Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-03-21
MERE. MENTlON.

In the Federal court at Savannah,
Ga, Friday, the Merchants and Min
ers Steamship company was found
guilty on twenty-four counts charg-
ing rebating and is liable to fines of
ST. 200 to $4,000 on each count. The S.
A. l.. and Atlantic Coast Line pleaded
guilty on one count each and were
fined $4,000 each. 80. Mrs. Jos. Hull.
wife of a prominent Savannah, Ga,
ed by customs officials in New York
Friday. The ladies were required to
disrobe during the search for dia-
mond necklace thought to be in their
possession. The Hulls will sue the
government for damages. ..... More
than $4,000 teamsters and express
handlers of the four big express COM
panies doing business in New York,
went on a strike Friday. The express
companies expect the trouble to be
long continued. .... Five persons were
hurt in a dynamite explosion in the
plant Of the Western Friel company at
Milwaukee, Wis, Friday. Union la
Dor troubles is believed to be the cause
of the trouble. 80. Mrs. Edith Melber
was found guilty Of murder at AL
bany, N. Y. Thursday, on the charge of
numbering her son by pouring carbolic
acid down his throat. She was sem
fenced to prison for not less than
twenty years. .... Christopher c. Will
son, former president of the United
Wireless Telegraph company, has been
indicted by a Federal grand jury of
New York on the charge Of using the
mails to defraud. {. &. DR.. E. NJ. Pinck-
ney of Savannah, Ga, has paid fine
of $1,000 for violation of the state law
prohibiting the sale of cocaine. .....J.
E. Johnson shot his wife to death and
committed suicide at Waycross, Ca,
Saturday. Liquor was the cause. 49,.
A London dispatch of Saturday is to
the effect that Japan Is seeking to re-
new her treaty with England for Of
fensive and defensive alliance four
years before ii expires in 1915, the
year which will see the completion of
the Panama canal. :. Colonel Roose-
velt at Albuquerque, n. NJ, Saturday
said that the Japanese men, all on the
west coast of Mexico were serious, and
told his old Rough Rider friends that
in the event of war he would ask the
presidents permission to organize a
division and recruit it in the south
west. A Pekin dispatch of Satur-
day, is to the effect that China has
yielded to the demands of Russia, Civ
ing the latter complete monopoly OF
Mongolia. .Chas. T. Murphy, the
Tammany boss of New York, has been
told by the speaker of the state as
sembly, that Sheehan must be with
drawn as a candidate for the United
States senate, so that senator can be
elected by April 4th. &c. G. Cor
negay, a railroad clerk, was shot to
death by his wife at Shreveport, La,
Saturday. She then attempted suicide
but her pistol failed her. She claims
that her husband had deserted her. ...
A serious panic was averted at Hi
bernan celebration at youngstown, o.,
Friday night when fire was discover
ed in the hall. by someone starting the
song, Remember You're Irish" ......
Policeman Chas. Weiss Of Brooklyn,
n. Y, was arrested Saturday, charged
with the murder Of his wife. :. Macon
fruit growers estimate that the Geor-
gia peach crop has been damaged Is
per cent by frost. .....A A young woman
appeared on the streets Of Birmingham
last Saturday wearing harem skirts,
and had to rush into a big building to
escape from the mob that gathered
about her. ... A drouth has been pre-
vailing to such an extent in Louisiana
that drinking water has to be hauled
for many miles. "A census Of India
just completed gives a population of
315, ,000, 900. .... 1t is stated, that both
sides in the Mexican trouble are using
soft-nosed bullets In violation Of the
rules of war.