Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-18
MERE MENTIoN.

The Conservative party or CANADA
Is fighting the ratification Of the re-
ciprocity treaty tooth and toe-nail.
The party is using the annexation"
argument against the treaty. 80.
Wholesale arrests and prosecutions
are to follow the lynching of the ne
gro, Ezekiel Walker, at Cartersville,
Pa, Sunday night. .-- The volcano
Asma Yama, in Japan, suddenly burst
into eruption Tuesday and thirty
tourists who were climbing the noun
tain, were killed 49,. A negro was
burned at the stake at Durant, Okla,
early Tuesday morning, following an
attack on a white woman, who died
Of her injuries. Another negro muir
dered a white woman following the
burning and this started a race riot.
The whites have organized the "Kad-
do Klan" and posted notices for all
negroes to leave the vicinity at once.
..... The customs authorities at San
Francisco are being investigated and
disclosures eclipsing the recent dis
closures in the New York custom
house are promised. -. The inves-
tigation of the alleged crookedness In
the election Of United States Senator
Stephenson Of Wisconsin, Is to be In
the hands Of a subcommittee OF five
members Of the committee on prfvi-
leges and elections. .....Two men
were killed at Beckville, Pa, Tuesday
by the explosion Of powder mill -.
In order to prevent any legal attempt
to annul their marriage because OF
alleged irregularities In the first cere-
mony, Jack Geraghty, chaffeur, and
his wife, who was Miss Julia French,
a Newport, R. l., society girl, were on
Tuesday again married at Springfield,
Mass, by Catholic priest. Despite
the row that has been raised about
the coming marriage Of Col. John
Jacob Astor and Miss Force, the
bride-to-be is getting her wedding
trouseau ready for the occasion. 49,.
The Canadian Pacific steamer, Lake
Erie, is held at quarantine at Crosse
Isle, Canada, with thirty-seven cases
of suspected Asiatic cholera on board.
The Wittekind is held at the same
place with 120 cases reported as
smallpox. General LIE Conte has
been elected president Of Hayti by the
Haytian congress, to succeed the exil-
ed Antoine Simon. Three men were
killed in a head-on collision on the
Canadian Pacific railroad at st. Cuth-
berts, Can, Tuesday. A misreading
Rollin West, cashier Of the Golden
state bank, Chicago, was arrested
Tuesday, charged with embezzling
$9,787. :. Mrs. Elinor Valentine shot
her husband to death and committed
suicide at Denver, Col, Tuesday. They
quarreled over money. ..... The Geor-
gia legislature has appropriated $2.-
100000 for school purposes. 80. For
est fires are doing great damage in
the San Fernardino and San Jacinto
mountains Of California. The prop
ic I'M
eral fire fighters are missing. .......
Five hundred thousand persons are
homeless and 30,000,00O are menaced
with starvation as a result Of terrific
floods during Tuesday and Wednesday
in the province Of Anhui, China. The
floods destroyed 235,000 acres Of rice.
The California court Of appeals
on Tuesday dismissed the charges OF
bribery against Patrick Calhoun, the
San Francisco railway magnate....
While trying to arrest Charles West
negro for beating his wife at Jakin,
Ga, Marshal Newberry was killed by
the negro. A posse began search for
the negro and If captured he will be
lynched AT Liceia, Portugal, Wed
nesday, a Catholic priest, backed by
300 armed men, expelled the appraisers
appointed to take inventories Of church
property preparatory to final separa-
tion of church and state. 80. A coun-
try-wide search Is in progress for E
E. Hesse Of Tecumseh, Neb. The
authorities want him to explain how
the bodies Of his wife and daughter
come to be in a we'll on his place.
The women disappeared a year ago and
Hesse said they had gone west" He
later filled the we'll up. The neighbors
were suspicious and opened the well.
finding the bones and clothes of the
two women. ... The full blood Cher
okee Indians of Oklahoma, are prepar-
ing to institute suit for $25,000,o00
against the United States government,
claimed to be due for property rights
and money dissipated by the govern
ment during the past 100 years. ....
James Cullen Henderson, 16-year-old
boy of Houston, Tex. accidentally kill
ed a newswoman in New York Tues
day night, by letting his pistol slip
from his pocket as he was hunting for
change to buy a paper. Henderson
can only be charged with carrying con-
cealed weapons.