Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-03-01
MERE-MENTION,

| The 10000 employees Of the Bethle-
| hem Steel company at Bethlehem,
Pa, are on a strike. There has been
considerable riotipg and the local po-
lice are unable to handle the situa-
ton. A company Of state constabu-
larry has been sent there and has re-
stored a semblance of order. The
company has millions of dollars Of
contracts on hand, much Of it for the
government. An Ohio steel COM
pany has been given an order for
$500,000 worth Of fish plates for az
| Australian railway. ...-. prosecutor
Garvan of Hudson county, n. j., has
secured indictments against twenty
one of the leading meat packers OF
the United States, and says he will
bring them to- New Jersey for trial.
All Of the accused are liable to fines
Of $1,000 each and three years i'm
prisonment, or both. The real pur-
pose Of the prosecutor Is the dissolu-
tion of the National Packing COM
pany. The packers Of Chicago and
other western points, will resist ex-
tradition to New Jersey. "A Fhil-
adelphia physician reports the cure
Of a desperate case Of blood poison
ing by a free use Of diphtheria anti
toxin. This was the first case Of the
kind on record. ..... Secretary Of the
Navy Meyer wants this congress to
authorize the building Of two battle
ships of $4,000 tons each, one repair
ship, two colliers and five subma-
rines. 80. DIR. ]. Payson Kennedy,
health officer of Atlanta, Ga, attend
ed an anti-vaccination meeting In
that city Friday night, and informed
all present that before they left or
certainly within twenty-four hours,
every one Of them would have to be
vaccinated. The doctor wasn't there
by invitation. .....J. A. Perry, a
well-to-do farmer. Of Chatham
county, Ca, has been arrested on
charge Of murder. Perry owned a
watermelon patch, and giving negro
a shotgun, told him to shoot any tres
passer. The negro shot a Swede
named Michaelson, who later died.
The negro was sent to the peniten-
tiary for life and now Perry is to be
tried on the charge Of murder. .....
Giuseppe Calamia, an Italian, was ar
rested in New Orleans on Saturday,
by United States detectives, charged
with completely in the murder or
Lieutenant Petrosine Of the New YORK
police force, at Palermo, Sicily, ABOUT
a year ago. 800 August Belmont,
New York multi-millionaire, aged 5i
years, married Miss Eleanor Robson,
an actress, aged 81 years, In New
York on Saturday. Norman Mack,
chairman of the National Democratic
committee. says that the tariff and
high meat prices will furnish the is
sues for the Democratic congression-
al campaign this year. "A wreck
ing company of Seattle, Wash, will
soon make an attempt to raise the
steamer Islander, sunk ten years ago
off the coast Of Alaska in 320 fathoms
of water The hold Of the vessel con-
tains $4,000 in Klondike gold...
Two small boys were arrested in New
York on Thursday, charged with
sending a blackmailing letter to Mrs.
Henry o. Havemeyer, in which they
demanded $4,000. ....Geo. w. Cole
man, the wrecker Of the National City
bank, Of Cambridge, Mass, gave him.
self up to the Boston police on Fri
day Coleman's embeZZlements to-
tai 100000. He was a bookkeeper,
working for a salary of $12 week.
..... The Southern railway Is to es-
tablish a publicity bureau to boom
the towns and industries along its va
rious lines in the south. Mr.. Lauren
Foreman, city editor Of the Atlanta
Constitution, will be in charge Of the
bureau. A race between flying
machine. a trolley car and automo-
bile. is being arranged between Fort
Worth and Dallas, Tex, on March
7th The distance between the TWO
cities Is thirty-two miles. Aaron
Norfieet, a negro. killed deputy
sheriff at Germantown, Tenn. Fri
day. and in turn was shot to death py
two other deputies. .....A New YORK