Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-11-01
MERE-M ENTION,

The United States navy's wireless
station at Arlington, Va, the most
powerful wireless plant in the world,
was given its first test Monday night.
..... Three women and boy were
drowned in the Delaware river near
Easton, Pa, Monday, when the auto
mobile they were seated in was jolted
off Of an old-fashioned ferry boat and
went to the bottom Of the river. ......
Several weeks ago announcement was
made in Berlin and st. Petersburg, Of
the engagement of Fraulein Won Fried.
laenderfuld, the greatest heiress Of
ski, duke Of Leuchtenburg, Russia.
Tuesday it was announced that the en-
gagement was broken off because the
czar forbade the marriage Of member
of the Russian imperial family to q
Jewess. .... "A Philadelphia magistrate
said to a man in his court Tuesday,
who had complained Of being ill-treat-
ed by his wife: "A man who admits
that his wife has got the better Of him,
should be thoroughly ashamed of him
SELF. In another political riot in
Havana, Cuba, Monday, one man was
killed and nine were wounded. AT
Plymouth, Wis, Monday evening, AL
vim Roehr shot his father-in law,
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grandfather to death. He then COM
mitted suicide by hanging himself.
H. E. Thompson, a seaman, was killed
on the battleship Illinois, at the Phila-
delphia navy yard Monday, when a
1,100-pound shell fell on him from an
upper deck. Allison w. Mcfarland,
recently acquitted at Newark, N. j., Of
the charge of numbering his wife, Is
under arrest in New York, on charge
Of counterfeiting. Since the be-
ginning Of the war up to Monday, the
forces of the Balkan states had cap
'tured 10000 prisoners and $50 field
guns. 80. According to report OF the
commissioner Of internal revenue, more
than $500 100000 cigarettes were smok-
ed from July to October 1, 1912. Dur
ing the same period there were 1885,
100000 cigars smoked. During July,
August and September the nation
consumed 33,150,000 gallons Of whisky,
and 19,S00,000 barrels Of beer. 80. Miss
Sophia Singer, young woman of Bal
timore, was murdered in a rooming-
house in Chicago, Monday night.
Charles Conway, professional hign
diver, Is wanted for the crime. ..... 1t
Is estimated that there will be $4,000
persons in the Wilson and Marshall
parade in New York city tomorrow af-
ternoon. .... The census bureau at
Washington, estimates that approx
mately 15,S15,000 men and $4,000 wo-
men will vote in next Tuesdays presl-
Dental election. The vote in the presi-
Dental election of four years ago was
14,88S,442. There are, according to the
estimate, 29,999,151 males Of all races
and colors in the United States over
the age Of 21 years. MISS Mary
Fontaine Freeland, great-granddaugh-
ter of Patrick Henry, aged so years,
committed suicide in a New York
boarding house Tuesday. Two lit
tie boys, playing "robber," were suffo-
Gated in a sand cave which they had
dug in a New York suburb Tuesday.
without warning the roof of the cave
fell on the boys burying them alive.
800. Street car workers OF Jackson
Vile, Fla, have been on strike for
several days past. Because of rioting
yesterday, the governor OF the state
ordered a. regiment Of militia to go on
riot duty at Jacksonville. Mrs. Eva
Walls Bailey is on trial at Shreveport,
La, on the charge Of numbering her
husband, a wealthy lumberman.
The $1,000 ton battleship New York,
was launched at the Brooklyn navy
yard Wednesday in the presence OF
10000 spectators. Ada Giachettl,
an Italian prifna donna, was convicted
at Milan, Italy, Wednesday. Of manu-
featuring evidence in a damage suit
against Enrico Caruso, her former
sweetheart, and was sentenced to a
year in prison. The madam is in Bra
I'll, however, and says she will not re-
turn to Italy. .... In a rear-end colli-
sion on a suburban railroad near Ber-
lin, Germany, Wednesday. forty per-
sons were injured, six fatally. There
are fourteen murder appeal cases be-
fore the New York court Of appeals
that will all be heard before that Of
Charles Becker, the policeman. ......A