Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-12-03
MERE-M ENTIoN.

CaDlegramS reachlng washington on
Friday night, brought meagre details
Of great typhoon that day or two
before swept over the islands Of Leyte
and Panay, of the Philippine group.
| The cities of Tacloban and Capez were
devastated and the loss Of life Is esti-
mated at $4,000 to $1,000. 80. Rev. G..
w. Adkins, aged so years, was con-
victed at Poteau, Okla, Friday, on the
charge of having robbed the grave Of
wealthy Indian, with whose body 1t
was reported several thousand dol
lars had been buried. .Emmet s.
Bagby, aged "a, assistant bank cashier,
committed suicide at Paducah, KY,
Friday. He was 500 short in his ac-
counts. John Frank Hickey, phar-
macist, has confessed at Buffalo, N. Y,
to the murder Of Joseph Josephs 7
years old, more than a year ago. He
also confessed to two other murders,
committed during the past twenty
years. He committed his crimes while
under the influence Of liquor at which
times he claimed that he had an un-
comfortable desire to murder young
boys. Severe earthquake shocks did
much damage in the district of Acam-
bay, state of Mexico, last week. Many
persons were killed. ...... During the
open hunting season in northern
Michigan, which closed Saturday, sew
enteen boys and men were victims OF
careless hunters and accidental shoot
ing. ..... The rate for "call money" in
New York went up to 20 per cent Fri
day, the highest rate since the 1907
panic. Stock exchange firms charged
that the Morgan banks had cornered
the money market. VIM. P. jack
son has been appointed United States
No Nd IN hn
late Senator Rayner. The new Mary
land senator Is the national Republi-
can committeeman for that state. .....
Colonel Daniel M. Ransdell, sergeant
alarms Of the United States senate,
died in Washington on November 2Sth
Three men were killed and four
seriously injured by a boiler explosion
at Smoky Valley, KY, Friday. .Chas,
H. Hyde, former city chamberlain Of
New York city, and protGge of Mayor
Gaynor, was convicted In that city
Friday on a charge of bribery the
jury celebrating only A minutes.
Hyde forced a bank in which city
funds were deposited in 1907, to loan
large sum to the tottering Carnegie
Trust company, on pain of having the
city funds withdrawn II the loan was
not made. He is liable to ten years In
prison or a fine of 100000. ........ The
average of guesses Of 1S0 members Of
the New York Exchange places this
years cotton crop at 14,27S,000 bales.
..... The crude petroleum production
of the United States for the year 1912
Is the largest on record, totaling g.
25O, ,O00, 900 gallons ...... The indepen-
dent rulers, princes and mobiles OF In
dia, have started plan by which they
hope to give to the British government
three super and nine
first-class cruisers. ...... The Russian
government Is much concerned over a
threatened revolt of the Poles. Pamph-
let's have been widely circulated at
Warsaw calling on the Poles to cele-
brate the anniversary Of the Polish
revolution of 1880. The American
Red Cross has contributed $5S,855 to
the relief Of war sufferers In the Bal
kans and Turkey. "A railroad wreck
on the Pennsylvania railroad last
Wednesday night at Glen Loeb, Pa,
In which four persons were killed and
fifty injured, Is attributed by coro-
ners' jury. to a sagging bridge. The
small loss Of life in the wreck is claim
ed to be due to the steel sleeping cars
which made up the train. Several of
the cars jumped the track and rolled
down an embankment.. There was
a 5000 900 fire in the Union stockyards,
Chicago, Friday night. .Burrell Oates,
a negro, was legally hanged from the
limb of a tree at Waxahachie, Tex,
Friday for a murder committed eight
years ago. Oates was given seven
trials in six of which he was con-
demned to be hanged, the seventh re-
sulting In a new trial. 80. Many DEM
ocratic congressman and senators are
much displcased with the action of
President Taft in placing $1,000 fourth
class postmasters in the classified civil
service, and will make efforts to have
President Wilson put these officials
back on the pie counter. .... Accord
ing to estimates just published by the
Kansas board of agriculture, the wheat,
corn and oats crop Of that state this
year will total s170.7S5.666, an In
crease over 1911 of about $65,000,00
$500. The worlds business, according
to figures given out by the bureau of
foreign and domestic commerce at
Washington, will this year reach the
enormous total of $4,000, 100000, near
ly double the volume Of 1890 and four
billion more than the previous high
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