Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-09-08
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1914

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sons were injured in various kinds of
accidents. The Pennsylvania and
other railroads entering Chicago,
have indefinitely postponed project
to build a 65,000,000 union station
in that city. The condition of the
money market is assigned as the cause
of the postponement. The state
OF Colorado last week, sold 10000
acres of 100000 acres of land recent
| ly thrown open to settlement. The
land was sold in lots of 100 acres
each and with the proviso that the
| land was to be put under cultivation
at once. The health department
of Philadelphia has appropriated
$4,000 for the destruction of rats in
: that city and offers five cents each FOR
! live rats and cents each for deau
ones. Many rats are being brougnt
| in to the receiving station. .SlX
| officers and employees OF the Capltal
CITY Dairy company of Columbus, o.,
have been indicted by Federal grand
Jury on charges of being engaged in
the unlawful manufacture and sale OF
artificially cOlored olemargarlne on
which no tax was paid. The govern
men claims $2,000,000 in taxes. .....
Because people of Atlanta, Ga. have
begun a movement with the idea OF
having all men in southern towns who
can do so, to each buy a bale of cot
ton at 10 cents pound and store the
bale in a warehouse for one year, in
Atlanta on Friday, 301 bales were
bought under the plan for holding
the price of cotton up."..... In
motorboat race on the Niagara river
on Friday, one of the boats attained
speed of 40 miles an hour. Gen.
Venustiano Carranza, temporarily in
charge of the Mexican government:
is officially styled First Chief OF
the Corstitutionalist army" and not
provisional President. .....W. l..
Bonney, a New York aviator, fell
from a height of 1000 feet at Belle
forte, Fa., Thursday. He jumped
from his machine when 40 feet from
the ground. Although badly bruised.
he was not fatally injured. 49,. Ma
nilla, P. l., was flooded last week
following torrental rains covering
period of a week. Eight lives, in
cluding one American, were lost: -;
Five girls and one boy were killed
near Schenectady, N. Y, Thursday,
by the caving in of sandbank.
The Red Cross relief ship Hamburg,
sailed from New York, yesterday
afternoon. ... The japanese diet
has been called by the mikado TO con-
vene tomorrow to decide on Japan's
war programme "A fleet of four
teen warships of Japan are expected
to reach San Francisco within the
next day or two. Nose Johnson,
a negro desperado, was publicly
hanged at Bay Springs, Miss, Thurs
day. More than 1000 men, women
and children witnessed the execution
Senator Burton of Ohio, is lead
ing a determined fight on the rivers
and harbors bill, generally termed the
pork barrel" bill, which carries ap-
preparations of $50, 900, 900. :. Fifteen
of the 25 lumber companies doing
business in Missouri, have contribut-
ed $225,000 to the state in fines for
violation of the states antitrust laws.
The twenty-fourth case OF bu-
bonic plague has been reported at
New Orleans. ..." Eleven miners
were imprisoned at the Union Coal
Company at Adamson, OKLA, Friday
night, as the result of a cave-in. The
men were rescued. Cardinal Do
mino Ferrata has been appointed sec
retary to the new pope of Rome.
...... The Spanish line steamer
Montsuratt, reached New York, Fri
day. from Vera Cruz carrying l5O
French and so German reservists, all
going to join their respective armies.
-. William j. Milne, author or
many mathematical text books, died
at Bethlehem, \. H, last Friday, aged
II years. ..... Raesuli, the noteo
Moorish brigand and pretender to the
throne Of Morocco, is dead. Raesuli
was described as the most pictur-
esoue of modern bandits. -. A Con-
stantinople dispatch says that prayers
for the success of the Austria-Ger-
man armies have been ordered in all
Turkish mosques. This is the first
time on record that Mohammedans
have offered prayers for the success
of Christians 80. The United States
cruiser Tennessee, which some time
ago went to Europe carrying gold
for American tourists, is now acting
as ferry from Havre, England, to
English ports TO carry stranded Amer
leans. :. President Wilson has NOM
mated Martin Travieso, Jr., to be sec
retary of Porto Rico, and Manuel
v. DOmenech to be commissioner or
the interior of Porto Rico. .... Two
passengers on a Grand Trunk railway
train were shot near Detroit, Mich,
Saturday. by robbers. After obtain
ing money and valuables from other
passengers in the train, the bandits
escaped. -. DR.. Henry Jerome Stock
ard, formerly president of Peace In
stitute of Raleigh, and the best known
OF NOTln CdlOlllld pOSlS, ulSu III tSsti
eigh on Saturday. >. President Will
son has requested that American
flags on government property be
saluted on September ~, in memory
of the writing of the Star Spangled
Banner. by Francis Scott Key. .....
Taylor Scott, son of Judge r. {.
Scott of Richmond, was killed and
two others were seriously hurt in
an automobile accident near Warren
| ton, Va, on Saturday. -" Col. Roose-
welt is in Louisiana, making political
| speeches in behalf of the Progressive
party of that state. The Bureau or
Railway Economics, Washington, from
a compilation of the official returns OF
50 railroads operating in the eastern
| United States, shows that the total
operating income for the fiscal year
ending June 80. was $273,S00.,9 1888,
which is S74,002,5S1 less than for the
fiscal year 1918. senator PenroSe
of Pennsylvania, is reported to be the
star absentee of the senate. He has
been present only seven out OF 2lO
| Legislative days. Rev. Billy sun
days opened six weeks eVangellstc
meeting at Denver, Col, Sunday.
The total amount on deposit in the
postal savings banks of the country on
June 30. was $43,444,271, a gain of
more than $S,000.000 during the past
year. dispatch from Vera Cruz,
| Mexico. is to the effect that Henry
Clay Pierce, head of the Waters
Pierce Oil company. has about secur-
ed control of the National railways of
Mexico. Baltimore, Md, is this
week celebrating the Tooth anniver-
sary of the writing of the poem, The
star Spangled Banner. President
Wilson is being put forward as pos
sible recipient Of the next Nobel peace
| prize of 100000, because of his sue
cessful handling of the Mexican situa-
ton and the prevention of clash be-
/ tween the limited States and Mexico.