Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-09-23
MERE-MENTION.


congress for eighteen years, was de-
feated for the Republican nomination
Tuesday by Sidney Anderson, pro-
gressive. Five passengers were slight
ly hurt in a wreck on the Boston and
Maine railroad at Concord, n. H.,
Tuesday afternoon by the collision or
a passenger train with switch en-
CINE. In the primary election IN
Oneida county, n. Y, Tuesday, for the
election of delegates to the Republican
state convention at Saratoga, Septem-
ber 27, the Sherman faction carried
the county, but the vice president was
defeated in his own district, ward ana
assembly district. Ten persons were
killed and twenty-five injured In a COL
lision of express trains near Rottehe-
mann. Germany, Tuesday. Mrs. John
Zoos and three children were murder
ed at Byers. Pa, Tuesday evening
supposedly by burglars. .... DR.. JOS
r. Sewell, an Atlanta, Ga, physician,
was shot to death in his office Tues
day by a man named Cox, who then
fatally shot himself. The motive for
the murder and suicide Is a mystery
Moses Shirley well known
farmer, was murdered in his bed as he
slept beside his wife near Tiger, Ga,
Monday night. The blow tat killed
Shirley awakened his wife the as
sassin made a vicious lick q. her. 80.
Acting Mayor Mitchell Of New York,
charging that all kinds of graft and
gambling Is carried on In that city
under police protection, has recon-
mended the summary dismissal or Po-
lice Commissioner Baker. :. Governor
Carroll Of Iowa, Is undergoing trial at
Des Moines before a jury on charges
Of criminal libel. "A negro named
Thos. Jennings, an eX-convict, Is held
by the Chicago police on suspicion OF
being the murderer Of c. d. Hitler IN
that city Monday night. The negro
was arrested shortly after the killing
and finger prints on window Sill that
fully match prints made by jennings
are the strongest links in the evidence
against him. The books Of the
state auditor Of Alabama show gain
of $24,41S,426 in the value Of the tax
able property in that state for the year
1910. Mrs. Theresa ]. HOFFMAN
has filed a claim against the city or
Atlanta, Ca, for $4,000 damages be-
cause of the drowning Of her two sons
in Piedmont lake several weeks ago.
Francis Fowler. president Of the
National Packing company, was plac.
ed under 100000 bond by the Federal
court at Cricago Tuesday, to appear
for trial in connection with the forma-
ton Of the alleged beef trust. .." vi
Wan NJ. Lewis was nominated py
the Republicans for governor OF New
Jersey Tuesday. to oppose woodrow
Wilson, Democrat. Joan, a four
year-old filly, trotted two heats at
Columbus, O., Tuesday in 2 minutes
81 seconds each, the fastest time on
record. DR. Jos. G. Dabney of Sa-
yannah. Ga, died Tuesday from blood
poisoning following infection In a
charity surgical case. .Dabney Dough-
erty, a wealthy young man OF Macon,
Ga, was fined 5000 by the police court
of that city Tuesday for selling liquor
| from the pocket. go. Because or the
lynching Of two negroes at TiptonTille,
Tenn, last week, farmers Of Lake
county are having great difficulty IN
securing negroes for farm work. The
negroes claim their lives are In dan
ger. Thirty thousand coal miners
| in Missouri, Kansas. Arkansas and OK
| lahoma have returned to work after
being on a strike for five months.
| One negro and ten horses were burned
| to death in an incendiary fire at Mon
roe, La, Tuesday morning. 49," The IN
yestigation by the senate committee OF
| the charges concerning the election OF
| Senator Lorimer of Chicago by brib-
ery. began I'm Chicago Wednesday.
Senator Gore Of Oklahoma, Is making
political speeches in doubtful congress
sional districts in North Carolina tnls
week Towns and cities along the
Hudson river in New York state are
facing q serious water famine
| Chief of Police Stallings Of Spring
Hope. n. c., who was shot by Norman
Lewis, a negro, Sunday night, dled
Wednesday in hospital at Richmond
Va. from his wounds. .Forty-two
persons were killed and seven were Sc
riously injured in trolley car COLI
sion near Bluffton, Indiana, wed
nesday. A misunderstanding OF orders
was the cause of the wreck. Inc
opening skirmish in the matter OF the
return of Porter Charlton to Italy 10
stand trial for the murder or ms Wie
was lost by the defendant at Jersey
CITY. New Jersey, Wednesday. Charl-
TONS attorneys attempted to prove
their clients insanity by several
alienists. but the presiding judge
declined to admit plea of insanity
and took the application for his
return to Italy under advisement. -.
DR.. Hawey H. Crippen has been Tor
mcrly committed to prison in London
after an extended preliminary trial, 10
answer to the charge of the murder
of Belle Elmore. The Leneve girl Is
held as an accessory. $500. Eighteen
men were seriously hurt in wreck on
the Illinois Central road at White
Plains. Ky There had been freight
collision the night before and an en-
CINE and baggage car going to the re-
lief ran into the freight train wreck.
being unable to see the danger signal
because of a dense fog. Miss Rena
ASkew, in charge of a. sub-postolflce
station i'm Richmond. Va, Is S1.9ll.S5
short of her accounts. ....A japanese
paper Wednesday afternoon publlshed
details of an alleged plot by three ia
panese cOnspiratOrs to assasslnate
Emperor Mitsuhito. The plotters were
arrested and will he put to death fol-
lowing a secret trial. This is the first
time that an emperor of Japan has
ever been threatened by assassins. 49,.
During a bull fight al Mejoroda, Spain,
Wednesday, the grandstand collapsed
and hundreds of persons went down in
the wreckage Scores were injured,
not a few being fatally hurt. More