Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-11-19
Death of Mrs. A. :, Ashe.
MERE MENTION


rell, twice governor Of Georgia, died at
his home In Atlanta last Sunday.
William Marconi, the inventor Of wire
less telegraphy, who was nearly killed
In an automobile accident near Gore-
hette, Italy, on September 25, is able to
be out again; but Is wearing an artifi-
cial eye. :. President Wilson and
family, sailed from New York for Ber-
muda last Saturday with the expecta-
tion OF remaining away until about the
middle Of December. He has made II
clear that office seekers had better not
follow him. 80. Mrs. Bessie LYLE and
her daughter, were killed in an auto
mobile wreck In Atlanta on Sunday.
The automobile was being driven by
the husband and father. -. An era of
general good feeling seems to have fol-
lowed the recent turbulent elections in
Cuba and the whole population is look
Ing forward to better times under
President Menocal. -. Ernest Welch
was convicted at Norwalk, O., Satur-
day for participation in the tarring
and feathering of Miss Minnie Laval!y
near that place several weeks ago.
There are five others to be tried on the
same charge. 80. Jack Johnson the
negro prize fighter, indicted by a Fed
eral grand jury In Chicago, on a charge
Of violating the Mann white slave law,
Is In great fear Of being sent to prison.
He has succeeded in securing his re-
lease from jail on a thirty thousand
dollar bond. .... Lieut.. Colonel Jos. c..
Gibson, in charge Of the troops which
hanged John Brown, for treason, at
Harper's Ferry. died at his home near
Verbena. Ala, Saturday. He was aged
IS years. The physicians of Herli-
mer county, New York, are on a strike
because the county board Of supervi-
sors has recently cut down the fee for
certain kinds Of work. Last week "a
mans body was found in the Erie ca
nal and when the coroner requested
physicians to make an autopsy they
refused because Of the action Of the
supervisors. :. Peach" Neils q ne
gro, charged with the murder of a
young woman and an old man was
taken from the jail at Ocala, Fla.
Thursday and escorted to the edge Of
town, where he was told to beat It."
After the negro had run a few yards
he was shot to pieces by q mob Of 200
men. VIM. Vincent Astor, SON Of the
late John Jacob Astor, and chief heir
to the estate, reached his majority last
Friday, and his fortune Of 500, 900, ,00O0
was turned over to him. The estate
paid the state Of New York an inheri-
tance tax Of $3.150,000. -. The safe Of
the Wells Fargo Express company at
Lake Charles, La, was robbed of a
package containing $4,000 Thursday
morning. The night clerk was arrest
ed for the theft. 80. Cholera Is spread
ing with frightful rapidity throughout
the Turkish army around Constanti-
nople. During one day last week 400
deaths are reported to have occurred
from the disease in one camp. Tony
Janus, an aviator, on Thursday, COW
cred a distance of 125 miles from Kan
sas City to Waverly. Mo-, in 81 min
utes. The government has instl-
tuted suit against James B. Hagin of
New York, to recover $2,512,954, the
value Of 1,395,974 cords Of wood wrong
fully cut from government lands in
Montana. ..... Boston police have a
bath tub murder mystery, the victim
being a young woman stenographer. :.
surance agent, fearing indictment for
apartments and then shot her and his
second wife, and committed suicide
Thursday. 80. Albert c. Jones, a Chi
cago real estate dealer, has been SEN
fenced to one year in Jail by Judge
Lands for contempt Of court, in that
he scheduled property. in giving bond
for Jack Johnson, that belonged to his
wife. up to date 23,50O publications
of all kinds have compiled with the So
called newspaper publicity law"
which requires the publication Of state
ments Of circulation, business organi-
zation, etc. This is 83 per cent Of the
total number Of United States publica-
tions. ..... Three oil steamers cotrying
o - oil 1aff
Philadelphia last week for foreign
mosa will sail from Philadelphia for
Japan this week, carrying as part Of
her cargo, eighteen locomotives from
the Baldwin locomotive works. The
annual report of the Southern railway,
issued last week, shows gross revenues
of $63,590,32S, an increase of $3,245 266
over the previous year. Operating ex-
penses increased $343,241. Assets and
liabilities are put at $512,084, ,423. 49,.
Nearly $1,000 persons contributed to
the Woodrow Wilson campaign fund,
and the total amount contributed was
a little more than $1,1OO,O00. 49,. The
New Jersey bureau Of statistics re-
ports that during the year the can
neries of the state canned 68,969,057
pounds Of fruits and vegetables. paid
, 10 800 Wd6Co lhdS TAG totoA
selling value of the products was ST.
173,567. Five men were blown to
atoms at a rock quarry at Glenn Mills,
Pa, Saturday, when man who was
carrying a 50-pound box of dynamite
dropped the box because his fingers
were numbed by the cold weather.
The total resources Of the 7,400 nation
al banks of the United States on June
80, was $24,9S6,000,0 900, an increase of
$403, 100000 in four years. Individual
deposits in these banks on the above
date totaled $4,239, 900, 900. 80. Senator
Isador Rayner Of Maryland. is criti-
cally i'll at his home In Washington. 80.
During the first eight months of 1912
there were 1,453 men killed In and
about coal mines of the United States.
There were $50 fatalities in Pennsylva-