Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-04-07

have been so successful in their deter
mination to avoid census enumerators
that the recent census Is practically
worthless and a new census will prob
ably be taken. One hundred per-
sons were rescued from fire escapes
and 1000 were driven from their
homes by a fire in an East Side tene-
ment in New York, Tuesday. wv. A.
Sheril, cashier of the Utica Deposit
bank, Utica, KY, Is missing and also
50$,0O0 Of the banks funds. .... DR..
w. P. Russell, a physician Of Hayne-
vile, Ala, Is dead, and w. Z. McGhee,
a merchant, Is fatally wounded, the
result of a personal difficulty on a
railroad train at Hayneville, Tuesday
morning. &. . In Knott county, KY, the
grand jury has indicted eighty seven
persons on charges Of vote selling. .....
The 100000 power plant of the st.
CroiX Power company, which furnish
es light and power to st. Paul, Mimi,
was destroyed by fire Tuesday. which
was caused by the explosion Of a dy.
namo. $50. The town Of Hunnewell
Kan, has elected Mrs. Ella Wilson,
mayor. Mrs. Wilson says she is going
to clean up the town and close the dis
reputable places. .....J. j. Abbott, a
mail clerk on the Tampa Northern
railroad, has been arrested at Tampa,
Fla. in connection with the recent
disappearance of registered package
supposed to contain $4,000 at Tarpon
Springs 1t Is stated that $4,000 Of the
stolen money has been recovered and
that the officers are on the trail OF
two other men supposed to have been
connected with the theft. ..... The
Standard Oil company has taken oc-
casion to issue public denial Of a sto-
tl,a tha1 tn Rra tfnC
Mexican revolution. The company
states that 1t has nothing whatever to
do with the matter. Immediately
after Senator Kern Of Indiana was
sworn into office last Tuesday, Vice
President Sherman invited him to oc-
cupy his chair. He did so for five
minutes. Senator Kern was the
Democratic candidate for vice presi-
dent against Vice President Sherman.
..... John Thrower, reputed to be the
richest negro in the United States,
died at Germantown, near Philadel-
phia Wednesday. He was 81 years of
age and was worth half million dol
lars. -. The Florida legislature met
in biennial session Wednesday. ......
The government Is making strenuous
efforts to recruit the Twenty fourth in
fantry, the regiment that is composed
entirely of negroes, up to it's full
strength, before sending 1t to the Phil
ippines. This Is the first time since
the Brownsville affair that the govern
ment has made special effort to enlist
negroes. "A terrific storm swept
the Gulf states last Tuesday, doing
very considerable damage to build
ings and other property in Alabama
and Mississippi. -. Francisco I. Ma
dero, the leader of the Mexican revo-
lutionary party, has served notice on
Secretary Of State Knox that the rev.
olutionists will protect foreign prop
erty and intimates also that recogni-
ton Is to be asked for. Secretary
Knox has pointed out that the United
States government cannot correspond
with unrecognized parties. .....J. w.
White, a blind man, has been elected
magistrate for Arkansas City, Kan.
Miscreants scattered sneeZe powder on
the floors of the Metropolitan opera
house the other night and broke up the
show. Three hundred goats were
killed during a hail storm at Mill
Ranch Mine, near. Brackets, Texas
last Tuesday. A New York dispatch
says that $50 members Of the bar as
ISOLATION have been dropped from the
rolls for failure to pay annual dues.
The steamship Verara from Naples,
with 800 passengers aboard Is quar-
antined in New York harbor on ac-
count Of smallpox. go. The Canadian
parliament has taken up the question
of heavy influx Of negroes into Can
ada with the intention Of settling and
the sentiment Of the parliament is
strongly against the movement. 49,.
At Osceola, Ark, last Monday, Henry
Colts, operator Of a blind tiger, shot
and killed r. L. Ferguson, town mar
shal and fatally wounded Robert
Dean, deputy sheriff. They were
attempting to arrest him.