Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-07-25
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The attorney general Of Mississippi
has instituted custer suits against the
Illinois Central and the Yazoo and
Mississippi Valley railroads. alleging
unlawful merger and asking penalties
aggregating $4,000, 900. Gov Fielder,
who succeeded to the office of governor
Of New Jersey on the retirement Of
Gov Wilson, Is to be a candidate for
election to the office. -. "A number Of
D. Rockefeller at Tarrytown, N. Y,
leads his neighbors to believe that the
blazes are of incendiary origin. :. :. The
Philadelphia street car system during
the year ending June 30, ce!iected from
passengers 460,41S,640 nickels Cor car
fares. -. "A woman burglar was cap
tured under q bed in bachelors
apartment In New York, Monday
night. Martin Strasburger, q wealthy
Chicago manufacturer, on Monday shot
and then committed suicide. .. Mrs.
Mildora Newton, once leader Of Mo-
bile, Ala, society, Is in jail in that city
on charges of burglary. %. Three Chi
nese provinces have seeded from the
recently formed Chinese republic. "A
penalty and custer suit against the
Standard Oil company, several subsi-
diaries and twenty EIGHT individuals.
by the state Of Texas, aggregating
$102, ,000, 900, has been compromised by
the payment Of fine Of $500. 0.000...
President Wilson has commuted the
life sentences Of four convicts In the
Leavenworth prison, Kansas, 80 that
the men will be released at the end OF
a year, II they continue to be good dur
ing that time. -. .Herschel Pierce, II
years old, has confessed to the Lake
Charles, La, police that he stole $22,-
900 in currency from a safe Of the
Wells Fargo Express company last
November. An uncle of the boy had
been arrested for the crime on Satur-
day. Governor Major, OF Missouri,
has by proclamation set aside August
20 and 21 as good roads holiday" and
calls on all able-bodied men Of the
state to work the roads on those two
days. Julian Hawthorne, aged 81
years and an author Of note, Is soon
to be released by parole rom the Fed
eral prison at Atlanta, Ga, where he Is
serving time for fraudulent use OF the
mails. 4. Prof. Zephaniah Hopper, aged
| SO years, and for seventy one years q
teacher in the public schools Of Phila-
delphia, died in that city Monday. He
was probably the Oldest teacher in
point Of service In the world. .......
Archibald c. Hart, Democrat, was
elected to congress from the sixth dis.
trict Of New Jersey, Tuesday, to I'LL
out the unexpired term OF Congress
nnnnQan
Republican and q Progressive, and re-
ceived a majority Of 5000. 80. A mys-
terious looking package, addressed to
Andrew Carnegie, was received at the
Carnegie corporation Offices in New
York, Tuesday. 1t was turned over to
the police, who suspicioned that 1t was
bomb" Attempts to explode 1t by
firing rifle bullets at the bomb" prov
ed it to be a Scotch cheese. ...... The
first local option election held In ILL
nois in which women were allowed to
vote, was held at Carpentersville
Tuesday. The saloon element was de-
feated, 172 to 156. OF ESQ women yot-
ers in the village, 157 voted. At Ben
ton, ILL.,, the same day, the saloon was
beaten out, 400 women voting against
the saloon. .....A young boy OF Hay-
erford, Pa, Is to receive legacy OF
500, 900 from his grandmother's es-
tate, II when he reaches 81 years of
age he can swear that he has never
used tobacco in any form. .... Thomas
Hind, general superintendent Of the
Southern Pacific railroad Of Mexico, Is
held by Mexican rebels for ransom at
Guaymas, according to advices receiy-
ed at Tucson, Ariz. 80. VIM. A. Jewell.
for twenty-five years in the postal
service, and for twelve years a super
intendent of branch postofice In New
York, Is under arrest In that city on
charge Of rifling the mails. -. Lieut..
General Nelson A. Miles, u. s. A, re-
tired, is at Sofia, Bulgaria, and Is un-
able to leave the city because Of Its be-
ing besieged by the Greeks. 80. John
A. Reith, aged 81 years, weighing 500
pounds, died at Pottsville, Pa. Tues
day. -. Fifty girls and women were
burned to death in an overall factory
fire at Binghampton. N. Y. Tuesday
Only about forty Of the 1875 women en-
ployes escaped without more or less
Injuries. The factory building was a
mass of ruins and crumbling walls
within thirty minutes after the discov-
cry of the fire. Anthony Brady,
a we'll known New York financier, died
in London Wednesday, where he had
just arrived, apparently In good health.
.... A 19-year- bride of Gaines
vile, Ga, shot her husband Sunday
night, seriously wounding him. She
claims that she was afraid he was go
ing to leave her. "A. j. Stansel,
aged 73, Is to serve a year in the Geor-
gia penitentiary for forgery, being sent
up from Savannah. ...... "A woman or
Newark, N. j., was murdered Tuesday
night, by having a round instrument
driven through the roof Of her mouth
into her brain. .... Fourteen miners
were killed in q coal mine at Geilen-
kirchen, Germany. Wednesday. by a
cave-in. caused by a recent cloudburst.
..... Fire did damage to the extent OF
last Tuesday. On Wednesday $50 con-
victs mutinied and refused to go to
their cells. The warden finally allowed
them to have their way, rather than
have riot with probable bloodshed..
The Swiss Guards Of the Vatican at
Rome, have been mutinous for several
days past. A number Of them have
been discharged. ..... "A revolution Is
under way in Portugal and the authori-
easy as to the probable outcome. .....
Hersey Mitchell, a negro, hanged at
Starke, Fla, Wednesday for thirty
eight minutes for the murder Of an
other of his race. revived after being
placed in a coffin and lived three
hours. Two fathers Of Rochester.
Mimi, have made bonds Of 500 each.
to the effect that the son Of one Of
them will be a model husband to the
daughter Of the other. The bond Is
forfeitable on the failure Of either
husband or wife to be all that he or
she ought to be. 49,. President Wilson
has granted an unconditional pardon to
Isaac B. Walker, a banker Of Dallas,
Tex, convicted Of the misapplication
of bank funds e.. Twenty copper mines
in the vicinity Of Calumet, Mich. have
been closed on account Of a strike of
the miners. 49,. The international In
stitute Of Agriculture, Rome. Italy, es-
TINA tes that thfs total world WELD of