Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-18
MERE-M ENTION.


ton account has been postponed till
May, the postponement being because
of Mr.. Sibley's physical condition. ....
The foundation has been laid in New
York for a building that is to be forty
stories high. When completed the
building will be thirteen feet higher
than the Singer building. .... Rev. F.
S. A. Johnson disguised himself in the
uniform Of a United States sailor at
Seattle, Wash, the other day and
bought whisky and beer from illegal
dealers for the purpose of getting evil
dence. 1t is thought that Govern
or-elect Hoke Smith of Georgia, may
be a candidate for United States sena-
tor to succeed Clay. The Oklahoma
supreme court has nullified the recent
ly voted amendment to the constitu-
ton providing for the removal OF the
capital from Guthrie to Oklahoma City,
on the ground of irregularity in the
ballot voted. $50. Governor Conner of
Alabama, a few days ago visited the
saloons of Montgomery and finding
beer and whisky being sold in violation
of the law, ordered raids which re-
suited in the seizure Of $4,000 worth
of liquors. Dennis Polk, a negro,
was shot down and fatally wounded by
a posse at Biloxi, Miss, last Tuesday,
while resisting arrest for shooting his
father in law Col. Goethals, in
charge of the Panama canal work, has
advised President Taft that the canal
will be completed by January l, 1913,
and within the 1885, 100000 already ap-
propriated by congress. ...... William
Martin, aged 80 years, and the oldest
,s,,t,, IF
convicted John Brown of treason at
Harper's Ferry before the civil war,
was married to Mrs. Bette Ferguson
last Tuesday at Legato, Fairfax coun-
ty, Va. The bride Is her husbands
senior by one year.. "A pair OF horses
that took the blue ribbon at the New
York horse show Thursday, was sold
by E. T. SALISBURY to Walter Winans
for S25, 900. .. AT a dinner given In
his honor by the people of Panama last
Wednesday, President Taft took occa-
sion to make it very clear that the
United States does not desire to alb
sorb the little republic and will not
do so. .... Hugh T. Inman, the we'll
known financial magnate OF Atlanta,
died last Tuesday in New York sani-
tarium. where he had gone to be treat
ed for a nervous break down. .... 1t Is
stated that in his next message, Pres
ident Taft will ask congress for an ap-
preparation of $2,000,000 with which to
fortify the Panama canal. 1.-The
number of applications that have so
far been made to see the Yale Har-
ward football game on Thanksgiving
day, aggregates $4,000. John Gar,
New. Yorker, swan the East river
Wednesday, to pay an election bet. he
had believed that Stimson would De
elected. The Japanese vice consul
at Honolulu, was denied admission to
membership in the Young Mems Chris
ton association at Honolulu the other
day, because the American board of
directors feared that Japanese incom-
patibility might initiate against the
usefulness of the organization. The
governor Of Louisina has called an
extra session of the legislature to elect
a successor to the late Senator McEn-
cry The population of Salt Lake
City, Utah, according to the last CEN
sus, Is 96,S15, an increase OF 80 per
cent The exports of the United
states last year were $75,000,00O in eX-
cess of imports. .... Augusta, Ga, has
1,615 less population than ten years
ago. The population of the city ac-
cordng to the census just taken is
1885. The Iowa supreme court
lOldS tnat the weight Vi d COllldlllCi VI
a commodity must be included in the
weight of the commodity at the same
price. A man who bought three pounds
of lard and found the can weighed in,
sued for short weight and lost by the
decision. ...... Count Leo Tolstoi, the
Russian novelist and philanthropist, is
seriously i'll. .... The population OF
Maine is 742,371, an increase of 47,905
since 1900. -. The entire stock of the
big English wooden firm of Joseph
Brooke & Co., of New York, was seized
by the customs officials few days ago
in an effort to recover damages claim
ed in the sum of 100000 for alleged
customs frauds. The house Is a branch
of the main establishment in England,
and has been doing business in New
York for twenty-five years. .Yegg-
men got $1,000 in money and stamps
from the postoffice at Admission, Ala,
last Wednesday night. 1t Is off,
cially announced that King George and
Queen Mary are to hold coronation
durbar at Delhi, India, on January l,
1912. The big suit against the Stand
ard Oil company in the United States
court at Jackson, Tenn, has fallen to
the ground, because of the complete
failure of the government to prove any
part of the charges it has made as to
violation of the Sherman antitrust
law.