Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-08-06
MERE.MENIIoN.

ing machines at Garden City, N. Y.
Friday. Both of the machines were
wrecked. and the aviators thrown to
the ground, but neither Of them was
seriously injured. >. Ten workmen
were killed and thirty-five injured in
the collapse Of an immense power
station at Neurenberg, Bavaria, Friday
{. >. The. fortune of Bertha Krupp
Won Boiler, the head of the Krupp
iron works Of Germany. Is stated to
be $4,000, 900. 1t is reported from
Paris that France and Russia have
about concluded a naval alliance for
offense and defense. -. The Dream"
a 40-foot motor boat, covered the dis
tance from Philadelphia to Bermuda,
719 miles in 105 hours and six min
utes. beating its competitor, the
"Kathemma," 51-foot boat by about
twenty-one hours. The purse was
$1,000. The race started last Satur-
day and was finished Wednesday. -.
The gunboat Isla de Cuba, captured
at Manila Bay by Dewey. WIS last
week sold by the navy. department
to the government of venezula, for
$57, ,250.. VIM. Hodgewell, an oil
well shooter. was killed by an explos-
ion Of a can Of nitroglycerin at Glover
Gap. w. Va, Tuesday. /. {. The Wash
ington party" is the name selected by
Mr.. Roosevelt's followers In. Pennsyl-
vania, for the. third party in that
state. ..- According to statistics Just
issued, there are 10000 Presbyterian
churches in the United States. There
are 9.274 ministers, 1,3S0,05S COM
municants and last years total con-
tributions were $25,798,615.....T ;. There
have been 224 deaths from bubonic
plague and 73 deaths from cholera at
Annoy, China, during the past three
months. -. The periodical revolu-
tion is now in progress in Nicauragua.
The revolutionists are headed by Sec
retary of War Mena. :. L. The family of
Joaquin Miller, the famous poet of the
Sierras, is split by politics. Miller is a
Jeffersonian Democrat, his wife Is reg
istered as a Taft Republican, and a
daughter Is a Roosevelt admirer.
1t Is estimated that San Francisco will
spend upward Of $S0,000,000 in prepar-
ing for the big Panama exposition In
1915. ..... Whitley" Lewis and 'Dago"
Frank Cirofici, who are alleged to have
been two Of the four actual gunmen
who killed Rosenthal, the gambler, In
New York. on July 16, have been ar
rested. Two other gunmen, "Gyp the
Blood" and Lefty Louie" are expected
to be arrested at almost any moment
..... The government Of Holland has
decided to ask for conference Of the
maritime powers to elaborate universal
rules for making life safe at sea. -.
Governor Wilson has decided not to
resign his Office during the presidential
campaign. Government chemists at
Washington are trying to solve the
momentous problem as to what causes
the holes in Swiss cheese. Light
snow fell in various parts Of Pennsyl-
vania Saturday afternoon. .Mingo
Sanders, once sergeant In the negro
infantry regiment, discharged without
honor from the army after the Browns
vile, Texas, riots, has secured q civil
service position in the interior depart
rnent at Washington. -. . George Cole
man, a negro ex-policeman of Phila-
delphia, committed suicide Saturday
when cornered by detectives, who want
ed him for having murdered his para
mour on the previous Monday. -. i. E.
Boyette has been freed Of the charge
Of murder at Montgomery, Ala, having
been arrested on the charge Of murder
ing P. ]. Westhofen, while the latter
was out automobiling with Boyette's
wife During the mast thirty-fiye
days AL persons were run over by au-
tomobiles in the streets of Paris. .....
Governor Wilson says that he does not
expect to make extensive tours or
rear platform speeches during the pres
idential compaign and will refrain from
personalities. 80. In his defense Lieut..
Becker, Of New York, charged with the
murder Of Rosenthal, the gambler, will
attempt to prove that the murder was
done by Bald Jack" Rose and his as
sociates on their own responsibility. %.