Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-08-15
FRIDAY, AUGUST IS, 1919.
MERE MENTION

The. Natiopal Council Of Women Vo-
ters, representing 100000 Of their sex
Is holding a three days session In
Washington. The baseball teams OF
Jersey City and Toronto OF the Inter-
national league, on Tuesday broke the
worlds record for length Of the game,
playing twenty innings without either
side scoring. -. Democratic and Re-
publican senators are said TO De ear
nestly considering the idea Of adjourn
ing until November 1st, after the pas
sage OF the tariff bill, and the passage
of the currency bill in the house,.
Thirteen persons employed by the Bar
mum & Bailey circus were injured,
several fatally in a collision on the
Rock Island railroad, near Richfield
Neb., wednesday. -. Emanuel G. Bri-
to, former governor Of the Mexican
state Of Campeche, recently arrested
In New Orleans on charges OF murder
in Mexico, has been released on bond
of $40, 900. :. Mrs. Charles Winters
sNot her sister-in-law to death at Ste
ph ms Pottery, Ca, Wednesday with
SUI nosedly unloaded gun. One Amer
ics and eleven negroes were killed at
Pc-to Bello, Panama canal, Monday,
by a sudden earth slide. Porto Bello
supplies most Of the rock for concrete
making on the canal. -. The labor un-
ions of Italy have ordered national
strike to support the 10000 workers
on a strike at Milan. Many anarchists
have been arrested on account OF
preaching revolutionary doctrine. .....
Six New Jersey widows have been
granted Widows pensions" OF VA TO
$22 per month, under the recently
passed widows pension act. James
Mason, an American, has been SEN
fenced to serve eighteen months in.
Korean prison on a charge Of man
slaughter. Mason, a mining manager,
plead the "unwrftten law" In his de-
tense, His victim was Chinese Ia
borer. =. =, "A woodbury., Pa. business
man applied to the city's tree commits
sion for permission to cut a tree In
front Of his store. The commission re-
fused the request and said the tree
was worth $1,000 to the city because OF
its beauty. Three thousand Phila-
delphia Iongshoremen have withdrawn
membership from the Industrial Work
ers of the World, because they are
weary OF the false philosophy, anarchy
and socialism preached by, the l.. w.
WIS. 49,. The grand conclave OF the
Knights Templar, in session at Den.
yer. Col, this week, represents 100000
knights Templar. Spokane, WASH,
Is TO have two women pOiiceInen III
uniforms. Minnesota on Monday sold
nearly 100000 worth Of school bnildr
ing bonds by public. subscription. Most
Of the bonds, went in small sums. ~. :,
The cotton mills Of Fall River. Mass,
on, a capitalization Of $29,4l0.0o0 paid
$352,672 dividends for the quarter end.
ing June. 80, or only 1.23 per cent Five
of the big mills paid no dividends. -.
During the fiscal year ending June 80,
the United. States q consumed, nearly
eight billion pounds of sugar. "A
report from Toxic. Japan, Is to the ef-
feet that President Yuan Shi kai OF
the Chinese republic, has set 100 as
sassins on the trail of DIR. Sun Vat Sen
and other leaders Of the revolution now
in progress in portions Of the Chinese
republic. :. During the past ten days
Kansas .s has experienced the hottest
weather In period Of twenty seven
years, temp eratures, as high as liz, de-
grees being recorded. =. Captain Stein
of the. German army, Is under arrest
at Steilin, charged with selling army
secrets to foreign powers. ls'Hs ~ 3,