Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-08-16
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Ty Cobb, the famous baseball player,
was slightly stabbed in the back by a
thug in Detroit, Mich, early Monday,
in an attempted holdup. A rumor
in Philadelphia is to the effect that the
Krupp Gun Works Of Germany has TAX
near that city on which 1t will erect a
large gun and armor plant. -. The
Pennsylvania railroad claims that 1t is
finding difficulty in securing sufficient
freight cars to handle the business Of
fered. "A girl, II years old, gave
birth to an 81 pound child at an Iowa
City, Ia, hospital, Monday. Frank
E. Kenyon shot his wife and S-months
old daughter to death, and committed
suicide in a Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
hotel Monday. :. Gen. Antoine Simon,
an ex-president Of Hayti, now refuge
at Kingston, Jamaica, Is said to be pre-
pairing an expedition to oust President
Tancrere Auguste, who was elected
president on August 8, following the
death of President Leconte, in the fire
that destroyed his palace. .... The AL
Ian line steamship Corsican, carrying
200 passengers; struck an iceberg off
the coast Of New Foundland, Monday.
The damage was not serious, and the
vessel proceeded to Liverpool. ...... The
final funeral ceremonies of Mutsuhito,
the late mikado Of Japan, who died
July 80, will be held September 13 to
15. Seven murderers were put to
death In the Sing Sing, N. Y, prison
last Monday. Six were Italians and
one a negro. The execution Of the
seven required one hour and sixteen
minutes. An Edinburgh doctor claims
to have caused a patient to increase his
height seven inches In six months. go.
The commerce of Porto Rico during the
fiscal year ending June 80 totaled $92,-
900, 900, an increase Of $14,000,000 over
the previous year. Harrison Ingram,
aged 1O9 years, died at Hooperstown,
ILL.,, Monday. ..... Five Italians were
killed In q powder explosion at Auburn,
N. Y, Tuesday, while making fireworks
for an Italian celebration. :. Twenty
six men were killed at Dortmund, Ger
many, Tuesday, by the collapse Of a
gang plank. 800. Wall street brokers
Tuesday placed bets Of $1,000 at to /
that Taft will fail Of reelection, and
$4,000 at to that Wilson will be the
next president Of the United States. 80.
Plans have been completed for the erec-
tion Of a 36-story building on the site
of the burned Equitable building In
New York. The new building Is to oc-
cupy the entire block and 1t Is estimat-
ed to cost $4,000, 900. 49,. The number
Of dead in the earthquake that swept
over Turkey last week, totals more
than 5000, and $4,000 others are home
less and starving. according to a re-
port sent out Tuesday from Berlin. ....
Princess Frederick Charles, sister of
the German emperor, was robbed of
valuable jewelry in a London railway
station last Saturday. ~. E.
Widener Of Philadelphia, last week
burchased a yearling colt in France,
for which he paid $4,000. -. DR.. T.
B. McClintic. Of the United States
Marine hospital service, died in Wash
ington. D. C. Tuesday, Of spotted
with which he had been in
fected while fighting the disease in the
Bitter Root Valley. "A mob Of forty
men held up the court at Columbus,
Ca, Tuesday, at the point Of pistols,
and took a 16-year-old negro who
was on trial for murder, from the court
room and lynched him.. "A Paris
physician, after working on the
problem for a decade, announces the
discovery and isolation Of the cancer
germ and believes he also has per-
fected an anti-cancer serum. The
National Populist convention was In
session at st. Louis Tuesday, with only
eight delegates in attendance. =.
r. C. Fenwick, an English aviator,
was killed near Salisbury, England.
Tuesday. He fell 500 feet. .....