Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-03-08
MERE ENTlON.

Allan Brooks negro, on trial at
Dallas, Tex, Thursday, for a brutal
assault on a child the week before,
was taken from the court house by a
mob and lynched on the streets.
Ann Hardeman, a negro, living at Ma
con, Ga, has established her claim
for pension, on account Of her hus-
band being a soldier in the Mexican
and Indian wars. The woman is be-
lieved TO be 10 years old .... Live
hogs reached the price of $l0.1O per
hundred pounds at the Chicago stock
yards on Thursday. The packers say
that a livestock famine is only a mat
ter of a few weeks. .... The latest in
formation from Seattle, Wash, is TO
the effect that the victims of the We'll
lington disaster in the Cascade noun
tains which buried two trains, will
number not less than 100. The trains
were rolled 1000 feet from the track,
and buried under forty feet Of ice and
snow. James A. Patten, the Chi
cago wheat speculator. left last night
for a vacation in Europe, and II Is
stated that when he returns To Amer
lea he will take another go at cotton
and ''wallop the bears into Obscur-
ity." Commander Peary and his
friends are as yet unable 10 satisfy
the house .aval committee that he
has reached the north pole. AT a
meeting of the committee Friday
Pearys friends presented their evil
dence in order to secure the passage
OF bill providing for a congressional
gold medal for the commander, but
the committee would not be convinc-
ed 49,. Fifty thousand engineers and
iremen Of the railroads entering New
York from as far west as Chicago, and
as far south as Baltimore, have pre-
:ented demands to the railroads Tor
uore pay and better working conui-
dons. A strike is not improbable. :.
Two detectives were shot, one fatal
", py three Italian thugs in Chicago
early Friday morning. John H..
Cullen, 10 years old, teller Of the
Union institution Of Savings, Boston,
was arrested Friday, owing to short
age in his accounts. 80. Chief Bay
Bum NAH il Wa-Skung and Chief
AMI Wuy- -Way-Ausk, of the Chippe-
wa tribe of Indians, were found dead
In a Washington, D. c., hotel, Friday
morning. They had blown out the
gas instead of turning it off. "A
wireless message received at New
York on Friday from the steamship
Caledonia, 1000 miles at sea, told OF
the sinking of the Russian steamer,
Korea, and the rescue Of all the crew.
Harry c. Smith, president Oh
the Afro-American League, has sent
communication to Congressman Loud
of Michigan, ordering that Matt Hen
son, the negro who accompanied
Peary on his search for the north pole,
be made a rear admiral in the navy,
or something equally as good '....
Cooke Davies, leader of gang OF
yeggmen, escaped from the jail at
Opelousas, La. Friday night, and lett
note stating that he would get his
gang together and come back and
blow open the safe in the sheriff's or
fee. Two young American wo-
men have been arrested in Nicaragua
on the charge of being spies for the
insurgents -. Three hundred men
of Atlanta, Ga, Friday night pledged
themselves not to break the third
commandment for a period of three
years, binding themselves together as
the Society Of the Holy Name.
August Johnson, wanted in New York
for the murder of his wife on Febru-
ar, 7, has been arrested at Moolle'
Ala, and confessed his guilt. john
son killed his wife with a piece OF gas
pipe and buried the body under the
floor of his apartment. .... Thomas
Collier Platt, formerly United States
senator from New York, and for many
years a national figure in Republican
politics. died in New York city last
Sunday night. He was born July 15'
1885