Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-09-26
MERE-MENIION.

A New York publisher has purchas-
ed Tattersall Castle, near Lincoln.
England, for the brick, which he will
ship to Long Island and build home.
The bricks were made in the fifteenth
century and are valued at rs cents
each. "A hurricane and cloudburst
did great damage to villages in the vi
cinity of Mt. Vesuvius, Friday. Many
houses were demolished and more than
twenty lives were lost go. Hermann
Kreismann, a personal friend of Abra-
ham Lincoln, and the first American
consul general at Berlin, died in
Switzerland, Friday. Walter Milo
lenjki, IS years old, was arrested in
New York, Friday, and confessed that
he was responsible for several bomb
explosions of the few days previous.
He did not want to hurt anybody, and
was only firing the bombs to frighten
term in Sing Sing. BY the break
ing of an S-inch gas pipe at Youngs-
town, o. Friday, the gas was ignited
and destroyed one house and caused
four deaths ... Millions of Jews
throughout the world on Friday even
ing began celebra' ing the Hebrew New
Year, being first of Tishri, Ammo
Mundi, 5672. Five prominent citi-
zens of Hawkinsville, Ca, convicted of
blind tigering and sentenced to six and
twelve months terms on the chain
gang, have been refused executive
clemency and will have to serve their
sentences on the roads. During the
first twenty-One days of the 1911 cot
10 n1
195262 bales of cotton, an increase
over the same period last year of 10O,-
542 bales. james j. Ward, one of
the starters in the coast to coast avia-
ton race, has given up. John r.
Walsh, the convicted Chicago banker,
serving a term in the Leavenworth,
Kan, prison, will probably be paroled
this week The steamer Joliet sunk
in the st. Claire river, near Port HUI
ron, Mich, Friday, after colliding with
the steamer Henry Phipps, in heavy
fog. Judge Peter l. Grosscup, of the
Federal court, Chicago, who recently
rendered his resignation, has with
drawn his resignation following
charges of corrupt practices. Grosscup
says he will remain on the bench until
the charges are thoroughly inVesti-
gated . Six persons were killed and
sixteen injured, several fatally, in a
powder mill explosion at Montechiaro,
LOmbardy, Friday. .....A nationwide
conference of anti-Taft Republicans
will he held i'm Chicago on October 16,
to consider plans for keeping Mr.. Taft
from receiving the Republican nomi-
nation in 1912. Obadiah Gardner,
Democrat, has been appointed United
States senator from Maine to succeed
the late VIM. p. Frye. Two men
were killed and several passengers
were bruised in a headon collision on
the Southern railway near Atlanta.
Friday night. A passenger train hit q
switching engine on a treStle.
Out of a total of 1882 applicants to
teach i'm the Alabama public schools.
under the written examination sys-
TEN, ninety-two were turned down for
cheating. Congressman Edwards
of Georgia, says that the speech of
Champ Clark in the SiXty-firSt con-
gress. in which he said he hoped to
see the United States flag float over
every foot of North America, was res
pOnsible for the defeat of reciprocity
in Canada. Three negroes were
drowned in Lakewood Park, Charlotte.
last Sunday night by the capsZing of
a boat. Thirteen people were kill
ed and a number were wounded as the
result of a collision on the Chicago
and Northwestern railroad, near
Neenah, Wis, last Sunday. 49,. New
York city has arranged to make two
story streets in some of the more con-
gested quarters. 49,. IDENTITY Brogoff,
who assassinated Premier Stolypn,
was executed at Kieff, Russia, yester-
day.