Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-07-19
MERE-MEN1ION.


the United States on August for a
months visit. he will be given the most
elaborate entertainment ever arranS-
ed for a dignitary from South Amer
lea ....A. V. Simon, one or the
bribe-taking aldermen of PlttSburg,
Pa. has been sentenced to prison for
eight months. Simon sold one vote
for S325, and another for $S1.1O. ....
The mayor and three aldermen OF
Lawrence, Mass, have been convicted
on bribery charges and sentenced ~
prison for terms ranging from one anu
a half to three and half years. ."".
The total receipts for the fifty largest
pOstoffices i'm the United States for the
month of June were $S,6S6,1S9, COM
pared with $7,919,S41 last year, an In
crease of 12.5S per cent. The larg-
est increase was at Hartford, Conn.,
and was 29.70 per cent. a VIDE
spread revolutionary plot against the
government and life of King Alfonso
0f Spain was discovered Saturday The
revolution is the work of anarchists
and the governments opposition to the
Roman Catholic church. Henry Z:
Osterman, formerly conductor ol
Chicago, is charged with obtaining
s75O,OOO from the Illinois Central
trust company by fraudulent means.
Two negroes. condemned "
hang last Friday for murder, made
their escape from the Shelby, Tenn.
Jail Thursday night by saving out
the window bars. 49,. John Z. Hart;
for eight years attorney general
of Georgia, and recently announced as
a candidate for governor, has WITH
drawn from the race. line ANU
saloon League has begun another
fight for an election on the liquor
question in Chicago next sprlng......
TWENTY-FIVE firemen were overcome by
ammonia fumes during fire In cold
storage plant in New York last FRIDAY
morning The property loss was Soo'
600. The triennial conclaVe OF
The Grand Commandery of knights
Templars of the United States. Will De
held I'm Chicago, August to b..
President Taft has granted a pardon
to Jas. r. Kaye, formerly pastor OF the
PRESBYTERIAN church at Wheaton, LII.
Kaye was sent to prison because ne
made moulds in which money could
have been cast. Violent eartn-
quake shocks were felt throughout
italy on Friday. Many of the old walls
at Messina. left standing by the earth
quake of 1908, were shaken down.
Louis A. Celia, a st. Louis millionaire,
was arrested in New York Friday by
a United States marshal, on a charge
of perjury. Celia Is also accused OF
running one of the bucket shops re-
Gently raided in Washington. .Dr.
D. K. Pearson, an aged philanthr0@pdst @
of Chicago, has given away S6,OOO,-
600 of his fortune to twenty-nine
small colleges, and on April II, 1911,
his 91st birthday, will give away the
remainder and enter a sanitarlum 10
spend the balance of his days.
Speaker Cannon began series OF
campaign speeches in Kansas Satur-
day in behalf of the standpatters.
Murdock and Bristow, insurgents,
have arranged to reply to every argu-
ment made by Mr.. Cannon. .The
5000 people of Campbellton, n. b.,
rendered homeless by fire last week,
are suffering for lack of shelter and
food David E. Thompson of Lin
coin, Neb., was in New York Friday
to tell Mr. Roosevelt that the west
wants the colonel to stand for a thlrd
term for president" representa-
tives of the moving picture syndicate
owning the Jeffries-Johnson prize
fight pictures, have informed Mayor
Fitzgerald of Boston, that they Will
take the matter to court to MAINTAIN
their right to show the pictures In
Boston. Secretary of War Dick
inson and party, Ell route to the Phll-
ippines, arrived at Yokohama, Japan,
Friday, and we're entertained in the
evening by Count Komura, the foreign
secretary Many Oklahoma coal
miners, who have been on strike for
several weeks for better pay, are said
to be in destitute circumstances. .....
New York states revenue from auto
mobile licenses this year will total
81, ,OOO, ,00O Speaker Cannon was
overcome by heat while attempting to
deliver a Chautauqua address at WIN
field, Kan, last Saturday, but seemed
to have entirely recovered on Sunday.
...... The business affairs OF James
M. Guffey, National Democratic COM
mitteeman of Pennsylvania, have been
placed in the hands of a receiver. His
liabilities are placed at $6,7O0,OOO, and
his assets are given at 100000.
President Taft has ordered the estab-
lishment of from ten to twenty postal
savings banks as an experiment by
October 1St. .... Staten Island, n. Y,
which is a part of the city of Greater
New York is threatened with water
famine unless rains soon fall"
Building operations in one hundred and
twenty eight cities of the United
States for the year 1909 totaled $93O,-
520.713. New York city spent $6S,OOO,-
900 on new buildings. .Gunners of the
battleship Idaho have captured cash
prize of $500 by hitting a moving
target fifteen times out of sixteen
shots at a distance of 1900 yards. =.
Albert H. Eames is under a $4,000
bond at Pittsburg. Pa, charged with
misapplying $4,000 in cash and Sc
curities belonging to his employer,
Alexander r. Peacock. Six thous-
and of the 10000 striking clOakmak-
ers of New York city, have gained all
they asked from their employers and
will return to work at once. -" Mrs.
Mary Stout is in Jail at Springfield,
ILL.,. and has confessed to having as
saSSinated John OConnor, deputy state
game warden. Mrs. Stout claims that
O'ConnOr made four attempts to ruin
her home and she shot him as re-
suit of brooding over his insults. Her
six small children are in Jail with her.
$500. The Chinese regent has issued
a decree fOrbidding the marriage OF
Cinnamon and white women. 1t Is
probable that the strike of the 10000
employees of the Pennsylvania railroad
may be averted by arbitration. The
wOrkmen are demanding ten hours
work with eleven hours pay. The
pier of the Metropolitan steamship
line at New York. was destroyed by
fire saturday with Il loss estimated Ut
~ OuO or more. The conditions
Of the proposed aerOplane flight from
New York to st. Louis, a distance of
900 miles as the crow flies, have been
announced The prize is TO be $50
900 and the flight must be made with
in 100 consecutive hours, using the
same machine from start to finish.
Up 10 Sunday there have been thirty
nine deaths from tetanus. due to
Fourth of July celebrations with toy
pistols. blank cartridges, etc. Post
office employees of Detroit, Mich. have
started an agitation for a full rest
day on Sundays. If they are success
full the agitation will become national
1t is unuiicially announced from
that the committee which
has been investigating the PmchOt
charges against Secretary Ballinger
during the past five months. will make
Il report giving the secretary full
.AdviCeS from Wash
ingtOn are to the effect that the Re-
publican majority in congress is de-
tcrmned to raise the required ra-
tio of 100000 of population for each
so as tO reduce south
crn representation in the 63rd con-
greSS. yellowstone Kit" one of
the greatest Indian medicine takers of