Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-07
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M ERE ENTION.

Cholera has broken out in Marseilles,
France, having been taken there by
italian immigrants. Three deaths oc-
Cured at Marseilles Tuesday, and the
whole of France is much alarmed. .....
Col Theodore Roosevelt had a narrow
escape from serious injury near his
oyster Bay, n. Y, home Tuesday,
when he was knocked from his horse
in a collision with an automobile. He
was only slightly bruised. .... Rush
Withers, a negro trusty at a convict
camp, was taken from the Jail at An
dalusia, Ala, Tuesday, and burned at
the stake by a mob of 400 men. He
was accused of brutally assaulting a
white woman. . Seventy persons per-
ished by the sinking of the Pacific Nav
igation company's steamer Chiriqui,
in the Pacific ocean, ninety miles from
Panama on September 81. The catas-
trophe was due to the explosion of the
ships boilers. A terrific fight took
place among the passengers and crew
when an attempt was made to launch
the life boats. Less than thirty per-
sons escaped. .....A great fire started
on the water front at Montevideo,
Uruguay, Tuesday, and before 1t had
burned itself out and gotten under con-
troll, damage to the extent Of $780,
900 had been done. Shipping, hides,
tallow, ETC., made up the greater part
of the loss. ... Judge Belts at Hunts
vile, Ala, Tuesday, charged the grand
jury to indict every soft drink" dealer
who held a Federal revenue license,
holding that the possession of license
was prima facie evidence of liquor
selling. Three children were killed
in Chicago Tuesday by the explosion
Of boiler near which they were play
ing. The Bethlehem Steel company
of Pennsylvania, has secured the con-
the Chinese government at cost of
$15,000,000. .... The Grand Prize au-
tOmObile race over the Vanderbilt
course, will he held on Long Island,
October Is. as previously announced.
Governor Haskell of oklahoma,
has declined an invitation to sit on the
same platform with Colonel Roosevelt,
when that gentleman attends the Ar
kansas state fair on October 10th. .....
Chas. Biddle is under arrest at Brook
ston, Ind, charged with numbering his
wife and burning her remains. The
crime was committed Sunday MORN
ing. In an attempt to assassinate
the mayor, anarchists dynamited the
city hall at MacZa, Spain, Tuesday.
The building was destroyed. .... Five
persons were seriously hurt at Tooms-
boro, Ga, Tuesday by the explosion Of
a 5O-horse power boiler, used in run
ming a gin. The governor of Mad
agascar has announced that he will
soon inaugurate an aerOplane postal
service on that island. 49,. Thirty two
persons were killed and twenty eight
injured in a collision of electric cars
near Staunton, ILL.,, Tuesday afternoon.
Disregarding orders was the cause OF
the catastrophe go. Forty three per-
sons were more or less injured by the
collapse of a grand stand at Kansas
City, Mo, Tuesday, while crowded
with people watching a street parade.
......D DR.. Harry Thurston Peck, pro-
fcssor of Latin at Columbia university,
New York, against whom a suit for
$1OO. 900 damage has been filed By a
Boston woman for breach of promise,
has been dismissed from the faculty by
the trustees. 49,. Barney Oldtield, the
crack automobile racer, has been
against Jack Johnson, the
negro prize fighter for an automobile
race at Sheepshead Bay track, New
York. October 20. Katherine Betti,
13-years- old. was acquitted at Pitts
burg, Pa. Tuesday. of the charge OF
her godfather on the ground
that the homicide was justifable. The
unwritten law was the defense, and
was upheld by the trial Judge. New
Orleans recently advertised for sealed
bids for $7.000,0O0 of sewage and
drainage bonds, but on Tuesday when
the bids were to be opened, none had
been received. The fOrty-third gen.
eral conference of the Protestant Epls-
cOpal church convened at Cincinnati,
o., Wednesday. Senator La Toilette
Of Wisconsin, underwent a critical
operation at Rochester Mimi, Tuesday,
and is reported as being in salts
factory condition Austin :. Will
son. a railway postal clerk, was sem
fenced by the Federal court at Abb
ingdon, Va, Wednesday, to one year
in prison, for stealing from the mails.
=. The Independent League of New
York state. i'm convention assembled.
on Wednesday decided to nominate
full state ticket and John j. Hopper
and VIM. r. Hearst were chosen as