Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-08-13
TUESDAY, AUGUST 1s, 1912.
MERE-MENTION.

The republicans Of Spain nave De-
come so active that the government Is
much perturbed over the situation and
is mobilizing troops in the principal
cities of the empire. The steam
ship James Gayley was sunk in Lake
Superior Thursday after collision with
the Rensselaer,. No lives were lost. The
property loss was $500,O00, with no in
surance. The health authorities OF
Philadelphia are making strenuous
campaign against soft drink venders
who sell drinks sweetened with sacch-
arine. Heavy fines are being imposed.
Experts Of the agricultural depart
ment estimate that poultrymen ana
dealers of the United States lose $45,-
900, 900 annually by improper handling
of eggs. The United States treas
ury department at Washington, is now
running a laundry for dirty currency
and last week distributed $5O0,000 OF
laundered bills that had been sent In TO
be exchanged for new currency. The
battleships Nebraska and Connecticut
were badly damaged during practlce
work off the New England coast last
week. The Nebraska ran on an un-
charted shoal and damaged her bottom
plates and the Connecticut broke
propeller shaft Mrs. Florence Bern
stein, % years old, Is on trial in Ch1ca-
go on the charge of numbering her
husband. The prosecuting attorney is
asking for the death penalty. 49,. Tine
taking of testimony In the bribery case
against Clarence S. Darrow was com.
pleted at Los Angeles, CAL, Friday. A
verdict will probably be rendered TINS
week Matthew O'Callaghan Is IN
iail in Brooklyn. N. Y, charged with
attempting to kill his wife. He claims
that he thought she was burglar
Jacob Foy Guthrie, the gentleman
burglar Of Chicago, accused OF steal
ing more than 100000 Of property, mas
been indicted on eleven counts and IS
held in bonds Of s37,500. -. Three
workmen were killed In 26O-Io
shaft Of the new acqueduct OF New
York last Friday when a drill struck
an nnexploded dynamite charge. .....
Mrs. F. III. Seely Of Dorchester, Mass,
last week gave birth to four babies, all
girls. All the les are living. .....
Two hundred S. workers or Lynn,
Mass, are on a strike because OF the
refusal of their de"n md Of a fiat wage
of $3.50 per week. .... The Standard
Oil company of Kansas, Is soon 10 IN.
crease it's capital stock from Sl,OOO,O00
to $4,000, 900. The increase Is to come
in the form of stock dividends. 1900.
Cholera has broken out in st. Peters
burg, Russia, and 1t is said that there
are many cases. Sixteen aldermen
of Detroit, Mich, were arrested Friday
on charges of grating. The testimony
has been worked up by the Burns
agency and other arrests are TO follow.
Moorestown, n. j., has more tnan
thirty cases Of typhoid fever and the
health authorities have traced Its ori-
tof dairy The lUUCn
anniversary of the establishment OF
the Krupp iron works was celebrated
at Essen. Germany, last week. About
1900, 900 acres of Indian lands In wy
oming, Utah and Montana, are to be
sold at public auction during Septem-
Der and October. The trial OF hfty-
four union leaders, for violation OF the
Federal laws relative to the interstate
transportation Of dynamite, will begin
at INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, October 1st. The
trials will probably last year. Sam
Schepps, wanted in New York. In con-
nection with the Rosenthal murder,
was arrested in Hot Springs, Ark
Saturday. George Wad!ey, presl-
dent Of the Southern States Cotton
CORPORATION, has announced that syn
dicate of German bankers Is consloer-
ing a plan Of negotiating the southern
cotton crop to the extent of 100000.
UUU. buTBldES Cu SAAS
a Wall street, New York bank early
Sunday morning, by digging a hole IN
the vault floor. They escaped with VIZ
00O Four men, all Italians, were
electrocuted at Sing Sing prison yester-
day. for the murder Of q woman at
Croton Lake in November last. "A
very severe earthquake did great dam
age throughout Turkey early Saturday
morning. More than 1000 deaths and
5000 injured are reported. the prop
erty loss will total many millions.
Mulai Hafid, sultan OF Morocco, mas
abdicated his throne, and expressed
the desire that his brother. Mulai YOU
suf succeed him. ..... Anton karoos'
an Austrian, now serving three
months Jail sentence at washington
Pa. has been notified from Austria that
an aunt died recently leaving him an
estate of $250,000. 80. President tart
has vetoed twenty-five measures sent
to him by congress since he took the
presidential chair. One hundred po-
licemen had a desperate battle with
mob of 900 in a suburb of Pittsburg,
Pa, Saturday night. The trouble start
ed when the police interferred with the
speech of a Socialist orator. Many
heads we've cracked with police cluts:
Secretary of State Knox Will
leave Washington on Thursday for
Japan, where he goes as Speclal am
bassador of the United States to attend
the funeral ceremonies of the late En-
peror Mutsuhito. Mr.. Frieda frost
has been arrested by the police or
Philadelphia, charged with numbering
her husband by poison, after having
been married only seven days.
Marcel Rouches, 16 years old, has been
sentenced by Paris court to die on
the guillotine, having murdered ms
aunt. .... An aviator flew from Joliet
to Chicago, Ill, Sunday. AZ miles, IN
27 minutes. . =. Fifteen thousand rural
cooperative banks Of Germany nave
been consolidated. The combined capi-
tai of the banks will run high into the
millions. Samuel P. Felkner was
killed by 1000 volts of electricity by
grasping a wire on the top of tele-
phone pole at York, Pa, Sunday. .....
A Cincinnati, o., man told police court
Judge Saturday that he made living
by bleaching English sparrows ana
selling them for canaries. The Geor-
gia legislature on Monday by vote OF
1O2 to 4S, voted to repeal the tax on
dogs in that state. the Unlteo
States senate yesterday passed the
Bourne Bristow parcels post provision
as a part of the postoffice appropria-
ton bill. It provides for division or
the country into eight zones. Within a
radius of fifty miles the rate would be
five cents for the first pound, and three