Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-10-23
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1914.

old Lee mansion, OCT. II, 1898. ne
was a farmer. The head or the
Greek church in Turkey, has been or
| dered to leave Constantinople by the
Turkish authorities. 80. .Kiao Chow
China was struck by typhoon this
week. Twenty Japanese sailors were
drowned. -. Argument in the Federal
governments suit to break up the
United States steel corporation into
| independent units on the ground that
their combination constitutes viola
tion of the antitrust laws, was De
gun in Philadelphia, this week.
| BY answering an advertisement IN the
Help Wanted" columns OF a New
York newspaper, G. G. Thompson or
| New York, secured a $4,000 year
lob this week. Mayor Mitchell of New
York, inserted the advertisement which
was intended to secure a third deputy
| commissioner of charities FOR that
city. Thompson was selected over a
| dozen politicians. .Fullback Cole
man of Central Of Kentucky UNIVERSE
| ty football team, was seriously lnJur-
| ed during a game with Vanderbilt uni
yersity at Nashville, Tenn, Tuesday.
Coleman suffered concussion of the
brain and will probably die. Traffic
| through the Panama canal was resum-
ed Tuesday, after being blockaded
week by landslide into Culebra cut.
. The French courts have order
ed the seizure of the premises and
stocks of eight large wine shipping
concerns in France, belonging to Ger
mans and Austrians and valued at
several million dollars. The in
ternal revenue Of the treasury depart
ment, this week, notified collectors
that hereafter income tax returns sup
posed to be false, must be sent TO
| Washington for investigation.
Judge Ben Hill of the Georgia superior
court, has handed down a decision to
the effect that a third degree" con-
| fession does not amount to anything
and is illegal. :. Nicholas Roose-
welt, a nephew Of the former president,
| has resigned an assistant professor
ship Of history at Harvard universl-
ty to go to Europe to be near the war.
..... King Victor Emmanuel of Italy,
has signed a decree reducing the i'm
port duties on cereals during the period
from October 20, to March 81, 19l5.:.:
Capt. E. E. Johnson, who commanded
the steamer Monroe, when she was
rammed by the steamer Nantucket,
Jan. 80, and sunk with forty lives on
board. has been eXhonerated OF all
blame in connection with the disaster.
Miss Pleasant Stovall, daughter
of the American minister to SWltzer-
land, will shortly enlist in the Red
Cross work on the battlefields Of Eu-
rope bomb was exploded in
the basement of an History apart
ment house in New York, early sun
day morning. The lower floors Of the
building were wrecked and several
persons were injured. The explosion
of the bomb is charged to the Black
Hand society .... Bandits deralled
Southern Pacific train near Broussard,
La, early Sunday morning. Fifteen
persons were injured, but the bandits
failed in getting any loot from the
passengers. -. Col. Theodore Roose-
Welt has put up $1,000 to finance an
expedition to South American forests
for the American Museum Of Natural
History. A commission which has
been investigating prison conditions in
Kansas, recommends that convicts be
allowed a sliding scale of wages, their
earnings to go to the families OF the
convicts. Colonel Henry Waiter
son of Louisville, KY, was the guest
of President Wilson at the White
House, Sunday -. Six persons were
killed and nine more or less injured IN
motor car accidents in Pennsylvania
and New Jersey, Sunday. ...... The
American Bar association held its an
nual meeting in Washington this week,
beginning Tuesday. Ex-President Taft
is the president of the association.
One million postcards, bearing mes
sage from Col. Roosevelt, are to be dis
tributed in Pennsylvania during the
next ten days, in behalf of Washing
ton party" candidates, including Gift
ford Pinchot, who is a candidate for
the United States senate as Pro-
gressive, against Boise Penrose, Re-
publican. and A. Mitchell Palmer,
Itch,
ment has placed an order with
Pottstown, Pa, factory for $4,000
dozen shirts. ..... VIM. j. Bryan is
making campaign speeches in Kansas
and Colorado this week. "A Chi
cago firm has taken an order from
one of the European belligerents for
$l,25O,000 worth of blankets and other
wooden goods Another firm has an
order for $4,000 dozen socks. Fol-
| lowing. n "Go-to-church" campaign
| 1000, 900 people attended church SER
vices in Greater New York, last Sun
day. Because of slack demand,
| 200 lead miners of Missouri. have
been thrown out of employment until
business improves the demand for
| lead. $500. The church of st. Charles
Borromeo, Catholic, New York, was
damaged $4,000 by an incendiary fire
| on Monday This is the third New
York Catholic church to be damaged
by bombs and fire within the past two
weeks Joseph Angilliotto of
| Brooklyn, y. Y, has been sentenced
to serve 40 years in Sing Sing prison,
on conviction for white slavery.
Chas. A. Whitman. Republican, claims
| that he will be elected governor or
New York over Glynn, Democrat, by
100000 plurality. During the fis-
cal year ending June 30, exports OF
American-made automobiles, engines,
parts. ETC., totaled S40,000,0OO.
THE value of California's principal
crops this year is estimated to total
$120, 900. 600. ... Steamboat one or
the most famous bucking bronchos
ever known in the west, was shot to
death at Cheyenne, Wyo., few days
| ago The broncho was never ridden
but once. ....J. + Duckworth, 81
years old, and father of 25 children,
lis of whom voted the Democratic
ticket. called on President Wilson,
this week. 80. George Il. Stallings,
the manager of the Boston National
league baseball club. worlds cham
pions, was the guest of honor at a
banquet given in Augusta, Ga. We'd
nesday night, by 200 of his boyhood