Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-11-28
MERE ENfION.

The health of Chas. w. Morse. the
convicted banker Of New York. who Is
serving a sentence of fourteen years
in the Federal prison In Atlanta, has
become so bad that last week Presi-
dent Taft ordered his removal to the
army hospital at Fort Mcpherson Tor
treatment. Morse will probably soon
be paroled or pardoned by the presl-
dent. Mrs. A. E. Nelson and Chas.
Griffin, Joy riders. were killed on the
outskirts of Atlanta, Ga, Thursday by
being dashed against telephone pole
from an automobile. ....The Japan
ese destroyer Harausame was sunk on
chima. japan, Thursday by having
struck an uncharted rock. Forty
five of the crew of sixty were drowned.
..W. j. Cummins of Tennessee.
was convicted in New York Friday on
the charge of the larceny Of $4,000
from the Carnegie Trust company.
Cummins worked a get-rich-quick
scheme and was sentenced to serve
not less than four years and eight
months in prison. The steamer
Roumania was wrecked In the Adrl-
attic sea Friday and sixty persons were
drowned. -. BY the explosion OF a
boiler at Liverpool, England. Friday
thirty-three persons were killed and
100 or more were injured. "A cable
of Saturday tells Of the murder by
chinese bandits of the American rep
resentative of the American Tobacco
company and his robbery Of 100000
near Siang-Fu. Federal authori-
ties on SATURDAY. put stop to too fTe-
nuent international funerals" which
were occurring on the Mexico border
along the Rio Grande. 1t was found
that the coffins were filled with 3O-3O
rifles to be used by revolutionists
against the Madero government. -.
1t the final meeting Of the convention
Of the American Federation of Labor
held in Atlanta. Ca. Saturday. Samuel
Gomners was reelected president.
Mr.. Farrow Hall, a well-known citizen
of Atlanta. died in that city Friday
night, following injuries received by
being knocked down by an automobile
during the morning. Miss Sarah
Jackman. a one-time well-known au-
thor. died suddenly in New York Fri
aay. while working on a novel entitled
"The Serpent's Trail" based on the
Incidents and trial Of Henry Clay
Reattie. Jr. Miss Jackman. her moth
er and sister lived in a tenement and
were poverty stricken. .... John r:
Dryden. aged 70 years, president or
the Prudential Life Insurance COM
pany of Newark, n. j., died In New
ark Friday, following an operation for
gall stone. Elmer w. Moore. treas
urer of the Federal Oil and Gas COM
pany, of Pittsburg, Pa. has been plac-
ed under a $4,000 bond until he can
explain a shortage of 100000 in his
accounts. The trial of Lillian Gra-
ham and Ethel Conrad, chorus girls
charged with shooting w. E. D. Stokes
multimillionaire hotel owner, is In
progress in New York. Stokes claims
the girls shot him because he would
not submit to blackmail. .... Under a
newly enacted law Ohio will choose its
delegates to the next national presi-
Dental nominating convention by pri-
mary elections. :. Mrs. Gertrude Glib
son Patterson is on trial at Denver,
Col, charged with the murder of her
husband. :. While a mob Of 200 men
were preparing to lynch Clarence
Davis a negro youth, for alleged
criminal assault on a white girl at
Spring Hill, Kan, Friday, the father
of the girl appeared and said to the
mob: This is the man who attempt
ed a vicious crime on my daughter.
but Judge Lynch does not live in
civilized Kansas any more. To burn
this fellow will only scandalize the
state. Let the law take its course"
The mob turned the negro over to the
sheriff . Beulah Binford, the young
woman who attained notoriety because
of the Beattie case, declared in New
York Friday that she did not believe
Beattie guilty of numbering his wife.
despite his confession. Ross French,
a Cherokee Indian. was electrocuted at
Raleigh. n. c.. Friday for the murder
of Miss Ethel Shuler, whom he killed
after attempting a criminal assault.
French confessed his crime. ....J. A.
O'Berry, a white man, was executed
at st. Mary's. Ca, last Friday for the
murder of a negro woman and her
daughter. This is said to be the first
case on record where a white man
has lawfully paid the death penalty
for killing a negro. .... H. G. Beat
tie, Jr., the wife murderer was buried
in the Maury burying ground at
Richmond last Sunday morning. The
Beattie plot was roped off so as to
admit only the family and keep back
the morbid crowds Of curious people
who wanted to see. Postmaster
General Hitchcock will recommend an
Of from $4,000 to $780,
900 for experimenting with air ships
in the mail service.