Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-05-12
MERE-M MENTION.

Comptroller of the Currency John
Shelton Williams, has started an in,
Quiry to determine whether or not the
National City bank of New York, did
not violate the banking laws in 1902
in loaning $11.000,000 to one custom !.
er on 1O9,9S5 shares Of Boston and.
Maine railroad stock. Under the laVb
the. bank could not loan more thar
SIS, 100000 to a single customer. ....G
1t is rumored in London that eX-King
Manual Of Portugal and mis- wife, who
was q German princess, are to sepa-
rate. They were married only few,
months ago. .Percival Vanness was
killed at Utica. N. Y, Friday, by fall
from a new biplane he was trying
His mother witnessed the accident. "A
Hon. VIM. G.. McAdoo and his bride,
are spending their honeymoon at Corr
nish, n. H. -. Sylvester Washington,
a negro desperado, was shot to death
by posse near st. James, La, FrfdayI
The negro had killed ore white man
and wounded another. Charles
Worthington, chief Of the fire depart
ment of Camden, N. j., was killed Fri
day night by walking of, a roof from
which he was directing the firemen.
:. The surgeon general of the army.
has instructed department surgeons
to enlist an unlimited number Of men
for medical service in the army.
Reported discoveries in South Ameri-
ca by Colonel Roosevelt, are being
strongly questioned by Il number Of
European geographical societies.
The supreme court Of New York has
handed down a decision holding that
stolen money, used and lost in specu-
lation, must be returned to its right
full owner by the brokerage firm TAX
H.. @l. n ityno
The amount involved was $53. 000..
Since January l, 29S,000 quarters Of
beef, $4,000 carcasses Of mutton and
81, 900 carcasses of lamb have been re-
ceived at New York from the Argen-
tine Republic. :. The executive board
of the United Mine Workers Of Amer
lea, has endorsed the strike Of coal
miners in Colorado and called on the
miners throughout the country to give
financial aid to the Colorado strikers.
.... Francis H. Griffin, a New York
lawyer. and his wife, have been arrest
ed by postoffice inspectors, charged
with fraudulent use Of the mails. IT
is charged that their swindle netted
more than $500. 900. ore hun
dred thousand men will work May %.
in an effort to build 1000 miles of
dirt road between Minneapolis Mimi,
and Yellowstone National Park. The
road is the longest single stretch in the
United States. ..... Charles w. Post,
the millionaire manufacturer Of cereal
foods, committed suicide at his win
ter home at Santa Barbara, CAL, Sat
urday. by shooting himself in the
mouth with rifle. Ill health Is sup
posed to have been the cause.
Several thousand women suffragettes
paraded in Washington, Saturday af-
ternoon Nearly every state in the
Union was represented. .... Army
surgeons are to clean up Vera Cruz
and make the city sanitary. under di-
rection of Surgeon General Gorgas Of
the army. 1t is rumored in Wash
ington that Secretary McAdoo will
soon quit the presidents cabinet, and
will probably be appointed an ambas-
sador to a foreign country or made
chairman of the Federal reserve bank
board. 49,. The United States senate
on Saturday struck from the agricul-
tural appropriation bill the item pro-
viding for free distribution Of seeds.
Condemned prisoners sent to Sing Sing
are all asking to be put in the lucky
CELL" occupied by Lieut.. Chas Becker,
who is now having retrial in the New
York courts.