Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-04-29
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ed with the murder of her husband,
was acquitted by Fulton county jury
at Atlanta, Ga, Friday. The defense
claimed that 1t was q case Of suicide.
-. According to figures given out by
the United States bureau of mines, the
death toll Of the coal mines Of the
country last year was 1880 men. These
figures represent q death rate of 3.15
in every thousand mine workers, and
is the smallest death rate since 1899.
......A woman suffrage parade with
$4,000 participants Is scheduled to take
place In New York next Saturday.
Ambassador Bryce, for six years the
British represe 1tative at Washington,
has left that city for his home. He will
go by way OF Japan. In clash be-
tween striking cotton mill operatives,
and the police at Hopedale, Mass, FRI
day, one striker was killed. The ef-
forts to collect the $4,000 unaccount-
chairman OF the state monuments COM
mission, are to be dropped by the New
York state authorities. In order to
meet the proposed additions to the ma
tional armaments In 1914, IL will be
necessary for the government of
France to borrow 100000, 900. The
national strike Of the Socialist Labor
party in Belgium has been called on. /.
The legislature Of Pennsylvania, has
passed bill raising the salaries Of its
members from $1,000 to $4,000 per
year. ...... .Ortie McManigal, famous as
the main witness against the MeNa-
mara brothers, now IN jail at Los An
geles, CAL, Is to be given an uncondi-
tional release within the next thirty
days. =. !. The bill Of exceptions" filed
In the Federal court at indianapolis,
Ind, for the defendants In the ,dyna-
mite conspiracy, case, contains $3.50
typewriter pages. j. /. James j. Hill,
the head Of the Northwestern railway,
has placed contracts for the building
Of four steamships at cost Of $15,000,-
600 for Panama canal service. "A
New Jersey sand company Is to ship
5000 tons Of sand to Panama for use
In government iron founderies. ;. AZ
ter being reelected president Of the
National Association of Cotton Manu-
facturers at Boston, Thursday, Edw. T.
Greene pleaded with the members to
stand together In the troublous times
which now beset the industry. >. The
Bethlehem Steel company Of Pennsyl-
vania, has purchased the plant of the
Fore River Ship Building company, at
Quincy, Mass, and will enter the ship
building field Of the world. %. I. Five
officials Of Cape May county, N. J., have
been gathered in a bribery net set by
Burns detectives. The evidence was
worked up at the instance Of Rev. VIM!
D. Fisher, D. D., editor Of weekly
newspaper. Mrs. Annie G. Rogers
Of Leadville, Col, is to be appointed re-
ceiver Of the land office at Leadville,
on recommendation of Secretary Lane
Of the interior department. The posi-
ton pays $4,000 a year. Secretary
Of War Garrison has given orders for
the closing of the thirty five saloons
doing business In the Canal zone, to be
closed during the coming fiscal year.
..... Cables from Peking are to the
effect that the Chinese government has
secured the much talked Of loan Of
$125. 100000 from banking firms of
England, France, Germany, Russia and
Japan. Forty thousand school chill
dren Of Pittsburg. Pa, are on a strike
because Of the retention of s. L. Heet-
er, superintendent of the schools, after
being declared innocent Of serious
charges. $3.50. The gold reserve Of the
German Imperial bank at Berlin last
Friday reached $250,000, 900. -. Out
of 219 candidates who took the recent
mental examination for entrance to the
naval academy at Annapolis, Nd, 173
failed. ......A youth of Is and girl of
19 climbed to the top Of the clock tower
Of Notre Dame cathedral, Antwerp,
Belgium, Friday, and committed sui
eide by jumping to the ground. 1t was
ex-lieutenant Of police of Philadelphia,
committed suicide In that city, Friday,
just two hours before he was to go to
court to stand trial on q charge of de-
frauding the city by padding his pay
rolls. ...... "A bill to appropriate $24,-
100000 for cooperative road work in
all the states of the Union, was intro
duced in congress Saturday. The
public health board Of Manila has en-
ployed 30 extra rat-catchers In an eff
fort to stamp out the bubonic plague
which has reappeared in that city,.
Edwin Swift Balch, a learned scientist
vorably known in the scientific world,
has just issued book in which he
credits DR.. Frederick A Cook as being
the first man to reach the North Pole.
......A gas well, 700 feet deep. opened
at Mexia, Texas, last week, Is said by
experts to be the greatest gas produc-
er In the world The gas flow is esti-
mated at 30,000,000 cubic feet every
twenty-four hours and the pressure at
3bU POUNDS TO the square incn. .EcO-
nomists figure that the recent Social
ist-Labor strike at Belgium cost that
country $4,000 900. :. An alleged fire.
bug made a confession to fire depart
ment official in Cleveland, o., Thurs
day, In which he claimed there were
ten men in that city who were engaged
in the business Of causing fires to get
the insurance. :. VIM. Chitney Borden,
young missionary, died at Cairo,
Egypt April 8, leaving an estate Of
over a million dollars, most Of which he
left to foreign missions. s..... The strike
Of coal miners in West Virginia, which
has been in progress for two years, has
at last been amicably settled. Two
women and three children were burned
to death in a fire that destroyed two
army barracks at the Preside, San
Francisco, Saturday night. -. Sir Ce-
ell Arthur Spring Rice, K. c. M. G., Is
to succeed Mr.. Bryce, as the British am
bassador at Washington.
From Lancaster to Spartanburg.-
Spartanburg is being considered In the
broadened activities Of Col. Leroy
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