Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-10-24
MERE ENTI0N.

Cal p Rodgers, the coast to coast
aviator. reached a point fifteen miles
south OF Austin. Texas, Friday, where
he was delayed on account OF engine
troubles. .... The Glidden automo-
bile tourists, who left New York on
Saturday, October 14th, arrived in At
lanta Saturday afternoon. They will
resume the journey to Jacksonville,
Fla, the end Of the route, today. -.
The 200 students of the State Mechan-
ical and Agricultural college for the
negro race, at Greensboro, n. c., went
on a strike Saturday because Of an
oIder from the faculty providing for
tWOCk on Saturday. Edgar 8.
Balthrope, a former councilman and
prominent merchant Of Biloxi, Miss,
was arrested Saturday charged with
the burning Of a barn belonging to
"a farmer several miles from Biloxi.
Nat Thomas, a 13-year-old ne
gro, was killed at Jeanerette, La,
by flying chip OF wood thrown from
circular saw, cutting his windpipe
and 1ugular vein. ..- Secretary OF
Agriculture James Wilson says he Is
opposed to Federal aid in road build
Ing, because IL once started there will
be no end to 1t. ..... A gasoline boat
with 700 sacks of rice on board was
sunk at a dock in New Orleans, Sat-
urday, by the wash of a passing tug
boat. The Georgia Railway &
Power company, $27,000,000 cor
poration, has been organized In At
lanta, to own and control a number
OF north Georgia electric plants. -.
Eight miners were rescued from q
mine Mt Lore City, o., Saturday, by
a crew Of the United States bureau
OF mines. The rescuers used the new
oxygen helmets. ...... Mrs Laura
Stannard, once the social leader Of
the town, Is on trial at Onto lagon,
Mich, on the charge of murI ering
her husband. go. Fire broke out in
sulphur mine at Trabonella, Italy,
Saturday, trapping 100 miners in the
bowels of the earth. All hope of res
cuing the men was abandoned. -.
Rev. Clarence v. T. Richeson, pas
tor of Emmanuel Baptist church OF
Cambridge, Mass. Is held by the Bos-
ton police on the charge of numbering
Miss Avis Linnell, 19 years old. by
means Of pill containing cyanide OF
potassium -. /. E. Alfred Ruff1es drank
three pints Of whisky in the space OF
one hour, at Savannah, Ga, Friday
night, to win wager Of 81. Since
that tir1e he has been unconscious In
a hospital and his recovery is doubt
President De Arriaga's cabinet, at
Lisbon, Portugal, Friday, rioting
broke out in the city. Troops were
necessary to restore order and scores
were injured In the fighting. ;. Ben
ME Beeson, 13 years. old, Of Lincoln
county, Miss, this year raised 227
bushels Of corn on an acre of ground.
His last years crop was 225 bushels
......J. +. Garner was acquitted in
Atlanta, Ca, Friday, Of the charge Of
numbering ]. F. Smith. Garner's sole
defense was the. 'unwritten law.
The National Suffrage convention. Dr.
Anna Howard Shaw, president, is In
session in Louisville, KY. j. M.
Shelley, a former bank cashier OF
Charlotte, n. c., was knocked down
and killed by an automobile In At
lanta, Ga, Thursday night -. The
body Of Miss Lois Vansteenberg, IS
years old, was found In suburb Of
Poughkeepsie, N. Y, Saturday, with
three bullet holes in her chest and
revolver nearby. The police at first
thought It a case Of suicide, but in
vestigation led them to believe that 1t
Is a case of murder. Yeggmen
cracked the safe in the postoffice at
Falconer. N. Y, early Saturday morn
ing, and secured $4,000 worth OF
stamps and money. =. John R Walsh,
the banker, who was released from the
Leavenworth prison last week on pa
role, died in Chicago yesterday Of
heart disease. -. The officials Of the
Southern Express company have Offer
ed a reward Of 5000 for the capture Of
Old Bill Miner, who escaped from a
Georgia prison last week. Reports
from Oklahoma and other points In
the west, indicate heavy frosts.