Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-01-20
MERE-M ENTlON.

governor of Alabama, at Montgom-
cry, on Monday. In his inaugural ad-
dress he declared for local option
......A Federal grand jury is inves-
tigating alleged irregularities in the
Atlanta, Ca, postoffice. .... There are
eight candidates before the New
York legislature for the seat OF
United States Senator Depew. Judge
Nlton B. Parker is a possibility as a
compromise candidate. An 1tal-
ian prisoner in the Federal prison al
Ntlanta. Ga, Vincenzo Morrello, a
cOunterfeter. serving a 30-year SEN
tence. has made an affidavit to the
prison authorities that he knows the
murderers of the late Lieut.. Detective
Petrosino. of the New York police
force. who was murdered at Paler-
mo, Sicily, more than year ago..
Four persons were killed by the ex-
plosion of a gas retort at Niobrara,
Neb., Monday. Three negroes
were lynched in Shelby county, KY,
his son, Sarge Kennedy, were assassi-
mated near Ohatchie, Ala, Saturday
DR.. John F. Pearce is held, charged
with the crime. Later developments
tend to show that others are implicat-
ed The feud was the result of a
land suit and domestic troubles.
Mrs. Edith Melber is held at Albany,
y. Y, charged with the murder of her
5-year-old SON. The United
States supreme court has rendered
decision upholding the constitution
ality of the Alabama law prohibiting
insurance companies from pooling
their interests. .... Fire destroyed
property of a value exceeding $780,
600 at Matewan, w. Va, Monday.
Governor Woodrow Wilson of
New Jersey, in his inaugural address
Tuesday, struck the trusts a smashing
blow by suggesting the passage OF
laws that would decrease the sweep
ing powers granted to corporations
chartered in that state. 1t IS the
talk in Washington that another eX-
ira session of the SiXty-Second con-
gress will be necessary, because 1t will
be impossible to give necessary con-
sideration to certain legislation be-
tween now and March 4th. Rear
Admiral Edw. B. Barry, until last
week commander Of the Pacific fleet,
has been put on the retired list be-
cause of serious charges involving
his moral character. wv. B.
Walker is on trial at Macon, Ga.
charged with killing his wife by sat-
urating her clothing with gasoline
and setting her afire. Three
men were killed and one injured by a
Rock Island railroad switch engine
at Joliet. H., Tuesday. ..". College
Park, Ga, suburb of Atlanta, has
fixed it's near-beer license at $4,000
a year. Gilbert NJ. Hitchcock,
Democrat was elected to the United
states senate by the Nebraska legis-
lature Tuesday, receiving III out of
a possible 1873 votes. s........A bill has
been introduced in the United States
senate. to drop the name of Captain
Peter Hains from the army roll.
Hams murdered VIM. f. Annis, a
newspaper man, in 1908, and is SerV-
ng a term in Sing Sing prison.
Nathan Montague, negro, was con-
murder of Mamie Sanders. her child
and her father, and was sentenced to
die in the electric chair. The jury was
out eight minutes. The prisoner was
:uarded during the trial by four
companies of militia. ...... The At
anita Journal. Jas. r. Gray, its editor;
Jno. d. Simmons, circulation manager
nd two Journal employees were in
dicted by a Federal grand jury in At
lanta, Ga, Wednesday, charged with
onspira, y to defraud the government
in the matter of mail weights. .....
Eight members Of the crew of the
attleshIp Delaware were killed at sea
off Hampton Roads. Tuesday, by the
explosion Of a steam pipe.
Henry F. Lippitt has been elected 10
he United States senate by the Rhode
Island legislature to succeed Senator
ldrich. Twenty anarchists
were sentenced to death at Toxic, ia
pan. Wednesday, for conspiring to
kill the emperor and members of The
royal family. Senator Lodge has
been reelected to the senate from
Massachusetts. ...... The National
''orn exposition will be held in CO.
lumbus. O.. on Friday, February 10th.
w. B. Lyens. eX-sheriff. and his
on. Archie. were cleared of the charge
Of murder at Cordele. Ga. Tuesday
after being tried three times. :. Paul
Morton, president of the Equitable Life
Assurance society, and secretary of the
navy under Roosevelt, died suddenly
at Hotel Seymor, New York, yesterday.