Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-07-14
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Four persons died as the result o.
excessive heat in st. Louis, SATURDAY
'rhe government kiosk registered lOs
degrees. G. Pearse OF MllWau'
kee, Wis, has been elected chairman OF
the board of directors Of the Natlona
Education society. Oakland, CAL, MAJ
] secured the meeting Of the assoclatloI
for next year. Charles Il; fielu
editor of Sunset Magazine, ana tnres
other men have been arrested In sal
Francisco, charged with disclosing
military secrets of the United States
through publication of an ILLUSTRATED
article in regard to Panama canai lot
tifications. .. Judge Kendrick j.. HaW.
kins of the Dublin, Ca, circuit, ano
former editor Of the Dublin Times
dropped dead at his home IN Macon
Ca Saturday =. Lady Hardinge, wife
of the Viceroy of India, died in a Lon
don hospital Saturday, aged 46. The
dead noble woman was one or the Ia
yorites of Queen Mother Alexandra
of England. e. . Unitarian ministers anC
laymen from all parts OF the United
States are in annual conference al
Isle of Shoals, n. H., the conference tc
last two weeks. DR.. Harvey w
Wylie, of pure food fame has peer
elected president Of the National Moutf
Hygiene association. The Marletta
Columbus and Cleveland railroad mas
been placed in the hands or receiver
Leon Dejean, a negro, died In Ne"
Orleans as the result Of Bubonic pla-
que, last week. Two negroes and one
white man have died from the disease
in New Orleans, since June 2I.... be
cause he was denied cigar, Johr
Inghoyt, a patient in a Hastings, n. Z.
hospital, jumped out Of window In
the fourth story Of the building, killing
himself instantly. Seeing that q
Trenton, N. J., traffic policeman was
off his post last week, William AltsizeI
a 6-year-old boy, donned his minia-
ture policeman's costume, and Tor more
than two hours calmly directed trafnc
in the policeman's stead. .Lleuten-
ant Governor Theodore G. Bilbo OF
Mississippi, has been acquitted on the
charge Of soliciting and accepting
bribe. Fred Boalt, Mexican cores
pondent of the Cleveland, Ohio, Press,
has been ordered deported by the war
department. Boalt was guilty of send
ing sensational and untrue dispatches
from Mexico. -. The French chamber
of deputies, by a vote Of 461 to 80, has
appropriated money to cover expenses
of French official representation at the
Panama Pacific exposition. The AL
ton Steele company Of Illinois, CAPT.
talized at 1000, 900, has been placed in
the hands Of a receiver. 49,. The Fed
eral government has purchased 15.575
acres of forest lands in North Carolina.
Two thousand Bibb county, Ca,
voters cast votes for w. j. Mosely for
Democratic executive committeeman
last week not knowing that Mosely had
been dead ten years. go. Jamaica gin
ho hnan nj under
Kansas, the supreme court of that
state holding that any druggist VINO
sells it may be prosecuted for violation
Of the prohibition law. The Penn
sylvania railroad has placed an order
for 81 engines and 1000 steel box cars.
.... Judas Iscariot and Saul Of Tar
sus negroes with the surname of Kent,
are in Jail at Admission, Ala, charged
with murder. . Last Friday night was
the coldest in the A years history OF
the Mobile, Ala, weather bureau. A
fountain in the city was completely
frozen over. 80. Lee Wake, OF SceVen,
Ga drank small bottle Of cologne in
order to get the alcohol in it. He is
dead. DR.. w. A. Winters and his
wife, Mrs. Byrd Winters, charged with
conspiracy in connection with the dis
appearance of the doctors nine-year-
old daughter, have been released at
New Castle, Ind, because Of lack of
evidence. -. Samuel Gompers, the Ia
Dor leader, has declared war against
Representative j. Hampton Moore OF
Pennsylvania, and will seek to defeat
Moore because the latter opposed a
measure Gompers was interested in...
A German aviator last week attained an
altitude Of 21,450 feet. The highest
previous altitude was attained by a
Frenchman, who reached a height OF
1880 feet above the earth. 80. After
being on a strike for five weeks, 1000
Of the 10000 employees Of the Westing-
house companies of Pittsburgh, Pa,
voted to return to work yesterday. The
remainder are expected to give up the
contention during the next few days.
..... The police Of Berlin last week
raided a house occupied by Servian
students and secured documentary
evidence which proved the existence of
a plot to assaSinate the German en-
peror. Empress, the largest female
elephant ever captured, died in the
geological gardens, Philadelphia, last
week. Empress had lived in Philadel-
phia during the past 3S years. .... The
clipper ship Edward Sewell, which
sailed from Philadelphia in October,
for Seattle, Wash, and last reported
March 23, and since given up as lost,
last week reached Hawaii. The vessel
was badly damaged by storms at sea.
800. The municipal council Of Paris,
France, last week, announced the is
suance of 44,400,000 4 per cent bonds.
In one day the issue was over-Sub-
scribed more than forty times. =. H. ].
Gamsman, a New York inventor Of an
attachment for a camera, was last
week paid 100000 for his invention by
the Eastman company Of Rochester,
n. Y.........A Spanish company pro-
poses to build an aerial railway across
the whirlpool rapids at Niagara. The
span across the gorge is to be 1,lSO
feet, the longest Of it's kind in the
world. ..... The government Of China
is preparing to float another loan OF
500, 900, 900. ........The Georgia senate
has killed the proposed HiXon eugenics
marriage law. The bill provided for
mental and physical examinations be-
fore a marriage could be contracted. d.
The total tax receipts of the state of
Iowa for the year ending June 3, were
1924, ,770.S0. After paying all claims
the state still has cash balance of
$757, $50. so. New Orleans rat killers
killed more than $4,000 rats during
last week. The army surgeons are well
satisfied with the Bubonic plague stu
alton IN that city. Inc nSnt against
the hookworm is to be carried on
throughout the world. For a time the
fight will center in Egypt. under the
direction of Lord Kitchener. .... The
dead letter" office Of the postofice
department at Washington, has been
abolished Associate Justice of
the United States supreme court,
died at Atlantic City, n. j., Sunday,
of heart disease. aged 70 years. He
was appointed to the supreme court
bench from Tennessee, by President
Taft in 1909. Judge Lurton was the
fourth eX-Confederate to be appoint
ed to the supreme court. Four
persons were killed and eighteen 9TH
ers more or less injured in an auto
mobile accident in the vicinity of
Philadelphia, Sunday.
EIuaEalI loo Saturday Mr. n