Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-04-08
MERE MENTION

VIM. C. Walsh, alias Jos. Walsh
was arrested at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
last week on charge Of vagrancy. He
was also wanted for burglaries com.
mitted several years ago. For veal
he had been chief Of police at Gler
Cove, Long Island. Speaker ChamI
Clark wants to introduce electric vot-
ing machines in the house Of repre-.
sentatives in order to save time on the
voting of the congressman. "A con-
vict escaped from the state prison al
Wethersfield, Conn.,, last week by con-
cealing himself in packing case and
being hauled by the prison van to q
waiting box car outside the prison
walls. He then escaped from the box
car. -. /. The Vaterland, the largest
at Hamburg, Germany, last Thursday
The vessel is $50 feet long and 100 feet
in breadth. She will carry 4050 pas
sengers and crew of 1900, The
smokestacks will extend SO feet above
the top deck and are large enough fol
the largest locomotive to pass through
them. She will carry S3 life boats as
part of its equipment. ..... "A German
''air cruiser" landed on French soil at
Luneville, Thursday, and created much
excitement throughout France. The
officers in charge Of the dirigible bal
loon, explained that they had lost
their way in the clouds. This expla-
nation was accepted by the French
diplomats and after the payment of
$4,000 as duty charges, the Germans
were permitted to take their 'air
cruiser" away. It is probable that
the German officers in charge will be
courtmartialed. -. -Four of the Paris
automobile bandits, under death sem
tence in the De La Sante prison, were
searched Thursday by guards, who
found enough poison concealed on the
four prisoners to kill fifty people. The
prisoners intended to commit suicide
rather than go to the guillotine. -.
Four Panama canal workers were
killed Thursday by falling scaffold In
the Mirafiores lock. 80. Miss Ethel
Roosevelt, daughter Of ex-President
Roosevelt, was married at Oyster Bay,
N. Y, on Friday to DR.. Richard Der
by Of New York. .... A granite monu-
ment was unveiled at st. Joseph, Mo-,
Thursday, to commemorate the days
Of the pony express rider. The first
pony express started from st. Joseph
on April 8, 1860. :. .Rodman Law, the
aviator, who tried the human sky
rocket" trick in New York several
weeks ago, now says he will attempt
to fly across the Atlantic ocean in a
biplane in June. He figures that he
can go across in thirty hours. ........
Legalized horse racing Is to be re-
sumed in New York state on May 30.
The government Of Japan has
filed formal protest with the Federal
department Of state against a propos-
ed California law prohibiting alien
ownership of land in that state. ......
Ex- Senator Beveridge of Indiana, has
announced that he will be the candi-
date Of the Progressive party In 1916
and that he will be elected. -. Elk
Congressman Harry M. Coudrey and
Harry B. Gardner were convicted in
the Federal court at st. Louis, Friday,
Of fraudulent use Of the mails. They
are liable to a fine of $500 each and
imprisonment Of four and half years.
They had an insurance scheme. ......
Prof. Oscar Olson, a former instructor
in the Minnesota state university, Is
on trial at st. Paul for the murder of
Clyde N. Darling. Olson's defense is
the 'unwritten law. "A Barrow,
England woman gave birth to a son
on February "a; six weeks later, on
April 8, she gave birth to a daughter.
The question has been raised by the
government insurance department, un-
der the maternity benefit law. as to
whether the two children are twins"
....... "A 100000 fire was caused at
Iangdon, Canada, Friday, by lighted
cigarette carelessly dropped in livery
stable. ". A leading German newspa-
per appeals to the United States and
to President Wilson to use their ef-