Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-02-28
MERE-M ENTION.

Caswell McCatten, negro, classed
as an habitual criminal has been SEN
fenced by the court at Georgetown,
KY, to life Imprisonment for the theft
of a turkey. The house of repre-
sentatives Saturday night voted over
whelmingly in favor of fortifying the
Panama canal and appropriated 49,
10000 to begin the work. ...... .Chas.
D. Norton, secretary to the president,
has resigned to take the first vice pres
idency Of a New York bank. Charlie
Jones and Charlie Parham, negroes,
were lynched at Warrenton, Ca, early
Saturday morning. The negroes had
murdered two white men. The moth
er of Oscar Chitwood is suing the
bondsmen of Sheriff Houpt Of Hot
Springs, Ark, for $4,000 damages, for
the lynching Of oscar in December
last. Two masked highwaymen
held up Mrs. Gus Joseph, postmaster
and express agent at Fuller, Kan, Fri
day night and got away with package
containing 100000. They missed two
other packages containing 500, 900 more.
.Robt. Emerson Davie, familiarly
known in Boston as the boy Broker,
has been arrested at Rio Janeiro, Bra
I'll, on charges of embezZling 100000
from clients of Boston. Davie will be
returned to the United States for
trial. Night riders blew up far
mer's house near Sharpsburg, KY,
Thursday night. No one was injured.
The farmer had declared his intention
to grow a tobacco crop. go. Lieut.. 5.
B. West, U. S. army, was frozen to
death near Fort Davis, Alaska, Thurs
day. .... Governor Deneen OF ILLINOIS,
ordered four companies of militia to
Taylorsville, in that state, Friday, be-
cause of rioting among striking en-
ployes of a bag factory. 80. Mrs. Car
rie Nation, famous because of her fight
against liquor, has lost her mind be-
cause of overwork. .... Mayor EXum
of Birmingham, Ala, is charged by the
city auditor, with passing padded feed
bills against the city. ..B. Bernard
of Atlanta, Ga, was fined $500 In the
Federal court in that city Saturday on
the charge of working rafting scheme
through the mails. Captain Guy B.
Smith, u. S. army, has been dismissed
from the service on charges Of conduct
unbecoming an officer and gentle,
man. His conduct toward an unnamed
married woman caused his trouble.
T. Coleman Dupont has announced his
purpose to bear the expense Of build
ing a road across the state of Dela-
ware. The road will cost $2,000,00O.
convention of southern merchants is
being held in Nashville, Tenn, for the
purpose of discussing the probable et
feet of the Inauguration Of the parcels
post system on the retail business OF
the country 80. Mrs. Maldwin Dur
mond, formerly Mrs. Marshall F1eld
Jr.. of Chicago, was robbed of $13O,OOO
worth of Jewels, taken from her state
room on the steamship Amerika, last
Sunday night, just before the dock
ing Of the ship in New York. Gen
w. L. Cabell, who was a Confederate
brigadier in the civil war, and who was
honorary communicative chief OF the
United Confederate veterans, died al
Dallas, Texas, last Friday, and was
buried on Sunday, between $4,000 and
GO, 900 persons participating in the fun
eral exercises. AT Plymouth, Mass.
last Sunday, a jury after sixteen hours
deliberation. returned verdicts Of guilty
of murder in the first degree against
Mrs. Lena Cusumano and Eurico Mas
cioli for the murder of Frank Cusum-
ano. the woman's husband. The evil
dence showed that Mrs. Cusumano paid
Mascioli s35 to commit the crime and
stood by and watched the deed. 80. IL
is now settled that there will be an eX-
| ira session of congress and 1t VIII!
probably he called to convene on April
Five thousand Japanese took
part in a lantern parade at Honolulu
on February %, in honor of George
Washington.