Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-02-08
MERE MENTlON.

Miss Marie Lewsen or portland, me-:
dental student at the University OF
Maryland, was shot to death at Bal
timore, on Thursday, by Elijah Baba
Badal, Persian Mohammedan med
ical student, who then committed sui
eide. The tragedy was the result OF
a love affair. Several tinplate
mills at Sharon, Fa., have been closed
down on account Of an epidemic OF
smallpox among the negro operatives.
... .As the result Of lighting a cigar
cite, the Panla coal mine in the state
of Coahuila, Mexico, was destroyed by
a gas explosion on Wednesday. UP to
Thursday night sixty-eight bodies had
been recovered, leaving thfrty-one
dead men still in the mine. The prop
erty loss is estimated at S5OO,0O0.
Attorney General Wickersham has an
nounced that in the future 1t will be
policy of the government to aid In the
enforcement Of state prohibition laws
rather than In placing blocks In the
way of such enforcement. VIM.
Ruckman, a farmer, killed his wife
and four children and committed sui
eide at Parkers Prairie, Mimi, Friday
while insane. .... William Gohl Is
under arrest at Tacoma, Wash, charg-
ed with the murder Of Charles Hart
burg. The police believe that Gohl Is
responsible for more than forty muir
ders that have occurred in the vicinity
Of Tacoma during the past few years
and heretofore unsatisfactory ex-
planned. "A huge meteor, esu-
mated to weigh several tons, fell near
Keokuk, Ia, early Friday morning.
The country was shaken for miles as
If by an earthquake. =. Emil Carl Won
Miller, under arrest at Hoboken, N.
J., charged with being bigamist, con-
fesses that he has nineteen wives In
the United States, scattered from
Maine to California. The police think
he even has more than nineteen. -.
A Chicago meat-packer has bought
ranch of 1,125,000 acres in New Mex
leo, and will attempt to raise beef
cattle in competition with farmers
and ranchers. The land was purchas-
ed for $1,000, 900. Fifteen men
were entombed in a railway tunnel
near Andalusia, Spain, Saturday, by
reason of a cavern caused by heavy
floods in the mountains. -. Mrs.
Margaret O'Connor Lombard died In
Augusta, Ca, Friday at the age OF
103 years. She was native or the
county Of Cork, Ireland. The anti
saloon league Of Chicago, has filed
petition with the board Of election
commissioners, asking for an election
on the abolishment of saloons In that
city. The petition contained 74,SO5
signatures, $4,000 more than Is requir-
ed to call the election. ID. B. Loewe,
a hat manufacturer Of Danbury,
Conn, was on Friday awarded a ver-
dict of $225,000 damages in the Fed
eral circuit court at New Haven,
against the Union Hatmakers Of Con-
necticut, on account Of boycott by
the hat union workers. .... Five
men were scalded, three fatally, In
boiler explosion at Flint, Mich, Sat-
urday. The men were repairing
boiler, that had exploded the Monday
previous, when the second boiler ex-
ploded, flooding the boiler In which
they were working, with steam. ...-.
A bill providing for an election on the
question of statewide prohibition,
has been introduced in the Virginia
legislature; -. Three undermined
bandits held up the passengers on
Missouri Pacific train at Pittsburg,
Kan, Saturday night and made their
escape with a good haul of watches,
jewelry and money. One man was
killed and four persons were serious
ly hurt by a rear-end collision between
passenger trains on the East Coast
railway at Jacksonville, Fla, Satur-
day. :. Eleven men were killed in
coal mine explosion near Indiana,
Pa, Saturday. .... .Chas. H. Davidge,
retired banker of Washington, COM
mitted suicide Saturday. ;. There are
eighty-five known cases Of smallpox in
the city Of Atlanta, Ga, and everybody
in the city is to be vaccinated. :. Bert
Redford, assistant secretary of the
Railroad Y. M. C. A, at Knoxville,
Tenn, was shot to death in the asso-
ciation's rooms Saturday afternoon,
by John w. Cash, a Southern railway
fagman Cash was drunk at the time.