Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-07-21
TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1914.
MERE

bubonic plague was found at New Or
leans, La, on Saturday when the III
ness of l0-year- Helen Zoell, was
diagnosed as plague. Fire was as
covered on the steamer Massachusetls
shortly after she left her pier In New
York, on Saturday. The fire, whlch was
in the engine room, was eXtlngulsheu
bv the crew of the vessel, with the as
sistance of New York fire boats. .......
Governor Stuart of Virginia, has re-
ceived from Mrs. Ella Granger Grimm,
of Detroit Michigan, large banner OF
Confederate design, taken from cadets
Of a Virginia Military school during the
Civil war. Mayor Ainslie of Richmond,
Va, on Saturday told Lieut.. H. E. Par
sons of the U. S. Navy, in police court,
that Richmond police would never ar
rest another navy deserter until the
lieutenant had apologiZed for state
ment he had made that sailors on
leave were bounded in Richmond.
Three alleged deSerters were released
at Saturdays session Of police court:
.... The international encampment OF
the Uniform rank, Knights OF Pytnlas'
was opened at Terre Haute, lnd., yes
terday. More than 5000 Knights are In
camp. Secretary Of War Daniels
has returned to Mrs. Rosa Kenny
Winston of Windsor, n. c., ring
which her father, the late DR.. Kenny
lost on the historic ship Constellation
at the close of the Civil war. DR.. Ken
ny had predicted that the ring would
be recovered when the ship was over
hauled Thirty thousand textile work.
ers in the district of Forst, Prussia,
have been locked out by their employ
ers because of strike of 125 fullerS.
Four Japanese naval officials OF high
rank, have been sentenced to prison for
forging documents and bribing Japan
ese naval officers in connection with
the allotment of construction contracts.
...Rev. Louis r. Palmont, promi-
nent temperance worker of Detroit,
Mich, is missing and his friends fear
foul play. A reward of $1,000 has been
offered the person or persons who can
locate the preacher Brig. Gen. AL
bert L. Myer died at his home in New
York Saturday, Of paralysis. He was
6S years Of age. His period OF service
in the United States army extended
from 1865 to 1910. Delegates to the
annual convention Of the Young Peo-
pies Christian Union which has been
in session at East Liverpool, Ohio, have
selected Los Angeles, Cal, as the place
of the next meeting. ... Gen. Villa has
given out statement in which he says
Mexico will be represented at the Pan
ama-Pacific exposition at San Fran
cisco, next year. ...... Edward DAVIS,
IOTIneTlS d IllIllSlcI, HO" Oil dSlOi, uS
clares that he will bring suit against
Governor Brewer Of Mississippi, for the
alienation of his wife's affections. Gov
ernor Brewer declares that he knows
neither Davis nor his wife, Adele
Blood. Representative Good Of Iowa,
has demanded that Secretary McAdoo
be removed for using revenue cutters
for weekend pleasure trips. The con-
gressman charges that the secretary Of
ha oOf pn1p N nnfnrpa
the revenue cutter service laws but
that he openly violated them. -. .Moir
Bros, manufacturers of Burlington,
Ia, have begun injunction proceedings
which would forbid caliope music on
excursion steamers going up and down
the river near their plant. The plain
tiffs declare that the caliOpes play tan
go music and that twenty Of their girl
employees refuse to work. ..... After
thirty-two years service on the Hud-
son river the steamer Kaaterskill was
burned at Athens. n. Y, last week for
the benefit of a moving picture play.
A Wilkesbarre, Pa, man has been be-
queathed $4,000 by a man to whom he
gave aims ten years ago. ...... Heavy
storms on the North Sea during the
past few days have heavily damaged
German shipping. Several losses Of men
and ships have been reported. Mar
tin f. Hall, aged 79, and father of nine
teen children, was married to Miss
Cora Faughn, aged 10, by Justice Of
the Peace Hall, at Clarkesville, Tenn,
on Saturday. -. Discovering that she
had lost her purse containing $25, Mrs.
John Dalton, aged 55, Of Farnum, Neb.,
dropped dead in her seat on q Chicago
and North Western train, Saturday.
The Presbyterian church Of the Cove
nant of Cincinnati, proposes to build
a "courting parlor" to its church. The
parlor is for the benefit Of young men
and women who do not live at home.
According to estimates, California will
this year produce $4,000, 900 gallons of
wine and 100000 gallons Of brandy.
AnDroXimately 100000 will be re-
allied. :. Rather than face trial in the
Buncombe county court, Blanche Jones
an 1S-year- old girl, attempted suicide
at ASheville, y. c., Saturday, by swal-
lowing several grains of bichloride of
mercury. The girl is in a precarious
condition. Mrs. LuCilla F. HaineS,
81, Of Camden, n. j., who has been
blind ten years, had her sight restored
during an electrical storm in Camden,
last week. ..... Jake Holbach rounded
out his 103rd birthday in Philadelphia.
Saturday, by eating a half section Of
cherry pie. Holbach, who is farm
hand, is still active, and has been en-
ployed on the same farm 81 years. -.
Fire, started by an explosion in fur
niture store in Cleveland, o., Saturday
morning, destroyed the block in which
the building was located. Former
Dictator Huerta of Mexico, is quoted as
saying that his greatest ambition in
life is to meet Francisco Villa on the
battlefield. .... The trial of Nine. Call
lauX, wife of the former French pre-
mier, for the murder of NJ CASTOR Cal
mette, editor Of the Figaro, was begun
in Paris yesterday. The trial is eX
pected to last five days. A straw vote
taken by Paris newspaper, was three
to one in favor of the woman. Ger
many's leading surgical specialists
have abandoned the use Of radium as a
cure for cancer and are confining
themselves to the use Of Roentgen
rays. Five thousand members of the
Masonic craft on Friday, held a cele
bration at Niagara Falls, Ont, to COM
memorate 100 years of peace between
the United States and Great Britain.
BY order of court, a Pittsburgh, Pa
trust company has turned over to at
tOrneys for Harry X. Thaw, S160,773
the accumulation of his income since
he was declared insane by the New
York courts. 80. The Democratic house
caucus has chosen E. Yates Webb, Of
North Carolina, as chairman of the ju-
dietary committee to succeed Repre-
tires to become n Federal Judge. An
lSmOnthS- old child died in the isola-
tiOn ward of a Philadelphia hospital.
Friday. The attending physician had
diagnosed the trouble as 'diphtheria."
A few minutes before the child died a
bean was dislodged from the child's
throat. Mrs Eva ]. r. Kinkaid, a
trained nurse, is under arrest at Au-
burn, Cal, charged with numbering
Mrs. Katherine Bluett with poison. in
order to collect $4,000 life insurance
on the life of the latter. ...... Not less
than 1000 persons are homeless in ST.
Petersburg. Russia, the result of fires
that swept through the quarter of the
city inhabited by working people on
Thursday and Friday. The Canadian
government is having trouble at Van
couvcr, b. c.. over the question Of the
landing of HnduS at that port Cana
dian feeling against the ASiatics is
running high. ........ Bombs from two
French army aerOplaneS destroyed n
mountain stronghold of Rata tribes
men in the mountains Of Morocco, last
week. Many of the tribeSmen were
killed and wounded. ......A New York