Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-08-19
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ton, Mo-. Saturday, when an automo-
bile was struck by passenger train
at a. grade crossing. 80. Philadelphia
butchers are predicting that the price
Of beef steak will 60 to fifty cents q
pound as q result Of the drought in
the western states. .....A Pennsylva-
MIA railroad conductor on Saturday
found wallet containing $21, 1873, re-
turned II to its owner and refused q
reward Of $500 rendered by the owner
......A dispatch of August Is from
Hongkong, says that 5000 Chinese
have been killed in Canton and it's en-.
yirons in fighting between government
forces and rebels during the past few
days. =. Information received at Bos-
ton few days ago. Is to the effect
that Rev. Chas. ". Holbrook, mis-
sionary, was shot to death at Soushe-
hir, Asiatic Turkey, few days ago.
.....A Chicago grand jury has indict-
ed seventeen men for election frauds.
The Federal district court at Buffalo.
N. Y, has handed down q decision de-
claring that the photograph films man
ufactured by the Kodak trust are in
fringements Of patents held by Hanni-
bal Goodwin. The Kodak people will
have to return from $4,000, 900 to $685.
000, 900 to the controllers of the patents.
:. -. President Wilson will shortly is
sue to the navies Of the world an invi-
tation to assemble in Hampton Roads
In 1915, and from there go through the
Panama canal to the Panama Pacific
exposition at San Francisco. IA Lon
don editor estimates the cost to the va
rious nations engaged in the recent
Balkan wars at $500, ,000, 900 and to this
he adds $500. 100000 as necessary to
bring the armaments Of the various
countries up to date. 80. AS result
Of the heavy dynamite explosions on
the Panama canal work, numerous
public buildings at Christobal have
been badly damaged, some Of them be-
ing seriously cracked. -. The ballot
for an approaching nom partisan elec-
tion for municipal court officials In
Philadelphia, will be eight feet long
The government Of Switzerland de-
clines to participate in the Panama
Pacific exposition on the ground that
the United States does not sufficiently
protect foreign patents. 49,. Col. VIM.
c. Gorgas, chief sanitary officer Of the
Panama canal, has been invited to
johannesburg, South Africa, to under
take the improvement Of sanitary con-
ditions In the Rand. The two months
of drought In Oklahoma, Kansas and
Missouri remains unbroken. Farmers
are rapidly selling or their cattle and
conditions are growing worse. The
government has begun action against
the General Film company, New YORK,
charging monopoly In restraint OF
trade. .....A New Britain, Conn.,,
manufacturing firm last week sent po-
lite notes to Its several hundred girl
employees warning them against COM
ing to work In slit or hobble or dia-
phanous skirts. ..... seventeen out OF
seventy Evanston, ILL.,, telephone opera
tors, have been married within the past
month. Half of those remaining are
said to be engaged. 80. .Advices from
Venezuela are to the effect that the
Castro revolution Is not going well for
the ex-dictator. One dispatch sent out
from Caracas carries the story that
Castro claims to be in Germany. .....
A dispatch just sent out from st. Pc
tersburg tells the story Of the starving |
to death Of 100 fishermen and their |
families in Nova Zembia. Some Of the |
fishermen were reduced to the extrem- |
ity of becoming cannibals. according |
to a diary found in the village. -. "A |
Belgian syndicate has been granted q
to build a 1,000-mile rail- |
way across China. .....A French ex-
plorer, writing Of the Panama canal
work, says that it is marvellous, but
that there ought to be $4,000 soldiers |
there instead Of only 5000, as at pres |
ent. ... "A picnic at Pitman, N. ]. last
Thursday, was attended by $4,000 farm |
ers. The Roseville Trust company |
of Newark, N. j., has shortage of
$305, 900 and a missing treasurer. .....
Gen. Edward F. Jones, head Of the
Jones Scale company, and coiner Of
the phrase, Jones Pays the Freight"
died at Binghampton, N. Y. Thursday.
.... 1t Is estimated that the impeach-
ment trial Of overnor SulZer before
the New York senate, will last a month
and cost the state not less than $780,
900. Henry Ennis, charged with
being one of the two train robbers who
held up New Orleans and Northern
train in Alabama on May IA, 1912, Sc
curing $4,000, was captured Sunday |
near Carbon Hill, Ala. -. The United
States district court at Kansas City,
Mo-. has handed down a decision up
holding the legality Of the union Of the
church in the United
States and the Cumberland Presbyteri-
an church. Some Of the members OF
the Cumberland Presbyterian church
the legality Of the union IN
the courts. go. .Threshing crews In
are doing their work by
in order to escape the terrific
heat Of the daytime. Harry Hawker,
an aviator, started Saturday for South
ampton, on a flight around England
and Scotland for prize Of $25, 900. He
reached his first control LA miles
from the starting point, In 143 minutes.