Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-07-31
MERE MENTlON

General CarranZa on Tuesday, issued
a decree levying tax OF gu cents per
ton on Mexican petroleum prooucts
In addition to this a tax or ten Genus
ner ton for petroleum products OF the
CITY of Tampico has been imposed iof
harbor improvements in that CITY.
The senate on Tuesday voted TO receoe
from it's amendment to the general de-
ficiency bill whereby pay due many
Confederate soldiers when they re,
signed in 1851 as officers in the Unteo
states army would now be PAID 10
their heirs. w. V. Cleary. town clerk
and political leader of HaVerstraw,
n. Y. who recently shot and killed ms
1S-year-old son-in-law, Will pleao the
unWritten law as his defense allegins
his vouthful son-in-law wronged ms
dansbter Fifteen miners were kill
ed at Dortmund, Germany, this week
hv q fire in a coal pit. Six bodies were
recovered Work on the first Nor
mon temple to be built on British SOIL
is now underway in Cardston, AlDerta'
Mormon centre of Canada. the struc-
ture will be built Of granite taken from
the Rocky Mountains OF British Co
mmbia Since last Thursday, W.
100000 have been shipped from VIEW
York to Europe on account OF war @ taih
in the latter country. .... The German
aQmlTdlly OIilCS llehS
German fleet to assemble in home wa
Thomas Dalton, clerk OF
BOSTON. shot his wife, daughter ana
SON and then killed himself, Monday.
Dalton had been suffering from ner-
vous break down for some time.
Following a quarrel with her lover at
Tampa Fla. Miss Matilda Cueba, on
Tuesday, poured oil on herself, set the
oil afire and was burned 10 oeath' "A
few minutes later Manuel Alvarez tne
girls lover, was shot down oy ner lwo
brothers, one of whom was captufeuS' Si
.... Because he was about 10 lose nls
faithful team Of horses through the
foreclosure of a mortgage, Cottillep
Wigger, a farmer Of Perry, Okla, on
Tuesday, killed the animals, buried
them in his pasture, and then Kllleu
himself over their grave. An army
of 5000 women selling artificial flow,
ers for the benefit Of the French Reo
Cross society, gathered more tnah
$4,000, Tuesday. Fire In LoulsVlle
Tuesday, destroyed the Bourbon STOCK
wards, valued at $3.50, 900. Mrs. Helen
M. Angle of Stamford, Conn, in whose
apartments w. R Ballou, prominent
politician was found dead recently, has
been held by a coroners jury charged
with the murder Of Ballou. .Declar-
ing that her mother had for the sum OF
s40O sold her to the mayor or a small
oregon town, Ruth Sechor, a htteen-
year old girl has been taken In chaTge
by Federal authorities at Los Angeles,
Jacob billiard is dead, Robert
Barnett and Mrs. Ida Kendall are Sc
riously wounded, and Walter Dillard
and Lee Barnett are in Jail, as the re-
suit of a family row in Caldwell coun-
ty. near Lenoir, n. c., last SATURDAY
afternoon. Nestor Wilmart, Bel
gian banker, railroad man, newspaper
proprietor and sportsman, has been
sentenced to ten years Imprisonment
and an $500 fine for swindling the pun.
lie out Of $3,40O, 900 by over issuance OF
shares of the Ghent-Terneuzen rall-
way in 1912. Gold shipments from
New York to European banks on Mon
day, aggregated s10,600,0OO, and on
Tuesday $S,000,000 more were shipped.
The Monday shipment Of S1O,6OO,OOU
was by the steamship KronprinzeSsen
Cecile and was the largest gold ship
ment ever carried by one ship. .... .Dr.
Richet, statistician Of the University
of Paris, estimates that in the event OF
war between all Of the leading Euro
pean powers, as now seems possible,
probably 20,000,0 900 men would be put
in the field, and that the cost Of main
tanning such a force would be $54 ,125.-
600 per day. If the war lasted only as
long as the Franco German war the
cost would exceed $4,000, 100000. ......
President Wilson will deliver num-
ber of political speeches in various
states this fall in an effort to help
Democratic congressman in doubtful
districts. Lee Warner, young Whlte
man, II years old, was lynched by ne
groes near Clarksville, Tenn, Monday,
for assaulting a negro girl. The coro-
i,,r.Hy rpturnp6 verdict OF '1uStl-
fable homicide. =. George Wise was
stabbed to death by Tom Dorak at
Indianapolis, Ind, Monday. Both men
were Austrians and the killing followed
an argument about the AuStria-SerVla
war A Chicago, Milwaukee and st.
Paul train struck an automobile con-
tanning eight men and women, at
grade crossing in Chicago, Monday.
Four of the party were killed instantly
and the other four were seriously hurt'
The passenger steamship zee
land, from Antwerp, arrived in New
York, Monday, and reported that on
the Wednesday previous, in mid-ocean
she had been in a collision with the
British freighter, Missouri, and that
the latter was seriously injured. The
Missouri reached London in safety.
... In the Texas primary election III
Texas, Saturday, the question OF sta.e-
wide prohibition was defeated by from
$4,000 to 10000. James E. Ferguson,
anti i-proh bition candidate for govern
or, was nominated by 10000 to 10000
majority. .. District Attorney Whit
man of New York, has announced him.
self as a candidate for the Republican
nomination for governor of New York.
More than 1000 ironworkers Of New
York went on a strike Monday. de-
manding a 20 per cent increase in pay
-. Hans Schmidt, eX-priest, convict
ed of the murder Of Anna Amuller, in
New York is asking for a new trial.
Schmidt's lawyer claims that the girl
was not murdered by the priest, but
that he did cut up her body in an eff
fort to protect a physician who had
performed an illegal operation on the
girl. .... The 26th annual internation-