Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-06-17
MERE M ENTION.


n. Y, Monday, after con-
viction of manslaughter in the sec
ond degree, in running over woman
and killing her. 49,. Cloak and skirt
makers of New York, Boston and 9TH
er northern cities, to the number Of
1000 are preparing to go on
strike for higher wages. .... Two
dropped with the balloon,
5000 feet into the Mississippi river
near st. Louis, Sunday. Neither of
the men were seriously hurt. E. Grant
Mason, a negro burglar, committed
suicide by hanging himself with a
blanket in the Jail at New Haven,
Conn.,. Monday. .... Rev. j. Kinsly
pastor of the leading Presby-
terian church of Pittsburg, Pa, re-
signed his pastorate Sunday, because
his very rich parishioners didn't
like some of his preaching and stayed
at home. .....L. w. DeLoney,
farmer, was assassinated as he lay
asleep in his home near Ashdown,
Ark, Monday night. Two loads from
a shotgun were fired into his body.
A mob of white men drove the
Japanese laborers employed in a lum-
Der plant at Darlington, Wash, out
of that town Monday. Lee O'Niel
Browne is on trial in Chicago, on
charges of bribery in connection with
the Lorimer sensational election.
The capital city of Oklahoma has
been changed from Guthrie to Okla
homa City by popular vote of more
than $4,000 majority. Reaching
a height of 4,3S4 feet in a Wright
bplane at Indianapolis, Ind, Mon
day, Walter Brookins, broke the
worlds aeroplane record for altitude.
A f. Bassett, cashier of a glass
at Alton, ILL.,, has confessed
to q shortage of $4,000 in his cash.
He had been with the company twen-
ty-five years and was a prominent
church worker. Eighty-two ca
diets were graduated from the United
States military academy at West
Point, n. Y. Wednesday Will Hun
ter, a negro, was lynched at Star City,
Ark, Monday night. He had entered
the room of a white woman a few
nights before 80. Oliver Pugh, 60
years old, died at Zion City, ILL.,, Mon
day night, after suffering tortures
for week from the bite of a rattle
snake. He depended on the prayers
of the Zionites to bring about his
recovery. .Chas. X. Hamilton,
the aviator, says that he is going to
fly from New York to Chicago in the
near future .Incendiaries set
fire to the home of Detective Lanford
of the Atlanta police force, early Tues
day morning The detective and his
family escaped from the burning
building. The activity of the officer
against blind tigers and gamblers Is
believed to be the reason of the at
burning. Flag Day.
was celebrated throughout the country
Tuesday, in commemoration of the
day, June IA, 1777, on which the Con-
tinental congress adopted the stars
and stripes as the national flag. ......
Fred Caldwell fatally shot Miss Myr-
tie Lowe at Marshall, n. c., Monday
night. He objected to the girls going
with other men,. Eighty-siX di-
vorce cases were marked up on the
calendar of the Fulton couty, Ga,
superior court Monday. 500. The
United States senate has confirmed
the nomination of w. d. Crum of
South Carolina, as minister to Ii
beria. The number of deaths
from the fire which destroy
ed the building of the Montreal Her.
aid on Monday, will probably reach
4 total of thirty-five.. 80. Attorney
Wickersham has inaugurated
an investigation of the plumbers
trust. .... Twelve Austrian labOrers
were smothered and then incinerated
in their shacks at Falls View, Ont,
Tuesday. 49,. Mrs. Matte Flanders
and DR.. W. J. McNaughton are charg-
cd by the coroner'S jury at SWANS
Flanders. husband of the woman, who
died June 4, by arsenic poisoning.
was the attending physi-
clan and Mrs. Flanders nursed her
husband during his last sickness.
Both the woman and the doctor have
been arrested. All the parties are
prominent. The board of truS-
tees of Vanderbilt University, Nash
Vile, Tenn, has refused to recognize
the three trustees elected by the re-
cent conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church at Asheville, \. c.
..... Governor Gillett of California,
has taken steps to prevent the pulling
off of the Jeffries- johnson prize fight
in that state. .... Berlin, Germany,
was damaged more than $1,000,000
Tuesday night by a cloudburst. =. Fed
eral inspectors raided the office of the
United Wireless Telegraph company.
and arrested the presi-
dent and vice president. The warrant
charges the company with fraudulent
use of the mails. 1t is alleged that
many of the $4,000 Stockholders have
lost their savings through false repre-
......G. w. Morris, a
deputy marshal. was perhaps fatally
wounded at Globe. AriZ., Monday,
while trying to arrest woman. She
stuck Il hatpin into his abdomen. 80.
The Democrats of Nebraska are pre-
pairing to circulate a petition asking
VIM. j. Bryan to stand for election
% the United States senate. Sen
ItOr Lodge has Introduced bill in
he senate to permit Justice Moody
% retire from the supreme court
bench ON full pay. $4,000 a year.
Mr.. Moody is in poor health. ......
Sheriff Edgar +. Latham of Tusca-
oosa county, Ala. is to be impeached |
because of continued drunkenness. |
Two white men plead guilty of
Illicit liquor selling at HObSOn City, |
\la., Wednesday, and were sent to
ail by Mayor Addison Snow. Hob |
son City is Il negro town and Mayor |
Snow is Il negro. 1.-The depart |
nCnt of Justice has begun suit under |
he Sherman antitrust law against |
he Southern Wholesale Grocers' as
ISOLATION. an alleged trust, through |
he Federal district court Of Ala |
,ama. During the present seS- |
ion of congress 21,1SG bills have |
,ccn introduced i'm the house and $50 |
II the senate. Mr.. Theodore Ronsc-
'rlt. Jr. and Miss Eleanor Alexander
viii be married at the Fifth Avenue
hurch. New York, next Monday.