Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-01-18
MERE-MENTION.

Patrolman Donahue was assaulted
and killed in the Chinatown section
Of Boston, Thursday afternoon. .-..
Twenty-eight lives were lost In Coos
bay, Oregon, when the Southern Pa
cific's steamship Czarina, was wrecked
Thursday last. :. DIR. Frederick Field
ing Of San Antonio, Tex, says he has
perfected plans with Commander
Peary to make trip to the north pole
In monster dirrigible balloon, and ex-
poets to be able to make the trip in
two days from the starting point. The
balloon will be equipped with engines
of 200 horsepower. &C. w. and JOS
eph Edge, cousins, Of Austell, Ga, are
in Jail at Marietta, on the charge of
having set fire to their store for the
purpose Of securing the fire insurance.
..... The st. Louis Post-Dispatch on
Thursday published a confession of
Ray Lamphere, who died a few days
previously In the Indiana state prison.
Lamphere confessed that Mrs. Belle
Guinness, the proprietor Of the "mur-
der farm" near Laporte, Ind, had
murdered three persons, whose bodies
he assisted in burying, and that Mrs.
Guinness and her three children were
chloroformed by him and burned up
In the fire which destroyed the Gun
ness farm house. Governor Pothier
Of Rhode Island, has notified Govern
or Kitchin Of North Carolina, that his
state will sue North Carolina for the
face value and coupons Of North Car
olina bonds issued in 1868 and 1859
and repudiated BY the latter state. :.
The Federal grand jury investigating
the American Sugar company's GUS
toms frauds at New York, on Friday
handed down indictments against six
Of the "men higher up" One Of the
six is Charles r. Heike, secretary and
treasurer Of the sugar company.
Frederick Cohen, the Philadelphia
waiter who disappeared with Miss De
Janon and who was later arrested
with the girl in Chicago, Is in Fhila-
delphia and will be tried on a charge
OF abduction. Cohen's wife threatens
that If the case against her husband
Is pushed, she will push her suit
against the girls grandfather for $780,
600 damages, for alienation Of the af-
fections of her husband by the De jan
on girl" Fire destroyed seventeen
buildings entailing a loss of 100000
at Elk Park, n. c., Thursday evening.
..... The police Of Kansas City, Mo-,
are working on what they believe Is
we'll planned plot to wipe the heirs of
the Swope millions out Of existence, in
order that the plotters might secure the
fortune. During the past four months
there have been ten deaths within the
Swope family, some Of the victims be-
ing members of the family and others
being employees. :. Five business men
of Pittsburg, Pa, including bankers,
contractors and councilmen, were ar
rested on last Friday. on charges of
fraud and grating. The Interna-
tional Harvester company has recent
ly divided common stock dividends
to $20,000,000 to its share
holders. This dividend represents the
earnings of the past few years. .....
Charles H. Grasty, formerly business
for the Munsey chain of
last week became sole
proprietor Of the Baltimore Sun. ... .
The National Association of Shoe
Manufacturers has taken the prelim-
mary steps to increase the price of all
grades of shoes. The increase will be
about IL per cent. The increased
cost Of shoe materials is given as the
cause. -. Nine lives were lost in
New York city Friday night, the re-
suit of the terrific blizzard which COW
cred the city with snow to the depth
of fourteen inches. ...... Mrs. Sadie
Clemens died at the Illinois state in
Sdht asylum Flludy, VI pelld5ld. wv
other patients are victims of the dis
ease. 49,. Michael NJ. Forrest was ar
rested in New York Saturday, on the
charge of stealing s160.000 in connec-
ticn with real estate deals in New Jer-
sey. Forrest has been lodging the po-
lice for five years. ...... Farmers OF
Berks county, Pa, are selling their
Irish potato crops at 80 and 60 cents a
bushel. .... William Bennett, a New
London, Conn.,. man, on Sunday placed
three sticks Of dynamite in his shirt
bosom and lighted the fuse, blowing
his body to atoms. .... Since the proc
lamatiOn of the Turkish constitution
there mas been a great influx of Jews
into Palestine. There are more than
$4,000 in Jerusalem. .... The Brazilian
government has established a postal
savings bank.