Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-14
MERE-MENTION.

Charles L. Hughes, former govern
or of New York, was sworn in as an
associate justice of the United States
supreme court at Washington, Mon
Wilson B. Evans, receivin"
teller of the Farmers National bank
of Los Angeles, Cal, has disappeared,
leaving $4,000 unaccounted for. ..
Asiatic cholera claimed victim III a
London hospital Tuesday. -" Gen
eral Weyler, the Cuban butcher, mas
charge of the Spanish troops T. quell
any signs of an uprising in Spain.
Striking employees of the Great North
ern railroad of France have complete
ly tied up all trains on the system. and
the government is delivering mails by
means of automobiles .... Fred Hall
was shot to death and Policeman Gull
pepper was mortally wounded in 4
street Guel at MeriCiSn. Mis-, Tues
day. The policeman attempted to ar
rest Hall and the shooting was the re-
suit .Chas. Lori and Leneve Ge-
neva, Italians. are in Jail ut Benwood,
w. Va, charged with the murder OF
4 fellow countryman. They admit their
guilt and claim their victim betrayed
Black Hand secrets. Miss Ethel
Drohan, a trained nurse. was Knocked
down and fatally injured by an auto
n atlanta, Ga, Monday night.
The driver of the car was arrested. -.
According TO the census bureau the
death rate of New Orleans is the high
est in the United States in cities of
100, 600 population ard over, the death
rate being 20.2 per thousand people.
st. Paul Mimi. is credited with the
lowest death rate, ia per thousand.
80. Night riders are destroying to-
bacCo barns in Grady and Decatur
counties of Georgia and GadSden cOun-
ty, Fla. Five barns have been destroy
ed during the past three weeks. The
United States supreme court will not
hear the cases of the government
against the Standard Oil and tobacco
trusts until January 3rd, owing to the
fact that there are several vacancies
on the supreme court bench. -" Swim
ton Permenter, 19-yearS-Old, was con-
victed of murder in the first degree at
Louisville Miss, Tuesday night. His
victim was Miss jamie Sharpe, daugn-
ter of prominent planter. .Th"
Grand Prize automobile race, Schedul-
ed to be run on Long Island next Sat
urday, has been called off and Will
take place at Savannah. Ga, on No
Vembcr II. .... George Wallace was
arrested at Sacramento, Cal, Tuesday,
i'm connection with the dynamlting OF
the Los Angeles Times building TIVE
weeks ago. The detectives claim to
nave strong evidence connecting Wal
lace with the crime. Giles Phelps.
a Jacksonville. Fla. business man.
put crepe ON his door. donned funeral
clothes, wrote a note to an undertake
er and then committed suicide Tues
day night by inhaling gas. ..... The
National League of PoStmaStcrS of the
United States. is in session at Chatta-
N.,t.. t,.,s INA,.s ~
fell from his machine. near Belfast.
ireland. Tuesday. and was fatally in
jured The editreSs Of the Woman
Beautiful, a Chicago publication, says
that no woman whose husband earns
less than $2.5O0 Il year should keep a
servant 1t is reported from Wash
ington that Mr.. Taft will appoint Sen
ator Elihu Root to the chief justice
ship of the United States supreme
court .... Clothing and necktie max
erS to the number of 5000. are on q
strike for better wages and better
working conditions in New York. ....
Mile Gaby Delys, the dancer of Paris
who is said to be one of the causes of
the dcthrOnemcnt of King Manuel of
Portugal. says she will help him to re-
gain his throne. she claims that cn0r-
nous sums have been offered her tn
appear in America. $500. Grant Rlch-
ardson. Il negro. accused of aSSaulting
Il white woman. was shot to death by
Il mob in Bibb county. Ala. Tuesday
might one man was killed and
three injured in an automobile race at
kmkakcc. Ill.,, Wednesday. The
Colonial DANES of Georgia will unvcil
Il monument to General OglcthOrpe at
Savannah ON November -. Wal
ter W"llman and his associates are at
Atlantic city. y. j.. awaiting favorable
winds for their proposed airship flight
from America To Europe.