Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-08-05
FRIDAY, AUGUST S, 1910.
M ERE MENTION.

for three weeks. The men will receive
an advance in wages, in some in
stances as much as 80 per cent. .....
The revenue cutter Perry has been
wrecked on a reef i'm the Berng sea,
and is n complete loss. The fifty Of
ficers and men on board escaped with
their lives. .... Three little boys,
playing near a sand bank I'm Brook
lyn. n. Y, Monday. were crushed to
death by the caving of the sand, pre-
sumaby caused by the boys attempt
| ing to tunnel the bank. BY the
breaking Of an axle in Philadelphia
Tuesday. a wagon loaded with car
| boys Of vitriol turned over, and two
children riding on the wagon, were
burned to death. number Of other
persons were seriously injured. .....
At Elizabeth City. \. c., Tuesday,
three men were fined $25 each and
another IS and costs, by a magistrate,
on a charge Of assaulting Editor W.
o. Saunders on Sunday night. .....
The French navy has begun the build
ing Of two battleships Of the Dread
nought class, that are to be Of 23.467
tons displacement each. Doc john
son. 6-years-old, killed his baby sister
at Athens. Ga, Monday with a suppos-
edly unloaded gun. .... Demanding
more pay and shorter hours, $4,000
plumbers of Paris are on strike.
A Chicago beef packing concern has
closed a contract to furnish the Brit
ish army with s5.OO0,000 worth Of
canned meats. A number OF trans
Atlantic ships from European ports
are making strenuous efforts to reach
New York before August Z, on account
of having aboard about s1,0OO.OOO
worth of wines on which nearly $780,
900 higher duties will have to be paid
| IL landed later than that date. Nine
boys and six girls were drowned on
Lake Traun. Bavaria, Tuesday. by the
capsizing of a barge. Premier Ca
nalejas, the premier Of Spain, who Is
leading the fight against the Vatican,
! has been threatened with death unless
he lets up in his fight for religious
freedom The amount OF national
bank notes outstanding August ]. was
|$712,029.46S. and there was s6SS,45S,-
265 on deposit to secure bank notes
-. The 1900 engineers. conductors
and trainmen of fifty-six western rail-
roads are preparing demands for an
Increase Of wages averaging about 20
per cent. The firemen Of the same
roads obtained an increase of wages
1.-TWO months ago through arbitration
under the Erdman act. .-- Chinese
residents Of San Francisco have sent
$4,000 to their friends at home to
assist in the boycott against American
made goods. The Columbus, o.,
street car strike is costing the state
$4,000 day on account Of the neces-
sity of keeping militia on the scene...
There have been a number OF assassi-
nations of political leaders in Persia
during the past month. The cot
l. ton mills forming the Amoskeag cor
lporation, Manchester, n. H., will be
shut down August 26 for two weeks.
Fifteen thousand operatives will be
idle. .... -Four negroes have been
lynched in the vicinity Of Dady, Fla,
the assault and murder of little
white girl, Bessie Morrison, on Satur-
day. The trouble Is not yet over. -.
A Mexican at Maricopa, Ariz., laid
down under a tarpaulin covering a
carload of Ice few nights ago and
went to sleep. Next morning he was
found dead, frozen stiff. go" Treasury
officials are preparing to issue, $780,
900, 900 of bonds for reclamation pur-
IT, hn kantnnkV
board of pardons has refused to par
don Henry Youtsey and Jas. Marcum,
convicted of participation in the as
sassination of Senator VIM. Goebel..
A petition started by the Chicago AS
ISOLATION of Commerce has been pre-
sented to the interstate commerce
commission asking an investigation OF
express rates, with view to reducing
same. The petition Is signed by ia
commercial organizations. ...... The
| first bale of Georgia's 1910 cotton
was sold at Albany, Ga, last Wednes-
day, for 80 cents pound. "A FEEDER
al grand jury at New York, Wednesday,
returned indictments against three
men in connection with the failure OF
the United Wireless Telegraph COM
pany. They are charged with misuse
of the mails. .-. Ten thousand cot
ton mill operatives Of Holland are
locked out on account OF dispute as
to wages. 49,. Frederick Skene, for
mer state engineer of New York, and
seven Others have been indicted at
Albany, n. Y, on charges Of grand
larceny in the first degree, In connec-
| ton with road contracts. .On the
river Amur, near Nicolaieska, Russia,
Tuesday, 200 fishermen were drowned
when a typhoon wrecked their boats.
| Catholics and Clericals to the num-
| ber of 100000 declare that they will
parade the streets of San Sebastin. on
Sunday despite the protests of the
Spanish government authorities. A
clash with the army Of King Alfonso
| is a probability. 80. An explosion on
Russian torpedo boat at kronstadt
Tuesday, killed six and wounded four
teen. -. The lower house Of the
Georgia legislature has passed a bill
changing the punishment for embeZ-
element from two to seven years In
prison. ... The America, the airship
| in which Walter Wellman, the Chicago
newspaper man, will essay to ny
across the Atlantic ocean, has been
received in New York. Edwin j.
Wider, defaulting cashier of the Rus
so-Chinese bank, pleaded guilty In
New York Wednesday, to the THEFT or
100 shares Of B. & o. railroad stock.
A father, mother and two children
were burned to death, and two other
children were seriously burned In a
tenement fire in Hoboken, New Jersey,
last Wednesday morning. .....
During the year closing June 80, l.
|041.570 immigrants landed In the
United States. The largest number
of any one race were Italians, who
numbered 1858. Mrs. VIM. T.
Bull, leading New York society wo-
man is suing Harvey w. Corbett and
John l.. Qualey to recover $4,000,
which she claims they got by fraudu-
lent representations Of stocks which
she purchased. Corbett and Qualey
are suing Mrs. Bull for 100000 each
for malicious prosecution. -. Mons.
Nicholas Kinet, Belgian aviator, was
instantly killed near Brussels We'd
nesday by fall with his biplane. The
accident was caused by the breaking
of a wire, which got caught In the
motor
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