Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-08-09
MERE ENTION.

MERE-MENTlON.
A. dispatch Of Friday from Con-
stantinople. stated that 1000 Chris
tans and Mohammedans had been
killed in conflicts in Syria during the
past week. ... Statistics just issued
for the first three months OF 1910
show that during that period LOO
persons were killed and 21,232 In
jured on the railroads of the coun-
try. The electric railroads killed
nineteen and injured 669 persons.
On August / the gold coin in circu-
lation in the United States totaled
$59l.664.43O and gold certificates,
$S31,663,O29. The total of all kinds
of money was $3,l33, 752,042. Three
men were killed in the wreck or
fast freight near Port Jervis, n. Y,
Friday. The wreck was caused by a
mudSlide in a cut. The monu-
ment commemorating the landing OF
the Pilgrims, was dedicated at Pro-
Iyincetown, Mass, Friday. The shaft
| Is of solid construction and Is 252 feet
high President Taft made the dedi-
catory address. In the current
issue of the Commoner, Editor VIM.
]. Bryan says of the Illinois represen-
tatives who voted for Lorimer: Amy
Democrat who voted for William
Lorimer is not fit for representative
position. 1t is hardly safe to allow
| him to run at large. Seven lives
were lost by the burning of lodging
house at Jamaica, Long Island, Fri
day morning. Joe Cans, former
| lightweight champion pugilist or the
world, is dying at Baltimore, Md,
| from tuberculosis. go. Farley May,
I23 years old, shot policeman to
| 4 n Frt1au wnun6Qn
two others and was shot to death by
| a policeman. In a feud fight at
Grays, Ga, Friday afternoon, Morris
| and Steve Etheridge were shot to
death. Luther, viii, Sam and Tom
Morton are under arrest, charged with
the killing. 49,. The Canadian steam
ship Princess May, struck a reef OF
Sentinel Islet, off the Alaska coast,
early Friday morning and went to the
bottom. The 14S passengers and crew
were saved. "A Philadelphia sur
geon has succeeded in transplanting
portion Of the cornea from the eye
ball of man to the eyeball Of a
woman, and sight has been restored
| to her eve The name of John
Mitchell, the labor leader, is being
considered by the Republican party
of New York as a possible nominee
for the governorship.. Lewis
Colgrove, 4-years-old, a Louisville,
KY, boy, was fatally burned Friday
by the ignition Of matches which he
carried in his pockets. 80. The pres
ident of one Of the leading railway
systems of the country, living In
Chicago, makes the charge that the
recent suit instituted by Attorney Cen
eral Wickersham to prevent the rails
ing of rates by the railroads, was not
aimed at the railroads, so much as
at the insurgents of the Republican
party in order to check sentiment In
favor of the insurgents. Two
women made their escape from the
woman's prison at indianapolis, IND,
Thursday night by picking the lock
of their cell with a hairpin.. The
superior court of Massachusetts, has
issued an injunction to striking MEM
bers of the Photo Engravers' union
of Boston, in which 1t forbids the con-
| tinuance of the strike or the payment
| of benefits by the union to the strik-
ers. -. The London police claim to
have discovered positive evidence that
1.-The body Of the woman found In the
Crippen house in London Is that OF
Belle Elmore, the doctors wife. Dis
patches from Quebec are to the ef-
feet that the Leneve girl has turned
against Crippen and 1t Is believed she
| will tell all she knows OF the case.--.
Frank Wilson, aged Is, accidentally
shot Eugene Bohannon, aged 19, to
death with a parlor rifle at Chattanoo-
ga, Tenn, Saturday. -Four men
were killed in a Delaware and Lack
| awanna railroad wreck near Strouds--
burg, Pa, Saturday. The wreck oc-
Cured at the same spot where wreck
occurred three months ago, in which
| the son Of the engineer killed in Satur-
| Joy'c ,r,ranE 1oct hic life Wm. l.,
| Rice, a wealthy lawyer Of Cleveland,
O.. was assassinated i'm that city Fri
| day night on one of the public streets.
| The murder and its cause Is mys-
| terry. Secret service officers during
| the year closing June 30. captured more
| than $500.000 i'm counterfeit money,
and made 316 arrests. Only $4,000
was captured during the year preced-
| ing. 1t is expected that $4,000 del
egates of the Catholic Total Abstinence
| Union of America will attend the an
nual convention at Boston, Mass, this
week. :. . The anticipated clash between
the partisans of the Catholic church
and the Spanish authorities at San Sc
bastin on Sunday, did not materialiZe.
| The leaders of the Catholic church de-
| clared against the proposed demon
stration and parade and the day pass
ed quietly. A bull fight was a feature
of the day. Angelo Galenti, an
Italian, was fatally shot in New York
| Sunday as he was walking 1OSth street.
| Passing i'm front of house having
crepe on the door he heard his name
called. Turning he noticed a pistol
barrel pushed through a hole in the
| door partly concealed by the crepe.
He fired at the spot and was fatally
| shot himself. Blood on the floor near
the door was evidence that Galenti's
| shot had found its mark. Two per-
sons were killed and eight injured, sew
eral fatally, near Bessemer, Ala, Sun
| day, when an automobile was struck
| by a Southern passenger train on a
| grade crossing. .....A railroad section
hand, Mike Arilik, shot two of his COM
paniOns to death at South Omaha,
Neb., Sunday, and ran away with a
| trolley car in an effort to escape. He
| was later captured. .... Miss Rose
| Pitonoff. Is years old, of Dorchester
Mass, on Sunday swan from pier OF
| the CharlestOwn bridge to Boston light,
| a distance of twelve miles, in hours,
80 minutes and 30 seconds. 49,. Post
master General Hitchcock has issued
| a statement showing that the business
of the postotfice department increased
| 10 per cent last year over the previous
year. at an added expense or only
per cent. lHc IsCpupiiSai POI -
| insurgents of the middle west have
started a boom for Senator Cummins
of Iowa for the presidential nomina-
ton in 1912. ... The charges OF
Senator Gore, which are being inves-
| tigated by the congressional commit
tee in Oklahoma, are making lot Of
noise and raising some very unpleas-
ant odors. -. Fifty thousand Knight
Templars are attending the triennial
conclave of the order in Chicago this
week and with them are more than
| 10000 visitors. ...... The Georgia
department Of agriculture, basing its
| estimate on reports from all parts OF
the states, figures that the cotton crop
of the state this year will be only So
| per cent as great as was the crop last
year The cholera plague continues
to spread throughout Russia and
the fatalities have reached an aver
age of 1000 a day. From July "a to
July 80, there were reported 1924
new cases and 6,944 deaths. "A
Memphis, Tenn, dispatch states that
~ Do 10 haino or OlU