The eggs were destroyed
under an order Of court. ... The
Waters Pierce Oil company Is to pay
the state Of Oklahoma a fine Of $75,-
900 for violation Of the states anti
trust laws. The Boston Herald,
one of the oldest and most influential
newspapers Of New England, has been
placed in the hands of receivers, with
liabilities exceeding s2.000,000......
President Taft last week issued a
proclamation withdrawing 35,O00,OOO
acres Of land from entry by pri-
vate parties or corporations. The
lands are in six western states and in
clude many acres OF coal lands.
Cable dispatches from Pekin are to
the effect that Japan is rapidly increas-
ing her military forces in Corea in an
ticipation Of an early promulgation
Of its scheme to annex Corea. King
Alfonso of Spain has signed a bill
forbidding the entry of new religious
orders in Spain. This is a direct hit
at the Catholic church. ;. James JEFF
fries says: II never could have whip
ped Jack Johnson at my best. could
not have reached him in a thousand
years.. . AT an auction sale in Lon
don last week, two gold snuff boxes
sold for $4,000 each.- During the
month Of June there were 2,265, 600
gross tons of pig iron produced in the
United States. .... Three hundred
riotous members Of a Polish Catholic
church at Nanticoke, Pa, Friday en-
tered the parochial residence and
drove the priest, whom they did not
like, out of the place, and took pos
session of his residence. ...... The
damages by forest fires in Wisconsin
are estimated as well above $2,000,000.
Forty United States soldiers at
tempted to storm the Jail at Alexan-
dria, Va, Friday, to lynch a negro
named Robert Jackson, who had prob
ably fatally injured one of their COM
rades. The jailer saved the negro by
declaring that he was not in the pris-
on. The National Hobo associa-
ton will meet in annual convention at
Carthage, ILL.,. July IS to %. More
than 1000 hoboes are expected to at
tend "A Number one" king of the
hoboes, will make an address on,
Worm Bacilli; Immunes l have met
-. An iron foot bridge at Wesley, N.
j., on which there were 300 persons
watching a fire works display, fell Fri
day night. Several persons were fa-
tally injured. 80. Five persons were
swept to death by an avalanche in the
Alps mountains near Berglihut, Switz-
erland, Friday. The MadriZ bunboat,
San Jacinto was wrecked in Pearl la
COON on the Nicarasuan coast Friday
by a mine planted by the Estradan en-
gineers. Twenty-one men were killed
and more than twenty injured. .....
Walter Wellman, the Chicago news
paper correspondent, says he will try
to fly across the Atlantic ocean in
dirigible balloon in the fall. Mrs.
Marilla Kicker has filed a formal dec
laration that she is Republican
candidate for the governorship OF New
Hampshire. -. Mayor Gaynor OF
New York, has refused to prohibit the
exhibition Of the Jeffries-Johnson
fight pictures in that city, on the
ground that there Is no law which
would warrant such action on his part.
The fight films are 10000 feet long.
More than 200 Chinese were
killed and twice as many were wound
ed in a clash between armed rebels
and troops at Yuan Kiang, China, Fri
day. All foreigners in the province
OF Herman are said to be in danger.
Cloakmakers to the number of 10000
are on a strike in New York. So far
the strikers have been very orderly
The manufacturers are said to be max
ing overtures for a settlement or the