Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-06-28
MERE-MENTION.

The 1910 census gives "aSnlnBtOH'
D. c.. a population Of 331,O69 against
I27S.71S in 1900. .... Captain ). f..
Cody, an American aeronaut in the
employment of the British war office
as q flying machine expert. was per-
haps fatally injured by falling from
his machine oil Thursday. .... Mrs.
w. P. G.. Harding. the wife of the
president of the First National bank
of Birmingham, and Guy r. Johnson
a prominent business man, committed
suicide at about the same hour In
that city Wednesday afternoon, the
result of a suicide compact. Both
were prominent in society. The
Japanese government has revised its
tariff laws to such an extent as to
practically put an end to the impor-
tations of many classes of goods from
foreign countries English manufac-
turers are especially hurt by the new
tariff 49,. Twenty Mexican soldiers
were killed in a railroad wreck near
Platanar, Mexico, Friday. The train
broke from the locomotive and dash
ing down a steep hill. jumped the
track. o.. After repeatedly saying that
he would not, Ex-Governor Smith OF
Georgia. has announced himself as
candidate for governor against Joseph
Brown. Jas. McCleary. In jail at
Beaver, Pa, serving a sentence Tor
breach of the peace, made his escape
from that institution Friday after
noon by dressing himself in the skirt
shirtwaist and sunbonuet of the 1ails
cook, and walking out with a number
of visitors The Socialist admin
istration of Milwaukee. Wis, has un-
der consideration the idea of labelling
all houses Of i'll repute with the name
of the owner of the property. "A
Milwaukee, Wis, woman, who died re-
Gently, leaving an estate OF $5OO,OOO,
left q legacy of 100000 to her foster
daughter, provided the young woman
succeeds in winning a husband, and
only the income from the legacy II
she remains a spinster. -" Memo
las Longworth will probably be the
Republican nominee for governor or
Ohio, against Harmon, Democrat. Mr..
Taft is anxious for Longworth to be
the gubernatorial candidate, while
Longworth claims that he doesn't
want the nomination. He has his eye
on the seat of United States Senator
Dick. 80. While examining a Swiss
army rifle at Marietta, o., Friday,
Bernard Miracle, a 16-year-oid boy,
accidentally discharged the weapon.
killing a man $500 yards away.
Geo. H. Harrington of Detroit, Mich,
bought q piece of meat at market
and a lot of arsenic at a drug store
Friday, and went home to poison
some cats He sprinkled the meat with
the poison and left it on the kitchen
table. His wife came in later,
cooked the meat and the couple eat
the poisoned mess. Both are expect
ed to die. ... The Vatican at Rome
and the Spanish government are at
odds over a proposed revision of the
cOncOrdat and a break between the
church and state is not improbable
and should this happen, civil war
in Spain is almost certain to follow.
The "wllite slave" bill. designed to
prevent the shipment of girls and Wo-
men from one state to another for
immoral purposes, has been passed
by the senate and will become a law
upon its signature by the president.
Chas p. Knapp, a banker of Broome
county, y. Y. was convicted Friday
and sentenced 10 two years in prison
for receiving money from a depositor
when he knew his bank was insol-
ventvent. -. Eugene Zimmerman.
wealthy citizen of Toledo, O., says that
if Mr. Roosevelt is elected president
again, that he will become citizen OF
England President Taft on Fri
day forced the killing of an amend
ment to the Sherman antitrust act.
which sought to exempt labor unions
from prosecution under the law. The
president held that such legislation
was discriminatory in favor of the la
Dor unions. General Frederick Funs-
ton is critically i'll at Leavenworth,
Kan, with heart trouble. An Oys-
ter Bay. l.. l., dispatch is to the effect
that Mr.. Roosevelt is urging Govern
or Hughes to reconsider his accep-
tance of an appointment TO the Su-
preme court bench and stand for
election to a third term as governor
of New York. 49,. General Porifio DiaZ
was again elected president Of the re-
public of Mexico on Saturday, and
General Corralos was elected wee
president The elections throughout
the country were comparatively quiet.
-. Make and Sidney Cohen, aged 10
and years, were drowned in the
James river at Richmond, Va, Sunday.
Meyer Cohen, father of the boys mar
rowly escaped drowning in an effort
to rescue them. The steamer Acme
was burned to the waters edge on the
Mississippi river near Lacrosse. Wis.
Saturday. OF the 1900 eXCursonists
on board, only three are reported as
having lost their lives. .... In tong
war i'm New York on Sunday after
noon. two Cinnamon were fatally shot
and a third was seriously wounded.
Seven arrests were made by police.
Two men were killed, three seriously
and two painfully hurt in an automo-
bile wreck near Charleroi, Pa, sun
day. The automobile cOllided with an
electric car on grade crossing. ......
Three lives were lost i'm hotel fire at
Seneca Falls, y. Y, Sunday. .... The
total exports of manufactured goods
from the United States for the month
of May amounted 20 $Il,OOO,OOO, the
largest single months exports in the
history of the country. The total of
manufactured goods exported for the
eleven months ending May 81, was
$G99, 100000.