Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-04-29
MERE-M ENTION.


northern Mexico on Monday night.
burst into four pieces and caused a
disastrous forest fire. ... The British
sealing steamer Aurora, with a crew Of
1877 men on board, is reported as being
lost at sea from st. Johns, N S. The
vessel has been missing since April lst.
..... James Aff1eck, was killed at Co.
lumbus, Ga, Monday night by Will
Carmack, In a dispute over a piece Of
cheese. The New York Herald and
Atlanta Journal are making arrange
ments for another New York to Atlanta
automobile run during the coming sum-
mer. ....A number Of negroes nave
been arrested in Atlanta on suspicion
Of being members Of the gang which
held up the street car conductor and
motorman in that city Saturday night.
The railroad company, the city and
state have offered rewards aggresating
$1,000 for the arrest Of MotOrman
Browns murderer. :. During the year
1909 approximately $4,000 American
farmers went across the border to be-
come citizens Of Canada. During the
same period, $1,000 Canadian farmers
moved to the United States. A bag
gage car on a Southern railway train
was destroyed by fire at Bynums, Ala.
Tuesday morning. The fire was started
by candle coming in contact with
moving picture films. .TnC trial OF
F. Augustus Heinz, on charges Of vio-
lations of the national banking laws.
was begun in New York on Tuesday.
The case against Heinz is very similar
to the one in which Chas. w. Morse
was convicted and sentenced to fifteen
years in prison. 80. General EstenoZ.
negro and twenty-five Of his follow
ers were indicted at Havana, Cuba,
Tuesday, charged with melting rebel
lion and anti-white violence. "A Chi
cago street car company has put spe-
cial car in service on its lines to be
used for funerals exclusively. .....A
Brockton, Mass, woman who died re-
Gently, is believed by her physician to
have been a victim Of arsenic poison,
which she absorbed into her system
from sleeping on a nair mattress. An
other woman who also used the hair
mattress, is critically Ill. l..... Charles
Moran, one of the most noted conf
dence men in the world, was arrested
in Chicago on Tuesday. Moran is said
by postoffice inspectors to have clean
ed up nearly million dollars by get
rich quick" schemes. Two white
men were shot to death in three cor
nered fight at Adamsville, Ala, Mon
day. "A terrific wind storm wrecked
circus tent at Jersey City, N: j.,
Tuesday morning. One man was Killed.
another fatally injured and score
hurt. Fifty-two cages of animals were
turned over and almost totally wreck
ed. So. AS a result Of a mutiny OF the
prisoners in the Colorado state prison
at Canon City, Monday night, two con-
yicts were shot to death, three fatally
shot and several others more or less
wounded. None Of the convicts man.
aged to get away. by the arrest OF
nine men, seven Of whom are brothers,
in Alabama and Texas last Friday, New
York wholesalers have put an END 10
gigantic swindle and fraud, which has
been practiced on them during the past
year or more. The gang conducted a
chain Of stores. 1t would order goods
to one store, quickly transfer the ship
ment to another and another, claim
they were lost and the wholesalers lost
the amount Of their bills. Two per-
sons were killed and three others were
more or less injured in automobile ac-
cidents in New York on Tuesday.
William j. Kelliher, the Boston confi-
dence man, arrested in connection with
the swindling Of Geo. w. Coleman, the
defaulting teller Of Cambridge, Mass,
bank, has been released on a bond or
s25, 900. New York Republicans are
expressing fears Of losing New YORK
to the Democrats in the fall elections,
without the assistance Of Mr.. Hughes,
recently appointed to the Federal su-
preme court bench. =. The lower house
of the Massachusetts legislature has
passed a resolution demanding that
congress call a constitutional conven-
tion to amend the Federal constitution,
so as to provide for the election of
United States senators by direct vote
of the people. The resolution was
of the people. The resolution was pass
ed by a vote Of 109 to 98. Twenty-eignt
states have passed similar resolutions;
The Hall of Peace" was dictated
at Washington, Tuesday by representa-
tiyes of twenty one North and South
American republics. It's principal pur-
pose is the development of trade be-
tween the United States and the repuD-
lies of Central and South America.
Mrs Pearl Armstrong was convicted at
Jefferson, Ind, Tuesday, on the charSe
of numbering her husband by strych-
nine, carbolic acid and calomel poison
ing New York physicians and health
officers have come to the conclusion
that Pasteurized milk Is not 80 good
for babies as the raw product, when
produced under proper sanitary condl-
tions. .Bjornstjerne Bjornson, not
ed Norwegian poet, novelist and dra-
matist and advocate OF universal peace,
died in Paris on Tuesday night at the
age Of 7S...... Edward P. Weston, the
veteran pedestrian, is expected to com
plete his walk from Los Angeles. CAL, TO
New York, 3,4O9 miles today, after sew
enty-five days Of walking. Weston es-
timated that he could make the trip In
ninety days. AS the result or the
recent freeze, thousands of cotton
farmers of Mississippi, Louisiana and
Alabama, will abandon cotton crop
for this year and will plant their cot,
ton lands to corn and other 1000 ana
forage crops. -. Passengers arriving
at New Orleans from Costa Ricah
ports. declare that hundreds or nVes
were lost during the recent earth
quake in that country. Thousands OF
houses were shaken down. .... rive
negro children were burned to death
at Good Hope, Ga, Tuesday nlgnI;
Albert Wolter. convicted in New YORK
on last Friday Of the murder OF Ruth
Wheeler, has been sentenced to be
electrocuted during the week ~ June
6 Wolter has expressed the wish to
be allowed to marry Kate Mueller. his
sweetheart, whose testimony did much
to fasten his crime on him. Advices
rereiyed at Constantnople during the
past two or three days. are to the ef-
feet that in a battle between Turkish
troops and rebel Albanians that has
been in progress for three days on the
plains Of Kossovo, more than 10000
soldiers have been left dead ana
wounded on the field. xiii and spare
none" &c the order given to the Turk
ish soldiers.
RepIant In Corn.-"Every planter
whose cotton has been injured, should
replant in corn and not attempt to grow
a second stand of cotton" said Georgia
Commissioner of Agriculture I. q.
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