Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-06-03
TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1913.

can exports was $2,107,S73,911, as COM
pared with $3.50, 708, sos for the same
period of last year. The senate
committee which investigated the mat
ter, has absolved the Washington, D.
c., police force from all blame for the
disorders attending the suffragette pa
rade in that city on March Srd. ......
Hordes of grasshoppers have ruined
whole fields of alfalfa and fruit trees
in Butte county, CAL, during the past
week. -. District Attorney Whitman
is being doomed for mayor Of New
York by the Progressive party. ......
Since 1905 the value of school build
ings and equipment in Kansas has in
creased from S10,524,767 to $24,000.000
in 1913. Walter Pulitzer Of New
York is reported as having purchased
the Uncle Remus" magazine, pub
lished in Atlanta, Ca, for several
years past. Burton F. Donovan, a
prominent citizen Of Lincoln, Del, is
under arrest on a charge of melting to
arson. He Is ALLEGED to have given a
negro man $3.50 to set fire to proper
ty adjoining property owned by him.
Three hundred officers and men
of the battleship Wisconsin, lying at
anchor at Philadelphia, were vaccinat-
ed at that place last week on the
discovery Of case Of small pox, ne
gro, on board 1t Is reported from
Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, that
5000 head of cattle were stolen by rus
tiers from Canadian ranchers Thurs
day night and driven across the border
to Montana. Governor Tener OF
Pennsylvania, last Friday, warmly de-
nounced a lobby Of corporation law
yers working against proposed en-
ployers' liability bill before the legis-
lature. .... VIM. Ellis Corey, ex-presl-
dent of the United States Steel cor
poration, in an interview says that the
talk of certain firms of closing their
mills because Of the Underwood tariff
is pure bluff. The remains OF
"Iighthorse Harry" Lee, Of Revolu-
tionary war fame, have been removed
from Cumberland Island, Ga, to Lex
ineton. Va, and laid beside the re-
mains of General Robert e. Lee.
Carlotta Pontiac, Holstein cow, own
ed by the university OF Missouri last
week gave an average or 80 POUNDS OF
milk a day. During last year this cow
produced a total OF 22,SOO POUNDS OF
milk :. "A strenuous attack was made
on Pastor" Russell and "Russellism"
by Rev. P. G. Cross In an address to
1000 members of the International
Bible Students association at Hot
Springs, Ark, Sunday. :. Rev. Chas.
ii. Brent, Episcopal bishop Of the
Philippines, arrived in New York on
Sunday. in the steerage of the steam
ship Corona. The bishop Is touring
the world and said he wanted to get
close to the common people. -. or
the $50 depository national banks that
held government deposits on May l,
only seven have declined to accept
such deposits and pay the per cent
interest as demanded by Secretary
McAdoo. "A total Of fourteen muir
ders committed in Schuylkill county,
Pa, since January 1st, has aroused
the law-abiding element Of that coun-
ty looking to a suppression. OF crime
At the May term Of court there were
2O2 cases for trial on the criminal
docket :. The government OF Mex
leo has completed negotiations for
borrowing 800, 900 for railroad
purposes. The loan is made on basis
Of 90 cents on the dollar and the in
terest is 6 per cent. .s-s O.