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

Col. Pascual orozco. ST., father OF
the revolutionist Of that name, has
been executed by order of Emiliano
Zapata, southern Mexico revolution
ist. OroZco was acting as a peace
emissary from the Huerta govern
ment. Nv. T. LaFollette, brother
Of the Wisconsin senator, has been
appointed register Of deeds of the Dis
trict Of Columbia, by President Will
son. ...... VIM. D. Haywood, the labor
agitator, has been sentenced to serve
six months in prison for connection
with q strike at Patterson, N. J.......
Haven, Conn.,, after spending a month
at Augusta, Ca. An emissary of
the rebels Of Sonora, Mexico, Is on his
way to Washington with proposals
relative to the annexation Of the state
Of Sonora to the United States. .......
1t is reported from Washington that
Rudolph Spreckles, the San Francisco
multi-millionaire. has been offered
the ambassadorship to Berlin, but will
decline. 80. Lord Northcliffe, proprie-
tor Of the London Mail, has offered a
prize Of $50,000 to the first person
crossing the Atlantic in a water
plane" in ~ consecutive hours. .....
Omaha business men are asking the
Nebraska legislature to authorize a
bond issue Of $1,000,000 to repair the
tornado damage to that city.
President Wilson has selected Cor
nish, N. H., as his summer home. Inn
mediately after the extra session Of
congress adJourns, he will visit the
Panama canal. ..... The strike Of the
ladies' tailors and dress makers Of
Boston. has been settled after continu-
ing several weeks. The strikers gain
ed practically all they contended for.
..... Kansas City, Mo-, Is considering
the building Of a municipal electric
lighting and power plant and figures
that the cost of current to the con-
sumer will not be over two cents per
kilowatt hour. 80. The state Of Min
nesota holds $6,109,000 worth Of bonds
Of other states in its treasury. .....
Two German aviators on Monday flew
from Juterbog to Lubek a distance Of
372 miles, in 345 minutes without a
stop. Federal officers arrested four
white men at Atlantic City, N. j.,
Monday night on the charge Of Illicit
selling Of cocaine. VIM. F. Nc:
Democratic committee, has reconsid-
cred his declination and will accept
the ambassadorship to France. -.
German and English warships have
been ordered to blockade the port of
Antivar, Montenegro. A final au-
topsy on the body Of Pierpont Morgan
at Rome, disclosed the fact that Mr..
Morgan did not die Of nervous ex-
haustion as at first stated, but from a
disease, the nature Of which has not
been divulged. .... The United States
battleship Ohio collided with the
steamship Frederick, in the Delaware
river Monday night. One Of the Ohio's
S-inch guns ripped the plates from the
starboard side Of the Frederick for
about twenty feet. The first Amer
ican-produced radium, 1-600th Of an
ounce, was exhibited in Philadelphia
on Monday. The specimen is valued
at $6,666. ...... The estate Of the late
]. Pierpont Morgan is estimated by
New York financiers to be worth from
s75,000,000 to $150,00O,000. :. An inter-
national flower show will be opened
at the Grand Central Palace, New
York, next Saturday night at which
100000 worth of flowers will be on
&. . Lieut.. Perlooski, Rus
sian aviator, committed suicide at
Warsaw, Sunday, by deliberately cut