Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-05-03
MERE MENTION.

Southern railway train No. 81, the
New York and New Orleans limited,
rolled down a 75-foot embankment
near Toccoa, Ga, Thursday afternoon.
The engineer and firemen were un-
hurt. .... The next distance contest
for flying machines that will attract
international competition, will be
pulled off in France soon, when a
prize of 100000 will be contested
for. The winner Of the prize will have
to cover a distance Of 225 miles from
Paris to the top Of Puy-De-Dome, a
mountain 4,SO6 feet high. ..... .Presi-
dent Taft left Washington Friday
night on a tour Of the middle west.
Tomorrow at st. Louis he will address
a national mass meeting OF farmers
The cotton firm of Steel, Miller
& Co., Of Corinth, Miss, failed Thurs
day with liabilities aggregating about
1000, 900. This failure is said to be
due to the failure of Knight, Yancey
& Co., who failed the previous week.
The seven Shreve brothers and
five others, recently arrested in Ala
bama and Texas, on charges OF de-
frauding New York merchants, have
been released on bonds Of $1,000
each, pending trial in the Federal
courts. Columbus, O., Is under
going a riotous street car strike.
hundred Jewish families
nave been driven from Kieff, Russia
during the past week, with the sane
ton Of the Russian government. .....
The rioting of the Chinese which be-
gan two weeks ago in the war on Tor
eigners in the province Of Human, Is
now spreading to other provinces. Tne
real cause of the disorder is famlne
of foodstuffs, which is attributed t.
the foreigners. Countess Farnow-
ska. known as the enchantress, ar
ter a trial lasting several weeks mas
been convicted at Venice, italy, OF the
murder of her husband. Her sentence
will probably be life imprisonment.
Twenty persons were injured one IA
tally, in a collision of electric cars on
the Williamsburg bridge, New York,
Friday The Federal authorities
made another move in the fight ~
bucketshops in New York and Jerse..'
City, Saturday, by raiding two place.
known to be the supply stations for
smaller city bucketShOps. and cutting
the telegraph wires. .Chas. A. White,
n Democratic member of the Illinois
house of representatives, has given
Chicago paper a signed statement that
he received $1,000 in 1909 for his vote
to elect VIM. Lorimer to the United
States senate. Governor Deneen Will
cause an investigation OF White S
charges. -. Beginning yesterday, the
strike of 10000 Pennsylvania coal mi
ners came to an end after continuing
since April 1st. The miners get an in
crease of wages of 5.55 per cent.....
Tommy Mccarthy. a lightweight pugi-
list. was killed by owen Moran In a
prize fight in San Francisco, on Friday
night The treasury of New YORK
state has been enriched to the extent
of $1,l59,000 as part of the transfer
tax assessed on the estate of the late
John ). Kennedy, the philanthropiSt,
who died in October last. ..... The
religious insurrection of Albanians
against Turkish rule in Asiatic Turkey
is rapidly spreading and there mas
been general uniting of Roman Cath-
olic Albanans, Greek Catholics and
Mohammedans against the sultan. :.
4 white man, a negro man and negro
woman. arrested in New York on the
charged of being white slave" dealers
as the result of a grand jury's investi-
cations. were held Saturday under
bonds of $4,000 each. ...... West Vir-
ginia on Saturday unveiled a statue of
Francis A. PierpOnt, Father of West |
Virginia." in Statuary Hall, Washing |
ton, d. President Taft has |
sent message to congress asking for
1 preliminary appropriation Of $4,000 !
300 for fortitications at the Panama |
.anal. The Notifications will require |
SIS. 900. 900. ..... John Allen Stack |
house of Scotland county. y. c., will |
De electrocuted at Raleigh on June
10 for the murder of his wife.
Emmett A. O'Neal was nominated by
1 primary election i'm Alabama yes
erday for governor on a local option
platform. ....., The United States
supreme court on Monday handed
lOwn decisions in which ii sustains
he courts Of Mississippi and Ten
lessee i'm opinions holding that the
states have the right to revoke the
tights to do business of corporations
If a monOpOlistic character. The
Tennessee case was against the
standard Oil company. which was in
lcted under the antitrust law......
Tohn w. Kern. former vice presiden-
ial candidate, has been nominated
or the United States senate by the
Democrats of Indiana. President
}rown of the New York Central rail-