Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-04-24
MERE M ENTION.

rev. ttdlpn w. IeQrlck, MISSION
ary Of the American United Presby-
terian mission in Egyptian Sudon,
died last Tuesday, from wounds re-
ceived in an encounter with a lion.
..... American flags decorating a
building in the Mexican quarter Of
San Antonio, Texas, were torn down
by Mexicans, last Monday night. .....
Sir Edwin Drowning-Lawrence for
more than forty years a member Of
the British parliament and who gain
ed celebrity by his works, Bosom in
Shakespeare" and ''The Shakespeare
Myth" died in London, last Tuesday.
...... .Porfiro Diaz, former president
Of Mexico, has gone to Monte Carlo
to recover from the after effects Of an
attack Of grippe. ..... The thirty
first annual conference of the Con-
gregational churches Of Florida and
the southeast was begun at st. Peters,
burg, Fla, Tuesday night. go. Hun
want to Join the United States army.
Large numbers Of them applied for
naturalization papers Tuesday, in or
der that they might enlist. "A
demonstration occurred at Appleton,
Wisconsin, last Monday night, when
more than one hundred students Of
Lawrence college marched through
the streets with bugles, drums
and dynamite torpedos, and gave the
college yell, mingled with cries Of
"avenge the fag!". News that
that the house had passed the reso-
luton authorizing President Wilson
to use armed forces to compel respect
to this country, was received with
much enthusiasm by theatre goers in
New York, Chicago and other large
nit irLt ne
myn Berry, Of the Merchants and
Miners Packet Nantucket, which
rammed and sunk the Old Domin-
ion liner Monroe off the Virginia
coast in January, has been found
guilty Of negligence by an investi-
eating committee, and his license re-
voked.. go. The king and queen Of
England and the English foreign Sec
retary. Sir Edward Gray, are visiting
in France. ...... Michael Maloney,
the man who recently attempted to
shoot Mayor Mitchell of New York.
will very probably be sent to the in
san asylum Of that state. ...... Char
les Sanford Santiago Prince, age
"A, noted logician, mathematician
and philosopher, died at his noun
tain home near Medford, Pa, Tues
day. -. Emperor Frances Joseph Of
Austria, is recovering from a serious
Illness. "A score or more Of MeXi
cans and Americans got into street
brawl in Tucson, AriZ, last Monday,
when a Mexican shouted, viva Huer-
ta.' The Mexican who caused the
trouble was beaten to unconscious
ness. .... The adjutant general Of
New York, on Monday afternoon, in
formed Governor Glynn Of that state
that $4,000 national guardsmen Of
New York could be put in the field
in ten hours If necessary. IA
cific train near Los Angeles, Cal, last
Tuesday and got away with twenty
packages Of registered mail. 80. The
three masted schooner, Sullivan
Swami, was foundered off Sandy
Hook, New York, last Monday. Her
crew was rescued. .... Robert E.
Lee, Of North Carolina, a grandson
of the Confederate commander-in-
chief. has been dismissed from West
Point for deficiency in mathematics.
He was the star shortstop and star
batter Of his team. .Huerta has
recently purchased several air ships
from the United States, and it is said
that he proposes to use them for the
purpose of dropping bombs on the
American ships. :. Pope Plus at Rome
is greatly interested in the Mexican
situation. He has requested the papal
secretary Of state to keep him inform
ed. Japanese officials at Toxic on
Wednesday, declared the attitude of
the Japanese government in the MeXi-
can situation was one Of strict neu-
trality. The German government
will not send additional war ships to
Mexican waters. .....L. Castellanous,
representing the Huerta government
at Gulfport, Miss. has cabled Gen.
Huerta rendering his services to the
federal government. 80. ti-Ameri-
can sentiment is rapidly developing
along the border. Numerous meetings
Of Mexicans were held Wednesday and
Thursday at which incendiary speeches
were made. James Clark. engineer,
was killed, and a number Of trainmen
and passengers slightly injured We'd
nesday night near Rockfish. Va. when
the engine and baggage car Of South
ern train No. 20 left the track and
turned over in a ditch.