Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-11-11
MERE MENTION

e. ]. Justice, Esq, Of Greensboro,
N. c., has been appointed a special
assistant district attorney for the gov
ernment in a land suit in California,
involving 100000 acres Of land val
ued at $4,000, ,000.. >. Federal Judge
Boyd held s. C. Gentry, a petit jury
man, in contempt at Asheville, N. c.,
Friday, fined him SO and dismissed
him from service, because Gentry ap-
peared in court In q drunken condi-
ton. because of q serious cpl
demic Of measles on islands along the
Alaska coast, three government ply
sicians have been sent to the islands
to assist the stricken people,. Two
men were killed at the iron mines at
Cranberry, N. c., early Friday morn
ing by premature explosion OF dy-
Mantle. >. Twelve hundred Mexican
rebels were trapped and almost ami
hilated by 700 Federals under Gen.
Salazar at Santa Clara canyon in the
vicinity Of Chihuahua, Saturday after
noon. :. "A Georgia farmer hauled
80 bales of cotton to Dublin last Sat
urday on one wagon. M. L Cribb,
Turner county, Ga, farmer, killed
his wife and mother-in-law, Friday.
Cribb was saved from lynching by the
quick work Of the sheriff in transfer
ring him to Albany. Ga 49,. Prince
George Of Battenberg, who is lieu
tenant on the British cruiser New
Zealand, Is known to his shipmates as
"Batty.". IA Mesa, Arizona, dis
patch says that 500 Papago Indians.
are employed to pick cotton in that
vicinity. :. .. .R. l. Glover, q cowboy
and farmer, known as Battle Axe"
and weighing over 400 pounds. has
announced his candidacy for con yress
from the Sixth district Of Oklahoma
$50. Mrs. A. c. Fisher celebrated her
Tooth birthday anniversary at Sum
bury, Pa, Friday, and incidentally
scolded her 68-year- son for smok-
ing. -. Valentine Everitt Macy, who
Is worth $15,000,0 900, was elected SUI
perintendent of the poor for West
chester county, N. Y, at the recent
elections. The Office pays $4,000 per
year. A Los Angeles, Cal, news
GIRL" who has been selling papers on
the streets for twenty years, recently
paid taxes on property valued at $780,
600. ID. C. Gill, special officer,
was fatally shot by his sister-in-law
at Marion, ILL.,, Friday night Gill
was drinking and abusing his wife,
when he was shot by his sister-in-
law with an automatic pistol. Four
Of seven bullets struck Gill near the
heart. 80. -Four persons were killed
in a head-on collision of automobiles
at Los Angeles, CAL, Friday. .... "A
life-size bronze bust Of the late Sem
ator Morgan Of Alabama, Is to be
placed on a bluff overlooking Culebra
cut Of the Panama canal. 49,. Six
persons were killed and five injured
in collision on the Panama railroad.
Friday. VIM. F. McCombs has
accepted the appointment Of ambassa-
dor to France. After q week Of
fierce rioting, the strike Of street car
employees Of Indianapolis, Ind, has
been brought to a close. The final
settlement is in the hands Of board
Of arbitrators. :. :. Mrs. Sarah Todd,
aged 103, sister-in-law Of Abraham
Lincoln, cast her first vote in the re-
cent referendum election at Eugene,
Oregon. 80. The government Of Ec-
uador is seeking a loan Of $4,000
900 in European financial circles, to
build waterworks and sewerage sys-
tenn at Guayagnil "A short time
after John A. Marabeck, a German
miner was killed in a Pennsylvania
coal mine last week, 1t was found that
he was sole heir to an estate in Ger
many, valued at $1,000,000..... The
engagement Of Mr.. Vincent Astor to
Miss Helen D. Huntington Is an
nounced in New York. 80. Martin
Glynn, governor Of New York, says
that under no circumstances will he
be a candidate for reelection.