Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-01-17
MERE-M ENTION.

MERE-M ION.
The owners of the Bagley Ray peach
orchards, including $4,000 trees, near
Americus, Ga, have decided to cut the
trees down and plant the ground In
cotton, because they have found that
although they are able to produce fine
fruit in immense quantities they are
unable to get the fruit on the market at
a profit. 80. "A fire, the origin of which
has not been ascertained, destroyed
thousands Of pension records in the Of
flee of the United States pension agen-
cy in the pension building at Washing
ton, last Friday. "A Savannah dis
patch says that the turpentine market
last Friday reached so cents a gallon,
the highest price on record. Rosin Is
also at the highest price it has reached
in the history of the market. Large
numbers of negro laborerS have been
run out of the neighborhood of Ash
burn, Ga, by posting of notices warn
ing them that if they remained they
would be lynched. The farmers have
tried to assure the negroes that they
would be protected; but these assur-
ances have failed to reassure. .......
Frank Caffyn, Wright aviator, has
opened training school for flying at
Augusta, Ga. 49,. The Southern Pacific
snow in the Sierras. The snow drifts
are said to be higher than they have
been for twenty years. .... The Wash
ington general assembly is considering
the abolition of the death penalty for
murder and treason. go. Mrs. Laura
Farnsworth Schenck is on trial at
Wheeling, w. Va, charged with pois-
oning her husband, John o. Schenck.
......The grand jury investigating the
failure of the Northern Bank Of New
York city, of which John G. Robin was
president, is proving so vigorous in its
work, that several of Robins co-of-
ficers have asked the prosecuting at
torney to be allowed to turn states
evidence, in a effort to save them
selves. 49,. Two soldiers, members Of
Co. E. Seventeenth infantry, have been
indicted at Atlanta, Ga, on charges Of
assisting prisoners to escape from the
Fulton county Jail ten days ago. .....
Two men were killed by the collapse Of
building at Norfolk, Va, Saturday.
-. Five Southern Pacific trains are
stormbound on the Sierra mountains of
California by the worst snow storm in
many years. "A deadlock of the New
York Legislature is probable as a result
of the selection Of John F. Sheehan by
Charles Murphy, the Tammany leader,
dS d SuCCeSSOI W OIlllGu STATES OeHd-
tor Depew. The Republican and
Democratic members of the West Vir-
ginia senate are deadlocked over the
organization of that body. :. Students
of Georgetown and George Washington
universities to the number of 100
have served notice on the faculties
that they will not attend medical lee
lures If attended by the negro students
of Howard university. .... The battle
ship Arkansas, having a displacement
of $4,000 tons and carrying twelve Il
inch guns, was launched at Camden,
n. j., Saturday. The Arkansas Is the
most powerful vessel of the Dread
nought class yet built. 49,. Six persons
were killed in a New York Central
railway wreck at Batavia, N. Y, Fri
day morning. go. Franz Lovinski an
aged Polish Canadian farmer, was
killed Friday night and his log cabin
robbed of $4,000 in cash, which he
was known to have in his possession.