Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-04-21
MERE-MENTION,

The Norfolk and Western railway
has awarded to the Baldwin Locomo-
tive Works a contract to build forty
locomotives Of the Mallet type. at a
cost of 100000. .... .Waldemar jan
sen on last Saturday closed half CEN
tury of continuous service as clerk in
the office of the chief of engineers OF
the L. S. Army. The twenty-fourth
skeleton from what is believed TO nave
been an old Indian burying round, has
been uncovered at Niota, Ill. .Wo-
mems clubs of Jacksonville have be-
gun a movement TO organize state
Rescue Home system. ..... Nashville
Tenn has offered site for the erec-
ton of a theological seminary for col
ored Baptist preachers. There are =,
500, 900 negro Baptists in the United
States. Governor Hiram Johnson of
California, by proclamation has set
aside April 80, as "Raisin Day, on
which day he urges Californians to
"eat raisins morning, noon and night.
.Fifty-fo sophomores of La Fa-
yette college, Easton, Pa, were Sus-
pended last Saturday and seventeen
others put on probation because they
haZed freshmen. ..... This years peach
crop in Delaware is predicted to be the
largest in many years. .... Sir A. Con-
an DOYLE, the famous English author,
will visit the United States at an early
date. United States authorities last
Friday night suppressed the Chinese
lottery which has been in operation at
Colon, Isthmus of Panama. for some
time Fire last Saturday destroyed
the plant of the Alberta Lumber COM
pany of Vancouver B. c.. with a loss
of $500 900. ... The United States
transport Hancock with $50 marines on
board arrived at Tampico, Mexico.
Friday night. ..... Dynamite Johnny
OBrien. who gained fame as a filibus-
ter and a blockade runner in Cuba's s
revolutions, is critically i'll at his home
in Newark. n. J...... William Folsom
50 wears old. farmer of Brownsville,
Ind. last Friday shot his wife through
the heart and then committed suicide.
The shooting followed the refusal of
the wife to surrender her wedding ring
to the husband. .....A 100000 theatre
at Great Yarmouth, England was de-
stroyed last Friday by bomb thrown
by a suffragette. John SZori, Hun
garian, returned to Cleveland. Ohio.
last week after a six months visit TO
Hungary. Learning that his wife had
secured u divorce during his absence,
he killed her and then committed sui
wreck of the schooner Charles X.
Buckley. which went TO pieces off Mon
mouth Beach, n. j.. last Wednesday
night Because his wife refused TO
pay half the cost of a divorce suit he
had brought against her. John Luggy
shot the woman four times and then
killed himself .... DR.. j. r. ReitZel, a
prominent physician of High Point. n.
c.. was instantly killed last Friday
when the automobile he was driving
turned turtle. 800. More than $4,000.
900 pounds of tobacco have been sold
at auction on the tobacco floors OF
Winston Salem. \. c.. during the sea-
son which is about closed. Plans
have assumed definite form for the
celebration of the tiftieth anniversary
of the battle of Atlanta, Ga. The gov
ernors of the thirty-one states repre-
sented in the battle fought July %
1864. will be invited to attend the cele-
bration. Two thousand Mexican
Federals were defeated at Morales, last
Saturday by a rebel column. ......The
treaty between the United States and
Columbia is still hanging fire in the
senate. Governor John Nj. Slaton
of Georgia has announced his candi
dacy for the United States senate tc
succeed the late O. \. Bacon. 49,. Two
companies of coast artillery that were
practicing at Pensacola, have been or
dered to New Orleans. -. Mrs. Wood
row Wilson has announced May I, as
the date of the marriage of her daugh-
ter Miss Eleanor, to Secretary Nc
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