Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-02-21
MERE MENTION

The Turkish battleship Assar-I-Tew-
Ak, which ran ashore on the Black sea
coast, February IL, has been complete
ly destroyed by Bulgarian mining
detachment. :. -. Burglars blew open
safe in wholesale grocery establish
ment in Boston last Sunday and got
away with $4,000. -. During his four
years service as attorney general Of
the United States, Mr.. Wickersham has
filed eighty-one civil and criminal an
THRUST suits under the Sherman anti
trust laws, in quite number Of which
he has been successful. :. During 1912
the shoe factories of st. Louis, Mo-,
produced 26,525,2S3 pairs Of shoes, and
shipments totalled $64,610. .141. -. AT
points along the Canadian Pacific rail-
road the snowfall has exceeded forty
feet, the heaviest onerecord. -. .Thos.
B. Fielder has declined to act as attor-
ney for Harry K. Thaw, in his efforts
to get out of the Mattewan, N. Y, in
sane asylum. :. :. .Ragner Omtvet OF
Chicago, Norwegian student, at Iron
wood, Michigan, Sunday, broke the
worlds record as ski jumper, clear
ing 169 feet. Three small children
were drowned in the Naugatuck river
by breaking through the ice Sunday
afternoon. .... For the first time In
many years there is now an American
vessel flying the United States flag un-
loading a cargo Of $500 tons Of oats at
Tripoli, Morocco. 49,. Governor Wilson
Jersey, on March 1st, and as all OF the
higher officials of the state will attend
the Inauguration, the state will have no
governor for about forty eight hours.
Six men were killed in a head-on
collision Of freight trains on the Penn
sylvania railroad near Derry, Pa, Mon
day night. .....A Constantinople dis
patch Of Monday, says that Enver Bey,
one of the leaders of the Young
Turks" had been assassinated. The
French government has plans under
way for improving her army, and will
expend $116,000,000 on the project.
Kneeling at the feet Of his sweetheart,
who had rejected him, George Ward, Of
Camden, N. J., committed suicide Mon
day. BY a premature dynamite ex-
plosion In Panama canal quarry,
Sunday, three Jamaicans were killed
and six persons were more or less In
jured. Colonel Roosevelt, according
to q letter written to friend at Reno,
New, is laying plans for his Progress
sive party fight for the presidency In
1916. The senate committee on post
offices has reported its bill carrying an
appropriation of $283,4S7,442 for the
next fiscal year, an increase Of nearly
100000 over the previous year. .....
President Taft has granted pardon to
Clarence D. Hillman, wealthy real
estate dealer Of Seattle, Wash, SEN
fenced to thirty months in prison for
using the mail to defraud. Hillman
served ten months Of his term. -. AT
Kenosha, Mich, Monday, Mrs. Valona
Ida Logan Ewing Bone, aged So years,
was married to Herbert Manzke, aged
20 years. -. Five veterans Of the civil
war in the vicinity Of Allentown, Pa,
died within twenty four hours OF
each other Sunday and Monday. .......
Governor Wilson's seven antitrust
bills passed the New Jersey house last
Tuesday without amendment. 49,. The
long threatened strike of the 10000 or
more railroad firemen employed on the
railroads east of Chicago, has been
warded off by the agreement OF the
railroads to submit the questions at is
sue to arbitration, under the Erdman
act 80. About 5000 garment makers
employed in ninety-five Philadelphia
shops, went on a strike Tuesday. ......
The investigation Of the alleged Ar
son Trust" Of Chicago, has advanced to
the point where it shows that 300 men
are engaged in the business. Sixty per
cent of Chicago's fire losses are said to
be due to firebugs. -. &. Raymond Poin-
care was on Tuesday inaugurated as
president of France, succeeding Presi-
dent Fallieres AT Williamsport, Pa,
there Is a 9-year-old boy who Is criti-
cally i'll from diptheria, having con-
tracted the disease by wearing a coat
sent through the parcel post from
home in another part Of the state In
which there was a case Of the disease.
.....A. ]. Hollis, a Pittsburg, Pa,
says after an experience
in the Paint Creek district or west
Virginia, where a strike of coal miners
is in progress, that it is impossible to
file an uncensored dispatch In that
state. President Taft has referred
the Webb liquor bill to Attorney Cen
eral Wickersham for an opinion as to
its constitutionality. The New York
legislature has appointed a committee
of eleven members to investigate the
New York city police department.