Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-07-28
MERE MENTION.

Lillian Graham. one Of the New
York chorus girls, charged with at
tempting to murder w. E. D. Stokes,
and out on a $1,000 bail bond, has
mysteriously disappeared and her at
torney alleges that she has been kid
mapped .... .Perre Jules Vedrine, a
French aviator, Monday flew 24O
miles in four hours and forty-five sec
onds. j. Brown & Co., ship build
ers of Clyde Bank, Scotland, have
made a contract with the Cunard
steamship company to build a passen-
ger steamer that will be more than
800 feet in length. The new ship will
he christened the Aquitania and Will
be considerably larger than the Olym-
pic. .... Reports from Chicago are
to the effect that the corn crops Of
the corn growing states have been
greatly improved by drenching rains
from the Rocky Mountains eastward.
..... .Mr. James Bryce, British am
bassador to the United States since
1907, will retire soon after the sign
ing and promulgation of the Anglo
American arbitration treaty, which Is
expected at an early date. Marty
O'Toole, baseball pitcher of the ST.
Paul, Mimi, team, has been sold to
the Pittsburg, Pa, team for $22,50O.
......A $?,000,000 memorial to Alb
raham Lincoln will be erected in Po-
tomac Park, Washington. Just what
form the memorial will be has not
been fully determined yet. ... Eight
persons were injured, two seriously,
in a trolley car collision at Windsor,
Conn.,, late Monday night. 49,. Fire
Commissioner Johnson of New York
city, has begun the work of changing
all the city's fire apparatus from horse
drawn to motor driven vehicles. -.
VIM H. Randolph and DR.. Samuel E.
Hyndman, doing business under the
name of the Collins New York Medi-
cal Institute, were convicted last week
Of using the mails to defraud and on
Tuesday were sentenced to serve two
years in the FEEDER al prison at Atlanta.
Pope Plus, head Of the Roman
Catholic church, is critically Ill. He is
suffering from the effects of severe
cold. which has affected his heart. He
is 80 years old. go. Lieut.. Conneau, a
Frenchman, won the $4,000 prize Of
fered by the London Daily Mail for
1,01O mile circuit Of England and
Scotland. ....A five-story tenement
building, in New York's, East Side,
was wrecked by fire early Wednesday
morning, the fire resulting from a
bomb, supposedly set off by Black
Hand emissaries. 80. Central Of Geor-
gia railroad up to Wednesday had
handled 2.276 cars Of watermelons this
season from south Georgia points. -.
A tidal wave inundated a portion of
the province of Toxic, Japan, early
Wednesday morning. More than forty
lives are known to have been lost. -.
The cabinet of Venezuela has resigned,
following charges by President Gomez
that the cabinet was conducting secret
negotiations with former President
Castro The lower house of the
Georgia Legislature has passed a law
limiting working hours in cotton fac
tories and mills to ten hours day.
In a head-on collision between
a freight train and negro excursion
train on the S. A. l.. ut Hamlet, y. c..
Yesterday, eight negroes were killed
and fifty or more were injured. ....
Four officers of the Southern Loan and
Trust company of Atlanta, Ga. were
arrested by postoffice inspectors yes
tSrday on charges Of using the mails
to defraud The LaFOllette sub
sttute tn the Under wood bill. revising
the wool schedule of the tariff law,
was passed by the senate yesterday
afternoon by vote of 4S to 80.
President Taft is said to be contem-
plating SIX weeks trip across the
United States to San Francisco and
back . Mrs. Meta Babcock Sibley.
wife of rX-CongresSman JOS G. Sibley.
died at Franklin, Pa, yesterday. aged
SO years. Her death, following year
of i'll health. is attributed To the
charges Of corruption against her hus-
band