Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-08-26
MERE-M ENTION.

Fifty gold miners were killed at
Bangalore, India, Friday, when the
! cage in which they were descending to
| work, fell to the bottom of the shaft.
Five ministers are on the venire
of petit jurors drawn for an approach
ing term of court at Media, Pa.........
The United States government has
placed a large order for Whitehead
torpedoes with an English firm. The
torpedoes are to be of a new type and
to have a range Of 10000 to $4,000
yards. During the past week heavy
floods have greatly damaged crops In
Argentina. Train service on some Of
the railroads has been suspended.
Many families are homeless. 80. South
Bethlehem, Pa, Is the first city :. NAT
state to accept the commission form OF
government under law passed by the
state legislature. :. Tammany Hall has
dropped Mayor Gaynor as its probable
candidate for the mayoralty and has
decided on Edward E. Mccall, an ex-
judge. Gaynor says he will run inde-
pendently .... During recent voyage
across the Atlantic, the battleship IL
the Arlington and Key West stations
at a distance Of 2.610 miles out. The
baseball scores Of the day was the
news received. .... Lieut.. Schmidt, a
German army aviator, was killed at
Halberstadt, Germany. Friday, falling
more than a mile. .... The governor or
Galicia q crown land of Austria, has
ordered the arrest Of all male citizens,
aged 1S to SO, who attempt to leave
that country for the United States.
Exports from United States ports dur
ing the twelve months ending July 81,
last, exceeded by $252.000,000 the eX-
ports of the previous twelve months,
and were the greatest in the history Of
the country. Now that copious
rains have fallen in Kansas and the
terrific heat wave has been broken, the
damage to the crops does not appear
as great as was the case ten days or
two weeks ago. .R. A. Moore, pro-
fessor of agronomy at the University
of Wisconsin,, has organized $4,000
boys in forty-four counties OF that
state in q pure bred seed contest.
Some Of the states and many munich
palities of the northwest are issuing
bonds for various purposes carrying
six per cent interest. St Paul, Minn.,
is selling it's bonds in small denomina-
t10nS through department Stores. ''...
William Hunter, the last survivor of
the party which Commodore Perry lead
to Japan in 1852, died at Pittsburg, Pa.
Friday, aged 81 years. IA meteorite
weighing about 1000 pounds, fell near
Catasaqua. Pa, Thursday night, bury
ing itself five feet in the ground. ......
Congressman Francis Burton Harrison
of New York, has been appointed and
confirmed as governor general of the
Philippines. .....A Cleves, o., horse
shoe factory has within the p"et ten
days filed an order for twenty five
carloads Of horseshoes for the United
States government. The trial or
Maury I. Diggs in the Federal court at
San Francisco, on a white slave charge
ended with conviction on five counts
of the indictment. Five years In pris-
on is the maximum penalty. 1t is prob
able that Caminetti, Diggs' co-defen-
dant, will plead guilty. The gov
ernment of Venezuela has notified 9TH
er governments that the Castro revo-
luton has come to its end. Moving
pictures of President Wilson and a
squad of Boy Scouts of Washington,
was made on the White House grounds
last week. The film is to be 5000 feet
long.