Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-02-25

went down and more than fifty lives
were lost 80. A large number Of the
grand masters of the various Masonic
grand lodges Of the United States met
at Alexandria, Va, Tuesday, for the
purpose of organizing the National
Masonic Memorial association, for the
purpose of erecting permanent Ma
sonic memorial to George Washing
ton. The Mississippi legislature
on Tuesday night elected Leroy Percy
of Greenville, to fill the unexpired
term Of the late Senator McLaurin.
The final vote stood, Percy 81. Varda-
man 80. .Ad Wolgast at San Fran
cisco, on Tuesday, won the lightweight
pugilist championship from Battling
Nelson. It took forty rounds Of bruis-
ing fighting to decide the fight. 80.
John Leonard, Brooklyn, n. Y, safe
cracker and burglar, was called to his
room door early Tuesday morning and
shot to death by one of his pals, with
whom he had quarreled over division
of spoils. Barnes, the murderer, In
escaping from the house, ran into the
arms Of policeman and was arrested.
Both the dead man and the murderer
were wanted by the government for
postoffice robberies in Florida.
The American Sumatra Tobacco COM
pany has been incorporated under the
laws of Georgia with capital stock
of $7,O00,000. The company has pur-
chased $4,000 acres Of land in Georgia
and Florida and will grow Sumatra
leaf tobacco on the lands. Three
men were killed and two injured In
the Big Four railroad yards at Louis
Vile, KY, Wednesday. the result Of
two engines pulling a freight train
running into an open switch. =. The
National City bank Of Cambridge,
Mass, has been closed by bank ex-
aminer upon the discovery Of defal-
cation by a bookkeeper amounting to
$4,000. The bookkeeper has disap-
peared AS an incident Of the in
yestigation of bribe taking by the state
senator's of New York, lothian F.
Aids, president pro tenn Of the senate,
and one of the accused senator's, has
resigned the office. e..... Every indica-
ton points to the early reduction Of
the powers of the British house OF
lords, which has heretofore exercised
the right to veto all legislation origi-
mating in the house OF commons. -.
UP to Wednesday, the health depart
ment Of Atlanta, Ga, had vaccinated
52,790 persons, in its campaign
against smallpox. 49,. Mr.. and Mrs.
James H. OVERLY and two children OF
Hapeville, Ca, are suing the Central
of Georgia railroad for s62,500 dam
ages, claiming that the railroad is re-
sponsible for an epidemic Of typhoid
fever in the family, in that 1t dumped
garbage and street sweepings from
Atlanta, in front Of their home, caus-
ing the spread Of typhoid fever germs,
by the myriad Of flies that infested
the dump. Chicago stockyard trad
ers say that the price Of hogs on foot
is rapidly approaching ten cents
pound. This years shortage Of hogs
over the same date Of last year Is
$4,000. -. The Jeffries-Johnson prize
fight for the heavyweight champion
ship of the world will be pulled on at
San Francisco on July 4. The purse
will be SOL, -. Rev. Omri s.
Talent, a student in the Atlanta b.
BILE school, and Rev. Rolfe Hunt, D.
D., president of the school and pastor
of the Congregational Methodist
church Of that city, had a rough and
tumble fist fight Wednesday in Mr..
Hunts office. The fight was the result
of a love affair on the part Of Talent.
.... Eight Of the seventeen directors
of the Consolidated Milk Exchange OF
New York, have been indicted by a
grand jury on charges Of conspiracy
to raise the price Of milk to consum-
ers. Two persons were killed ana
seven injured at Throop, Pa, Wednes-
day, in a collision between railroad
train and trolley car, at grade
crossing. "A warrant has been is
sued at Kirksville, Mo-, for DR.. Jas.
r. Hull, charging him with numbering
Prof. ]. T. Vaughn by strychnine pois-
oning. 80. DIR. ]. B. Hawthorne, one
of the leading Baptist preachers of the
south, died in Richmond, Va, yester-
day, aged 72 years. ..... .Greenville, N.
c., was the scene Of a $150,000 fire
yesterday morning. Two blocks IN the
center Of the town were destroyed.
The beef trust has raised the price OF
meats in New York from two to SIX
cents a pound during the past week.
1t is stated at Jersey City, N. j.,
that Prosecutor Carver Of Hudson
county, who Is prosecuting the Nation
al Packing company, (the beef trusD
in that state, has been offered large
sum Of money by two Chicago men,
provided he would drop the charges
against the trust.