Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-05-19
MERE MENTION.

Two masked men held up Great
Northern passenger train near Rex
ford, Mont. Friday, but got only
small amount of booty. 49,. harry a.
Wheeler, Chicago banker, has de-
clined the appointment OF President
Wilson to membership on the Federai
reserve bank board. ..... IRWIN VI.
Baker reached New York, FRIDAY ait
er a ride across the continent, 1852
miles. on a motorcycle, in II days, IL
hours and 10 minutes. His longest
DAYS ride was AIS miles. He broke
the record for the distance. United
States Senator Chamberlain, Demo-
crat, has been renominated in an ore
gon primary. Ten men were KILL
ed and four fatally injured by the
explosion Of chemicals and ACIDS
in a Detroit. Mich, rubber plant, Fri
day The cause of the explosion Is
unknown. The one-story concrete
building was obliterated by the explo-
sion. Chester Duryea or Brook-
lyn, who few weeks ago killed ms
aged father, is heir to one-thlrd OIL ms
fathers estate Of $1,OOO,OOO. The
Younger Duryea is insane. Bur
ton w. Gibson, attorney, convicted IN
New York two weeks ago on a charge
of grand larceny, the looting OF an es-
tate, was on Friday sentenced to serve
a term Of five to ten years, ana pay
fine of $4,000, the amount of his steal
ings, plus 20 per cent, making total
of $500. In case of his failure 10
paw the fine, Gibson will have to serve
an additional five years. Two
English army aviatorS were killed on
Friday. The men tried to land ana
because of a dense fog, struck the
ground with great force, ana were
crushed by the motor. ...A SWISS
aviator on Friday, covered 26i mlles
in $50 minutes. Colonel Oscar Ben
eyides has been elected president by
the congress Of Peru. .... The senate
committee has refused to accept the
house bill providing for the reduction
of the mileage pay of congressman
and senators from 20 cents mile 10
actual expenses. Lew L. MorloH'
ex-vice president of the United States,
celebrated his Goth birthday at his
home at Ellersie- on-the- Hudson, y.
Y, Saturday. .... Mrs victor Hail.
widow of young merchant, mas peen
indicted at Louisa, Va, on the cnarse
of numbering her husband. she pro-
tests her innocence and claims her nus
band was shot by burglar. mos.
f. Watson has again been indicted by
the Federal court at Augusta, Ca, on
the charge of sending obscene matter
through the mails. A previous IN
dictment was dismissed by the court.
The per capita wealth or the
state of Minnesota is estimated at
Sl.4g5. Governor Hodges OF KAN
sas, has paroled Il convict for sixty
days in order that the convict might
have an opportunity to harvest his
wheat crop. Secret service men
on Friday, captured thoroughly
equipped counterfeiting plant at Seat
tie. Wash. The plant was turning out
large quantities Of Canadian SZO ana
So bank notes.. Mrs. Betsy Cur
ran died at South Bethlehem, Pa. on
Friday, aged 10S years. ..... "A statue
of Commodore John Barry the "Fatn-
er of the American navy was unVell-
ed in Washington, d. c., Saturday." 6.
William ]. Harris, director of the CEN
sus bureau of the United States, has
entered the lists as a candidate for the
governorship OF Georgia. .Presl-
dent Wilson has notified Governor
Ammons of Colorado, that United
States troops will not be kept in that
state on account of strike troubles, IN
definitely. and puts ii up to the legls-
lature, now in session, to take prompt
steps 10 handle the situation. .Ihe
1914 Georgia peach crop is estimated
at 1910 carloads. E. Two small boys,
aged IL and II years. were drowned IN
the Tar river near Greenville. \. G.,
Saturday. Joe Dawson. an auto
mobile driver. on Friday at lndianap-
oils, Ind. covered the = IL mile race
track in | min. 81 2-5 seconds. His
average speed for the 500 miles was
slightly better than 90 miles an hour.
DR.. Charles T.. bowman, dean OF
the theological department of Emory
college, died at oxford, Ga, Saturday,
aged &c years. The twentY-fouf
labor leaders who were last year SEN
fenced to prison I'm the "dynamiting
cases" and who have been out on
bonds pending appeals, have been or
dercd to report at the Leavenworth,
Kan. prison on June 6, to begin serV-
| ing their sentences. .Water-DOrne
| freight began passing through the
Panama canal at noon yesterday Five
barges. loaded with miscellaneous
freight. were tOwed from Balboa to
the Atlantic. .... King Christian and
Queen Alexandria of Denmark. are
visiting in Paris, France. this week. &.
Four large storage oil tanks belonging
to the Standard oil company, were
burned at Unionville. y. Y. on Satur-
' day.