Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-03-22
MERE MENTION.

for extensive airship experiments at
Montgomery, Ala. William O'Brien,
a lone bandit, held up three saloons in
st. Louis, Mo, Thursday. shot three
men, and was finally fatally shot in
duel with policemen. O'Brien said he
robbed for excitement. ...... An aged
Chinaman recently secured lease on
an abandoned placer gold mine in
Placer county, Cal, and during the
past few weeks mas taken out $204,000
in gold. 49,. During the year 1909 there
were 1898 marriages and S,065 births
in the city of Boston, Mass. $50. I'M
ports for the eight months ending Feb
ruary %, show an increase over the
same period Of last year Of $204,926.-
ISL, totaling $1,O21,O7S,710. The excess
Of exports over imports for the eight
months was $1S9, 9,125,415, a decrease Of
$152,524,136 when compared with last
year. ..... A large party of British no.
blemen and members Of the English
parliament are coming to the United
States to witness the Jeffries-Johnson
prize fight at San Francisco on July
4th. The bodies Of Gus Scholtz, his
wife and two children, and boarder
named Heppman, were found In their
home at Houston, Tex, Thursday. All
the doors and windows were locked
and from the appearance Of the bodies,
it was evident that they had been mur-
dered several days previously. .......
Fines Of only $4,000 were assessed
against the railroads of the country
last year for delay in transporting the
mails. The fines for 1908 totaled $685.
900. The reason for the fall off in fines
Is that Postmaster General Hitchcock
says he thought that the law imposing
the fines had been repealed. w. T.
Grace, a candidate for sheriff, has been
arrested at Admission, Ala, charged
with violation Of the statewide prohi-
bition laws. Two negroes, charged
with aiding and abetting a jail deliv-
cry, were lynched by a mob Of 300 men
at Marion, Ark, Friday. 49,. Breaking
into the church during the ceremony
that would make his daughter the wife
of Salvatore Guiffre, at Houston, Tex,
Thursday night, Stephen Pace, fired
three times at Guiffre, so wounding
him that he died three hours later.
Lying on the floor, Guiffre fired at
Pace, wounding him so badly that he
died a few hours later. 80. .Bubonic
plague has made its appearance in the
Hawaiian islands. Two deaths have
occurred. ... .Thirty-nine employees Of
the Chicago stockyards were discharg-
ed Friday because of light receipts Of
livestock. Ut is probable that the
threatened strike of the railroad fire.
men running out of Chicago will be
averted by arbitration. Forty-one
thousand men are involved. IL. Wal
ter Morrison, negro, convicted Of as
sault, was electrocuted at the state
prison at Raleigh, N. c., Friday. This
was the first electrocution under the
law providing that executions be by
electrocution. "A head-on collision Of
Atlanta and West Point engines, oc-
Cured on the Pryor street bridge, At
lanta, Ga, Saturday morning. One
man was killed and another was seri-
ously hurt. 900. One man was killed
and another was fatally injured in a
powder mill explosion at East Alton,
Ill.,, Saturday. Two persons died at
Newcastle, Pa, Saturday, Of spotted
fever and a spread of the disease Is
feared. .... Black Hand men, recently
released from prison, set fire to Cath
olic church at Carbondale, Pa, out of
revenge for the activity Of Father
Ceruttis, in the prosecution Of the
blackmailers. $50. There was a $4,000
cotton warehouse fire at Athens, Ga,
Saturday. The digging Of 800
mile canal between Jacksonville and
Key West Fla, which has been in
progress for twenty years is nearly
completed About one more year will
be required to finish the job. 80. .Ad-
mission tickets for the Jeffries-John-
son prize fight will range from $40 to
IL
pan, Friday, destroyed more than 500
houses, valued at more than $3,OOO,OOO.
Seven bodies had been recovered up to
Saturday evening and scores Of per-
sons are yet unaccounted for. R.
NJ. Wylie, president of the Kola-ade
company Of Atlanta, Ga, plead guilty
in the Federal court Saturday, to the
charge that kola-ade syrup contained
cocaine, which is against the national
pure food laws. .... The New York
legislature is investigating a scandal
in connection with bribery fund rails
ed by fire insurance companies in 1901,
to block legislation that was aimed at
them. The scandal promises to be dir
tier than the life insurance scandals
unearthed by Governor Hughes sever
al years ago. The taXicab drivers
Of Atlanta, Ga, are on strike.