Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-07-18
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Senator Thomas Of Colorado, referred
to Wall street, as "the Monte Carlo of
American finance, the most prodigeous
gambling hell of this or any preceding
age. "A father and two sons at
Waycross, Ga, Tuesday, ate two GAL
Ions Of Ice cream In an effort to get
enough" At last accounts they were
desperately Ill. {. Chattanooga, Tenn,
Is raising fund Of $4,000 for the en-
tertainment Of the national g. A. r.
veterans In that city In September. -
F. l. George shot Henry Mcclellan to
death in the formers home in Savan-t
nah, Ga, Tuesday. George accused Nc
Clellan Of undue intimacy with Mrs.
George. Mrs. Mary Belle Crawford,
charged with the murder Of her hus-;
Gently arrested in Atlanta, Ga, has
been released under a bond of $6,250.
"A bill has been introduced In the
Georgia legislature that seeks to make
the provisions Of the Webb law appli-1
cable to that stat, -, .Shipyard work
ers to the number Of 10000 went on a.
strike at Hamburg, Germany, Tues.
day. Railroad traffic in central and
southern Ohio was paralyzed Mon.
day and Tuesday, as the result Of a
cloudburst. The rainfall at GAINESVILLE
was 6.45 inches and the Muskingum
river rose 14.6 feet In eight hours :.
Regular wireless telegraph service is
about to be established between New
York and Berlin. kilograms of TWEEN
ty-eight words were transmitted Mon
day. -. Secretary of the Navy Dani-
els Is endeavoring to have congress to
authorize government armor plant
Of capacity sufficient to furnish half
the armor plate used In shipbuilding.
......A Woodbourne, Pa, farmer died
Monday, fifteen minutes after being
stung on the neck by bee. The sting
few seconds after the Winnipeg express
of the Canadian Pacific railroad had
passed over II, 95 feet Of track at
Rossport, Ontaria, slid into Lake Su-
perior. Major Churchill Cakburn,
winner Of the Victoria Cross for valor
in the South African war, was killed on
his ranch at Battle Creek, Manitoba,
Monday, by the kick of wild horse.
a. Fifteen villages have been destroy
ed and eighty or more lives lost In the
district Of Transylvania, Hungary,
within the past few days by floods. 80.
President Wilson on Monday, granted
pardons to VIM. r. Ka-
tenbach and Geo. II. Keiter, sentenced
to five years in prison on charges OF
false reports to the comptrol-
ler Of the currency, while president
and cashier Of a national bank at Lew
April 4, 1911, but neither Of them serv-
ed day Of their sentence. I. "A huge
illuminated cross will be
erected on the summit of Pixies Peak,
Col, in honor Of the grand conclave
of knights Templars at Colorado
Springs in August. 49,. Seats on the
New York stock exchange have drop
ped to $4,000, the lowest price touch
ed in thirteen years. Dan Goode, a
workman, was killed at Nashville,
Tenn, Tuesday, by a stone weighing
tons, falling on him from q
derrick. 80. The temperature recorded
112 degrees, at Clay Center, Kan,
Tuesday. Spanish troops and Moor
ish tribes are doing much fighting near
Tetuan, Morocco. The Moors are keep
ing $4,000 Spanish troops busy. :. Elk
Senator Stephen ]. Stillwell on Tues
day began serving from four to eight
years in Sing Sing prison New York,
for soliciting bribe. A young wo-
man was arrested in Richmond, Va,
Tuesday, by the chief Of police, for ap-
pearing on the streets wearing slit
ShlTt. .. Lie WOEtu ocNcith tiiChT
nial Sunday school convention, after a
weeks session at Zurich, Switzerland,
adjourned Tuesday, to hold its next
in Toxic, Japan, In 1916.
More than $500 delegates representing
more than fifty countries, attended the
Formal debaEe on the
tariff bill is due to begin in the senate
today. ..... AT Carlisle, Pa, Monday
night, young white woman was at
tackled by an unknown trooper Of the
10th regiment, United States cavalry,
In camp at Carlisle. The corpora
tions Of the United States, according
to the internal revenue bureau, during
the calendar year 1912, earned S3,304,- |
300. 900, exceeding all previous records
by $400, 900, 900. .....A necklace valued
at $625,000, has been reported to Scot
land Yard, as being lost while In |
transit by mail between Paris and
London, wednesday. A bomb con-
cealed In a letter, addressed to John
Dillon, Irish Nationalist, exploded In
the Dublin, Ireland postoffice, We'd
nesday, severely injuring mail sor-
ter. The bomb is supposed to have
been sent by a militant suffragette. -.
sylvania, has expressed the opinion
that the Underwood Simmons tariff
bill would be passed by the senate.
The attorney general Of Illinois, Is af-
ter VIM. Guggenheim, the wealthy
mining man, for fraud and criminal
in obtaining a divorce from
MS first wife. :. A story from Saloni-
"a, under date of July 16, Is toethe ef-
'ect that 10000 Moslems have been
by Bulgarians in the vicin-
ty Of Doiran, a town forty miles from
salonika, within the past week or ten
lays. 80. Several officers of the Prus-
sian war office are to be tried by court
martial on charges Of accepting bribes
rom the Krupp company in connec-
ion with gun contracts. The corpse
If a woman and the casket, weighing
,25 pounds, was lowered from a third
loor window by means Of a derrick at
Perth Amboy, N j., Wednesday .....
4 permit has been granted by the ag-
icultural department to Los Ange-
es, CAL, company, to erect an electric
,ower plant in the Sierra Nevada
1t Is said the plant will be
he largest electrical development In
he world.
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