Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-09-08
MERE-MENTION.

Emperor william of Germany on
Tuesday reviewed 140 German men
of-war at Kiel. The fleet represented
a gross tonnage of 100000, with a
personnel of $4,000 men. .... Three
boys were drowned in the Shenango
river near Sharon, Pa, Monday by
the capsiZing Of a boat. .... The
Portuguese government has $4,000
troops spread along the northern bor-
der of Portugal to put down an al
legged uprising Of the royalists. go.
ly injured at Charleston, w. Va.
Tuesday in an automobile wreck
caused by a bursting tire. .... The
Chinese government will probably ap-
peal to the world for assistance In
succoring the inhabitants Of Nagan
Hwer province, where 100000 were
drowned and all crops destroyed
along the Yang Use Kiang river a
few days ago. =. Three persons were
killed on the 500 line near Fremont,
Wis. Tuesday. The railroad officials
claim that the train was deliberately
wrecked United States Senator
Lorimer came near being the victim
of an aeroplane accident at High
Lake, ILL.,. Tuesday. The aviator lost
control of his machine which sWoop-
ed down just over the heads of the
spectators. The senator's straw hat
was wrecked. :. John Henry Mooney,
a member of the New York city fire
Tuesday, having walked from New
York i'm 70 days, beating Weston's
record of 1O6 days. Miss Cath
crime Van Wyck, 20 years old, was
shot to death at Quogue, L. l., Mon
day night by VIM. A. Childs, Jr.,
whom she had rejected. Childs COM
mitted suicide. John j. Garland,
son of a wealthy citizen of Minneap-
oils. Mimi. was arrested at Findlay,
O., Tuesday, charged with numerous
burglaries Garland was a gentle
man Raffles.". "A Chicago con-
cern on Tuesday agreed to pay $21o.-
900 for the junk along the Panama
canal zone. the last tokens Of the De
Lesseps failure to dig the big ditch.
The junk includes French locomo-
tives. dump cars. sheet iron, ETC., and
originally represented an expenditure
of more than 100000, 900. -. There
have been more than 10000 deaths
from cholera in Italy during the pres
cnt year. 49,. Two men and a child
died in New York Monday as the re-
suit of eating toad-stOols for mush-
rooms. >. Fire in the New York sub
way Tuesday. caused by a short cir
cult of an electric current. created q
panic and tied up traffic fortyfive
minutes There were no casualties.
$500. Thomas Miller, a milk wagon
driver. fell into a butter vat at Oma-
ha. Neb.. Monday and was drowned.
The vat contained 1000 gallons of
buttermilk. Nine persons are be-
lieved to have lost their lives in a no
tel fire at juneau, Alaska, Monday
night. Four bodies were recovered
and five other persons are missing. -.
Crops over q radius of twenty miles
in the Horse Creek section of Wyom-
ing were destroyed by a hail storm
Monday. At the foot of Round Top
mountain it is reported that the hail
was twenty-five feet deep. .... New
York city detectives on Tuesday ar
rested Giuseppe Constable. an Italian
Black Hand suspect. and among other
things found a bomb ready for ap-
plying a match, on his person ......
Mayor Carter Fl. Harrison of Chicago,
has ordered rigid investigation of the
police department of that city, on
charges that the department was hand
i'm glove with the gamblers and the city
was wide open. The Birmingham,
Ala, plant of the Armour Packing
company, recently completed and sup
posed to be absolutely fireproof, was
destroyed by fire Wednesday with a
loss of $150,000. .... The prosecuting
attorneys i'm the case of the Ohio leg
isators charged with bribery, have
given Seargent- at arms Diegle to un-
derstand that unless he makes a con-
fession of all he knows i'm regard to
Legislative bribery, that he need not
expect any clemency.