Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-18
MERE-MENTION.

InOmaS j. Hamilton, an Augusta
reporter has taken a five-day sentence
i'm Jail rather than divulge the name
of a policeman who gave HIN news.
... Savannah is building grand
stands that will accommodate 40, 900
people at the great automobile prize
races to be held in that city soon. ...
United States Senator Dolliver died at
his home in Fort Dodge, Iowa, last
Saturday. .....A Baudette, Minn.,
dispatch says, that the forest fires
which have wrought so much destruc-
ton to life and property in that To-
cality have been quenched by heavy
thunder storms. The british steam
Ell Sierra Morena, which sailed from
Tampa for Savannah last Tuesday, is
thought to have been lost at sea.
King Manuel of Portugal and the
queen mother, Amelie, who took
refuge at Gibraltar after the uprising,
have gone to England on an Italian
warship. -. .Thirty-siX OF the Tampa
cigar factories which nave been tied
up for twelve weeks on account of la
Dor differences, resumed work yes
terday with all the cigar makers who
wanted to come in on their terms. =.
a Kingston, jamaica dispatch says
that the Cayman islands suffered
heavily from the recent West Indian
hurricane. .... Stanley Ketchel, the
champion middle weight prize fighter
of America, was shot and killed on a
Missouri ranch a few days ago by a
man named Walter \. HurtZ for an
alleged insult to a woman. The
British steamer Grown of CASTLE"
cleared from Wilmington last Friday
with 16,117 bales of cotton. E. Alfred
Leblanc, the French aviator, broke
the worlds record for speed at st.
Louis last Friday. He made a mile
over a measured course in So sec
onds. Two New York brokerage
houses failed Friday with liabilities
aggregating $2.O0O.00O. One was the
firm of Charles MiZeshimer & Co.,
and the other was Thomas G.. Gay
lord. the last named doing business
under the name of Latham, AleXan-
der & Co. A storm that swept
the Baltic sea last Thursday night
caused Il great deal of wreckage and
the loss of several hundred lives.
The United States Land office has an
nOunced the indictment of a number
Of people who have been trying to set
up false claims to valuable lands in
Alaska, including 900 acres of coal
lands. :. Richard \. Ballinger, Secre-
taIy of the interior, was one of elev-
cn persons who were injured in q col
lision on the Baltimore and Ohio
Southwestern railroad at Cincinnati
last Thursday. None of the injured
were seriously hurt. however,.
President Taft has decided To make
another flying visit to the Canal Zone.
1t is his purpose to go to Cincinnati
To vote on November s and from
there he will go to Charleston by the
&. &. q q. route, taking cruiser at
4 4, al fnn o.
posed King Manuel of Portugal wants
To have his former subjects to decide
by ballot whether they would have q
republic or Il monarchy with himself
as king Col. Roosevelt opened the
New York state campaign at Elmira
last Friday, with an attack on Tam
many Hall and Wall street. .... Great
Britain has not yet recognized the Por-
tugese republic. . Citizens of Get
tysburg are proposing the holding of
great peace jubilee on the 5Oth ami
versary of the battle. c...... Forty three
persons We're injured, thirteen of them
seriously. when Il train fell through q
treStlc at Camptun, okla. last Friday.
Five cars were piled on top of each
other, and that there was no loss of
life. was probably due t" the fact that
the cars were of steel. The French
government has put 10000 troops in
the streets to preserve order among
striking railway employees. .....lt has
developed that Solomon Cone. the
North Carolina cotton man, who at
tempted tu commit suicide the other
day. had failed for at least 100000.
probably a great deal more. . Mrs.
Julia Ward Howe, noted philanthrOpist
and author, died at her home at Mid
dlct"wn. r. l., yesterday in the DIST
year Of her age. The English bank
crs have extended the time limit UP
to which they will accept American
cotton bills of lading on current con-
ditiuns up to December 81.