Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-03-13
MERE.M ENTIoN.

The School Review, Chicago
school publication, Is advocating long
er day sessions and the abolishing of
summer vacations for public schools
claiming that vactions and short daily
sessions are an economic waste. ......
w. L. Upton, formerly an itinerant
preacher in Fannin county, Ga, Is un-
der arrest at Greely, Col, on a charge
Of making and passing counterfeit
coins. Upton has confessed his guilt
$500. VIM. ]. Cummins, one time head
of the defunct Carnegie Trust COM
pany Of New York, convicted nearly
three years ago Of the larceny OF $140,-
600, was taken to Sing Sing prison
from the Tombs on Tuesday to serve
a sentence Of not less than four years
BY appeals and otherwise Cummins
counsel managed to keep him out OF
conviction. Captain Cyril R Down
er, British army aviator, was killed
Tuesday, at Salisbury, England, by a
fall with an aeroplane. Thirty or
more persons lost their lives in St
Louis, Mo-, early Monday morning by
a fire which destroyed the building of
the Missouri Athletic club. ..r..... The
government Of Greece Is arranging to
place a loan Of s100,0 900 as a result
Of the enormous debt incurred during
the Balkan war. {. . The United States
supreme court on Monday refused to
review the case Of Frank M. Ryan and
the twenty-three other dynamiters
convicted with him. General Sou
ders, leader Of the Souders faction in
the famous Souders-Turner feud,
which is supposed to have ended twen-
ty-five years ago, died at Middleboro,
wv Monday uaaro Tho Oap
eral is reputed to have killed eleven
men. The New York state depart
ment Of agriculture is offering to find
work for all Of the thousands Of able
bodied men Of New York city who are
out of work and want it. The depart
ment offers transportation to rural
communities. 80. Florence, N. j., is
terror stricken on account Of an epi-
demic Of scarlet fever. There have
been ten deaths during the past ten
days and twenty-five persons are af-
flicted with the disease. In the neigh
boring village Of Roebling there are
nearly forty victims. :. AT Waco, Tex.
Monday, 5000 bales Of cotton, valued
at $4,000, were destroyed by fire. ..
A. 12-inch gun, under test at Sandy
Hook, N. Y, Monday bursted with ter
rife force. Several were injured. 80.
Germany is preparing to spend $685.
900 in undermining the artillery
equipment of the empire. The ex-
portable surplus Of the corn crop of
the Argentine Republic is placed r at
233,000,000 bushels, and Is offered on
the Chicago market at less than the
American grown corn. Talk OF
war between Russia and Germany has
caused panicky business on the Ger
man exchanges, as provincial invest
ors are throwing all kinds Of securi-
ties on the markets for immediate
sale. 80. The Patriotic League OF
French Women, Paris, has begun a
campaign against the growing tenden-
cy Of immodest styles in women's
clothes. "A Portland, Ore, judge
has sentenced w. c. Baker, a wealthy
club member, to five days on the
city workpile for automobile speed
ing in the city limit. Bert w.
Dickens, a carpenter, Is under arrest
conspiracy to kill the judges and pros
ecutors who are trying election frauds
cases. ....A police census Of Mil
waukee, Wis, shows that there are
only 1852 unemployed persons in that
city. 80. Publication Of the alleged
support of Senator Penrose for re-
election by the $4,000 votes controlled
by the Pennsylvania Liquor Dealers
association, has caused a storm Of un-
favorable criticism Of the senator and
his supporters. 800. "A second case Of
bubonic plague has developed in
Havana. The first victim died several
days ago. New York states real and
personal tax assessments for the year
1918, will total $11,393.730,
La Ceiba, the metropolis and princi-
pal seaport Of Honduras, was swept by
fire Monday and Tuesday. The entire
business section and more than 100
were destroyed, and several
lives lost. The property loss Is in ex-
cess Of 100000.