Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-08-01

shot his divorced wife to death at
Ala, Tuesday morn
ing ana then fatally shot himself. -.
The trial of Leo NJ. frank, charged
with the murder or Mary fhagan; a
young girl, was begun In Atlanta.
"a, Monday, and will probably con-
tinue for a week or more. "A ne
gro brakeman was killed and three
white trainmen were seriously in1ur-
ed in a head-on collision at Adel,
"a, Tuesday morning. ...... Mrs. u.
e. Rumsey, daughter of the late
Edw. h. Hartman, lost SIS, 900 worth
Of Jewels from her home at Narra-
ganselt Per, X. l., Sunday night. 80.
The state government college or
Georgia, has held sixty farmers in
stilutes throughout the state this
summer and estimates the attendance
at $4,000. .Chas. S. Hamlin OF
Boston, assistant secretary of the
treasury under President Cleveland,
has been appointed to that office by
President Wilson. The estate or
Herman Knorr, a Saxon landowner,
estimated at $3.750,000. has been
willed by the testator to Kaiser
William, to strengthen the army and
navy" The widow of Knorr Will
contest the will ......A 100000 gold
irgot has mysteriously disappeared
from q glass show case a. an expo
sition at Ghent, Belgium ....A bed
of giant scallops has been discovered
off the Atlantic coast, extending from
off the coast Of Rhode Island to the
coast Of Virginia. The bed Is said to
be thirty or more miles wide... "A
story from Nogales, Ariz., Is TO the ef-
feet that q Mexican federal gunboat
was sunk In the harbor Of Guaymas.
Monday, by bomb dropped from an
aeroplane. The aviator, a French
man, made three attempts before
hitting the vessel. ....S. U. q.
Rhodes, member Of the lower house
Of the West Virginia legislature. ac-
cused of accepting bribe in connec-
ton with the election Of a United
States senator. has been convicted.
The grand jury of Kanawha
county. West virginia, has returned
indictments against thirty-nine per-
sons, following an investigation of
rioting the coal fields. ;. Vilhjalmar
Stefansson, the Norwegian explorer.
left Teller. Alaska, Saturday night,
with fifteen scientists and twenty
two other men, aboard three vessels
for exploration in the Arctic ocean.
The expedition viii be gone three or
four years. go. The second extra
session of the year of the New Jer-
sey legislature has been called by
Governor Fielder for August s. The
governor says the session can be con-
cluded in an hour or two. 49,. Mon
day afternoon between 4 and 4.16
o'clock, more rain fell in New York
city than has fallen In any twelve
known to the weather bu-
reau. Hundreds Of Easements were
nf fnl nn
taurant keepers were put out Of
business by the flood. The sewers
take care Of the flow. .....I
More than 5000 cloak and suit MAX
ers are on a strike in Philadelphia.
The strike has been on since July IA,
and II is estimated to be costing all
parties not less than 100000 a
week !. Miss Florence Brown, 81
years old, was found murdered In the
Of a Dallas. Tex. real es-
tate office, Monday morning. Within|
two hours the police had arrested
men on suspicion OF hav-
ing committed the crime. -. George
Robinson, his wife and two children
were found shot to death In their
near Rumsey. Albeta,
Monday morning. "A
petition in involuntary bankruptcy
has been filed against Buffalo Bilrs|
Wild West shows, in the Federal
district court at Trenton, N. j. ...-..
A warrant has been issued for DR..
Stoddard P. Gray at Chester, Pa, al
leging an illegal operation, under
which his patient died. The big
strike. of the. silk mill workers at
Nj, In progress for twenty
three weeks, under direction of the
Industrial Workers Of the World,
came to an end Monday, with a VIC
tory for the mill owners. The loss In
wages to the strikers totaled $5.5O0.-
900. The steamship Minnetonka
arrived at New York. Monday. carry
ing a cargo of 104 horses. valued at
$500. 900. -. The children of the
San Francisco public schools have
deposited 900 in pennies, nickels
and dimes In the school savings bank
of that city during the past two
years Ex-senator Joseph w.
Bailey will enter the race for the
Of Texas. In order
to vote in q pending bond election to
issue $3500,000 bonds to secure mu-
nicipal car lines, $4,000 voters,
9 900 Of them women, have register
ed in San Francisco. -. "A Clay
county, Mo-, cattle raiser last week,
sold thirty-two yearlings on the Kan
sas City market Of an average weight
Of TAI pounds, at an average price of
$66.32 each. Seven persons are
dead as result Of a motorcycle ar
cident at Ludlow, KY, Wednesday
night. The gasoline tank of the cy-.
cle exploded, scattering the burning
fluid over the spectators with fatal
results. England will not par
ticipate in the Pan-Pacific exposition.
...... The proposed eugenics law
before the Georgia legislature, has
been killed. ."Rube" Benton, star
pitcher of the Cincinnati National
baseball team, was fatally injured in
motor -cycle accident near that city,
Wednesday. Mrs. Edith Rigby,
suffra gist, has been sentenced to prison
for nine months by Liverpool court.
on conviction of arson. ..... The po-
litical enemies Of Governor Sulzer, OF
New York. will make a strenuous ef-
fort to remove him from office by i'm;
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