Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-11
MERE-MENTION.

The New York merchants are bring
ing strong pressure to bear on the ex-
press companies to settle the strike
now on in the city. Business has suf-
fered tremendously. .... The women of
Pittsburg held straw election in reg
ular form last Tuesday, to show that
they knew how to vote. The total vote
cast was GIG, divided between the va
rious parties. Five defective ballots
were thrown out. Indiana has elect
ed a Democratic house and John w.
Kern will succeed Albert j. Beveridge
in the United States senate. .... The
population Of Los Angeles. Cal, is 319,-
1913, an increase Of 216,719 in the past
ten years. A Buffalo dispatch gives
a good joke on Norman E. Mack, ma
tional chairman of the Democratic par
ty, alleging that he voted the full Re-
publican ticket by mistake. 1t Is
stated from Washington that the pop
ulation of the United States will be
announced by the time congress meets.
:. Burglars blew open safe in DAN
vile, ILL.,, few days ago, and robbed
safe Of $4,000. :. The general con-
ference of the United Daughters of the
Confederacy, convened In Little Rock,
Ark, last Tuesday. .... Nine hundred
bales of cotton, valued at $4,000, were
destroyed in the burning Of ware
house at Magee, Miss, a few days
ago. A Missouri Pacific train ran
down and killed an unidentified man
Y 1N,Nr~S OF q
and the conductor, l.. d. Hopkins, who
had been on the road forty years and
had never previously had an accident,
dropped dead. The women suf-
fragists were successful in carrying
the state Of Washington for their
cause. This will make five states in
which women will have the right Of the
ballot. VIM. H. Hoffman, chauf-
feur, ran down in an automobile and
killed John Kelly in New Orleans a
few days ago, and is being held for
murder without bail. Heretofore such
cases have been bailed in New Or
leans. -. .Judson Harmons plurality
over Harding in Ohio Is $4,000. The
Lane Cotton mills of New Orleans,
have resumed operations after having
closed down since April. They employ
1000 operatives. Vivian M. Lewis,
VINO was QeIedIeQ Dy ,"OOuTOW "llSOu
for governor Of New Jersey, has re-
sumed his duties as state commission
er of insurance and banking. Demo-
cratic State Chairman Ventrees charges
that many frauds were committed by
the Republicans of East Tennessee in
last Tuesdays election. "A New
York dispatch says that neither John
D. Rockefeller, nor his son, John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., voted last Tuesday.
:. -Four women were elected on the
Democratic ticket as representatives
from Denver district in the Colorado
legislature last Tuesday. 80. President
Taft would not express any opinion in
connection with the result of the cleo
ton. So. AS the result of Tuesdays
election in Cook county in which Chi
cago is situated, Democrats will get
1000 positions that are now held by
Republicans. :. The population of the
state of Alabama, according to the
census figures just issued is 2,13S,O93,
an increase Of 3O9,396, or 16.9 per cent.
Albert Fuchs, young mechani-
clan, was killed in the automobile
races in Savannah, Ga, yesterday, and
w. H. Sharp, driver and owner Of the
car was seriously injured. The car
swerved suddenly and went into
barbed wire fence.