Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-12-16
MERE MENTION

The Indiana Life Endowment COM
pany ~ Evansville, Ind, has been
placed in the hands Of a receiver. The
defunct company has liabilities of
$400, 900, and assets of $4,000, and out
standing insurance amounting to ST.
900, 900. &. e. The New York legislature
adjourned Friday night, after passing
a number Of important bills including
compulsory workmen's compensa-
ton law, direct primaries law, proyid-
ing for a constitutional convention,
and appropriating 100000 for the ex-
penses Of the SuIZer impeachment
trial. The total appropriations Of the
session were s1,450, 900. The Nation
al Republican congressional campaign
committee at a meeting held In Wash
ington on Friday, went on record as
favoring a special convention next
year and to re-apportion delegates to
future conventions to fit the Republi-
can vote in the various states, thereby
reducing the delegations from south
ern states. A woman stenograph-
er was killed and two men seriously
injured in New York office Friday by
a bomb explosion. The bomb was sent
to the office and opened by the young
woman. DR.. George Goebel, Phil
adelphia physician, Is held without
bail by the police of that city on the
charge Of performing an illegal oper-
alton. The patient died. ......A Lake
Shore train, running fifty miles an
hour, was wrecked near. Wickliffe, o.,
Friday night, by the splitting of a
rail. Several persons were killed. 49,.
Three women were killed and man
and woman perhaps fatally injured In
rryifh
car near Dallas Tex, Friday night. :.
England is shocked over the murder of
Miss c. c. Bradfield. sister Of veal
thy LiverDool manufacturer. The body
badly mutilated, was found, tied In a
sack in a canal on Friday. Just when
the crime was committed or the mo-
tive Is unknown. 80. 4. Flood conditions
along the BraZos and Colorado rivers
of Texas, still continue and hundreds
Of families are homeless and destitute.
Quite a number Of persons have been
drowned. Piers and pleasure re-
sorts along the southern coast of Cal
ifornia were ruined Friday by exceed
ingly high waves coming in from the
Pacific. The damage is said to be the
result Of a great submarine disturb
ance. ... President Joseph w. Smith
head Of the Mormon church. says that
the Mexican revolution has cost Nor.
mon colonists in Mexico, not less than
so, 900, 900. Vital statistics Of Ohio
for the year 1912, show that two fam
lilies in that state, include 19 children
each, three families have Is members
each. There were 84,164 babies born
during the year, Of which 43,466 were
boys. 80. Statistics gathered by the
United States bureau of education
show that there ere fourteen fewer
medical schools in the United States
at the end Of 1913 than last year; 1900
fewer persons studied medicine In
1918 than in 1912, and there were 500
less graduates this year as compared
with last. .....A white man and a ne
gro were killed at Palmerville, N. c..
early Saturday morning by the COL
lapse of tunnel that was being bor-
ed in connection with a dam on the
Yadkin river. .... "A New York physi-
clan is authority for the statement
that the Cimex Lectularius. common
ly known as the bed bug, Is a potent
factor in the transmission of tubercu-
losis germs. go. There Is interest in
France and America over a possible
exchange Of visits between Presidents
Poincare and Wilson. President Poin-
care desires to visit President Wilson,
but there Is serious question as to
whether the president of the United
States can return the visit. =. Senior
Figueroa, an Italian aviator, Is ar
ranging to make flight over the An
des from a point near Santiago, Chile.
I'D. A. Rogers, town marshal of
La, and Thomas Cathey kill
ed each other in a revolver duel last
Sunday. The marshal had warned
Cathey to go home and was approach
ing him to make an arrest. -. t.. Pres
ident Wilson has been suffering for
some days with bad cold which has
given considerable concern to many
people; but which Secretary Tumulty
assures the public Is not serious. .....
The island of Crete has been formal
ly annexed to Greece.