Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-07-10
FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1914.
MERE MENTION

Colonel Theodore Roosevelt has re-
signed his position as associate eultoT
of the Outlook. ....... Following d IAN
from a racing motorcycle on plank
floored track, a Philadelphia rider hao
900 splinters removed from his BODY by
hospital surgeons, Monday. Follow
ing the wrecking of a New York tene,
ment house and the killing OF seVerai
persons last Saturday, the victims pc
ing Industrial Workers Of the World
and anarchists, the police are UNDER
taking q campaign Of suppression
against all classes of agitators In that
city. The city authorities OF NOT
ristown, Pa, are strictly enforcing lne
Puritanical blue laws in that Town, on
Sunday. "A Lowell, Mass, machiH-
ist has invented and patented an aerl-
al torpedo for use with flying ma
chimes and dirigible balloons. The gov
ernment will test the invention. 80.
Norwegian citizens of North Dakota
have presented to the government Oh
Norway, a monument to Abranan
Lincoln. The monument was unVelleu
at Christiana on the Fourth Of July.
A blacksmith of Tunstall, England,
has been locked in jail on a charge OF
breach of the peace, his crime being
that he sings too loud when he goes to
church. Three members of the crew
of a French submarine boat were Killed
Wednesday, when the vessel collded
with a torpedo boat destroyer. .Ac-
cording to the report OF the state hsn
commissioner Of Washington, the shell
and salmon fishing industry netted
citizens of that state $14,762,652 our
ing the past fiscal year. Citizens OF
Marshfield, Oregon, have raised sew
eral Thousand dollars for the construc-
ton of a house which will be present
ed to eX-Mayor E. E. Straw, OF that
city. .Jno. D. Rockefeller, the oil
king, was 76 years old last Wednesday.
According to his physician, DR.. H. II.
Bigger, the oil magnate's health Is pet-
ter now than 1t has been in several
wears. Ports Of Guatemala have
been closed against ships FROM New
Orleans because of the bubonic plague.
Secretary Of the Navy Daniels on
Wednesday, received a check Tor VIZ
SOC, 900 from Greece in payment Of the
battleships Mississippi and ldaho, re-
Gently purchased by that government.
President Wilson has ordered the
secretary of war to reprimand Briga-
dier Gen. r. K. Evans, because GeneI-
al Evans at a recent banquet In New
York, said that the United States was
the most meddlesome of nations. .....
Spopee, a Blackfoot Indian, serving a
life time for murder, was uncondition-
ally pardoned by President wilson,
Tuesday. The Indian has already serV-
ed thirty-four years. .Chas. Ham,
aged 20, shot and instantly killed his
father, a prosperous farmer OF bar
rett. Ga, Tuesday. The boys father
had attacked his mother with a knife.
A monkey at the Kansas state
university at Topeka, has all the symp-
toms Of pellagra. The state health au-
thorities hope to obtain valuable infor-
nation about the disease from the
monkeys case. 49,. Rev. Harry Barton
Chaplin, a retired Presbyterian minis
ter, widely known in educational cir
cles. died at White Plains, N. Y, Tues
day, aged 81. He was for forty years
principal of the Chaplin Collegiate
school. Mrs. Joseph Johnson, aged
22. has been arrested at her home at
Speed, N c., charged with the murder
of her husband, the alleged killing hap
pening last Saturday night. Heavy
rains throughout the German empire
the past week have done thousands or
dollars worth Of damage. Several per-
sons have been killed by lightning....
Freddie Welsh of England, defeated
Willie Ritchie Of the United States in
a 2O-roun6 bout in London, Tuesday
night, thereby winning the light weight
championship Of the world. James H.
Hustis has rendered his resignation as
president Of the New York, New Hav-
en- and Hartford, Ry. He has been
elected president Of the Boston and
Maine railroad. :. Santos A. Dominica
has been appointed minister from
Venezuela to the United States, sue
ceeding the late Minister Rojas, who
recently died in Atlantic City. Rep
resentative Park Of Georgia has intro
duced a bill in congress which would
prohibit trial judges from giving pre-
emptory instructions as to what YER
dict a jury should render. Rev. W.
B. Palmore, editor Of the Christian Ad-
vocate of st. Louis, Mo-, died this
week. He left his entire estate Of
100000 to ne Methodist Episcopal
church, South. 80. The students mill
tary camp was opened with elaborate
ceremonies at Asheville, N. c., this
week. Governor Craig Of North Caro-
lima, was the principal speaker. .......
Senator Simmons Of North Carolina,
has recommended Congressman Pou Of
that state for the position Of associate
justice Of the District Of Columbia SUI
preme court. :. .Iowa's So called blue
sky" law which seeks to regulate and
supervise investment companies has
been held to be constitutional by the
Federal district court. -. Max Weyl,
one of the most famous of American
landscape painters, died in Washing
ton D. c., this week, aged n years.
Weyl was a self taught painter. M.
]. Cunnane of Philadelphia and M. L.
Pennell OF Springfield, ILL.,, who were
among those convicted in the famous
dynamite cases growing out Of the
blowing up Of the Los Angeles Times,
have been paroled after serving half of
their three year sentences. 80. .Presl-
dent Wilson will nominate Ira H. Nor
ris Of Chicago, as United States minis
ter to Sweden. 80. Health authorities
of New Orleans on Monday estimated
that there are 10000 rats in that city.
None Of the several thousand rats thus
far examined have shown any traces Of
being infected with Bubonic plague.