Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-08-12
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The coroner's jury investigating the
deaths of two candidates being initial
ed into the Loyal Order Of Moose, a.
Birmingham. Ala, on July "a, has re-
turned a verdict holding four Of the
officers guilty of manslaughter. The
deaths were caused, 1t is alleged, by the
use of an electric magnetic. The
towns of Caraveli and Quichacha, Peru
were destroyed by earthquakes or
Wednesday of last week. Thousands
were rendered homeless. 49,. The city
of Barcelona. Spain. has been placed
under martial law following general
strike ordered by the Confederation OF
Labor. DR.. Sun Vat Sen, eX-provi-
sional president of China, and leader
I'm the revolution against President
Yuan Shi Kai, has refuged in China. -.
Striking packing house drivers OF
Philadelphia on Friday stopped wa
gon, dumped 5000 pounds OF beer IN
the street, poured coal oil on II and SCI
II on fire. The trial of the Cami-
netti-Diggs white slave cases In pro-
eress at San Francisco since last Tues
day. was adjourned Friday until today
when the prosecution will continue its
case "A steamship from Trieste
arrived at New York, Friday, having
on board several hundred ex-volun-
teers In the Balkan war, Greeks, ser
yians. Bulgars and Turks. every tine
the steerage passengers got togetner
there was q scrap. ...... Dr. OilVer Il, l.;
Jones. father Of the famous "Generai
Rosalie Jones, the suffragette, attempt
ed suicide Friday. ..... "A hanasomeiy
woman
arrived in New York, Friday, ABOARD
the liner Adriatic, having crossed as
.Stowaway," on bet of ESQ that she
couId not do the trick She travelled
second class, but paid no fare. Since
FEBRUARY the Philadelphia mint has
coined 41,365,000 buffalo-Indian nick
aIs During July, 6,170,000 pennies
were coined The triennial conclave
of the knights Templar of the United
States Is being held in Denver TINS
week. Illinois Good Roads commits
sion now has $2,500,000 available ior
road building and repairing -. MISS IS
Kate Nixon, aged Il, OF Hert1or4; ~.
q was drowned in the surf at Nags
Head. N. c., Friday afternoon. sam
Briggs. a negro, was convicted at Dur
ham N. c.. Saturday, and sentenced 10
one year for selling cocaine: ..H.
CLAY Grubb, a wealthy distiller, was
killed at Churchland, N. c., Friday
morning by his wife, while ne was
abnsing her. The coroner's jury re-
turned a verdict Of justifiable homi.
eide. Capt. Thos. w. Waisn, OF
New York, who died In June, shorty
after confessing to District Attorhey
Whitman that he had participated In
noIice graft. left an estate Of only
s10 90. so far as is shown by his Will,
which was probated Saturday. .......
frederick Gross Won Alvensleben, for
twenty-seyen years, laborer at Oma-
ha. Neb.. and estranged from his 1am-
ily. has been notified that he Is heir 10
si.75O 900 from a German estate. AN
underworld murder of woman In
PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday OF last week.
has been followed by the arrest OF the
dead woman's husband for the crime
and uncovering of evidence that proves
conclusively that the pair were Wnlte
slavers and that the murder was caus-
ed by the husband wanting to rio nlm-
self of his wife for a younger woman.
DIR. Krauss, a Frenchman, was
sentenced at Nancy, France, Friday, 10
serve twenty years in prison for set
ting fire to his house In order TO get
the insurance. The "Fusionists" OF
New York have nominated John Fur
row Mitchell for mayor and Chas. >.
whitman for district attorney, in the
fight against any city ticket that Tam
many Hall Is to put up. =. .Tne ieaolns
Chicago speculators nave locked horns
in a contest with corn as bone Oh
contention. The Armour people are on
the bear side, and James A. Patten Is
said to be on the bull side of the corn
market. DR.. Allan c. Pearson,
prison physician of the Holloway jail,
london, was horsewhipped Saturday,
by militant suffragettes, because OF al
legged ill-treatment Of q suffragette
prisoner. Miss Emma krill,
trained nurse, charged with the MUIR
der of DIR. S. E. Iron, a Utica, n. Y,
physician, with poison, has requested
that she be tried before jury OF wo-
men. The friends Of Billy Lus-
tig, a gangman who was fatally snot
in a New York restaurant few nights
ago. have told Police Commissioners
Dougherty to pull his detectives on the
case and that they will quickly punish
the assassins and save the state .ot
of money and trouble besides. 49,.
From January 1st to August 1st, sew
enty-tNo persons were killed at rail-
way grade crossings in New York
state. Seventeen were riding In auto
mobiles. and twenty in other vehicles
President Wilson has signed an
executive OTueT pIOHibiNiho o'ie
from flying over the Panama canal
under penalty of $1,000 fine or a year
in prison.. -. Two more arson
trust convictions were secured In Cnl-
cago on Saturday. ..."The govern
ment is preparing to build the biggest
wireless telegraph station in the world
at Panama. The plant is to include
three towers, each 900 feet high and
over. "A recent census of Chicagos s
rich men, shows that 276 millionaires
are residents of that CITY,. .... Porter
Charlton, the New Jersey man wanted
in Italy for the murder Of his wife,
will leave New York, Thursday, In
charge Of two Italian police officers
The party will travel in the steerage.
"A Paris authority on moving
picture film making, says that there
are 100000 feet of films produced
every day throughout the world.
DR.. A. L. Soresi, a famous New York
surgeon, said in London, Saturday,
that 1t was only a question of time
until it would be possible to graft
limbs to human beings. The gov
ernment of France is preparing to
spend $50,000,000 on its road system
during the next ten years, putting
down tar coatings to protect the ROADS
against the wear and tear of automo-