Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-09-20
MERE-M ENTION.

Geo. c. Morrison, a Democratic lead
er and banker OF Baltimore, commit
ted suicide Tuesday. He left note
saying that his act was the result Of
attacks on him growing out OF his al
legged connection with the lobby in be-
half of the Havre de Grace race track.
.Servia and Bulgaria have unit
ed for a common defense against the
encroachment of Turkey. Greece will
also probably join the protective alli-
ance. 800. Thirteen people were killed
and fifty injured in the wreck of an
express train at Ditton Junction, Eng
land, Tuesday. The engine jumped the
track on a switch. .... George Legag-
neux, a French aviator, attained an al
titude Of 1920 feet in France on
Tuesday, establishing a new worlds
ran of New York, has filed suit against
Mayor Gaynor for 100000 damages
for libelous remarks concerning graft
in the police department of that city.
..... Nine persons were more or less
injured, some fatally, in the explosion
Of leaking gas in a cellar at Rebuck,
Pa, Tuesday. "A Washington dis
patch says that the government may
buy large portion of the Vanderbilt
estate at Biltmore, N. c., as portion
of the forest reserve. Train rob-
bers rified the mail car on the South
ern railways train, No. 25, New York to
Memphis, early Tuesday morning near
Stevenson, Tenn. 49,. Miss Julia Wood
of Washington, fell out Of seventh
story window of a New York apart
ment house Tuesday and died Of her
injuries. The North Atlantic fleet,
including 122 ships, of which thirty
four are battleships, will be mobilized
in New York harbor October IL to Is.
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United States totaled $167, 1856, 900 In
exports and s155,OO0,000 in imports
during August the largest on record.
. British automobile manufactur-
ers are taking steps to curb the sale of
American made machines in England,
by the adoption of a prohibition tariff.
49,. .Sidna Edwards and Friel Allen,
sentenced to serve eighteen and fif-
teen years Imprisonment for participa-
tion in the Hillsville tragedy, have been
transferred to the Virginia penitentt-
ary. There are 130 cases Of small
pox scattered over the state of Penn
sylvania, according to figures given
out by the state board OF health. 80.
AS a result of anti-home rule riots,
Belfast, Ireland, has been In state
bordering on civil war for several days
past. Thirty five men and boys
were arrested in Philadelphia on Sun
men after the so-called CLOSED sea-
son." They were fined in police courts
$3.50 each. The Eastern Steel COM
pany at Pottsville, Pa, has voluntarily
Increased the wages of several hum
dred employees, Is per cent. The in
crease will give the men $40 to S2b
more per month. 49,. General Count
Maresuke Nogi's will directed that his
body be given for medical research and
requesting that only his teeth, nails
and hair be placed in the grave. "A
firm Of New York bankers has arrang-
ed for the importation from London of
$75O,00O in gold. This will be the first
gold imported from Europe in more
than two years. Two men and
boy were killed at a grade crossing at
Vineland, N. j., Sunday night. sBy
the capsizing of a cutter In Lake
Michigan near Chicago on Sunday,
eight out Of twenty -four United States
naval training recruits were drowned.
The Hartford county, Md, grand
jury Is investigating the creation OF a
race track at Havre de Grace, follow
ing the passage Of law permitting
racing at that point. The passage of
the racing law Is alleged to have been
due to crooked influences.