Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-02-14
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Dr. Manuel u. ArauJO, preSlueuI VI
the republic Of Salvador, wounded by
the bullets Of assassins on the night OF
February 4th, died last Sunday. Don
Corlos Melendez succeeded to the
presidency. :. Rev. DR.. James B. Ely
delivered g. sermon in Philadelphia
theater Sunday night to 1000 persons,
in which he urged the appointment Of
vice commission in that city to in
vestigate moral conditions In high So
ciety, and especially the conduct Of
leading hotels. "A despatch from
Madrid Is to the effect that the police
Of that city have succeeded In discov-
ering the gang Of swindlers responsible
for the Spanish Prisoner" fraud. The
chief Of the gang, Eustebio Rico, began
his game eight years ago.. Thirteen
miners were killed and number In
jured by the falling Of bucket con-
tanning 500 gallons of water In q coal
mine near Manchester, England, Sat
urday. Great swarms Of mosquitoes
are beginning to appear In Panama cit
les after an immunity Of six years.
The pests are of the malarial and not
the yellow fever species and are due to
swamps and pools caused by the build
ing of the Gatun lake dams. .... VIM.
]. Monogue, the gentleman bandit, who
held up railroad offices in several cit
les several weeks ago, pleaded guilty
In Boston Monday, and was sentenced
to serve six to ten years in the Massa-
chusetts state prison. The health
department of New York city will this
spring undertake the greatest house
cleaning" in its history. Every house,
cellar, roof, alley, etc., Is to be thor
oughly cleaned and disinfected in an
effort to abate the nuisance Of flies
and mosquitoes. Mrs. Frances Fol-
som Cleveland, widow Of the late ex-
President Cleveland, and Thos. Jex
Preston Of Aurora, N. z, were married
at Princeton, N. j., Monday morning.
49,. In a battle between miners and
guards at Mucklow, w. Va, Monday,
ten persons were killed and a score or
more injured. Six persons were
killed and sixty or more injured in po-
litical rioting on the streets Of Toxic
Japan, Monday. Prince Katsura, pre-
mier Of japan, was stoned on the
streets. ..... 1t is estimated by a Phila-
delphian, who has been touring In
Mexico, that there is not less than
$500, ,00O, 900 of American capital invest
ed in various enterprises In Mexico. -.
DR.. Mary Walker, 81 years old, the not
ed suffragist leader, is critically Ill In
a Chicago hospital. 80. Police Captain
Thos Walsh, Edw. J. Newell a lawyer
and Chas. E. Foye, policeman, were
indicted by the special graft grand
jury in New York, Monday. District
Attorney Whitman declares that these
indictments may open the heart Of the
police system. E. &. . Three men were put
to death at Sing Sing prison New York,
Monday. Two of the prisoners execut-
ed had murdered women. The Fed
eral department of justice has begun
civil antitrust suit against the Chica-
go Board of Trade, charged with vio-
lating the Sherman antitrust law, by
arbitrarily fixing the prices Of grain
dealt in the pit" while the exchange
was closed. -. Rosa Sarto, sister of
the Pope Of Rome, died Tuesday, aged
II years. s......A Brooklyn, N. z, cler-
gyman modernizes the Beatitudes thus:
BLESSED are the special interests, for
theirs Is the earth; blessed are the ex-
ploiters, for to them the earth belongs"
The issuance of the new five cent
piece by the Philadelphia mints has
been indefinitely postponed, because of
the fact that the new five-cent piece
was Of such size that 1t will not work
the thousands Of slot machines scat
tered over the country. 90. Women are
to be barred from participation in the
Wilson inaugural parade. ..... Claims
aggregating $6,503 TAG, representing 1863
claims, have been filed in New York
against the White Star Steamship line
on account Of the Titanic disaster OF
last April ... The inaugural address
Of President -elect Wilson, as revised,
contains between 1000 and $500 words
and will be the shortest inaugural ad-
dress of any president since Lincoln's.
inaugural address in 1861. 'a.-