Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-12-08


delphia, with food supplies for the
Belgians, reached Rotterdam, Friday,
having safely passed through the mine
| strewn waters Of the English channel.
..... The Liebler company, one OF the
big theatrical producing concerns Of
New York, has been forced into bank
ruptcy with liabilities Of s325,O00 and
| assets Of $500, ,000.. Col. Chas. Alex
ander, a millionaire business man uf
Providence, R. l., Is held under $500
bail bond, charged with violation Of the
Mann white slave act. The prosecut-
ing witness is Miss Jessie Cope Of Los
Angeles, Cal. Col. Alexander says 1t is
case Of plain blackmail. go. Because
Of the disclosure of deficit of 81, 300,-
900 in the financial income Of the city
the nine members Of the city council
Of Pittsburg, Pa, have agreed to re-
duction Of their salaries from $500 to
| SIS. 500 and recommend reduction Of SAL
aries Of all city employees, 10 to Is per
cent. The North German Lloyd
liner Prinz Friedrich Welhelm, which
had been interned at Bergen, Norway,
since the breaking out Of the war, Is
reported to have drifted ashore during
a heavy gale, and is now fast on the
shore sands. The news Of the loss
Of the British warship Audacious
which was lost off the Irish coast on
October %, was first printed in London
papers on Friday. having been copied
from American papers received there
...... While chasing a hog near Sun
bury, Pa, Friday. Jefferson Lenker
who was trying to stab the hog,
stumbled over a rabbit and fell, run
ming the knife he carried. into his alb
domen, up to the hilt, infiicting fatal
wound. 80. Incoming vessels landed
2,400 United States marines at the
Philadelphia navy yard from Vera
Cruz, during Thursday and Friday. -.
The chairman of the American Com
interview in London, Friday, said that
the relief stations in Brussels alone are
feeding $1,000 babies each day. He also
said that there are 100000 destitute
people in Belgium, absolutely depen-
dent on outside help. The Agamem-
non, a relief ship, sailed from New
York, Friday, for Rotterdam, with q
500 tons Of food supplies on board.
million pounds Of rice and $4,000
pounds of condensed milk were in.
cluded in the cargo which was valued
at $2O6, 900. A relief vessel for Belgium
was due to sail from San Francisco,
Saturday, with food cargo, valued at
s275, ,00O.. :. &. Smith & McNel's restau-
rant and hotel, one Of the oldest eating
houses Of New York, located at Wash
ington and Greenwich streets for more
than go years, made an assignment
Friday. Grain takings on the Chi
cago market last week, for export to
Europe, reached a daily total Of ST.
0O0, 900. An Oklahoma Oil and gas
man says that fully 200 100000 cubic
feet Of natural gas is going to waste
every day in the gas fields Of that
n
making no effort to prevent the loss.
Four Louisville, KY, gunmen knocked
at the door Of Toledo, o., man,
Thursday night, and when he opened
the door the gunmen shot him dead
The wife Of the dead man grabbed his
pistol and fired, killing one Of the gun
men. -. The total vote cast in the re-
cent gubernatorial election in New
York was 1.439,969, Of which Whitman
for governor, received 6S6.701.
Walter Johnson, a baseball pitcher,
will next year be with the Chicago
Federal league team and it is said his
salary will be $4,000 for the season..
Elk Secretary Of State Philander G..
Knox, who recently returned to the
practice of law at Pittsburgh, Pa, has
been retained by the Thaw family to
represent Harry K. Thaw, before the
United States supreme court. Mr.
Knox will argue that Thaw has been
declared insane by the New York
courts on five different occasions, that
an insane man cannot be charged with
crime, and cannot be eXtradited from
New Hampshire as an insane fugitive.
In an interview given out two
months ago, but suppressed until Fri
day, Rear Admiral Mahan, who died
few days ago, is quoted as follows:
There is only one result possible.
Germany will be beaten and the allies
must win. My only regret is that Italy
seems to be sitting on the fence un-
conscious apparently of the great role
she might have played" The French
seat of government, for the past two
months at Bordeaux, is to be trans
ferred to Paris, on December 22d. .....
The Women's Social and Political I'm
ion (suffragettes) Of England, is ac-
lively engaged in recruiting for the
British army and is reported as being
quite successful. 800. In a whirlwind
campaign to raise funds for the Boy
Scouts of Philadelphia last week, $55,-
120 was raised in three days. ..... john
Chimielewski, aged 21, was hanged at
Scranton, Pa. Thursday, for the muir
der of a policeman. At Moyamenslngg g
prison, Philadelphia, the same day
VIM. Abel, white, aged 3S, was hanged
for numbering a child. After this date
Pennsylvania will use the electric chair
for executions. Norfolk, Va, was
visited Saturday by the severest storm
the city has experienced since 1888.
| There was much damage to shipping
| interests and many Of the streets were
inundated. According to figures made
| public last week by sport writer VINO
| tabulated the seasons records, thirty
nd in
| ed by baseball during the season just
closed AN Illinois grand jury has
indicted Police Captain John j. Halpin,
Lieut.. John H. Tobin, veteran OF the
police department and Walter OBrlen,
| a detective all members Of the Chicago
police department, on charge OF brlb-
cry. 800. "A London dispatch of Satur-
| day says all the members of the Portu-
guese cabinet have resigned. Juan
| ISidro JimineZ was proclaimed presl-
dent of the Dominican Republic, Sat
| urday. :. The st. Louis, Mo-, Chapter,
u. D. c., unveiled a monument in that
| city last week in memory of soldiers
| and sailors of the Confederacy. The
schooner William Donnelly, laden with
| coal, foundered in the Chesapeake Bay,
Saturday. Two of her crew were
drowned. -. .Chas. w. Morse, the for
/ mer banker who has been rehabilitat-
ing his steamship properties announced
Saturday he was about to start a
| steamship line to Bermuda under the
American flag. Sir John Henry
Crichton, fourth earl Of Erne, and
| grand master of the Orangemen in
| Ireland, died in London, last week. -.
About $4,000 flowers raised in the
| White House conservatories at Wash
| ington to be used at social functions
now abandoned, will be distributed IN
the homes Of the poor and in hospitals
in Washington, this year. Miss Mar
| garet Wilson, daughter Of the presi-
| dent, will distribute the flowers.
Stonewell Jacksons boyhood home, q
frame structure near Weston, w. Va,
| was destroyed by fire last Thursday
night The American Public Health
association held it's annual convention
| in Jacksonville, Fla, last week. Ro-
chester ~ Y, was selected as the next
meeting place. ....... According to the
official canvass Of the votes recently
completed, statewide prohibition car
ried in the general election in Colorado
by majority of 1873. AT the
funeral Of Richard r. Levin, buried in
| Chicago, Saturday, Miss Maud NJ.
Gregg drew a revolver from her muff,
shot herself and fell into the open