Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-10-03
MERE ENTION.

Miss Annie Crawford Is In jail In
New Orleans, charged with the mur-
der of her sister by poison, to secure
the life insurance on the sisters life.
The accused Is a drug fiend.. Vito
Micollo, alleged by the police to be the
leader Of a band Of italian kidnappers
and blackmailers, Is held under $12,-
500 bond on the charge Of kidnapping
the young son Of wealthy New York
Italian in that city two years ago..
Robbers looted the safe Of the Cana
dian Express company at Hamilton,
Ontario, early Friday morning, and got
away with $4,000 in cash.. So. Ben
jamin Cohen, salesman, shot his wife
to death and committed suicide in
Chicago, Friday, following a trivial
domestic quarrel. 49,. .Georgia's total
assessed property valuation for 1911
is $S11,693,155, an increase over 1910
of $45,9O6, ,016.. ... Judge Peter Gross
cup, Federal judge of Chicago, after
resigning his Office and then with
drawing his resignation, has again an
nounced his resignation to take effect
this week. ... Governor Dix Of New
York, will shortly grant a full pardon
to Captain Peter c. Haines, the slayer
Of VIM. E. Annis, New York maga-
zine editor Haines's defense was un-
due intimacy of Annis with Mrs. Clau-
dia Haines. The captain was sent up
for an indeterminate term of eight to
twenty years. Last Saturdays
shipments of cotton by steamship from
Savannah, Ga, was 95,766 bales. .......
One Of the large winter hotels at
Southern Pines, N. c., was destroyed
by fire early Saturday morning.. IA
white man and a negro were overcome
by gas in a we'll at Bridgewater, N. c.,
Friday, and were dead before they
could be rescued. q. . About 10000 en-
ployes Of the Hartman lines, includ-
ing the Union Pacific, Southern Pacific
and Illinois Central railways, went on
a strike Saturday. The strikers In
clude carmen, machinists, black
smiths boilermakers and freight
clerks. Senator Joseph F. John
ston of Alabama, says there has been
too much red tape in Democratic plat
forms, and that the next one should
be as short as the Lords prayer.
Tacoma, Wash, jobbers on Saturday
cut the wholesale price of sugar sew
enty cents a hundred pounds under the
prices ruling in New York. -. The
firemen Of the Georgia and Florida
railroad are on a strike. Aviator
Robert c. Fowler has abandoned his
attempt to fly across the continent be-
cause he found that his biplane would
not bite" the thin air OF the Sierras.
He made two attempts to go over the
mountains and then gave up.
More than 400 steerage passengers Of
the steamship La Savoie, from Medi-
terranean ports, were held up at the
New York quarantine station Satur-
day, on account Of coming from chol-
era infected districts. While walk
ing in his sleep, early Saturday morn
ing at Atlantic City, N. j., Daniel La
Grange, 10 years old, turned on the
gas, but failed to apply a lighted
match. When found he was dead from
asphyxiation. coincidence of
the declaration Of war on Turkey by
Italy last Friday, was the announce
ment a day or two previously, that the
next international peace conference Is
to be held at Rome, Italy,. Ten
French aviators have asked the Italian
government for the privilege of follow
ing it's armies in Tripoli in aeroplanes.
Because of a strike of railroad
employees in Ireland and a strike of the
bakers of Dublin, that city Is facing
famine conditions. 80. According to-
Chinese naval plans that nation during
the next seven years will build eight
battleships, twenty cruisers, ten gum
boats and fifty torpedo boats.
Secretary Of the Navy Meyer on Sat
urday let a contract for the building
Of four more submarine boats for the
United States navy, at cost or ap-
proximately $2,000,000.. The DEM
ocratic national committee will de-
mand a certified check for 100000
from the representatives Of the city
chosen for the next national Demo-
cratic convention.