Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-03-17
MERE-M ENTION.

Adoo, secretary of the treasury, and
Miss Eleanor Randolph Wilson, daugh-
ter of the president, has been announc-
ed in Washington. The wedding is to
take place in June. ...... The X. D.
Woods Company Of Pennsylvania, has
closed a contract with European buy
ers for sS,000,000 worth Of cast iron
pipe. This is the largest pipe contract
ever negotiated by an American firm
A receiver has been appointed for
the Inter Ocean, one of Chicago's most
prominent daily newspapers. 80. Some
of the leading New York preachers
are heading a nation-w co-opera :
tive movement for the establishment OF
employment bureaus. .Jno. j. Mey-
ers and Archie L. Wismer, New York
ers, have been sentenced to six years
each in the Federal prison in Atlanta
for fraudulent use of the mails in pro-
noting mining schemes. Their victims
were fieeced out of $4,000, 1000. Gov
ernor Glynn Of New York, is asking
the legislature for a law authorizing
the establishment Of markets to help
producer and consumer Of food pro-
ducts to get together without the help
Of the middleman. The Siegel Stores
corporation of New York, owners OF
several big department stores OF New
York. Boston and elsewhere, has failed
and Henry Siegel and Frank E. Vogel
heads Of the various inter-locking con-
Germs are under indictment and with
other indictments hanging over them
Perjury, false credit statements, OBJ
tanning money under false pretenses
and paying dividends on preferred
stock when the dividends were not
earned, are among the more serious
charges against the men. The Beth
lehem Steel company Of Pennsylvania
has closed contracts with European
builders for the construction Of fleet
Of ten ships for ore shipping. The Eu-
ropean builders are to get $1,0OO,0 0OC
for the contracts. Two men were kill
ed and three persons wounded, one OF
them a woman, as the result of an at
tempted train hold-up at Mantus, ILL.,.
last Friday by a gang Of Mexicans
........A belated message received al
Benghasi, Tripoli, Saturday, tells OF
battle between Italian troops and
Arabs at the oasis Of Seustina, in
which 263 Arabs were slain, two Ital-
liam officers and AZ native soldiers
killed. 80. BY a vote of 240 to A the
Japanese house Of peers has reduced
it's naval budget by $4,000, 900. Five
steamships and thirty eight sailing
vessels were smashed to pieces by a
hurricane on the coast Of Morocco
Friday. The estimated cost Of a
bridge to connect New Jersey with
New York across the Hudson river, is
$42, 900, 900. ...... Daniel Epner, a New
York jewelry salesman, in Chicago
Friday night, had pepper thrown in his
eyes and was robbed of jewelry, dia-
monds and money to the value Of $70,-
900. The recent reports of condi-
ton of national banks to the comp
troller of the currency, shows that
Boston has banking resources of $685.
000 900, or 1887 per capita for it's en-
tire population. This is greater than
the per capita resources of New York
by $415. The balance Of trade in
favor of the United States for the sew
en- months ending January 14th, total
ed about $545, 100000, according to fig
ures issued by the department Of COM
merce. E. During the funeral services
of George Westinghouse in New York
Saturday 100000 men and women, en-
ployed in dozen factories in the
United States and Europe, stopped
their machines and stood in idleness as
tribute to the inventor of the air
brake. ..... There is plan under way
in Washington to side track the charges
in the Impeachment proceedings
against Judge Emory Speer Of Georgia
and retire him from the bench by a
special act Of congress. 49,. Perfection
in a fire drill saved 400 girls from a
panic at Newark, n. j.. Saturday. when
fire destroyed four-story white goods
factory. The girls marched ont in good
order. ... Mrs. VIM. Wells killed her
husband near Cornelia, Ga, Friday
night by blow on the head with po-
ker. Wells, while drunk, attacked his
wife with a hammer. -. Tramps built
a fire on the wooden floor of Brook
lyn. n. Y, factory building, Friday
night when driven indoors by the cold
The building was destroyed with loss
Gf $500 900. Vice President Mar
shall celebrated his 60th birthday. Sat-
urday. The state of North Carolina
will collect 100000 from the estate Of
the late George W. Vanderbilt as ar
inheritance tax. .....B B. +. Keith, for a
number Of years collector of customs
at Wilmington, n. c., has rendered his
resignation because he says. certain
persons have continued to hound at his
heels. Jas. G. Oakley former pres
ident of the Alabama state convict de-
partment, charged with the embezzle-
ment of state funds. has been declared
not guilty. Theodore Lacy, chief clerk
of the department, was convicted on
an embeZzlement charge two weeks
ago. The number of bodies recov
cred from the burned building of the
Missouri Athletic club of St Louis