Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-12-30
MERE MENTION

Governor Craig Of North Carolina,
granted pardons to seventeen convicts
last week. The United States this
year outstripped Germany in ex-
ports to South Africa for the first
time in five years. More than
eighty persons, mostly children or
the striking copper miners, were
crushed to death In panic at a
Christmas celebration at Gaulmet,
Mich, last Wednesday night. An un-
known man at one Of the doors yelled
fire" and started panic and the
victims were crushed to death In the
rush, caused by the false alarm.
Admiral George Dewey, now living In
Washington, celebrated his 18th birth
day on Friday, last. 80 .Alienists for
the prosecution in the trial OF Hans
Schmidt, the Catholic priest, accused
Of the murder of Ann Aumuiier in
New York, testified Friday that Sch
midt was not insane and never was,
but simply trying to escape by the in
sanity dodge. .... Two men OF Pine
vile, KY, after a quarrel following
lawsuit, decided to fight 1t out with
others left hand they Tired till both
we're dead 80. Million Of dollars
in property loss and twelve known
dead, Is a part of the toll exacted by
a terrible storm that swept the coast
in the vicinity Of New York, Friday.
The wind attained a velocity Of 123
miles an hour. An Italian, sent to
a Philadelphia hospital last week for
treatment for lead poisoning, was
found to have $1,100 sewed up In the
lining OF his coat. He posed as q
charity patient, and said he had been
in America two years and had lived
on ten cents a day and saved every
cent he made above that sum. .....
John Bostick, young man under ar
rest at Los Angeles, Cal, has con-
that held up the Southern Pacific
train at Ell Monte on December /, and
killed a railroad official. Bostick
was trying to get money with which
he hoped to marry a Los Angeles
hotel chambermaid. &. Nathan Straus,
Jr., has become the owner Of the ia
nous New York pictorial publication.
Puck. 80. Northern New York was
covered with snow from to Is inches
deep, on last Friday. Mrs Ger
trude Lee, daughter Of Colonel Phil
ip F. Harvey, an army officer, and her
husband, Richard B. Lee, Jr., were
killed on the streets Of New York
early Friday morning by being run
down by an automobile. ..- The old
Michigan Central railroad station at
Detroit, Mich, was destroyed by fire
Friday afternoon with loss Of $780,
new station which had just been COM
pleted at a cost of $40, ,000......
Henry W. Woodrow, aged 65 years,
and an uncle of President Wilson,
died at Chillicothe, O., Friday morn
ing. The Robson Advance, a
paper that has been published at
Lumberton, n. c., was sold Saturday
at auction for $25 to satisfy mort
gage. .... President Wilson celebrat-
ed his 57th birthday Sunday. He and
his family are spending some time at
Pass Christian, Miss. >. Henry Knell,
his wife and two children were found
dead in their home at Glendale. Long
Island, Saturday morning. 1t is sup
posed that Knell shot his wife, strangl-
ed his children and then killed him
self with Illuminating gas. 49,. Six
hundred British marines have been
landed in British Honduras for ser
vice along the Mexican border. 80.
New York politicians are predicting
the early dethronement Of Chas. F.
Murphy as a political leader Of that
city. .... William and Robert Russell
were shot to death at Peters, Tenn,
Friday. The brothers had testified in
a liquor case. Their murderers are
in Jail. 80. James P. Armstrong, a
cashier Of an Augusta, Ga,
bank, has surrendered to the sheriff
of Richmond county and been re-
leased on a $4,000 bond. Be
cause of a break in its water supply
pipe, the city Of Montreal, Canada, is
suffering intensely. All public build
ings that have been heated with
steam are now cold and the thermom-
eter registers below zero. An
Illinois poultry expert figures that the
1913 crop Of eggs in the United States
was worth one billion dollars.