Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-09-12
MERE ENTION.

The Texas state agricultural de-
partment reports the condition Of cot
ton in that state on September 5, as
being 81 per cent normal, against 68
per cent reported by the government on
August 25.. The telegraph operators
of the Southern railway are demanding
shorter hours, more wages and better
working conditions, and a strike Is not
improbable. Mayor Harrison Of
Chicago, has given the civil service
commission, which he recently order
ed to investigate charges Of police cor
ruption, to understand that the inves-
tigation must be thorough and without
fear or favor. .... Uncle Joe Cannon
has announced his candidacy for re-
election to the house or representa-
tives from his district in Illinois next
year. -. Miss Mary Chamberlain, a
young woman Of Lincoln, Kan, was
last week tarred and feathered by a
gang Of young hoodlums, while she was
out driving with a young man. The
act Is said to have been inspired by
jealous girls. There have been several
| arrests, and lynchings are threatened.
The young man who was riding with
Miss Chamberlain, has been sent to
prison for a year. Irwin H. Wheat
croft, a breeder Of thoroughbred race
horses at Lexington, KY, has decided
to ship his $50 stations and brood
mares to Australia, because Of the
outlawing Of horse racing In most
American states. 80. United States
Senators Martin and Swanson were
renominated in the Democratic prima-
ries in Virginia last Thursday. R.
Bruce Watson, a wealthy architect, was
seriously shot In Chicago on Thursday
by Mrs. H. c. Coney, because she fear
ed he was going to marry another
woman. 49,. There are fully 100000
Chinese homeless as the result Of the
recent flood in the Yang-Tse Kiang
river. Starvation Is imminent and
cannibalism Is reported in Isolated Sec
tions. Col. John Jacob Astor and
Miss Madeline Force were married
Saturday at Newport, r. l., by Rev.
Joseph Lambert Of the Congregational
church Of Providence, r. L.. Prof.
Nathan H. Johnson was cleared OF the
charge Of numbering DR.. T. ]. Kelly at
PEELED DR.. Kelly's son from school
and the killing followed. Johnson
pleaded self-defense. -. Mayor Knott,
the city engineer and five aldermen,
were arrested at Gary, Ind, Saturday,
on the charge Of accepting bribes In
connection with a heating franchise.
Mayor Knott was arrested with $4,000
of bribe money in his pcssession......
Rodney ]. Diegle, former sergeant-at-
arms Of the Ohio legislature and con-
fessed bribe taker, was on Saturday
sentenced to serve three years In pris-
on. Mayors and city authorities
throughout the country are putting the
ban on moving pictures portraying any
part of the Beattie murder and trial
and any posing Of the Binford woman.
"A bolt Of lightning struck the jail
at Somerset, Pa, Friday. and threw
the thirty-two prisoners into such q
panic that the jail officials had to
threaten to shoot the leaders before
they were quieted. Every pane or
glass in the building was shattered.
A 17-year- -old boy from Arizona, at
tempted to rob bank at Laurel, Nd,
Friday. While holding up the teller,
the cashier came in from another room
and with an automatic pistol began fir
ing, putting the boy to flight He was
later captured. .... A Pensacola, Fla,
woman became so excited over the
chance Of Beulah Binford being indict-
ed In the Beattie murder case, that she
made three attempts at suicide. In
the event Of Governor Harmon Of Ohio
being selected as the Democratic presi-
Dental nominee, Governor Baldwin OF
Connecticut, may be his running mate,
according to a Hartford dispatch. -.
M. Helles, a French aviator, on Friday
covered a distance Of TIC miles in IA
hours and Z minutes, beating his for
mer record Of 746 miles in Is hours on
August 26. The Birmingham special
of the Southern railway, was wrecked
near Admission, Ala, Friday afternoon.
Three cars were turned over and three
others derailed, There were no fatal
tiles. DR. Joseph Sudman, a veter-
mary surgeon, is under arrest at jack
son, Mich, charged with the murder
Of his wife by poison. :, The 1911 corn
crop Is estimated to be 400,000.O00
bushels short Of the crop OF 1910, The
indicated average yield for the country
Is 1915 bushels per acre. An escaped
Texas convict, living in Oklahoma
talked. about his escape while asleep
and was arrested and taken back to
the Texas prison last week,