Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-01-27
MERE MENTION

The National City Bank, of New
YORK the largest institution Of its kind
in the country, is to enter the Federal
reserve system to be created by the
new currency law, according to re-
ports given out Friday. This Is the
bank that 1t was rumored severai
weeks ago would give up its natlonai
bank charter because OF dissatlstac-
ton with the then proposed currency
bill. Mr.. and Mrs. Francis b. Sayre
returned to Washington, Saturday, al
ter a bridal trip through European
countries. :. Ten well known claZehs
of Terre Haute, Ind, were indictea py
a grand jury on Saturday, Tor eiectloh
frauds in a recent municipal eiection'
The attorney general OF Arkan
Gas has begun suits against six cotton
o;I comnanies doing business In tnat
state alleging membership In a trust
to control prices The fines asked 1or
total s4,215,00O, against each OF the SIX
cornnanies Lewis Davis, negro,
was hanged at Dublin, Ga, SATURDAY,
for the murder of his wife nine years
apo P. Eggleston or New Lon
dom Conn. has returned to the clerk
~ the court at Fairfax Court House
Va the will Of Hanna washington,
and other papers stolen from FalrlaN
at the time the will Of Martina Wasn-
ington was stolen during the war. MI.
Eggleston says that he did NOT kn1m Nv
the documents were stolen until ne
read of efforts being made to recover
the Martha Washington will from Mr.
Ip Morgan. General V1ctoranla
CarranZa, of the Mexican Constltu-
tionalist forces, has issued a decree
AGAINST Chinese entering the state OF
Sonora, declaring that the Chinese are
"human leeches and q universal mel
ace" Secretary Daniels and ofn-
GERS of the navy are considering
nronosition for the development OF
government oil lands in Oklahoma,
california and Alaska, for the purpose
of supplying warships with fuel OIL IN
lependent Of the oil companies. ;....;;
According to figures recently gatnele,u
bv the secretary Of state OF New YORK
there are 1.s19.7S9 motor cars in use
tbrouehout the world, Of which the
United States has 1,127.940. Accord
ing to figures announced by the inter
nal revenue department, the American
naonle consumed 10000, 900 gallons OF
iiouors and smoked 4,090, 300, 900 ci-
CARS and S,711.0OO,000 cigarettes dur
ing the six months ending December
31 Two lawyers and ten New YORK
merchants, forming an alleged Dank
ruptcy ring" have been lndlcteo py
Federal grand jury. The lawyers are
charged with schooling the merchants
as to how to dispose OF tnelr sIocks
make way with the funds received,
answer questions in the bankruptcy
nroceedings, and otherwise make a
farce of the bankruptcy laws. 1t Is al
legged that these bankruptcy frauos
annually total over $40 900, 900. .Paul
Chavaudier DeValdrome, the French
diplomatic agent at Tangier. Morocco,
was murdered by his cook during tne
progress Of an official dinner on FIJI
day.A gang Of automobile thieves,
thirty-one in number, who have peen
operating the past two years In NeW
York, Connecticut, New Jersey anu
Pennsylvania, is being rounded up py
the authorities Of those states. 10
alleged that the police got their nrst
Tin as to the gangs operations from
Young girl who had quarreled with
one Of the thieves. -. The New Jer-
sew court Of errors and appeals has De
clared the Wilson jury law, passed py
the New Jersey legislature since MT.
wilson became president, to be con-
stitutional. Edward Shouse. a WINS
ton-Salem, N. c., man on Fr1day
broke the worlds egg eating record,
devouring % raw eggs in less than
minute. The previous minute 1ecoru
was "a eggs. .... William A. Dorr' OF
Stockton, Cal, who killed George r.
Marsh al Lynn, Mass, about a year
400 has been sentenced to the electric
chair during the week beginning
March %. Dorr is alleged to have tax
en- the aged Marsh on an automoplie
ride and killing him, threw his BODY
into q swamp, hoping to secure part
of Marsh's estate.