Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-03-19
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One person was killed and twenty
injured in a railroad wreck near Wa
terloo, Iowa, Thursday. "A gang
Of burglars entered the postoftice at
Freeport, N. Y, early Thursday morn
ing, and loading a 500-pound safe on
an automobile, got away with II, in
cluding about $500. Government
officers held up a shipment Of 1000
rifles, intended for Mexican revolu-
tionaries, at ElPaso, Tex, Thursday.
....... "A retired farmer Of Dupage,
ILL.,, worth 100000, boards at the coun-
ty jail at a dollar a day for board in
preference to living with his own rel
atives. 80. Mrs. Beekman Lorillard
of Asheville, N. c., committed suicide
in the Holland House, New York, Sat-
urday. She was in bad health. .....
Woodrow Wilson's presidential cam
paign manager at Washington. issued
statement Saturday, in which he
claims 500 delegates for the New Jer-
sey man at the Baltimore CONVENTION.
The national convention will include
1904; 730 being necessary for a
choice. AT Headland, Ala, Fri
day. five persons were killed and
thirty or forty houses were demol-
ished by cyclone. .... Mr.. Roose-
welt and his campaign managers have
they will contest all of Mr.. Tafts
southern delegates at the Chicago
convention, before the national Re-
publican committee. Annie Craw-
ford is on trial at New Orleans, La,
| on the charge of numbering her SIS
ter by morphine poisoning. It Is al
legged that the motive for the crime
| was the insurance on the dead girls
life. ..... The navy department has
ordered three additional cruisers to
the Philippines and it is supposed
that the order Is due to the troubles
now prevalent in China. .... Rev. DR..
w. D. Mcfarland, connected with the
United Presbyterian mission work at
Greenville, Tenn, was on Saturday
convicted at Pittsburg, Pa. Saturday
of causing the death Of Elsie Dodds
Coe, his private secretary, last jan
uary, by a criminal operation. An
anarchist named Antonia Dalba, made
| an attempt to assassinate King Victor
Emmanuel at Rome on Friday. The
king was not hit by the bullets Of the
would-be assassin, who is believed to
be insane. More than 100000
| coal miners are on q strike In the
Westphalia district of Germany. and
more than 250,000 workmen in other
lines are idle because of the strike
| Inc StTlhe IS STOWlnS anu tHeTe nave
been many riots between the strikers
tionaries, at El Paso, Tex, Thursday
and the police and imperial troops
... John Wannamaker, the Phila-
delphia merchant, is critically Ill. ....
The great strike of mill workers at
Lawrence. Mass, after continuing for
nine weeks, was brought to an end
Friday afternoon in all but five of the
mills. The strikers gained something
II the way Of increased wages. .Ad
vices received at Ottawa are to the eff
feet that the grain growers organiza-
tions of western Canada are trying to
force the secession Of the provinces OF
Alberta and Saskatchewan from east
ern Canada. The movement is said
to be a protest against the rejection
OF reciprocity by the trusts and manu-
facturers Of the east. Civil war Is
among the possibilities ..... Heavy
snow storms tied up railroad traffic In
Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado and 9TH
er northwestern states Thursday and
Friday.