Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-04-05
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

Young's pier, stretching 1000 feet in
to the ocean at Atlantic City, N. j., was
almost entirely destroyed by fire early
Saturday morning. along with Youngs
theatre, entailing loss Of $250,000..
A lone highwaymen shot two members
of an automobile party to death and
wounded a third, near Portland, Ore,
Saturday in an attempt to rob them.
Senator Robert L. Taylor of Tennessee,
died in Washington Sunday, following
a surgical operation of some days be-
fore. up to Saturday, of the del
egates elected to the Republican nom-
mating convention at Chicago, 254
were instructed for Taft, and 30 for
Roosevelt. .Chas. Hall Taylor,
wealthy citizen of Macon, Ga. was shot
to death in that city Friday evening,
by G. Franklin Tyndall, brother-in-law
of Miss Lula Carter, whom Hall was
to have married on Sunday. Tyndall
and his wife objected to the marriage.
The strike of the bituminous coal
miners began Saturday when 10000
Pennsylvania miners quit work, al
though the strike was not ordered to
begin until yesterday. If the strike
goes into full effect fully 100000 miners
will be involved. 1t Is possible that
the strike may be settled shortly on
compromise basis. 49,. .Marconi, the
wireless telegraph inventor, says that
1t is only a question Of time until wire
less messages can be sent entirely
around the globe. "A Magnolia, NJ j.,
barber, who has been left a legacy Of
$4,000 on condition that he marry
within eighteen months, has received
more than 400 letters from women Of
fering to marry him.. 49,. James I.
Buchanan, a capitalist of Pittsburg,
Pa, is taking a course in scientific
farming at Cornell university, Ithaca,
IN. Y. Members Of the Philadelphia
baseball team, while playing in Balti-
more Friday, were robbed Of $4,000 In
cash, jewelry, ETC., by a sneak thief. -.
entered a suit for $4,000 damages,
against a police inspector and ten de-
tectives, for stealing jewelry and dam
aging other property belonging to him.
Antonio Lopez died at Trinidad, Col.
Friday, aged 104 years. .... Adam
IMitchall, Sc years old, an inmate Of the
Ialmshouse at Niagara county, N. Y,
left last Friday for his old home in
Germany, to take charge Of an inherit-
Iance Of $125, 5,000.... A 3-year- old child
was killed in Chicago Friday, when 1t
attempted to play with a large New
Foundland dog, which was gnawing at
a bone. Philip s. Hichborn, son of
the late Admiral Hichborn, committed
suicide in Washington Thursday, af-
ter brooding for several months over
the fact that his wife had eloped with
la young lawyer named Wylie.. "A
postcard canvass Of the small Repub-
llican papers of the country show 1877
favorable to Mr.. Taft and 10 for Mr..
Roosevelt. The balance Of the 275 re-
plies received were scattering In
a pistol duel at McComb City, Miss,
Friday, George c. Ellzey was killed and
A. F. Fortenberry was fatally wound
ed. Joseph Smith, aged 81 years,
and for the past fifty years the head of
the Reorganized Latter Day Saints
son, Frederick w. Smith, as his sue
covery in the history Of the United
States was made in Fulton county, Pa,
last week. 1t is estimated that there
are at least 1000, 100000 tons Of ore and
that it Is from 81 to SO per cent pure.
:. The Vatican officials at Rome have
refused an offer Of 100000, made by
moving picture companies, for the priv
ilege of taking moving pictures Of the
pope receiving the Easter pilgrims.
In a train wreck on the Panama canal
Thursday night, thirty-two workmen
lwere more or less injured.