Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-11-04
MERE MENTION

The street car system Of Indianap-
oils. Ind. is completely tied up by a
strike Of the employees. The strikers
have been doing much damage to prop
erty and riots are frequent The gov
ernor has refused to interfere The
new income tax law will place 414
new Jobs at the disposal of the Demo-
cratic administration. These win In
clude 3S4 deputy collectors. In
Rowan county. n. C., Yesterday. III
public schools were opened for the
winter session. =. Elections are be-
Ing held In New York, New Jersey,
Massachusetts, Maryland, Pennsyiva-
MIA, Kentucky and Virgins today.
Massachusetts, New Jersey and vir-
ginia are electing governors.
Kncaid, Ill, has been laid out to be q
model town. On paper II Is to have no
saloons, no labor troubles, and Is to be
electrically heated and lighted.
The state entomologist of Kansas, be-
lieves he has found way to stop the
ravages Of the grasshopper. He says
to disc the land In the spring to kill
the eggs and spread poison In July to
Kill the insects. "A Molena, Ca,
physician has been fined $3.50 or twelve
months in the penitentiary for beat
ing an impecile. Vice President
numbers 500 lickings when he was q
boy. ......A broom handle factory at
Brutus, Mich, has closed after rum
ming ten years and producing 14,006,-
600 handles. :. To punish q hen roost
thief, the mayor of Marion, o.. put the
thief In jail and fed him nothing but
eggs for five days. The cu1prif claims
that the sight OF eggs makes him sick.
-. AT Kittanning, Pa, Friday night,
the fancy costume OF a woman who
was celebrating Halloween, caught
fire and she was seriously burned.
Miss Edna Larry died at An Ores,
Mich, Friday. the result OF spilling
bottle Of acid on her breast over her
her. IA Chicago thief on Friday
night stole hot stove and later re-
turned and got the pipe. Two far
mers of Lancaster county, Pa, were
killed Friday night by two motor cy-
clists who went through the southern
portion Of the county at high speed.
firing as they went. Percy Lam
bert, holder OF many worlds speed
records. was killed In an automobile
accident in England, Friday. Lambert
was driving his car at speed Of ia
miles an hour wher tire burst. SOM
ersaulting the car and crushing him to
death. 80. Wesley II. Terry. So years
old, former mayor Of Floyd, Va Is In
Jail at Roanoke, Va, charged with at
tempting criminal assault on q 10
year-old girl Of Floyd county. Terry
had a narrow escape from being
iynched &. :. Mrs. Bessie ]. Wakefield,
was convicted at New Haven, Conn,
Friday on the charge of completely In
the killing Of her husband last June.
Her companion In the crime, James
Plew, who confessed, is q descendant
Of the Jewkes family, which has pro-
duced more than 1,500 detectives.
A Davenport, Ia, man committed sui
eide Friday, by blowing himself to
atoms with stick Of dynamite held
In his hand. :. Judge Roam, who pre-
sided at the Leo Frank trial for the
murder of Mary Pbagan In Atlanta,
several weeks ago, has refused to grant
a new trial. The case will be appeal
ed to the Georgia supreme court. .....
The faculty of the University Of Penn
sylvania has put the ban on cigar
cites and the Jimmy pipe at that In
stitution.