Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-07-29

which has been idle for n number of
years. -. The gunners Of the 135th
company of Coast Artillery at Sandy
vious records for shooting with 3-inch
guns, making eleven hits with eleven
shots in eleven seconds. 80. Walter
Robinson. years old, has been dis
charged from the Bushwick hospital,
New York, having been cured Of lock-
jaw. In the treatment of the boy A.
900 units of tetanus serum were used.
Another insurrection has broken
out in Cula. 1t is not regarded seri-
ously as yet, although there have been
clashes between rurale guards and
the insurgents. :. Government scien-
lists at Washington have figured 1t
out that Mother Earth is from 55,000,-
900 to 100000 years old....... Mr.
Nicholas Won Ostrowsky, who controls
900 miles of railroads in Russia, is
i'm the United States, to investigate
American railroad methods and ap-
pliances. The Brooklyn bridge at
New York, was badly damaged by fire
Wednesday afternoon. The blaze was
caused by an electric feed wire COM
ing in contact with one of the l4-inch
steel girdles and burned it in two, set
ting fire to the wood work underneath.
Because of the electric current. the
firemen were handicapped in fighting
the blaze. but managed after a time
to subdue the blaze. .... Twenty per-
sons were injured, several fatally. in
with trolley car on a grade crossing
at Cleveland, Ohio, Wednesday night.
The hackers of the so-called doc
tors trust" made an effort to get an
endorsement of the scheme in the plat
form of the Ohio State Republican con-
ventiOn. but failed to find any one to
stand sponsor for the plank. 49,. Pos
tai savings banks will be opened
throughout the country on October 1st.
according to present plans of the post
office department. One bank Is to he
opened in each state as starter. .....
Two New York wrecking concerns
have submitted to the navy department
tentative plans for raising the battle
ship Maine from Havana harbOr. .....
The Niederdeutche bank of DOrtmund,
Germany, with capital of $3,OOO,O0O has
been forced into bankruptcy. and its
manager has been arrested. The liza
bilities Of the institution are given at
s12,500,000. and its failure is due to
backing industrial organizations that
were inadequately capitalized -. The
Chicago Tribune makes the charge
that block of seventeen Democratic
members of the Illinois legislature at
it's last session in January, agreed to
sell their votes to elect United States
Senator Albert J. Hopkins at $4,000
apiece. 80. The Republican state con-
vention of Nebraska, yesterday adopt
ed a platform, in which it expresses
unalterable opposition to the system
known as Cannonism," and hearty
sympathy for the "insurgent move
ment.". 1t was learned in New York
yesterday that Cashier Wider of the
Russo Chinese bank, who is cha red
with embezzling $6SO,OOO of the ks
funds. lost 100000 in fighting Patterns
alleged cotton pool. 49,. The fifty pas
sengers of the oil burning steamer
Huallaga, are the latest to be saved by
means of wireless telegraphy. The ves-
sci caught fire off the Peruvian coast
and c. Q. D. call brought the Ucayali
to the rescue. Three lives and 200 bags
Of mail were lost. ...... The Chicago
Building Trades council has ordered
strike of $4,000 workmen in the
building trades in that city. "A New
York dispatch of yesterday is to the
effect that DR. Frederick Cook is eX-
pecting his Etah records every day and
is about ready to make a defense Of
his claims of reaching the north pole
and will charge that Perry's claims are
fraudulent. 49,. The "wets" in a recent
election in Hawaii, ordered by con-
gress to determine whether or not IL
quor importations should be prohibit
ed. have gained an overwhelming vic
tory over the "drys.". Anna Hemp
stead, aged three and half years was
killed by an automobile at oyster Bay,
n. Y, yesterday. The owner of the
car, Mr.. F.. NJ. Doubleday, the maga-
zine publisher. was on his way to see
Mr.. Roosevelt, when the accident oc-
Cured. ... DR.. H. H. Crippen and
Ethel Clare Leneve, his third wife
have not yet been arrested, although
it is the opinion of the London author
tiles that the pair is aboard the Mont
rose, which is due to reach Canadian
port tomorrow or Sunday E. One man
was killed, one fatally stabbed and
twenty five injured in a clash between
strikers. strike breakers and police at
Brooklyn, n. Y, yesterday. about the
plant of the American Sugar Refining
company. The riot was stopped by the
pleas of a Catholic priest.