Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-25
MERE-M ENTION.

The house committee investigating
the Wiley McCabe controversy or the
agricultural department, will not make
its report until the regular session OF
congress next December. The great
railroad strike Of England has been
practically ended by an agreement be-
tween the employees and the railroad
operatives to submit their case to q
royal board of arbitration. .Parti-
sans of Ex-Governor Folk of Missouri
are making efforts to organize FOLK
clubs throughout the south, with view
to securing the Democratic presiden-
tia nomination for the Missourian.
A Constantinople dispatch OF Tuesday
says that cholera is sweeping large
section of that city and that the ma
tives are dying like flies. During the
week ending Tuesday the average
death rate was fifty a day. "A i've
hour day, five days week, at 50
day wages" is the slogan sounded by
Harry Abrahams, secretary Of the Bos-
ton Central Labor union. .... The ma
tional encampment of the Grand Army
OF the Republic met in annual conven-
ton at Rochester, N. Y, Tuesday. 49,.
The trial Of Paul Geidell, II years old,
charged with the murder Of VIM. H.
Jackson. an aged broker in his apart
ments in the Iroquois hotel, began In
New York. Monday. The purpose OF
the murder was robbery. More than
100000 men. women and children OF
Bengal, India, are facing starvation,
owing to failure Of the grain crops, be-
cause Of lack Of rains. E. Oliver Locke,
a negro wife murderer, was electrocu-
ted in the state penitentiary at Eddy
vile, KY, Tuesday morning. AT
Columbus, O., Tuesday, Judge Ktnkead
received a mysterious message over
the telephone from an unknown woman
at Sandusky, that Senator Rodney j.
Diegle. out on bond awaiting sentence
on a conviction of bribery, had receiv-
ed a large sum Of money and was pre-
pairing to skip. The judge ordered the
immediate arrest of Diegle and he later
promised to write confession for the
district attorney and tell all he knows.
CHRISTOPHER Columbus Wilson,
president, and Francis X. Butler, d.
rector and counsel of the defunct Unit
ed Wireless company, are due at the
Federal prison in Atlanta, Ga, today,
to begin serving sentences OF three and
two years respectively. Wilson Is 73
years Of age, has q wife % years or
age and q baby son about week old.
49,. The trials of Joseph Kane and
Walter Stevens. alleged labor sluggers,
was held up Tuesday In Chicago by
panel of Jurors selected Monday. At
torneys tried for four days to get q
jury and the judge adjourned court
when the prosecuting attorney declar-
ed that jury of decent citizens could
not be found. Louis A. Bryan. a
millionaire Of Gary, Ind, is suing his
wife for divorce. He is 81 and she Is 27
years old. His wife says that ne is
"cross, grabbed old cove.". The Van
Noy hotel at Hot Springs, Ark, was
destroyed by fire early Tuesday morn
ing. More than 100 guests were driven
TO the streets, losing everything they
had. The loss was over $75,OO0....:.
The towns along the Hudson river In
New York state are facing shortage
of their water supplies. Frank D.
. Crawford, an aeronaut, was killed at
Marion, Ind, Monday, while attempt
ing to make a double parachute jump
from a balloon. .Yeggmen cracked
a vault at South Dayton, N. Y, early
Monday, but were driven away before
getting any part Of the $4,000 that the
vault contained.