Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-02-11
MERE MENTION

Mrs. Lige Gilmore and James Lynn
are in Jail in Webb City, Mo-, on the
charge of numbering the woman's hus-
band. Mrs. Gilmore confessed that
she lured her husband into an alley
and that Lynn shot him to death. She
gave as a motive cruelties that had ex-
tended over a period Of twenty-five
Years of married life.. Colonel Goe-
thals and his assistants are helplessly
watching landslide that will dump
3,O00,000 cubic yards Of earth In Gu
Zebra cut. It is estimated that 1t will
take until November to remove the
slide. :. A man presented two $4,000
bills at the foreign exchange window OF
a St.Louis bank Friday, and was arrest
ed by postal inspector. The two bills
bore serial numbers or bills forming
part of the 100000 package OF
money that disappeared from the Ha-
yana-New York mail on October IL,
1912. King Alfonso Of Spain, was
a passenger in a dirigible balloon that
cruised over Madrid for thirty minutes
Friday. -. Congressman Moore OF
Pennsylvania, wants congress to ap-
propriate money to raise the frigate
Philadelphia, sunk in the harbor OF
Tripoli about century ago.. -. war
rants have been sworn out at Cologne,
nent and wealthy lawyers Of Prussia,
on the charge Of embezzling $780, 900
Of trust funds. (. Z. VIM. S. Murphy,
married man and bank cashier Of Pc
dricktown, N. J., disappeared last week
with Miss Mary Archer, school
teacher Of the town.. Thirty thou
sand firemen Of the railroads east OF
Chicago and north Of the Potomac,
have voted to go on strike and reject
the terms of arbitration offered by the
54 railroads involved. In the event the
strike Is ordered, railroad passenger,
mail and freight traffic will be para
lyzed; business will suffer the loss Of
millions and laborers Of all kinds will
lose millions in wages should the strike
be at all prolonged. .....A dispatch
from Constantinople announces that
$50 Kurdish raiders from Asiatic
Turkey have been landed in Thrace to
help the Turks in their fight against
the allies. The Kurds are religious ia
natics and ferocious fighters. -. "A
Greek aeroplane made a flight over
the Dardanelles on Friday, dropping
three bombs. Neither of the bombs
did any serious damage. Z. One thou
sand car builders Of the Lehigh Valley
railroad at Mauch Chunk, Pa, went
on a strike Friday, on refusal Of de-
mand for higher wages. ...... Three
persons died in Philadelphia on Fri
day, from the intense cold. "A
labor union of Wellington, New Zea-
land, has passed resolution strongly
urging all New Zealanders to do all
in their power to lessen the birth rate,
so as to lessen the number Of youths
who must take compulsory military
training. -. .Thos. Walsh. shop
ping agent, is held under $4,000
bond at Norfolk, Va, on the charge OF
strangling two youths and putting
them aboard an outgoing vessel. .....
Buffalo, N. Y, physicians believe that
they have discovered the germ which
causes infantile paralysis. The germ
is said to come from stable flies. .....
The legislature of Washington has
adopted a joint resolution ratifying the
constitutional amendment for direct
election Of United States senator's.
And the senate has also passed bill
prohibiting the intermarriage Of
white and colored races. .... The
publication, has listed 10000 Ameri-
cans, supposedly of the socially elect.
or the list, $4,000 are married, 10000
are women wanting to be married,
and 10000 men in the marriageable
class. or the 10000 women In the
marrying class, 14,161 are spinsters
and the remainder are widows and
Divorces. ....... The first ice Of the
season is being harvested In Pennsyl-
vania. 49,. .Edonard Pettier, a high
official of the French police depart
ment, was murdered in his Paris resi-
dence on Wednesday, together with
a woman nurse. The killing was
done by an uncaptured accomplice of
the Bonnot automobile bandits, whose
trial is now under way in Paris. The |
crime was one of revenge. "A |
grand jury has indicted four Pitts
burgh. Pa, druggists on charges Of
selling cocaine to children. .Presi- |
dent-elect Wilson has about completed |
the draft of his inaugural address. |
Catholic priest Of New York is ad-
vocating stringent curfew law for
that city, in order to protect youths |
from degenerate ghouls." -. The
state Of Kansas. by a law passed last
week, will publish all the text books
used In the public schools. and will
sell the books at actual cost. ......
Col. George Harvey, Of New York,
said Of President Taft in Washington,
1.-THE worst licked, the
least sore and the best liked Of all our
presidents. 49,. The Anarctic exploring