Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-02-25
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY as, 1913.
,oved 1900 buildings. rendering

DESTROYED $500 buildings, rendering
$4,000 homeless and entailing a prop
erty loss Of $500, 900. :. Frank Romeo,
a murderer was executed at the Utah
penitentiary Thursday. The condemned
man was strapped to a chair and shot
to death by firing squad. "A steam
er left Baltimore last week for Amster-
dam, loaded with 324,615 bushels OF
corn, two train loads. ..Ye Ho NaLa,
tituiar dowager empress of China, died
saturday. She was the widow OF EN-
peror Kwangsu, who died November
13. 1908. Thomas H. Plummer was
in court at Pittsburg, Pa, Friday on
charge of bigamy. Wife No. with six
children and wife No with one child'
were both in court, and testified as to
Plummer being an ideal husband ana
father. The court suspended sentence,
requiring Plummer to live with wire
No. l and support both families. ......
Percy Newkirk, a negro, was legally
hanged at Gulfport, Miss, Friday, just
one month after he had killed the chief
of police of that town. -. Thirty-three
Indian chiefs, veterans or the custer
wars, were in New York last Saturday
to take part in the laying Of the cor
nerstone of gigantic monument to De
erected at Fort Hamilton, New YORK
harbor, as a memorial to the North
American Indians. President Tart, the
big white chief took part in the cere-
monies. Lord Haldane, lord high
chancellor of England, will be the prin-
cipal speaker at the annual meeting OF
the American Bar association ct Mon.
treal, Canada, September 1st: This VIII
be the first time on record that loro
high chancellor Of England has LETT the
empire while holding office. Judge
Nathan B. Goff. Of the United states
circuit court, has been elected 10 the
United States senate by the west VIZ
ginia legislature. The PennsyIVamnia % an
railroad company will erect $25,000,-
600 terminal station in Chicago. the
remains of seven children were buried
in one casket at Pittsburg, Pa, Sunday.
The children had lost their lives In q
fire which destroyed their home on the
previous Wednesday night. "A Bull
garian army aeroplane, while recon
noitering over Adrianople on SATURDAY,
was hit by a Turkish shell and fell IN
side the lines. The aeroplanist was
made a prisoner. .....A surgeon at
Montreal, Canada, on Saturday, per-
formed the unusual operation or re-
moving a bullet from the heart or
man who had been shot several days
before. The patient is reported as i'm
proving. Five out or ten strikers
on trial at Hackensack, N. j., for the
murder of two railroad detectives IN
riot last fall, were convicted at that
place Saturday and given sentences as
gregating sixty years. .Ex-President
Porfiro Diaz of Mexico, now living In
Spain, has refused to make any COM
ment on the situation in Mexico. .Ex-
speaker Joseph Cannon will retire from
the house of representatives next Tues
day, after a service in congress OF thir-
ty-eight years. =. According to re-
port Just issued by the commissioner OF
internal revenue, the United States
consumed $4,000, 900 gallons Of whisky
from July 1st to February 1st, an in
crease of 100000 gallons over the same
period the previous year. During the
same period $500, 100000 cigarettes and
$4,000, 900 cigars were consumed. 49,. "A
s!eet storm during thirty hours ending
Saturday morning, caused damage to
the amount of $1,000,000 in Chicago.
The Pennsylvania railroad has within
the past thirty days placed orders for
1906 freight cars, costing total or
s17O4S,575. .Grahame- White, the
English aviator, is making arrange
ments for an aeroplane flight across the
Atlantic. He proposes to carry four
or five passengers and believes he can
cover the distance in thirty to ffty
hours.