Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-05-10
MERE ENTlON.

10 Washington on Friday, after visit
Three of the largest wholesale
firms of Portsmouth. Va, have been
indicted by a grand jury following
charges of false statements of pur-
chases as a basis of taxation. :. Irwin
Hanchette. 16 years old, was hanged
at Deland. Fla, Friday, for the muir
der of Cleavie Fedder, a 14-year-old
school girl in February. Hanchette
confessed his crime. Another IL
linois legislator, q Democrat, has con-
fessed to receiving $1,000 for his vote
for VIM LOrimer for the United States
senate. Howard Lowry, assist
ant cashier oc the City National bank,
of Utica, y. Y, is missing and rumor
places his shortage at 100000. The
banks officials place the embezzle-
ment at $1,000. ... Three tiremen were
killed and three were seriously hurt
at Macon, Ga, when an automobile
fire engine skidded on a corner and
collided with three telephone and cleo
trio light poles Friday. "A gas eX-
nlosion in mine No. 3 of the Palos
Coal company at PaloS, Ala, Thurs-
day. caused the death of forty-nVe
white miners and ninety negroes. rms
was the second mine disaster in Alapa-
ma within a period OF two weeks,
forty-five miners being killed in gas
explosion on April 20. Five per-
sons were burned to death at Coulter
VILE, H., Friday. .....A woman, salo
70 be the famous Kate Bender of the
family of that name and notorious as
a family of murdererS in Kansas many
wears ago, died at Rio Vista, Cal,
few dayS ago. New Orleans mas
a fund of $1,OOO,0OO promised as
starter for the preliminary expenses
of a worlds fair to be held in that
city i'm 1915, to celebrate the opening
of the Panama canal. ..... MISS Elea-
nor White. a Trenton. y. j., woman,
walking on the Pennsylvania railroad
track, caught her foot in a swltch
frog on Thursday, and as she was un-
able to eXtricate it as fast train ap-
preached, leaned to one side and her
foot was cut off by the engines
wheels. Emil Winter, president OF
a PittSburg, Pa, bank, practically ad-
mitting his guilt in paying 100000 to
grating councilmen, has been releas-
ed on $4,000 bail that he might go
to Europe for his health. -. Cali
fOrnia ministers are planning a great
eVangelistical meeting to take place
in San Francisco at the time OF the
Jeffries-J Johnson prize fight. 49,. The
Quebec (Canada) Bridge board has
prepared specifications for a new can
tileVer bridge across the St Lawrence
river TO replace the bridge that COL
lapsed several years ago. The bridge
board specifies that the successful bid
der for the work must take all respon-
sibility for the completion or the JoD.
Charlie Black, one of the ne
groes in Jail in Atlanta, charged with
the murder of Motorman Brown two
weeks ago, on Saturday made con-
fession to the police, duplicating three
other negroes besides himself. All OF
the four negroes have been in jail
since a few days after the killing. -.
j. d. DeBow of Tennessee, has filed
suits against three railroad companies,
asking damages of 100000 from each,
for the killing of a hog at Meridian,
Miss. The Democratic executive
committee of Mississippi, has decided
not to order a primary election IN
that state to nominate candidate Tor
the United States senate, as desired
by Senator Percy, to decide between
him and Ex-Governor Vardaman. -.
The Liverpool, New York and New
Orleans cotton exchanges were closed
Saturday on account of the death OF
King Edward VII of England. AT
Atlanta, Ga, May q. there will be un-
veiled a statue of the late Samuel
Spencer, president of the Southern
railway, who was killed in railway
wreck in November, 1906. The statute
was paid for by contributions of en-
ployes of the Southern railway. .....
]. B. Rowan, a farmer of WaSSee, Ga,
on Friday night. shot and killed Jas.
Willis, an 1S-year- boy, in dis
pute about cotton gin and saw mill,
which Rowan had leased to Willis
father. Atlanta detectives have ar
rested d. r. Phillips, merchant, on
the charge of numbering w. H. Hol-
land, a nightwatchman, who was as
sassinated in that city on the morn
ing Of April s. 1t is alleged that Phil
lips was intimate with Hollands wife.
Two accomplices of Phillips and also
HollmanS widow are under arrest
Major Ronald Mclean, a retir-
ed army officer, has been acquitted OF
the charge of murder at Cape Town,
South Africa, for the killing of man
named Jack BarOne, with several
aliases. McLean's daughter was infat-
udieu WITH bdIOllt. MCISSlll uSiSi"S
was the unwritten law. .... Four
men were killed and four were Sc
riouSly injured at Camden y. j., Sat
urday by the explosion of a stop valve
in the boiler room of a tug boat. $50.
Thos f. Byrnes, for many years su-
perintendent of the New York police
force. and especially noted as a detec-
tive, died i'm that city Saturday at the
age of 65 years. ..... 1t is probable
that President Taft will appoint Mr..
Roosevelt as the special representa-
tive of the United States 10 attend
the funeral of the late King Edward
VII. Mrs. Bette Rhodes, a men,
Der of a prominent family of Gran
willie county, y. c., on Sunday shot
Joe Kinton, a negro. TO death. Kin
ton was advancing on Mrs. Rhodes
when she fired. Nineteen men were
seriously burned following an eXplo-
sion i'm a Standard Oil warehouse in
Brooklyn. y. Y, yesterday. While
Emmett O'Neal. local oPtionist, was
elected governor of Alabama last
week. the statewide Prohibitionists
have a good majority of both houses
of the Legislature. as well as the lieu