Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-10-13
MERE MENTION,

Prof Argentieri Of AQuilla, Italy,
has recently invented and given sue
cessful tests of an instrument for
taking wireless telegraph messages.
The instrument is small enough to be
carried in the pocket and can be
manufactured for SO each. The pro-
fessor has just refused to sell the sys-
tenn to the German government for
large sum. He will place his inven-
ton at the service of the Italian gov
ernment. ....A Federal grand jury
in Chicago, has returned induct-
ments against ex-senator William
Lorimer of Illinois, together with
Joseph P. Gallagher. on charges of
misapplying funds belonging to the
LaSalle Street National bank of Chi
cago. Lorimer's bail was fixed at
$4,000 and Gallagher's at $4,000.
There are thirty-siX counts in the in
dictment. Twelve hundred mo-
tormen, conductors and inspectors of
the trolley lines Of Mexico City, went
on a strike Thursday for an increase
of 100 per cent in wages, an elght
hour day and recognition of the
union. There was much rioting. ....
Two hundred Methodist preachers at
tending a conference at washington
Springs, S. D., Thursday, were pois-
oned by eating cold storage chicken,
served by ladies of the church. All
of them will recover. The French
government has made contract with
the White automobile company OF
Cleveland, O., for 800 motor trucks.
.A dispatch from Vienna says
that an indictment. alleging hlgh
treason and covering 35 pages, has
been read to 25 prisoners. who are
concerned in the murder of Archduke
Francis Ferdinand, heir-apparent to
the Austrian throne, at Sarajevo.
Joseph Winkler of Alton. Ill, Thurs
day night awakened to find negro
burgler leaning over him. Reachlns
up he caught the intruder by the
throat and choked him TO death.
The lighting department or New YORK
city is preparing to replace the "
600 electric arc lamps in that CITY,
and light the city's streets with the
new nitrogen incandescent lamps IN
stead, and estimates that the saving
in current will aggregate $4OO,OOO
annually. ..... The senate committee
on privileges and elections has post
poned its investigation of charges
against Senator Penrose of Pennsyl-
yania, until after the November cleo
tions. The United States gunboat
Princeton, sunk by a collision with
an uncharted rock in Pago PagO mar
bor Hawaii has been successfully
raised by naval engineers. go. Col
orado's crops of this year are valued
at $4,000, 900. The German
steamship KronprinZessin Cecille, Is
IN he transferred to Boston. The Ves-
sci has been at Bar Harbor, Me-,
since the outbreak of the war. .Ihe
United States is threatened with
famine of cigarette paper, OWING 10
the war, according to report OF thS
department of commerce. MoSt OF
Aa from AuStrla anu
France and imports have been stop
ned since the war began. Joseph
Cassidy and Louis T. Walter. Jr.'
convicted of trafficking in New
York supreme court NOMINATION.
have been released on bonds OF S35.-
600 and $500, pending an appeal.
The Greek government is trying 10
place an order with American manu-
facturers for 200 900 wool blankets
for its army During the "a hours
ending Friday night, $l,150,OOO nj
gold was received at Seattle, Wash,
from Alaska. Trooper Wilson OF
the Tenth L. S. cavalry, who was
wounded by a Mexican bullet. fired
across the line during an attack on
Naco. Sonora, died in Naco, Arizona
on Friday. ..... Alice Pryor, lS-year-
old daughter of a Marysville, Pa
farmer. died Friday, from the effects
of a peanut lodging in her lung. 49,.
Daniel Eisenhort, of Shamokin, Pa
dropped dead saturday, while relat-
ing a story ......A petition designat-
ing William SulZer as nominee FOR
governor on the American party
ticket was filed with the secretary OF
state of New York, Saturday, by MT
SulZer, himself. The petition COM
tanned 1000 names. .....Col. Jeft-
erson Davis Maxwell father of Miss
Christeen Maxwell who was killed in