Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-01
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At Pecos, Tex, Saturday, Leon Mar
tinez, a Mexican youth, was convicted
and sentenced to death for the muir
der of Miss Emma Brown at Saratoga
the Saturday previous. :. .Addie Greer,
a farmer, fatally shot his wife at
Gainesville, Ga, Saturday and then
killed himself They had been living
apart for three weeks. Gilbert b.
Perkins and Chas. Franklin, private
detectives, were convicted in the Fed
eral court at Erie, Pa, Saturday ON
charges of using the mails to defraud.
They had sent "black hand" letters to
a wealthy citizen charging him with
desecrating a mausoleum. .Sceptre'
a famous racing mare, was sold In
London a few days ago for $35,OOO.
.A West Indian hurricane wreck
ed numbers of vessels on the New
England coast Friday. Several lives
were lost :. . Berlin, Germany, is sur
fering from intensely hot weather, the
thermometer registering SO degrees
Saturday. There were many prostra-
or less handicapped by strike OF en-
nIoyees at OriZaba. -. The Geor-
gia legislature has passed joint reso-
luton inviting Hon. Woodrow wilson
to make an address before that BODY
during it's present session. .....A prl-
mary election to nominate a United
States senator is in progress In Mlssis-
sippi today. The candidates are ex-
Governor Vardaman, Senator Perry
and Hon. c. H. Alexander. Factional
feeling has run high during the cam,
paign Eight persons were kllieu
and sixteen or more injured In tne
head-on collision Of an excursion ailo
a passenger train at Grindstone, Me-,
on the Bangor and Aroostock railroad
Friday evening. -" Paul GeiueH' -
wears old, last Wednesday night, en-
tered the apartment Of VIM. II. jack
son an aged broker, at the Hotel lro-
ouois. New York and after strangling
the old man, robbed his body OF about
$3.50. a gold watch and few trinkets.
Within twenty-four hours Geidell had
been arrested and made confession
of his crime. He was traced through
q chloroform bottle left in the apart
ment and the hunt for the owner OF
the bottle took the police to Newark
n. Admiral Togo, naval nero
of the usso-Japanese war, Will arrive
In New York this week on his way
home after attending the coronation
ceremonies in London. He Will De
given much attention In the United
States. The steamer John Irwin
was wrecked in gale on Beaver
Light, $50 miles from Halifax, Nova
Scotia, Tuesday morning, and eleven
lives were lost. .... Yeggmen cracked
OF PnnnVillp
n. Y, early Saturday morning and
got away with $4,000 in money and
stamps. They escaped in an automo-
bile. At Ardsley, n. Y, early Satur-
day morning, yeggmen robbed the safe
in the postofflce and using a motor
boat got away with a large amount OF
money. stamps and registered mall
Edward M. Shepard, Leading
LAWYER and Democratic politician OF
New York city, died at Lake George,
n. Y, Friday evening, aged 81 years
The Clyde liner Algonquin was
disabled off the New Jersey coast Fri
day evening and had to be towed into
New York by tugs. .The Texas
Prohibitionists are holding a CONFER
ence at Fort Worth, considering the
question of contesting the election in
which they were defeated July %. It
is the sense of the conference to call
upon the legislature to investigate the
use of money in the election.
The United States scout cruiser Sa-
lem has been despatched to Haitian
waters to assist the four other Amerl-
can naval vessels there In taking care
of American and foreign residents or
Aayti on account of the insurrectlon
in progress on the island against
President Simon. The fall Of the ST.
mon government Is almost certain.
A bunch of seventeen monkeys escap-
ed from a Pittsburg, Pa, zoo FRIDAY
afternoon and before being recaptur-
ed, furnished endless amusement and
excitement for thousands of people,
The authorities Of Lawton,
Okla, will purchase two large alliga-
tors and placed them in the city reser-
voir in order to keep small boys from
using it as swimming pool. -. MISS
Anna Belmont, a Kentucky woman,
rescued two men from the Delaware
river near Wilmington, Del, Friday
The men had been thrown into the
water by a capsizing boat and Miss
Belmont swan out and rescued both
-. The congressional committee on
expenditures of the department Of ag-
riculture, has begun an investigation
of the Remsen board, which reversed
several Of DR.. Wiley's pure food rul-
ings. up to June 80, $777,74S
had been deposited and $100,974
withdrawn from the various postal
savings banks of the country. The
average amount of the 1888 de-
positors on June 80 was $57.57..
Miss Mary n. Lewis committed sui
eide at Jeanerette, La, Sunday by
hanging herself with her ribbon sash.
She was tenn pOrarilv insane because
of the excessive heat. In a duel
at Lexington, Ky, Sunday night, be-
tween Constable Stivers and Henry
Vice, the latter was instantly killed
by a pistol shot by the constable. Vice
used a knife and seriously wounded
Stivers.