Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-12-22
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pointed judge Of Clay county. Mo. She
office in Missouri. 49,. The Norwegian
steamer Mormon, sailed from Savan-
nah, Saturday evening. laden with
$4,000 bales Of cotton for Genoa, Italy.
This was the largest shipment of cot
ton to leave Savannah this season.
.... Lieutenant Governor w. +.
O'Neill and twelve other officers and
employees Of the Indiana legislature OF
1913, indicted for signing and pre-
senting illegal claims against the
state, were on Saturday, acquitted OF
the charge Two French military
aviators were burned to death near
Paris last week, when their biplane
dashed to the earth and caught fire.
Secretary Of War Garrison has
asked congress for an urgent defici-
ency appropriation Of $554,371 for
transportation Of the army to Vera
Cruz, last summer. Otto Esenlohr,
manufacturer of the famous "Cinco'
cigar, died at his home in Philadelphia
on Saturday, aged 73 years. ..... VIII
Jones, negro was lynched near Fort
Deposit, Ala. last week. on a charge
Of criminal assault. .... An Amster-
dam dispatch says that Emperor Will
liam visited the wounded In the
hospital at Potsdam on last Satur-
day. r. E. Dunn and Thomas
Francis, killed by the Mexicans in the
province Of Sonora, who were at first
thought to be Americans, are now
known to be Englishmen. Assistant
Attorney General Delhanty Of New
York, says that he knows the men who
hired the assassins of Barnett Baff,
the poultry dealer who was shot down
in November, because Of his opposi-
ton to the so-called poultry ring, and
that he proposes to indict all Of them
..... Governor Earle Brewer Of Miss
issippi, few days ago pardoned
negro named Johnson who had been
dead for eighteen years. The negro
was sentenced twenty-five years ago
to long term Of Imprisonment. The
pardon was issued in compliance with
q petition, and when effort was made
to serve the papers. 1t was found that
the negro had been dead since 1895.
Jos. s. Ryan, moving picture actor,
was arrested in Philadelphia, Friday,
on a telegraphic advice from Los An
geles, Cal, where picture In which
Ryan appeared was being shown. A
man whom Ryan had swindled. re-
cognized him In the picture and learn
ed that he was employed by the Lu-
bin film company Of Philadelphia.
Pottsville, Pa. was visited by ST.
100000 fire Thursday. Losers Of prop
erty charge the loss to the fact that
the local water company did not nave
q sufficient supply Of water to hight
the fire and will enter suits for dam
ages. .....A Lancaster, Pa, child has
developed a case Of foot and mouth
disease, supposedly the result of
drinking infected milk .... The Brit
ish government has appointed Prince
Hussein Kemal to succeed his nephew
Abbas Hilmi, as khedive Of Egypt
The new ruler will take the title OF
sultan. Two hundred unemployed
men seized two food stores in Seattle.
Wash, Friday, and then paraded the
streets. "A Berlin census shows that
the population Of the city November
/, says a Berlin dispatch. .... Herbert
c. Hoover, chairman Of the American
commission for the relief Of Belgium,
says that there are 80 ships now
chartered or on the way to Belgium
with supplies for Belgian relief. The
commission Is feeding 1 100000 per-
sons. Mrs. Kate Cobb, for 36 years
an inmate Of the Connecticut state
prison, where she was sentenced for
life for the murder of her husband In
1879, has been pardoned. With her was
sentenced Wesley Bishop charged
with poisoning his wife. Bishop died
in the prison two years ago. Col.
George w. Goethals, builder Of the
Panama canal and governor Of the
canal zone Is on his way to New York
for an extended leave. He has been
succeeded temporarily at Panama. by
1t. Col. Chester Harding, engineer
corps U. s. army. 80. Richard Can
field. the New York gambler. who died
To- NJ rac,11t nf q fra rtnrp6
skull left an estate Of more than ST.
100000. ;. The national house Of rep
III to 159 adopted an amendment to
the legislative bill reducing the mile
age pay from 90 cents mile to actu-
al expenses Of members, their families
and dependents. This Is the under
standing that the senate will accept
the amendment. Two negroes John
Cobb and Edward Ruley, were con-
Friday of criminally assaulting white
girl. and were sentenced to serve 20
years each. The judge said he was
sorry he couldn't give them more. 49,.
The postmaster Of Philadelphia re-
ports that the European war has caus-
ed a decrease Of $4S.1S5.36 in the
amount sent abroad by money orders
as compared with the first fifteen davs
Of December, 1913. Henry G. Craft.
newspaper writer Ol view 1OIh 1uo
personal friend Of President Lincoln.
died in New York, Sunday. He was 81
years Of age. DR.. Richard watson
Jones, former president Of the Uni
versity Of Mississippi. died in Laurel.
Miss, Sunday. :. M. f. Evans. mayor
Of Warrenton Ca, and prominent law
yer, died suddenly last Sunday. The
United States battleship Tacoma or
dered to the canal zone in response to
Gov. Goethars request for warships to
maintain the neutrality Of the canal,
has arrived at Colon. Panama. Mrs.
Louise Waterman Carparenter. aged
10S years and four months, died at
Worcester, Mass. this week OF old
age. She was the oldest living men,
ber Of the daughters of the American
Revolution. The first coasting ac-
cident In Ohio. this season. occurred
at Steubenville, last Saturday, In
which three persons were killed and
two seriously wounded. Two boys
coasting down the street ran into a
train. William V. Cleary, town clerk
Of Hayerstraw, n. Y, was on Satur-
day acquitted of the charge of muir
dering his son-in-law, Eugene New
man. Cleary. who is prominent pol
itician, pleaded the unwritten law.
Many million dollars worth Of import
ed merchandise which has accumu-
lated at Vera Cruz, Mexico. on ac-
count Of lack Of transportation facili-
ties. were sold at auction there last
Saturday, under the laws providing
for seizure and sale after six months
storage.