Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-11
MERE-MENTION,

United States Senator VIM. p. Frye
died at his home at Lewiston, Me.
Tuesday afternoon after being strick-
en- during the morning. He was in his
sOth year and had been a senator
since 1881, and was a congressman
for ten years previous to becoming
senator. .... VIM. r. Laidlaw, who
was MANNED for life when he was
struck by bomb hurled at the late
Russell Sage in New York several years
ago, died in a home for incurables
near that city Tuesday. Laidlaw
claimed that when the bomb thrower
hurled the missile Sage took hold OF
him and used him as shield. .....
Western railroads centering in Chica-
go. are threatened with a strike OF
employees in all departments. The men
are demanding more pay and better
working conditions. The railroads
estimate that a strike will cost them
$50. 900, 900. Attorneys for the de-
fense of Henry Clay Beattie, Jr, the
Richmond, Va, wife murderer, are
alleged to be planning to fasten the
crime on Paul Beattie, the cousin who
bought the gun for H. c. Beattie. De-
tectives claim that Paul Beattie car
establish an absolute alfbi. :. The
condition of Pope Plus is considered
critical at the Vatican in Rome. He
began his ninth year as head Of the
Catholic church Wednesday. Eleven
thousand railroad employees are on q
strike at Liverpool and Manchester
England =. .Thirty-siX persons are
known TO be drowned and a score OF
others are missing, as the result of the
sinking of an excursion boat on the
river Nile. near Kafrelzayal, Egypt
Monday. Mrs. Luther Morris OF
Rio, La, was shot to death Monday
night by her husband, who mistook
her for burglar. The same night al
Aberdeen, Miss, Joseph Green also
burglar. There are twenty cases
eastern Kentucky insane asylum
There have been three deaths from
the disease. Winston Churchill
home secretary Of England. predicted
Tuesday that the present session OF
the British parliament will give Ire
land home rule. New York soci-
ETY. Is stirred up on account Of the
stand taken by the Episcopal bishops
of New York and Rhode Island, in re-
gard to the approaching marriage OF
Col. John Jacob AStor, q divorcee, and
very wealthy, to Miss Madeline Force
Is years-ol The row started Sunday
last when a Philadelphia rector de-
nounced the coming marriage from
his pulpit as being against the laws of
God and the Episcopal church. Then
other rectors made observations more
or less strong. DR.. Arthur Lowndes, a
leading Episcopal clergyman Of New
York. said: considerably more than
half the world would not consider
Col. Astor and Miss Force married at
all. "..... Revenue agents raided an
oleomargarine factory in Atlanta, Ga.
Tuesday night and arrested two men
and seized 500 pounds of cOlored oleo-
margarine. The revenue tax on the
colored stuff is ten cents a pound and
as the makers of this kind of first
class creamery butter" were selling
200 pounds a day without the tax.
they had very good profit. Gen
eral George w. Gordon. commander
in-chief of the United Confederate
Veterans, died at his home at Mem
phis. Tenn. Wednesday afternoon. -.
Because of a strike of the dock labor
ers London, England is facing a seri-
Gus predicament, because of rapid
reduction of food supplies. More
than so. 900 dock laborers are on a
strike. Miss Julia Estelle French.
aged IS years, one Of the 400" of
Newport r. l.. on Tuesday eloped and
married Jack Geraghty, a chauffeur,
and the son of cab driver. Miss
French is one of the bluest of the
blue bloods. .Postoffice inspec-
tors i'm New York Wednesday. arrest
ed Geo. H. Cove, president and Elmer
Ellsworth Burlingame. selling agent.
of the Sun Electric Generator COM
pany. on charges of using the mails to
defraud. ... Two boys. aged 16 and
Is years, were killed Tuesday night,
while riding on top of a fast passen-
ger train on the New York Central
road out of Syracuse. 1t is supposed
they were killed by striking an over
head bridge.