Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-22
MERE-MENTION.

BY an explosion of a caldron OF
molten metal in an iron plant at Jo-
liet, ILL.,, Saturday, four men were kill
ed, two fatally and nine others seri-
ously hurt. The explosion caused the
building to collapse and nearly loo
men were imprisoned In the ruins. :.
Chas. McKegney, aged 20, was shot to
death in New York Saturday morning
in a race war between whites and
blacks that had lasted all Of the pre-
vious night .... Lore City, O., was
practically destroyed by fire Friday
Several business blocks were reduced
to ashes. q. Twenty-Five persons were
more or less injured by the overturn-
ing of four coaches Of a Big Four
train in the outskirts Of Columbus,
O., Friday. .Chas. r. Crisp, son
of the late Speaker Crisp, will be a
candidate for congress from the new
ly formed twelfth district Of Georgia,
-. 1t is rumored in Washington that
Solicitor McCabe Of the department
of agriculture, Is to get the pink
Slip" as the result Of the Wiley in
vestigation and that DR.. Wiley is to
hold his job and not be hampered
in his future efforts to enforce the
pure food laws. Claude Graham
White, the aviator, says that within
twenty years people will be flying
from New York to London in aero
planes 1000 feet long, driven by mo-
tors of 5000 horsepower. 80. "A
New York rumor is to the effect that
Col. John Jacob Astor has ordered
his sea-going yacht provisioned for a
long voyage and that with his fiance,
Miss Force, and her parents as guests,
will take long sea trip and be mar
ried while at sea. -" Mrs. James
Snyder Mccullough, widely known
under the name of Myrtle Reed as an
author, committed suicide by poison
in Chicago, Friday. .... The steamer
Re D'Italia from Genoa, arrived at
Quarantine, New York, Friday with
395 passengers aboard. During the
passage three little girls had died OF
cholera. The bark Bertha, famous
as a whaling vessel, was wrecked on
Sow and Pigs reef near Buzzard bay
Massachusetts, Friday night. Eight of
the crew of thirty-five are missing. .
W. M. Matthews, street car motor
man, shot five times into a crowd OF
boys in Atlanta, Ga, Friday, killing
one and seriously wounding another
The boys were guying the motorman..
..... The Georgia legislature closed
its 1911 session last Friday. .... The
Southern railway handled five special
trains of excursionists from Atlanta
and points west for Washington and
points north last Saturday. .....W.
g. Beattie, an aviator, broke the
| worlds passenger carrying record at
Chicago Saturday by staying in the
air hours and 3S minutes with one
passenger. . . Charles Noel was found
guilty at Lexington, n. c., Saturday
| on a charge of abducting a girl for
white slave purposes, and was SEN
fenced to serve fifteen years in the
state penitentiary. .... David kors-
hack. head Of the alleged larson
trust" was arrested at Vancouver, B.
c., Friday. On June 8, the store of
the wholesale clothing firm of L.
| Dreyfus & Co., of Chicago was de-
stroyed by fire. L. Dreyfus confessed
| that the fire was of incendiary origin
and accused HORSEBACK Of doing the
| burning. Dreyfus later committed
suicide. Congressman Rucker and
| Boohrer of Missouri, had fight on
the floor of the house at Washington
Thursday afternoon. One called the
other liar. No serious damage re-
suited. Cotton plckers are Sc
scarce in portions Of Texas adjacent
| to Galveston that planters are offer
ing $3.50 to 50 day for pickers. Cot
ton is being badly damaged by re-
manning unpicked. Race troubles be-
| tween whites. MeXicans and negroes
Is said to be the cause Of the scarcity
| of labor. Up to Friday the re-
mains of eighteen sailors had been ta-
ken from the wreck of the battleshir
Maine in Havana harbor. ...... There
| were seventy new cases and fifty-four
deaths from cholera at Constantinople
Thursday. go. Eighteen white mer
are on trial at Calhoun, KY, charged
with participating in a lynching al
Livermore, KY. last April, when a
negro murderer was shot to death.
Because of the necessity for retrench-
ment $500 employees Of the Hartman
system are to be laid off for an in
| definite period. One person was
| killed and five seriously injured al
Stockton, Cal, Sunday night when
an automobile plunged over thirty
foot embankment. -. Harry N At
wood. the aviator flying from st
Louis to New York, expects to reach
New York city tomorrow night.