Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-12-11
MERE.MENTION.

lumbus, Ga, has plead guilty to the
charge Of embezzling funds from the
bank. .... "A dispatch from Paris says
the emperor Of Russia has restored to
France q flag which, since the war OF
1870, had been in German hands until
it's recent capture by the Russians. -.
Governor elect Whitman will appoint
Mai. Gen. w. w. Wotherspoon, who
recently retired as chief Of staff Of the
United States army, to the position OF
superintendent Of public works OF
New York state. Eddie Collins
for years with the Philadelphia Ameri-
can league baseball team and one OF
the highest paid players in the game
has been sold to the Chicago Amerl-
can team. 49,. The British steamer
Vedro, from Port Arthur, Texas, with
a cargo Of gasoline, went ashore near
Barrow, England, in a heavy gaze,
Tuesday. Her cargo became ignited
and all save two of her crew OF 80
men. were burned to death. .... with
an electrically driven saw. Dr. X n.
Albee Of New York, on Monday, re-
moved a portion Of infected bone from
the left leg Of a patient In Phlla-
delphia hospital and transplanted
piece Of healthy bone from his rlgnt
leg. The Noble Peace Prize com
mission met in Christian, Sweden
wednesday,, dIlu uCSluC0 bhoN AN P>e~S~
prize would be awarded this year.
The triennial session Of the national
council Of Jewish Women was held In
New Orleans, La, this week, with
more than 1000 delegates In attend
ance. David Fountain, janitor OF
the German Lutheran church OF Sacra-
mento, Cal, has confessed that ne as
saulted and murdered 1O-year-old mar
garet Milling in the basement or the
church, last Saturday afternoon. ;....
The police Of Rotterdam, Holland, on
Tuesday, raided a building they sus-
pected was being used by men export
ing cocoa to Germany. They discoV-
cred not only quantities Of cocoa ready
for shipment, but many barrels of sand
and sawdust with which the thrifty
exporters were plentifully adulterating
the cocoa. Eugene Cogsweli OF
Washington, D. c., committed sulcioe
by jumping from a steamship on
Norfolk, Va, this week. "A Dur
ham. N c., mill has received an order
for 100000 pairs Of socks from one OF
the warning European nations. ....,.
The storm damage on Abescon Island,
N. J., upon which Atlantic City is To-.
Gated, the past four days, will total
more than $250,000. William w.
Rockhill, distinguished American di-
plomat, died at Honolulu, Philippine
Islands, Tuesday. 80. The united Mine
Workers Of America has called on the
strike Of coal miners in Colorado. .....
Col. Henry G. Hester, widely known
cotton statistician, was on wednesday
night, for the 45th time, elected sec
retary and superintendent of the New
Orleans cotton exchange. An
earthquake did great damage in va
rious parts Of Peru, Wednesday. 49,.
Thirteen men were killed in a mine
shaft at Scranton, Pa, Wednesday
when the platform OF a mine cage
collapsed and dropped to the bottom
of the shaft 200 feet below. 49,.
President Wilson will spend the holl-
days at the White House in Washing
tom. Leo M. Frank, convicted
murderer Of Mary Phagan, was on
Wednesday, for the third time SEN
fenced to be hanged on Friday, jan
uary %. There is now no hope Tor
Frank, other than executive Glenn
ency. 1900. Official tabulation OF re-
turns recently completed, show that
woman suffrage carried in Montana
in the general election by a majority
Of 3,714. .... Mrs. Ella Flagg Young
has been reelected superintendent OF
the Chicago schools. Her salary Is
$4,000 a year. Special appropri-
alton of $2,5OO,OO0 to fight the foot
and mouth disease was proposed In
a bill fayorably reported to the senate
on Wednesday, by the agricultural
committee. ..... The house or repre-
sentatives has passed the Barnhardt
bill revising the laws governing the
printing Of all government puoilca-
tions. 1t Is estimated that the meas
ure will save the government Sl,ooo,-
900 q year. R. j. DaVant was on
Tuesday, re-nominated as mayor Oh
hx, he 10 a.
jority ever given a mayoralty candl-
date in that city. Two persons
were killed and more than a score in
jured in a collision between crowded
elevated railroad trains in New York,
Wednesday. The point where the &C
cident occurred is 100 feet above the
earth. The collector or internal
revenue has announced that no stamp
tax under the war revenue act, Will
be required on cotton loan certln-
Gates. Myron T. Herrick, former
United States ambassador to France,
has been decorated with the Grand
Cross Of the Legion Of Honor by the
president of France. ..... Francis
McAdoo, 25-year- old son Of the Sec
retary Of the treasury, underwent an
operation for appendicitis in a Phlla-
delphia hospital, Wednesday. SPEEDY
recovery is expected. indicating
a return to normal business condl-
tions, the Pennsylvania railroad man
agement has ordered the construction
Of 1850 freight cars at its Attona, Pa,
ment of justice has begun suit
against the alleged Moving Picture
trust, in the Federal court in Phila-
delphia Lady Decies Of England,
formerly Miss Vivian Gould Of New
York. was wounded at Dunkirk,
France, says report, by spnnter
from a bursting bomb, dropped from
a German aeroplane, over the city.
Lady Decies was in the Red Cross
service. IA number or congress-
men and senators have expressed
themselves as disagreeing with Presl-
dent Wilson's anti-military views, as
expressed in his recent message to the
Sixty third congress. .... Inc German
oil tank steamer Gargoyle has been
transferred to American registry ano
will hereafter fly the United STATES
flag. Secretary Of the Navy Daniels
has detailed the collier Cyclops as the
Santa Claus" ship to the naval vesseis
now in Cuban waters. The Swedlsh
steamer Nora Sewerage is reported To
have been sunk off the Finnish coast by
a mine, Tuesday. The entire crew oi
20 men perished. The loss Of two other
Swedish vessels are reported as havine
been lost on Monday. Sweden ano
Finland are trying to negotiate with
American shippers for sS,500,O0O worth
of supplies, including cotton, steel raiis
and coal. "A riot broke out IN
the yards Of the Philadelphia Ship Re.
pair company, Tuesday, when 5.OOu
men applied for 800 jobs that the com
pany had to give out. Two bandlts
held up a rural mail carrier near For'
Smith, Ark Tuesday. and then stole
pair of blood hounds that were put on
their trial. ). Two choirs of l,SOO voices
each, are being organized in Philadel.
phia for the Billy" Sunday revival
which Is to be held in that city during
January and February. ...... Repre-
sentative Serene E. Payne of New
York. who directed the. drafting OIL
the famous Payne-Aldrich tariff law,
died in Washington, Thursday, aged
II years. .....A motion for a new
trial for Hans Schmidt, the priest
who murdered Anna Aumuller and
threw her dismembered body into the
Hudson river, was presented IN tne
New York supreme court. yesterday
Eyra aorlv Yesterday morning