Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-11-24
MERE MENTION

stealing a freight train and operating
1t for their own benefit across the
Mojave desert, Monday go The Ma
tional Apple show, an annual event,
opened al Spokane, Wash, Monday.
me apple industry of Washington,
Oregon, Idaho and Montana now in
cIudes 100000 acres of orchards and
represents an investment of close to
S2UU,UO0,00U. 1t is estimated that
when the trees all come into full bear
ing the apple production will be not
less tnan l5O,0 900 carloads annually.
The referendum TO abolish the death
penalty in Arizona has been lost and
this means that twelve condemned men
now under sentence of death, will have
10 pay the penalty" British, Aus
tralian and Japanese warships were
reported last Friday to be mobilizing
off the coast of Lower California.
stringent orders have been issued for
absolute neutrality in the canal zone,
to prevent the dissemination of re-
ports as to the cargoes OF ships passing
through Large numbers of horses
are being assembled at Newport News,
Va, for shipment to England. Mrs.
Stonewall jackson, widow of the
south's great general, is reported to
be critically i'll at her home in Char
lotte. She is in the Saith year OF her
age. DR.. Robert ]. Burdett, clergy
man, and hor-humorist, died al
his home in Pasadena, Cal, Thurs
day, aged II years. DR.. Burdett was
one of Americas best known humor-
lists. -. Democratic congressman from
all over the country are pledging their
votes to Champ Clark, for speaker OF
the house in the next congress. The
women suffragists of. Pennsylvania, are
70
push the cause" in that state.
The steamship LII Correntia, which
sailed from Buenos Aires, october D,
with IA passengers, IL British volun-
teers and a million dollars worth OF
fresh meats, has been given up as cap
tured by the Germans. -. Peter Haas
met his divorced wife on the streets
of Pittsburgh, Pa, Thursday, and shot
her to death. Pursued by a crowd,
Haas ran to his rooms, over his second
wife's store, locked the door and COM
mitted suicide. An El Paso, Tex,
dispatch of Thursday, says bulletin
received there from Guardalajara, said
that four Roman Catholic priests had
been shot by order Of Gen. Joachim
Amara, military governor OF the state
of Michoacan, because the clergy had
headed an uprising. Two thousanu
Carranza soldiers are reported 10 nave
voluntarily surrendered to Gen. villa
when he took Leon, on his march to
the Mexican capital. 1t is also report
ed that $4,000 of CarranZa's troopers
at Iraputo, have surrendered uncon-
ditionally.. - The steamship Mil
dred was sunk in a collision with the
steamer Brazos, few miles from be-
low Tampa, Fla, Thursday. The pas
sengers and crew were rescued.
Philadelphia's second Mercy ship"
the Orn, is expected to sail during the
next few days with food and supplies
for the Belgians.. Miss Bessie
Townsend is comptroller of Atlantic
City, n. j., and is looking after the
financial affairs of city Of $4,000
people, and which has assets of SS,-
S10,452.. The late Anthony n.
Brady of New York, left an estate Of
$72,125,S63, according to figures filed
at the state comptroller's office at AL
bany. Thomas Mott Osborne, or
Auburn, n. Y, lawyer, who is known
as the Most human millionaire in the
country" has been appointed warden
of Sing Sing prison, and will take
charge on December 1st. Mr.. OSBORNE
is we'll known on account or his writ
ings on prison reform. For the
Harvard football game at New Haven
Conn, Saturday, $4,000 seats were
500 would-be seat buyers because
there were no seats to be had.
Despite the war the French govern
ment will have an elaborate display at
the Panama-Pacific exposition next
year. 49,. 1t Is now criminal Of
tense in Canada to offer for sale any
German newspapers. Eight bodles,
two of them women, were found on
the shores of Lake Superior, near Sc
ney, Mich, Friday. They are suppos-
ed to have been drowned when lum-
Der barge was wrecked during a gale
Thursday. :. "A dirigible balloon, fully
equipped with machine guns, wireless
telegraph apparatus, etc, and capable
of carrying twelve men, is under con-
struction :. Akron O., for the United
States government. If the balloon
proves successful, six larger ones are
to be constructed. More than lOO
different localities throughout Austria,
are infected with cholera. More than
$50 cases were reported last week.
More than 10000 Belgians are being
fed with the contributions of charity
at Brussels, and the number is said to
be increasing at the rate Of $4,000
day.. Dublin, y. H, with popu-
lation of 500, has contributed $l,SOO,
or SO per capita, for the relief OF W.
victims Of Belgium. Imports
New York, for the week ending No
vember IA, totaled s14,534,51O, an in
crease of $1,540.000 over the previous
week. Fire at Grovetown, Ga, on
Friday. destroyed a livery stable con-
tanning fifteen race horses. The loss
of David Lamar. the wolf Of Wall
street." charged with impersonating
representatives and United States sem
ators, will begin in New York, Novem-
Der 3O.....Dr. ]. H. Carter, member
elect Of the Georgia legislature, wa!
shot and fatally wounded at Alma.
Ga, Friday, by c. L. Sibley. whom he
had defeated in the primaries. ....
England has prohibited expectation OF
tea to all continental ports except TO
those of the allied countries, and Spain
and Portugal. The prohibition is due
to indications that Germany is receiv-
ing large tea supplies through the
Netherlands. Woman suffrage in
Missouri was defeated in the recent
general election in that state by ma
jority Of 140,206.. ...... Dennis Halron,
who said he was an Irish baronet,
committed suicide at Vancouver, B. c.,
Saturday, Immediately upon learning
he had lost in a $4,000 damage suit.
The American Federation of La
Dor, at the final session in Philadel-
phia, of it's 34th annual meeting, re-
elected all the present officers and
voted to hold the next national meet
ing at San Francisco, in November,
1915. Samuel Gompers is president
of the federation. Frank James,
one of the famous James Brothers,
notorious as highwaymen shortly after
the civil war, was stricken with heart
disease Saturday, and is said to be
dying at the James house, near Excel
sior Springs, Mo. He is 73 years old
Resolutions adopted by the Tex
as Business Mems association, in ses-
sion at Fort Worth, last week, deplor-
ed the recent re-opening of the cotton
exchanges in New York and New Or
leans. VIM. f. Bostleman, gen.
eraI manager of the commission brok-
erage firm of Frederick Probst & Co.
of New York, which went into bank
ruptcy recently, committed suicide on
Saturday. by jumping from the fifth
story of the company's building. 49,.
During the Yale-Harvard football
game at New Haven, Conn.,. Saturday,
$7,46391 was collected for the work
of the Red Cross society. Secre-
tary of the Treasury McAdoo and Mrs.
McAdoo, are spending some time In
Of GpnrUio Dam