Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-07-04
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to be worth 100000. was arrested in
Atlanta, Ga, for the theft Of an empty
milk bottle and a nickel from q front
porch 3. Six masked bandits held up
a passenger train on the Erie railroad
near Erie, Pa, Friday night. The train
crew gave the bandits battle, but 1t
is believed that they got away with
some valuable express packages. 49,.
President Taft and family are now at
Beverly, Mass, for the summer.
Riverview park, pleasure resort near
Chicago, was partly destroyed by fire
Saturday morning. A general strike
was inaugurated Saturday. The rail-
road men are demanding more pay.
Defective electric wiring caused q
100000 fire in a grain elevator at
Battle Creek, Mich, Saturday. .....A "A
negro, John Collins, shot Policeman
Lynch to death in New York Satur-
day. It required a squad Of twenty
policemen to protect the negro from
mob that wanted to lynch him. ......
James Geer, an escaped convict, shot
four members of a sheriffs posse that
were after him near Louisville, Ill, FRI
day. He also tried to kill young wo-
man who rejected his attentions. $50.
The strike of the shipworkers engaged
in the coasting trade Of England has
been practically settled. -. Govern
or Smith Of Georgia, In his inaugural
address, Saturday, urged the passage
Of law giving the governor author
ity to order a change Of venue In as
sault cases, and thinks that such a
law would prevent many lynchings.
..... Six workmen were killed and
twenty five more or less injured, by
the collapse of a waterworks pump
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Friday. Fire broke out in the Chief
ton coal mine near Clarksburg, w. Va,
Thursday evening and the sixty or
more miners were trapped in one of
the shafts. They were rescued FRI
day, egress being by a second opening.
The fire is believed to have been OF in
cendiary origin. -. .One man was
killed and two seriously injured In an
automobile wreck in Pittsburg, Pa,
Friday. .. :. Frank II. Henwood was
convicted of second decree murder at
George Copeland, while shooting at 8.
Louis Won Publ, who was also killed.
Henwood will yet be tried for the
murder of Won Publ. 80. A. score of
passengers were injured In Chicago
Friday, when a trolley car ran away
and crashed into another car. The
motorman of the runaway car was
knocked from his platform by striking
an elevated railway post. The
Wisconsin legislature has made a
formal demand on the United States
senate that that body investigate the
election Of United States Senator Ste
phenson. Jos. B. Reichman, a New
York financier, was convicted Friday
on the charge Of falsifying reports Of
the Carnegie Trust company. -. Frank
Benedict, IS years old, was killed at
Starkville, Miss, Friday by an explo-
sion Of gasoline while working in an
automobile garage. :. -. Eighty three
members OF the alleged wire trust
were indicted In the Federal court In
New York, Thursday, for violation of
event Of conviction II Is the intention
of the Federal prosecuting attorneys to
demand prison sentences. ;. "A bill has
been introduced In the Georgia
legislature, providing for re-.
ferendum amendment to the con-
stitution of the state. $500. .Hoke
Smith was inougurated governor
of Georgia last Saturday, and the I'M
preston Is that the present legislature
Is going to elect him to the senate.
Clement A. Evans, former governor
der In chief or the United Confederate
veterans, died in Atlanta, Ga, last
Sunday, aged 79 years. j.. Tom Smith.
a Gadsden, Ala, farmer, is dead as
the result of his putting poison In
the water bucket for the purpose OF
killing his family and himself. His
wife and two children are dangerously
sick from the poison. There were
fifty deaths from heat throughout the
country yesterday. New York leads
the list with total Of eighteen dead.
Scores were prostrated throughout the
country. . :. Rodney j. Diegel, SER
geant at -arms Of the Ohio senate, was
convicted at Columbus yesterday, on
the charge of soliciting legislative
bribes. -. In a feud fight at Paint
Creek church, Kentucky, Sunday, two
men were fatally and one was serious
ly wounded. d. 4. Harold F. Mccormick,
John d. Rockefeller's son-in-law, has
invented an aeroplane. Its first flying
tests were successful. -. During the
fiscal year ending June 30, the United
States mints coined $1l8,925,512.50 in
gold pieces; $3,195,726.40 in silver
pieces, and $3,s4S, 909.09 in nickels and
pennies. Three men, one Of them
double murderer, escaped from the Jail
at Uniontown, Pa, Monday morning.
They made their escape by unlocking
doors with key made from spoon.