Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-06-05
York County Graduates.
MERE.MENIIQN.

MERE-MENTIoN.
The house on Monday by vote OF
207 to nothing, voted to exempt labor
unions from prosecution under the
Sherman antitrust laws. ....... .Lassen
butter or peak, in Shasta county, Cali
fornia, on Sunday awoke from its sleep
of centuries, and opened a new crater
on the north side, from which great
columns Of steam are issuing. The new
crater was formed by a great internal
explosion which covered the whole
mountain with rocks and ashes. .As
| a result of q months revival at Halle
ton, Pa, by Evangelist Slough, there
| were a total Of 3,242 professed CONVEX
sions . President Wilson's chauffeur
has been summoned to appear in police
court in Baltimore, for automobile
speeding. $50. The National Electric
Light association, with more than 5000
delegates In attendance, is in session in
Philadelphia. The delegates represent
more than $4,000, 100000 of invested
| capital. ..... The distilleries Of Peoria,
Ill.,, during the past thirteen years,
have paid the United States govern
IleIl StUo,fEO,oOl III hQuOl bcAC5''
California's 1914 barley crop Is estima-
ted to be worth $22,000,000. The crop
will probably total 100000 tons, the
largest on record. Senator Cum
Minis has been renominated for the Uni
ted States senate by an Iowa primary,
receiving majority OF $4,000 votes
over his standpat opponent. "A vote
Of all the engineers, firemen and en-
ginemen Of all the railroads entering
Chicago is to be taken on the question
Of q strike. The vote will include 72,-
900 men,. . Missouri has issued call
for 80, 900 harvest hands. .. st. Mary's,
one Of England's most historic church
edifces located at Wargrave, with
many priceless relics, was destroyed by
fire Monday, the work OF militant suf-
fragists.. The written record Of the
extradition proceedings in the case Of
Harry K. Thaw before the Federal dis
trict court in New Hampshire, reached
the United States supreme court Tues
day.. Three men Of the scout cruis-
er now on duty at Puerto Mexico, were
seriously injured Tuesday, when one Of
the vessels boiler tubes blew out.
Citizens of Lewes, DEL, on Tuesday un-
yelled monument commemorating the
bombardment Of Lewes, which occur
red during the war Of 1872. Georgia
suffragettes have struck snag. 1t has
DeeU IedTHtu lHdl Tic piSSd6C VI Oil
equal suffrage measure in Georgia
would inevitably give negro women the
right to vote. e...... Men prominent in
the affairs of the Holstein- -F'riesian
cattle industry, held two days meet
ing in Chicago, this week. .... Francis
NJ. Fowler, justice Of the peace OF
North Muskegon, Mich, proposes To
preach his own funeral. He has just
finished his funeral sermon and repeat
ed it into a photographic recording
instrument, so that at his funeral a
graphophone instead of preacher will
be used. ..... DIR. Arthur b. Smith, Is
on trial for his life for the third time
at Cleveland, Ohio He is charged with
numbering his wife so that he might be
free to marry a nurse who Is now MS
WIFE. Answering his wife's charge
of cruelty in her suit for separation in
White Plains, n. Y, A. w. Barber de-
clared she had taught their 2-year-old
child to offer up this prayer nightly.
God bless mamma and make papa
better man.. Edward K. Graham
has been elected president Of the Uni
versity of North Carolina, taking the
place Of Francis p Venable, resigned.
-. Capt. ]. o. Walkup, medical corps,
United States army, was Killed by
lightning near Fort Bayard, n. NJ, on
Tuesday. He was driving his automo-
bile. ... Sir William Wilcox, builder
Of the Assouan dam in Egypt has been
employed as consulting engineer by the
United States government. The New
York court Of appeals has unanimously
affirmed the action Of the court OF i'm
parchment in removing former Gov
ernor William SulZer. The eX-goVern-
or's counsel will take the matter TO the
United States supreme court. Geo.
A. Traylor, special agent of the depart
ment of labor at Washington, died sud
denly in Philadelphia, Tuesday, aged 62
years The United Presbyterian gen.
eral assembly, in session at New Cas-
tie, Pa, has rejected the proposed un-
ion with the Presbyterian church,
South Ernesto Asbert, eX-govern-
or Of Havana and Representative Arias
have been found guilty by an Havana
court of the assassination OF General
Arminde Rives, chief of the Cuban ma
tional police, in July Of last year.
Little Joe" Brown will run against
Hoke Smith for the United States SEN
from Georgia. 800. Womens
in New Orleans, are pro-
posing to boycott business who advo-
vate a law legaliZing race track gam
bling before the Louisiana legislature.
Col. Roosevelt, on his way to Ma
drid, Spain. to attend the wedding OF
his son, has been granted all the privi-
legeS or a relSnlnS monarch, Dy tHe
French government, when passing
that country. During the
year 1913 the life insurance companies
of the United States and Canada, is
sued policies to a total amount Of g.
$3.50, 900, ,000 The payment OF death
claims and endowments totaled $4lS.-
300. 900. Delaware farmers are now
the biggest strawberry
crop ever grown in that state. Pickers
are earning SO to S. a day gathering
the fruit Three Seneca Indians,
arrestnl for illegal fishing in streams
of a western New York county, put up
as a defense a treaty made with the
United States government in 1897,
giving the Senecas perpetual fishing
rights to the streams of the county,
and were Immediately released. A
erected to John Endicott.
one Of the early American colonizers,
was unveiled at Weymouth, England.
Tuesday ...... John Early, the fam
Gus leper. who escaped from a leper
colony in Washington state some
weeks ago, created a panic in a fash
onable Washington, d. c., hotel, on
Tuesday, when it was discovered he
had been a guest of the hostelry for
several days. .....A withdrawal or
der by which President Taft, in 1909,
exempted from entry, government
ands in California. variOusly estimated
as worth up to a billion dollars, has
be en- declared invalid by the Federal
district court sitting at San Francisco.
The decision gives the Standard and
oil companies undisputed pos
session of the property.