Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-03-11
FRIDAY, MARCH II, 1910.
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SlIdIlSleu I'D utdtil, WAS Slllppeu lEOln
Philadelphia to fictitious person and
address at Wilkesbarre. $50. DR.. Louis
Klopsch. editor and proprietor Of the
Christian Herald. died i'm New York on
Monday, following an operation on
| March 2. Since acquiring the Christian
Herald, DIR. Klopsch raised $3,3O0.000
| for charities. He was decorated by
King Edward and the mikado OF Japan,
| for relief work during the India fam
I inc and the Russian Japanese war. He
was So ears Of age. .ThOs. f.. Lar
sen, receiving teller of the Market
branch Of the First National bank Of
Camden, n. j.. has confessed to en-
| bCZZling $50 900 of the banks money,
and after MS arrest he said: II
want to begin serving my sentence
at once. Mount Vesuvius is again
in eruption, and Is belchng lava, ashes
and fire. The light from the volcano
can be seen a distance OF 100 miles.
Natives Of tire vicinity are fleeing to
the interior and the superstitious
ascribe the eruption to the proximity
of Halley's comet. The state board
Of health of Georgia, has begun state
wide campaign against the common
housefy. From Flies and Filth to
Food and Fever" Is the caption OF one
of it's circulars. .... DIR. M. e. Dodd,
pastor OF the First Baptist church Of
| Paducah, KY, was assaulted Sunday
/ hu Cha ri honn hana,tGn nf nr
Dodd's remarks on divorces and di-
vorcees. ...J. Pierpont Morgan has
organized a central bank at Guate-
mala City, and will have branches in
all Of the Central American republics.
and will thus control Central American
business for America. :. The supreme
court of Pennsylvania has affirmed the
conviction Of VIM. P. Snyder, ex-state
treasurer, and Jas. M. Shumaker, ex-
superintendent Of public buildings, con-
victed several months ago of conspir-
acy to defraud the state in the capitol
scandal. .... In a feud fight at Berea,
KY, Monday, one man was killed and
another fatally shot. John Temple
| Graves the Washington newspaper
writer. in a recent letter says: There
Is no longer room In or out of the sem
ate Of the United States for men like
jeff Davis of Arkansas. He Is the last
of his type, and the south, grown wiser
and larger and happier. will never send
him or any man like him to represen-
tative station in public life again"
DR.. David o. Hudson, member Of the
| Missouri State Medical association,
advocates giving dose Of prussic acid
to all who come into the world as
| idiots or who become hopelessly in
sane. Miss Fannie Faber, left Mont
gomery, Ala, Tuesday, for Yokohama.
Japan, where she will be married to
Mr.. Benn Moss, upon her arrival. 800.
| The union and non-union workers of
the fifty railroads entering Chicago,
nave voted to go on strike, unless
their demands are acceded to by the
railroads. The grand jury Of Full
ton county, Ga, on. Tuesday returned
indictments against five Atlanta wire
| brokers'" charging them with dealing
in futures on Margin. 49,. DIR. B. G.
Hyde. accused of the murder of Col
John Thomas Swope at Kansas City,
Mo-. Is held under a 100000 bond. 80.
A Big Springs, Tex, baby, aged IS
| months, was on Tuesday taken from the
| trucks Of Texas and Pacific train at
Barstow, $50 miles from Big Springs.
How the baby got on the trucks and
managed to stay there, is quite mys-
| terry. go. Gustav Muller, maniac, ran
amuck on the streets Of Bridgeport,
Conn.,, Tuesday, and killed policeman
and fatally shot citizen. The mad
man was finally locked up. 49,. The
associated liquor interests of Chicago
| will raise a fund of $1,000,000 to fight
the work Of the Anti-Saloon league,
which is campaigning for dry Chi
cago.". .... The Southern railway has
| recently let contract for $4,000 tons
| of new steel rails. for use on its lines.
| 900. The Federal grand jury at jack
son, Miss, has been ordered by the
presiding judge to investigate the in
| situations Of Ex-Governor Vardaman,
relative to corruption in the election
of United States Senator Perry. ......
| Two persons were killed, two fatally
| injured and twenty badly burned as
result Of an explosion and fire at big
starch factory at Roby, Ind, Monday
| night. ......A Detroit, Mich, dispatch
tells Of the purchase by ]. Pierpont
Morgan Of one Of the largest motor
car plants of the west, with the view
Of organizing a $30,000,000 automobile
trust. The plant bought by Mr.. Nor
gan will turn out $4,000 cars this year.
..... Jas. NJ. Doyle, aged 35, teller OF
the Hibernia bank of Savannah, Ga,
has disappeared, leaving a shortage Of
$4,000. .... Alice Hightower, a young
white woman, was arrested at Cordele,
Ca, Wednesday morning, charged with
burglariZing several dry goods store at
Americus a few days previously. 49,.
Parson Wallace, negro preacher, was
lynched at Greenwood, Miss, Wednes-
day morning. The negro shot a po-
liceman the night before, and in turn
was wounded by the officer. The po-
liceman was not fatally shot. "A
company Of the New York national
guard was called out at Corinth, N. Y,
Wednesday, to quiet riot among the
striking employees Of the International
Paper company's mills at tilat place. -.
The Republican congressional cam
paign committee, will ask Mr.. Roose-
welt to assist the Republican congress
sional candidates throughout the coun-
try during the coming campaign. ......
Senator John w. Daniels of Virginia,
suffered slight stroke of paralysis in
Washington, D. c., Tuesday night. -.
Chas. S. Barrett, president Of the Ma
tional Farmers Union, has issued a
call for a National Mass meeting Of
farmers. to be held at st. Louis, Mo-.
on May to Z. The call is for all
farmers, whether Union members or
not. The department of agricul-
ture is making a strenuous fight against
soft drink manufacturers in Ala
bama. Tennessee, Georgia and other
southern states. The suits are under
the pure food laws and are aimed at
coca-cola. celery cola and like decoc-
tions. which are alleged to contain
cocaine. coffiene. ETC.. A run on
the bank Of the Society for Savings,
Cleveland, O.. was started Thursday
morning. The bank has 51,000,000
on deposits and had $7,000,000 in cash
on hand to pay over to depositors who
wanted their money. The bank will
stand the run. ..... Thirty workmen
were buried under the walls of a
burned building at Pittsburg, Pa,
Wednesday. when the walls collapsed.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Mrs. B. r. Tillman has given out
taraant To tho offant that thara e