Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-04-10
MERE.MENTION.

Seven officers and ex- officers Of the
Sterling Debenture corporation, were
convicted in the Federal court Of New
York, Monday, Of using the mails to
defraud. Newman Erb, president
of several western railroads, figures
that since the interstate commerce
commission was given the power to fix
railroad rates in 1906, the market
value Of railroad securities has de-
clined three billion dollars, an amount
all the personal and real property in
the states of Alabama, Louisiana,
Florida, Georgia and South Carolina
combined. ....... The treasury depart
ment during the crop-moving season
of 1913, deposited $37,3S6,00O in 1913
banks in 2S states, for moving the
crops. These deposits were repayable
in installments, the last coming due
April l, 1914. The total amounts have
been repaid and Secretary McAdoo
says the government has a profit Of
$260,000 on the proposition. >. More
than 100000 men are out Of work at
st. Petersburg, Russia, the government
having ordered the closing Of the prin-
cipal factories Of the city. A hundred
thousand families are destitute. ......
Nine men were killed by a gas explo-
sion in a caisson on the new bridge
construction across the Mississippi at
Memphis, Tenn, Monday. :. Mrs. l.
M. n. Stevens, president of the Ma
tional Woman's Christian Temperance
Union, died at Portland, Me-, Monday.
Dow II. Druker, Republican, was
on Tuesday elected to congress from
the Seventh district Of New Jersey, to
fill out the unexpired term Of the late
Congressman Bremner, Democrat.
President Wilson exerted considerable
effort in behalf Of Jas. j. O'Byrne,
Democrat. Two Of a gang of six
bandits were killed in a battle with
cowboys at New Hazleton, B. c., on
Tuesday morning, just after the ban
dts had succeeded in holding up a
bank cashier and securing $1,100..
Although the women suffragists failed
to elect a single woman candidate in
the Illinois elections Tuesday, they
did succeed in carrying fifteen counties
for the prohibition forces and will put
800 saloons out Of business. The
agricultural department forecasts the
greatest winter wheat crop on record,
placing the indicated 1914 yield at
951, 100000 bushels. The crop condi-
tion on April l, was 95.6, or 11.5 bet
ter than the average condition on
April for the past ten years. .....
Pushed along by 63-mile wind, two
German army aviators on Tuesday
made the distance from Hanover to
Berlin, 160 miles, in one hour. .....
Jas. A. Gallivan, Democrat, was elect
ed to congress from the Twelfth dis
trict, Boston, Mass, Tuesday, to fill
out the unexpired term Of Mayor JAS
]. Curley, of Boston, resigned. .....
The sealing steamer Southern Cross,
with her crew of 173 men. has been
given up as lost. e. . Governor Glynn
Of New York, has refused to reprieve
the four gunmen, Frank Cirofici, Har-
ry Harowitz, Louis Rosenberg and ia
cob Seidenshner, convicted Of the slay-
ing of Herman Rosenthal, the gam
bier, and now awaiting execution a.
Sing Sing. :. Senator Theodore E.
Burton Of Ohio, has announced that
he will not be candidate for re-elec-
tion to the upper house of congress
Ex-senator ]. B. Foraker will be a
candidate. :. Mayor Mitchell has ap-
pointed Arthur H. Woods, a former
newspaper reporter, to be police COM
missioner Of New York city