Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-01-14
MERE-MENTION.

uation of Greater New York for the
current fiscal year is $500, 0,1S7, 1872,
an increase for the year Of $287,000,-
SIS. Mrs. Emma B. Kennedy leads
the list of personal property assess
ments with $4,000, ,000.--. Two
miners were shot to death by two
bandits In a gambling resort at Crow
burg, Kansas, Monday evening. The
bandits were arrested and gave
their names as Albert Cravens and
Edward Alton. "A woman, who
gave her name as William Dubers, is
in Jail at Montreal, Canada. The
woman had worn mems attire for
thirty-five years. ....-. .Ignacio Lupe,
and Giuseppe Morello, who, the
secret service men say, were the
brains Of the plot that ended in the
assassination of Police Lieut.. Petro-
sino at Palermo, Sicily, some months
ago, were arraisned in the United
States district court Of New York,
Monday, with fourteen confederates,
on the charge of counterfeiting. The
police believe they can convict the
principals Of Petrosino's murder.
Miss Roberta de Janon, the $10,000,-
900 heiress Of Philadelphia, who dis
appeared two weeks ago with Fred
erick Cohen, hotel waiter, was found
in a $4-a-week roomins house In
Chicago on Monday. The pair were
travelling as father and daughter. -.
Congressman Binger Herman is on
trial in the Federal court at Port
land, Ore, on the charge Of con-
spiracy to defraud the government
of lands. :. The value Of domestic
money orders issued by the post
offices throughout the country during
the past fiscal year totaled $120,732,-
6S5. The value of the S46,sS5 inter-
national money orders sent abroad
was $20,972,SS2, while the sS,164 in
ternational money orders coming to
this country totaled but $2,+02,-
1871. Three persons were kill
ed in a collision between a switching
engine and a Texas and Pacific pas
senger train In the freight yards at
New Orleans, Sunday night. .....
Three men were killed and two Sc
riously injured in Atlanta, Ga, Mon
day evening, as the result Of a col
lision between an automobile and a
trolley car. ..- The army appropri-
alton bill, carrying a military budget
Of $95,000,000, was passed by the
lower house of congress, Monday. 80.
The state bank at Kennesaw, Ga, has
been closed indefinitely The cash
Ter Is missing. -. "A statue of Gen
eral Lew Wallace has been placed In
Statuarv Hall at the Capitol, Wash
ington, by the state of Indiana.
The case of the state Of Tennessee
against Colonel Duncan Cooper and
his son, Robin Cooper, convicted Of
the murder of Senator Carmack, will
probably come before the supreme
court of that state on January 25...
Ex-Governor Vardaman is leading
in the race before the Mississippi leg
islature as the successor Of the late
U. S. Senator McLaurin. ...... In the
grand jury investigation Of the white
slave" traffic. now in progress In
New York, Mr.. John D. Rockefeller,
Jr., foreman Of the jury, is said to
be paying the expense Of hiring le-
tectives to secure evidence against
the leaders, out Of his own personal
funds. 49,. In Atlanta, Ga, Monday,
three young white men pleaded guilty
to burglary charges and were SEN
fenced to two years in prison. The
father Of two Of the young men, a
at the time Of the burglary, and turn
ed them over to the police. -. The
New York Military academy at
Cornwall Hudson, was de-
stroyed by fire early Monday morn
ing. The 800 students asleep In the
five-story dormitory, were aroused by
the bugle reveille and all made their
escape. The loss was $200,000.....
Four of the former employees Of the
Sugar Refining company,
convicted on charges Of conspiracy
to defraud the government at New
York, have been sentenced 10 cne
years Imprisonment each. .... John F.
Democrat, and former may
or, was elected mayor Of Boston on
In FOUR -cornered race. The
city government will be under direc-
tion of the mayor and a council of
nine members, instead Of councilmen
and aldermen from the various wards.
The city voted wet. Three per-
sons were instantly killed and several
horses were blown to atoms at Bran
don's Ferry. Pa, Wednesday, by the
explosion Of a nitro-Slycerine maga-
zine. Three lives were lost and four
were destroyed by a fire at
the jamestown exposition grounds,
Va, Wednesday morning..
Thos. w. Lawson, the Boston specula-
tor, is attempting to form a tobacco
trust among the Burley tobacco grow
ers Of Kentucky and Tennessee. 49,.
Five companies Of Illinois state militia
were ordered to Vienna, ILL.,, Wednes-
day. to protect three negroes charged
with the murder of a mail carrier, from
4 mob. "A serious plot to asSassi-
nate King Emanuel CT Portugal. has
been discovered at Lisbon. The lead
ars Of the affair are said to be members
IF the kings official family. .... Hen
~ Smith. principal witness in a muir
der case at Alexandria, Va, whose tes-
timony caused three men to be SEN
fenced to death at Richmond today, has
confessed that his testimony was man.
lfactured at the instance Of the chief
IF police and a policeman in order to
secure the conviction. The three men
nave been reprieved. 49,. Glenn H.
Curtis, American aviator, at Los An
,eles Cal, Tuesday. broke the worlds
'ecord by flying at the rate Of fifty-five
niles an hour, carrying one passenger.
The senate on Wednesday killed a
bill providing for the appropriation Of
II, 900 to be used for the travelling eX-
,cnses of circuit judges.
The house of representatives will
Ise Glenn's Spring water this session,
IN appropriation having been made for
he purpose.
- Mrs. Mary Nance Daniel has been
e. elected president of the School I'm
,rcvement association and will resume
he work with the energy that cnar-
lcteriZed 1t before her marriage.