Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-07-24
MERE E-MENTION

toned off on the New York cotton
exchange, yesterday, at IL cents
pound. The bale weighed 300 lbs.
..... The forty-ninth annual con-
vention of the Ancient Order Of Hi
bernianh Of America, was opened at
Norfolk, Va, on Tuesday. H. +.
Hopson has been sentenced to serve
five years in prison for holding up the
Oakland Orlando, Fla, bus, on June
%. Hopson wounded three men.
Fearing that she would return to her
husband in Norcross, Ca. against
whom she had recently instituted di-
vorce proceedings, Chas. H. Haag, a
contractor, shot and instantly killed
Mrs. Edna Sykes. at Los Angeles, Cal,
last Tuesday. -" Havana, Cuba,
merchants have addressed petition
to the American legation, asking that
American warships on the way to
Mexico, be allowed to stop at that
port. The Havana merchants want
the ships to stop because American
blue jackets spend a great deal OF
money when ashore. e........ Rock
sand," a famous stallion for whom
August belmont paid $l25,OOO, died
in New York, this week. The
latest addition to the United States
navy, the torpedo boat destroyer,
on Monday. Sutton Ahmed Miro,
The 16-year-old shah Of Persia. took
the constitutional oath Of office at
Teheraw, Persia, on Tuesday. .....
Serious strike disturbances are in
progress in st. Petersburg, Russia.
ON Tuesday, 100000 workmen laid
down their tools as a protest against
the measures the authorities have
taken. Brazil, Ind, was visited
by a fire on Wednesday, which de-
stroyed many business houses. The
loss is estimated at $126, ,000.....
Two hundred and fifty midshipmen of
the United States naval academy were
inoculated with typhoid fever serum
this week. .... Private John McDor-
mott, Of the L. S. marine corps at
Vera Cruz, was drowned while bath
ing, on Tuesday. .... The Chilean
council Of state have approved bill
raising their legation in Washington
to an embassy. .... Five workmen
were killed by the premature setting
off of a charge Of dynamite at Cucar-
acha slide, Panama canal, this week.
Five white men and seventeen negroes
were injured. :. The interstate COM
merce commission on Tuesday, issued
an order to keep separate accounts OF
the cost Of freight and passenger SER
vice. The order is effective after
June 80, 1915. Mayor w. H
Cole has reduced the police force OF
Clarksburg, w. Va, to three men.
The mayor says that since the pro-
hibition amendment went into effect
on July l, there has been only one
arrest for drunkenness and only three
policemen are needed. ...." EX-Sena-
tor Albert ]. Beverage of Indiana.
opened the campaign Of the Progress
sive party in Illinois, last Tuesday,
when he started on four days
speaking tour through the central
part of that state ..... The United
States battleship Texas, has been
equipped with electric cooking ranges.
The Texas is the first battleship to
be equipped with electric cooking ap-
paratus. .Garrard Harris, assocl-
ate editor Of the Mobile, Ala, Reg
ister, has been appointed a commerce.
al agent Of the L. :. department OF
commerce. .... The Empire Flour
mills Of Columbus, Ga. built in 1858.
were destroyed by fire, Tuesday The
mills were valued at $4,000 and the
loss is covered by insurance. .Di-
rector of the Census w. ]. Harris has
withdrawn from the Georgia guberna-
torial race and will confine himself
to the duties of his Federal position.
The "dryS' and "wetS" Of To-
ledo, Ohio. are making a vigorous
campaign in that city for signatures
for rival petitions on the prohibition
question, this week Two boys
were drowned in mine cave hole
near Wilkes-Rar Pa, Monday. -.
The long expected rate decision by
the interstate commerce commission
is to be made public within the next
few days. The report is anXiously
awaited by the commercial world. e.
VIM. Coleman, special officer, en-
ployed to guard fruit farm from
depreciation. is in Jail at Camden, y
j., on the charge Of numbering Tony
Plawska. The latter was running
away with a suit case full of apples,
given him by the farm foreman, when
the officer shot him in the back.
.... The japanese steamer Koma-
gata. with her 800 Hindu passengers,
is to be escorted away from van
couver, p. c.. by a Canadian cruiser.
"A skeleton brought up from
the bottom Of the Schuykille river by
dredge near Philadelphia, last Sat
urday, has been identified as that Of
Frederick ] Holder. who disappeared
September 26. 1913. A watch that
came up with the skeleton WAS idap-
titled by the mans wife. Three
of the twenty-four balloons which
started in an air race from Paris.
Sunday. were blown across the Eng
lish channel and landed In Wales
....A priest, arrested at Bernay,
France on suspicion Of being a spy.
has made a confession, stating that he
was in the employ of the German war
apartment. .... Eleven men were
killed by an explosion in gold mine
at Salgburg, Germany, Monday
Argentina is to spend $l,5OO, coo
for an exhibit of that country's re-
sources al the Panama-Pacitic eX-
position. The war department
has awarded the contract for the con
S'ructiul. OF part OF an army hospital
at Fort Shafter, Hawaiian islands, 10
a Chinese firm of contractors. ....
There are 5625 students registered
for the summer term at Columbia
University, New York city. .....A
special session Of the Ohio legislature
commenced at Columbus, Monday
morning at 10 o'clock and after re-
ducing the state tax levy and acting
favorahly on two other measures,
adjourned at o'clock p. m.."....
Lawrence Robinson. placed on trlal
Monday charged with numbering II
Boston police inspector committed sui
eide in his cell Tuesday night. Fire at
Campbellsville. KY. on Wednesday de-
Stroyed property to the value of $50
600. The steamship Victoria arriv-
ed at Seattle. Wash, "Wednesday. from
Nome. Alaska. with 100000 worth of
gold bullion on board. Luke Dillon.
an irishman of Philadelphia. was re-
Gently released from prison in Canada.
after serving fourteen years of life
sentence, for having participated in the
destruction OF lock OF the Weiiand
canal in Canada, during the Boef war.
During the first week OF his liberty
Dillon saw his first flying machine and
wireless telegraphy. had his first ride
in an automobile and also subway
car and for the first time saw electric
cars propelled by the third rail system.