Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-01-09
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Following the killing Of five per-
sons at a grade crossing In Memphis
Tenn, Monday night, in collision
between a freight train and street
car, the mayor of the city next morn
ing took a force Of hands and tore
I'D the track. 80. "A Harvard professor
of physiology says that fear and great
anger are likely to be followed by ag-
gravated attacks Of kidney disease
The mayor Of Tacoma, WASH,
has become member OF the !ocal
lodge of Hoboes Of America, which
has just been instituted in that city.
80. The tank steamer. Oklahoma,
sank off Sandy Hook, n. Y, Monday,
during storm. Twenty.eight lives
were lost -. The Peoples league of
st. Louis, Mo-, 1000 strong, began a
strike against the high price Of eggs
in that city, Monday. The strike is to
continue for week, during which
time the leaguers are to eat no eggs.
The last big sale of government
lands in Oklahoma began Monday.
More than 100000 acres Of timber,
agricultural and grazing lands are to
be included in the sale. "A meet
ing of the executive committee of the
American Federation Of Labor Is soon
to be called in Washington to consid-
er the feasibility Of calling a nation
wide strike Of organized labor in SYM
pathy with the copper mine strikers
in Michigan. ...... Ninety passengers
reached San Francisco, Monday, after
having been marooned in the Feather
river canyon for a week on account
of a slide that caught their train in
the mountains. John Weeks,
born at Fordham, N. Y, in 1908, died
at Norwalk, Conn.,, Monday. There
are nearly $1,000 bills on the calen-
dars of the two houses Of congress
that have not yet been acted on, and
others are being introduced every
day. Five persons were killed and
six injured, two fatally, in hotel fire
at Newark, Ohio, Tuesday. .... The
United States circuit court of appeals
has confirmed the judgment Of the
Federal court at Indianapolis, in the
case of twenty-four members Of In
ternational Association of Structural
Iron Workers, and reversed the low
er court in the cases Of six Of the con-
victed men. Frank M. Ryan, presi-
dent Of the association, will have to
serve seven years. ......A Hastings
n. Y, man in revenge against his
neighbors of the fashionable section
of the town, sold his $4,000 home to
a negro for $500. ........P President
Wilson and his party will leave Pass
Christian, Miss. Sunday night for
Washington. The president has been
much benefited by his sojourn in
didate for vice president on the Roose-
welt ticket, has announced his candi-
dacy for reelection as governor OF
California. James r. Dowell, chief
justice Of Alabama, has resigned on
account Of ill health. -. "A Fort Dodge
Iowa man, has recently purchased the
famous Cardiff giant" a fake which
made fortune for it's discoverers. The
Cardiff giant" was discovered" near
Rome, N. Y, in 1869 and was exhibited
all over the country, making fortune
for it's owners. ......A member Of the
Rhode Island legislature has returned
to the state treasurer a cheek for ST.
200 sent him in payment Of his services
as legislator. The representative said
the money was not his, as he had done
nothing to earn 1t. Two hundred
and fifty immigrants, Turks and Syri-
ans, arriving in New York, Tuesday
from Marseilles, France, have been
transferred to Hoffman island, for OBJ
servation, on account Of fear for an
epidemic Of typhus fever.