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

Chief of Police Rica, in 1912.
| The congressional bridal gift to Miss
Eleanor Randolph Wilson on the oc-
casion Of her marriage to Mr.. McAdoo
at the White House Thursday. is a
six piece silver tea service. -" Last
Friday was the sixteenth anniversary
of Dewey's victory at Manila.
Philadelphia cotton yarn brokers re-
port that the yarn market is COM
| pletely demoralized because of over
production and that they have no
hope of better times until there is a
sharp curtailment of production.
| The Chicago Record Herald, one Of
Oldest and most influential papers of
that city, last year ran at loss OF
100000. The paper has bonded in
debtedness Of $2,000,000. Victor
Lawson, who is now managing the pa
per for the stockholders, has offered
the bondholders ten cents on the dol
! lar for the bonds Lawson's losses in
the paper total $4,000, 900. ..... Two
| Springfield, Mo-, men have bought
| 10000 acres Of land in that state and
will establish a cattle ranch. ......
Although nearly &C years have passed
since the Mexican war ended in July,
1S4S, the government is yet paying
pensions to / 1,442 veterans of that war,
as well as to 5,123 widows of vete-
rams Of that campaign. total OF
1920 regulars and volunteers were
called for service in Mexico. Pres
ident Wilson has nominated Henry d.
Clayton, chairman of the house judi
ciary committee, to be a Federal
judge in Alabama. In case of his con-
firmation he will probably be sue
ceeded as chairman of the house ju-
dietary committee by Congressman E.
Yates Webb of the Ninth district Of
North Carolina. The Duke of Ar
gyll, Son-in-law of the late Queen
Victoria, and former governor gener-
al of Canada, died at East Cowes,
England, Saturday night, aged 69
years. Robert Doggett and Jack
Snow were burned to death Saturday,
in a fire that destroyed a number Of
buildings at Oak Creek mining camp,
Colorado. Announcement Of the
engagement of James Spencer Nor
gan, son of j. P. Morgan, to Miss
Louise Converse OF New York, was
made last Saturday. ...... Mrs. Clara
Beckmeyer, a German woman, was
killed by a mob on the streets of Mex
leo City, April 27th. She was thought
by the mob to be an American. ......
The German government is to send
out a commission to investigate con-
ditions in the German colony of Kam-
German colonists are trying to drive
out all Africans and are using the
most cruel and inhuman methods.
The public health service department
at Washington, has sent out warnings
against so-called "pellagra cures"
The service says that specimens of so
called cures" have been analyzed
and are of no value in the treatment
Of pellagra.. The senate on Fri
day, by vote of 81 to 20, killed Sen
ator McCumbers bill providing for the
Federal inspection and grading of all
grain entering into interstate COM
merce, and designed to establish uni
formity in standards and classifi-
cation. The navy department has
sent orders to recruiting stations to
accept no more applications for en-
listment at present. There are now
81 900 men in the navy. .."... North
Carolina shipments of strawberries to
northern markets have begun. The
strawberry crop Is unusually good this
year. While taking q pistol from
under her pillow in her home at Phoe-
nix City, Ala, last week, Mrs. w. M.
Moses accidentally discharged the
weapon, killing herself instantly.
Unadilla, Ga, school children were
thrown into a panic Friday, when a
shown them exploded. There was a
wild rush to get out of the school
building, several Of the children being
injured. No hope is entertained
for the recovery Of Madame Nordica,
the famous opera singer, who is Ill IN
Batavia, Jeffa.. .Shambrock w.,
Sir Thomas Lipton's new challenger
for the American yachting cup, will be
launched on May 25. Fearing that
the city will be overrun by crooks
| from all over the country, Jackson
Vile Fla, authorities have employed
| a number of detectives for service
during the Confederate reunion this
| week. ... German army authorities
have issued notice that any army Of
| ficer who communicates with matri-
monial agents relative to securing a
bride, will be dismissed from the SER
vice. .Kare Kempski, q Free
port, y. Y, business man, tired OF be-
| ing called a Jew, Hebrew and Polack,
has made application to the courts to
be allowed to drop the ski from his
name. "A two-wheeled gyroscope
car, weighing two tons, the invention
! of NJ. Shidowsky, Russion, has been
successfully operated in the streets or
London. James Maynard, a night
watchman of Duchess Junction, \. y,
was recently held up by two burglars,
who took his watch, revolver and
money, and made him divide his din
ner with them as well as heat coffee
| for them to drink. Six hundred
trading stamps was the only haul that
yeggmen who cracked the safe OF
| Clarence Barney, of Lake Oscawanna,
n. Y, last week, secured. In order 10
get revenge they wet the gummed
sides of the stamps and pasted them
univ RarnpV'S
store. Alfred Mower, arrested in
Storm King. n. Y, last week, charged
with wife desertion, says he left her
because she made him iron, bake and
wash. Seven thousand women
marched in a suffragette parade IN
Boston, Saturday. Among the SUI
frage marcherS were Mrs. Bernard
Shaw, Miss Lena Ashwell of England
and Mrs. MoritZ Barth of Colorado, as
| well as many other champions OF wo,
man suffrage" The American Reu
Cross society on Saturday sent SZ'ooo
| to Consul General Hanna at Monte
rev, Mexico, for the relief of wound
| ed Mexican soldiers. Last Satur-
day was suffrage day throughout the
| United States. Thousands Of women
suffragettes and hundreds of their
male sympathiZers. observed the day
| in parading, holding open air meet
ings, hearing suffrage talks, etc. .'..
Haw Lin Shuck, Chinese immlgra-
ton officer of the United States was
murdered by Chinese tong men in st.
Louis, last Saturday. 1t is said that
the murder of Lin Shuck will start a
tong war among Chinese in all the
| large American cities. Secretary
| Daniels, of the navy, announced Sat
urday that sailors and marines who
were killed at the occupation OF vera
| Cruz, will be honored with military
funeral services on the arrival OF their
bodies at New York. Major Gen.
| Daniel +. Sickles, commander OF the
third army corps at Gettysburg. died
at his home in New York. sunday
night, aged SO years. President
Wilson has appointed Richard Olney
of Boston: Paul NJ. Warburg of New
York; Henry \. Wheeler of chicago;
w. G. p. Harding of Birmingham,
| Ala. and DR.. 4. G. Miller of San Fran
cisco, as members Of the Federal re-
serve bank board. The other MEM
bers of the board will be VIM. G. Nc
Adoo, secretary of the treasury, ana
John Shelton Williams, comptroller or
| the currency. .... The Mexican Con-
| stitutionaliStS threaten to break the
oil reservoirs above Tampico and de-
stroy the city by fire if United States
| vessels enter the Panuco river. .The