Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-29
MERE-MENTION,

MERE-MENTIoN.
One man was burned to death and
two seriously injured by the explosion
Of an automobile gasoline tank at
Pittsburg, Pa, Friday. .... Christie
pher Columbus Wilson, the convicted
president Of the United Wireless COM
pany, now serving a three years SEN
tence in the Federal prison at Allan
ia, Is said to have managed to put
away 1,500, 900 for use when he gets
out. 49,. Judge Harvey M. Trimble
of Illinois, was elected commander-in-
chief Of the Grand Army of the Re-
public at the encampment at Roches-
ter. New York, last week. .....
Thieves got away with four mail
sacks containing about $4,000 from
the postoffice at Kirksville, Missouri,
Friday. :. Jefferson county, Alabama,
in which birmingham is located, last
Thursday voted for the open saloon
in preference to the dispensary plan
by a majority of more than 1000
votes. -. Two men killed. two IA
tally hurt and score injured was the
result Of an explosion in a mine at
Newbury. Mass. Friday. 80. Andre
Jaegar- a Paris newspaper
man on Saturday finished a trip
around the world from Paris to
Vladivostok. to Vancouver, B. c., to
Montreal, to New York and on to
Paris in SO days, 10 hours and 43
minutes. the quickest time ever made.
He travelled 1880 miles. u. Wylie
Smith. head of loan company Of
Atlanta, Ca. who disappeared two
months ago following charges Of for
gerry, was arrested Friday at Chihua-
htro tr,orN Il 80 n
Illinois Central railroad in the vicini
ty of Memphis. Tenn, are threatening
a strike, and the railroad has 1900
non-union workers ready to fill the
places Of the strikers in the event
that the strike materializes. BY
the collapse Of the grand stand at an
automobile race track at Elgin. ILL.,,
Saturday, scores of people were in
iured, several perhaps fatally
Fire destroyed 500 houses at Alden,
Asiatic Turkey, Saturday, making
1900 people homeless. -. -Four men
are now under arrest in Chicago
charged with being the leaders of the
$1,000,000 larson trust" The scheme
was to contract with merchants and
others near failure. to burn up de-
pleted stocks and obtain the insur-
ance. ......J. F. Garner shot ]. T.
Smith to death on the streets Of At
lanta, Thursday and then turned to
his wife with the remark. You are
the cause Of this" .... Richard Lee,
his wife and 15-year-old son were
found murdered In their burning
home at Bonneville, Ind, Thursday.
VIM. Lee, another son, was arrested
on suspicion and later confessed the
crime. M. Helles. a French avia-
tor, on Saturday broke the record for
long distance flight, covering TAG
miles in fifteen hours. .... Ten per-
sons were killed in a motor car wreck
near Consett, England, Saturday. The
brakes on the car broke while going
down hill and the car struck a tree,
smashing it to pieces. .... .Angered
because his sweetheart broke her
promise to marry him, Walter Hopper
Of Chicago, threw her overheard
from a lake steamer Saturday night
and she was drowned. .R. G. Whid
don, a well-to-do farmer and a
church deacon living near Ashburn,
Ga, on Saturday shot ]. M. Lawson,
another deacon, to death and then
committed suicide. the result Of a
church row. 80. Although he lived
and died in abject poverty, the will of
DR.. Chas E. Meyers, probated in New
York last week showed that he had
properly valued at $5UU,OUU. go. Alice
Potts, the woman who led the mob
that lynched a man named Ethering-
ton at GAINESVILLE, o., several years
ago, committed suicide at Newark, o.,
Thursday night. 80. The publishers
OF new city directory for Chicago
give the population as being 1894
1856. an increase Of 7S,901 over the
government census Of year ago. The
directory shows that the Johnson
family Is the most numerous in the
city. there being 7,749 Johnsons,
while there are only 5,315 Smiths and
2,111 Joneses. .... Seven wholesale
clothing manufacturers Of Cincinnati,
representing $1,500,000 invested cap
ital will have ceased to do business
by December 81 Of this year. They
say that it is because Of the high pro-
tective tariff on wooden goods and the
poor quality of goods Of American
manufacture. -. George Golden, a
prominent churchman and shoe mer-
chant, is on trial at Freeport, Pa,
charged with numbering his wife,
whom he claims he mistook for a
burglar. A Fascinating widow" is
mixed up In the case. -. Sergeant
G. M. King Of the Fifty-third Iowa
infantry, has been declared the indl-
vidual military rife champion Of the
United States as a result Of target
work at Camp Perry, Ohio.