Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-01-03
MERE MENTION

The New Jersey board Of pardons
granted fifty paroles as Christmas gifts
out of 215 applications. The death SEN
tences of two boys were committed 70
Is and 80 years each. .... Mime. B.ocn,
charged with the murder Of Mrs. Min
ME Bridgeman, an American woman
was acquitted by a jury in Paris
France on Dec. "a. Undue intimacy on
the part Of Nine. Bloch's husband and
Mrs. Bridgeman was the motive OF the
murder, and the plea Of the defense
was the unwritten law. The viceroy
of India, Baron Hardinge, was severely
wounded by bomb explosion at Del
hi on Dec. %, on the occasion OF the
change of the seat Of government from
Calcutta to Delhi. 80. Hundreds OF
workmen had narrow escapes from
drowning and a number OF villages
were flooded, when workman In the
Montdor tunnel through the Jura
mountains between Italy and France.
drove his pick into a subterranean riv-
er, which flooded the tunnel. .....Chas.
s. Mellen, president Of the New York,
New Haven and Hartford railroad, and
Edison j. Chamberlain, president Of the
Grand Trunk railway, were indicted by
a Federal grand jury In New York,
Dec. 23, for violation Of the Sherman
anti trust laws. Conviction carries
with It a penalty Of $50,000 ine'and a
year In prison. :. Norm Cadone, a ne
gro, convicted Of murder was lynched
by a mob at West Baton Rouge, La,
Dec. %. 80. With the hand Of a girl as
the prize, two suitors fought a pistol
duel in a darkened room near WASH
ington, Pa, Dec. %. One Of the suitors
was killed and the father Of the girl
helped the other to make his escape.
The Pullman Car company gave Its
of employees Christmas pres
ents in the shape of increase Of wages
ranging from to IL per cent. 80. In
a coal mine at Sapporo, island of Hol
Kaido, Japan. Dec. 20, 200 miners were
entombed by an explosion. Only very
few were rescued. Jas. ]. Hill the
magnate, Is being doomed for
the post Of secretary Of agriculture in
Wilson's cabinet. 1t is
said that Mr.. Hill will accept the post
II offered. "A dispatch from Los An
geles. Cal, is to the effect that Ortie
the self f-confessed dynamt-
ter, Is to join the Burns detective
agency. .... In New York last Sunday
100000 men, women and children en-
ployed in the manufacture Of mems
garments, were ordered on a strike. -.
Hal Shain, an automobile driver, was
killed Sunday, at Los Angeles, CAL,
while driving an automobile at a speed
Of 55 miles an hour around a p-shap-
ed track only 10 feet in diameter. Shain
lost control Of his machine. "A
French aviator on Sunday made sue
cessful test with cargo carrying aero
plane. He made a flight with a pas
senger and carried a cargo Of $50
pounds. 80. An Industrial commission,
labor conditions around
Pa, after exhaustive study,
has reached the conclusion that the
scarcity Of labor Is due very largely to
the effect Of the back to the farm"
that has been underway for
several years past. Church circles
Of Philadelphia are greatly stirred be-
cause Of a sensation that hangs on the
of the Rev. DR.. Alfred G.
Mortimer as rector Of ST. Marks Epis-
copal church, one Of the very promi-
nent churches Of the city. Immoral con-
duct Is broadly limited at as the cause
Of the resignation, and the dictagraph
Is alleged to have played a part in the
scandal. DR.. Mortimer had been rector
Of st. Marks for twenty one years.
During the four weeks ending Sunday,
there were 1888 cases of measles repoyt-
ed to the health department Of Phila-
1elphia. -. AT Hot Springs, Ark, Sum
lay, Mrs. w. w. Ridgeway caused the
arrest Of her son-in-law and Of a