Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-02-13
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at Rochester, n. T. last wednesday
night, 700 hogs were turned loose In
the city. Many Of the hogs were cap
tured by citizens, who confined them
in cellars, and even parlors. One
man was killed and three badly injur-
ed by an express train on the Balti-
more & Ohio railroad, at Baltimore
Friday. The~t train ran into q gang OF
men working on a street crossing.
Wall street business men believe Chas
w. Morse Is planning q campaign fol
revenge against the men whom he
holds responsible for his downfall In
the 1907 panic. Miss Ada Ellis, q
bookkeeper for a New York concern
plead guilty in police court in that
city, Friday, to the theft Of $4,000, ex-
planning that she took the money In
order to taste the joys and pleasures
Of the great white way" The judge
suspended sentence. T.. President Taft's
managers announced last Friday that
Mr.. Taft would be renominated for
the presidency on the first ballot
claiming that he would receive 7SO
votes. They concede only 800 votes to
the opposition. .Cloudbursts on the
borders Of Spain and Portugal, last
week, destroyed millions Of dollars In
property and rendered more than 25,-
900 people homeless. Famine Is
threatened and disease has broken out
In the ranks Of the sufferers. -. The
Atlanta Chamber Of Commerce has
donated $1,000 toward the employment
Of a corn growing expert to develop
the work Of the boys corn clubs and
girls canning clubs in the vicinity of
Atlanta. The State Agricultural COL
lege donated another $1,000 for the
same purpose. The railroad COM
mission Of Georgia has determined to
make a rigid investigation of South
ern Express company's rates In that
state. The express company claims
the Georgia intra- state rates are "ab-
normally low. Eight firemen were
badly injured in New York city, Fri
day, while fighting fire in the office
Of the German Staats-Zeitung. King
Frederick Of Denmark Is slowly re-
covering from a severe attack Of in
flammation Of the lungs. For several
days his condition was critical. -.
New York Harry" who last Friday
finished a five-year sentence in the
Federal prison In Atlanta for a post
office robbery in South Carolina, was
rearrested and taken to Birmingham,
Ala, on Friday morning, to answer to
the charge Of murder committed In
that city. Two men were hanged for
the murder, and 1t Is now believed
that one Of the men hanged was inno-
cent. More than 100000 bales Of
cotton will be handled through the
port Of Savannah, Ga. during the
present season. UP to Friday 1,908,-
I'll bales had been received. The
Turkish government has announced
that the only grounds on which 1t will
consider peace terms Is the retraction
Of Italy's decree anneXing Tripoli. -.
The city government and business peo-
pie Of Atlanta, Ga, are making a de-
termined fight for lower electric light
and power rates, and are taking steps
looking to the installation of munich
pally owned plant, the city electrician
claiming that the city can build plant
and furnish power to consumers at q
maximum rate not exceeding cents
per kilowatt hour. and presents figures
to prove his claims. . Governor O'Neal
of Alabama, last week paroled q white
man convicted Of Illicit liquor selling
within twenty-four hours after the
court Of appeals had confirmed a SEN
tence Of six months by the trial court
49,. A Chicago news story is to the
effect that Judge Alton B. Parker has
been retained by the labor unions at
a fee exceeding $50,000 to defend such
union men as may be indicted by the
Federal grand jury at Indianapolis in
connection with the Mcnamara dyna-
hitting crusade. E. .As the result Of
Edwin Hawley. the New York multi
millionaire and railroad owner who
died recently, leaving no will, it is
probable that one Of his cast off
nephews. who works as a stevedore,
will inherit $2.500.0O0 Of the $5O,O00,-
600 estate left by Hawley. 80. Abe
Reuf, now serving term in San Quen-
tin penitentiary, is to be one Of the
chief witnesses for the prosecution in
the trial Of former Mayor Schmitz on
bribery charges, now under way at
San Francisco. It Is claimed that
Reuf will tell what he knows in order
to gain his freedom, and big scandals
are promised to result. In an ad-
dress before the Ohio constitutional