Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-08-15
Meeting At NeeIy's Creek.
MERE-M ENTION.

The Federal bureau Of commerce
and labor has begun a countrywide
investigation into the high cost Of liv-
ing. The investigation will cover the
years 1908 to 1910. Strike condi-
tions are so bad at Liverpool, Eng
land, that 5000 troops have been
sent there In order to preserve order
among the rioting strikers The
strikers are seeking to prevent the
landing Of food supplies. .Secre-
tary of War Stimson has returned to
the United States from Panama and
expresses himself as being highly
pleased with conditions on the canal.
| Senator Joseph W. Bailey has
resigned as a member of the national
| monetary commission. The resigna-
| tion was accepted. ... The Standard
| Oil company on Saturday paid to the
United States $42,395.69, costs In the
| litigation which resulted In the order
Of dissolution. -. Two thousand ne
gro delegates and visitors to the ma
tional negro Educational congress In
session at Denver, Col, were refused
accommodations by the hotels Of the
city. The body Of Jno. W. Gates,
the millionaire speculator who died In
Paris last week, will be Inferred In
Chicago. Mrs. Ella Reese, the
lola, Kan, woman sentenced to road
work by the town magistrate. has
been released, because the Kansas
women vigorously protested against
the sentence and threatened violence
to the Judge. 49,. Commodore Jones'
negro, was lynched at Farmersville
Tex, Friday because he had used in
sulting language to a young lady over
the telephone. .Twenty-eight per-
sons were burned to death, fifty IA
a.
stroyed by fire at Kostroma, Russia,
Saturday g. g. The Georgia senate has
passed a bill allowing newspapers in
that state to exchange advertising
space for mileage books. .... up to
1890 o'clock Saturday morning the
days rainfall at Mobile, Ala. totaled
4.34 inches Pensacola, Fla, was
visited by the heaviest wind storm In
several years, last Friday night. The
wind at times reached a velocity OF
80 miles an hour. Crops are said
to be almost a failure In western ST.
IBERIA and famine conditions will pre-
vail before the end Of the year. .....
Prof. Richter, a German geologist, Is
being held by brigands In the Mount
OLYMPUS vicinity Of the Turkish en-
pire. The brigands demand a ransom
of $4,000. San Bernardino, Cal,
was severely shaken by an earthquake
Friday afternoon. ... Mrs. A. M. Bill
lings, an aged and wealthy woman OF
Chicago, a few days ago received
note telling her to give up a certain
amount of money or suffer dire conse-
quences. She notified the police and
detectives passing as telephone re-
pairmen were slipped into her home.
The blackmailers were notified to send
for the money and when the messen-
ger appeared he was arrested. -. Be
coming angered at the judge because
he was ordered held for trial on
charge of attempted murder, Martin
Shadowen at Christopher, ILL.,, early
Friday morning, pulled a pistol from
his pocket and shot the judge, and
three marshals, two Of them fatally.
Other deputies finally killed Shadow
en-. A brother Of the desperado, at the
same time was using knife and stab
bed several He either fell or was
thrown from a window and perhaps
fatally injured. -. Walter M. McEach-
ern at Savannah, Ga, Friday, shot
his father-in-law during family
quarrel. "A Chicago story Is to the
effect that VIM. Jennings Bryan is to
give up politics and enter the minis
try of the Methodist Episcopal church.
He delivered a sermon at Salem, Ill.,,
Sunday, taking as his subject, "Old