Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-05-22
MERE m ENTION.


million dollars worth Of property has
been destroyed. Speaking to large
number Of Japanese and foreign jour-
nalists at Toxic, Japan, Tuesday even
ing, Count Shigluobu Okuma, premier
OF Japan, beseeched the press OF the
world to work for the removal Of mis-
understandings and suspicious between
the nations. The premier concluded
with the statement: America has no
enemy, so what is the use OF the for
tification Of the Panama Canal? .....
According to interests connected with
the Mexican Petroleum Co., Of Tampi-
co, operations are now going on at that
place unhampered. The company's en-
ployes are back on the property, and
oil is being shipped without Interrupt
ton. .... Twelve hundred children, in
one block, were found this week by
Chicago school census enumerators
The population is almost exclusively
Polish, and Louis Link, a Pole, Is the
largest contributor to the imposing to-
tai, he being the father Of IL children.
800. .Senor Jose Maria Lozano. minis.
ter Of communications and public
works in General Huerta's cabinet, has
resigned his office. ..... John r. Early,
the leper whose case has attracted ma
ton wide attention for a number Of
years, has escaped from the Diamond
Head quarantine station, near Port
Townsend, Washington state. .... The
Georgia railroad commission has au-
thorized the Georgia Railway and
Power Co., to issue bonds to the amount
of $50, 900, 900. .... James Woodsome, a
negro, was on Monday, lynched by a
mob at Gordonsville, Fla. The negro
was charged with criminal assault. -.
Mrs. Harriet Tice. who always claim
III lnN Oh hn i1Iy y,a1 nf f1ly
ems Little Nell" in that authors ia
nous novel, THE Old Curiosity Shop"
died recently. She was born in 1927
in house. which it has been declared
was the original Of The Old Curiosity
Shop. .Ex-S Senator Albert ]. Bev-
eridge, Progressive candidate for gov
ernor of Indiana, declared in recent
speech in that state that President
Wilson's Mexican policy ''is failure"
..... Former Senator Joseph B. Fora
ker of Ohio, has formally announced
his candidacy for the Republican nom
ination for senator from that state. -.
Posing as detectives. four men gained
entrance to a New York moving pic
ture theatre this week, made the
watchman a prisoner, handcuffed three
workmen, blew open the safe and got
away with $4,000 in cash. E. BY a vote
of III to 105 the Methodist Episcopal
general conference in session at Okla
homa City. Okla, has defeated the
proposal to give laity rights to women
members Of the church. .... The Pan
handle Of Texas, has been flooded dur
ing the past few days, and all railroad
traffic is demoralized. .... Evangelist
E. " Lamb, of East st. Louis, says,
Hesitation dancing is nothing less
than hesitation hugging." 80. Fire de-
Ton Paw 1yNln
ment plant at DeKalb, ILL.,, Tuesday.
There was no insurance. :. Judge Ben
B. Lindsay and delegation Of five
Colorado women, are in WASHINGTON,
to plead with President Wilson to keep
Federal troops in the strike zone Of
that state until the strike danger Is
past, claiming that civil war will fol-
low the substitution Of the militia for
the regular soldiers. 80. Sydney Drew.
publisher of the Suffragette. the Off
cial organ Of the English militant suf-
fragists, has been arrested for melting
the women to commit malicious dam
Of District No. 6, United Mine Workers
Of America, Of Ohio, went on strike
against the operators, Monday. The
operators closed the mines on April l,
and the move Of the miners Is simply
to put them on the offensive rather
than the defensive side Of the contro-
versy. -. Two women were killed and
five other persons were injured on
grade crossing at Gloucester CITY. Pa.
Monday. when an automobile was
struck by a passenger train. "A seat
in the New York stock exchange chang
ed hands Monday at s45.000. decline OF
S. 900 from the last previous SALE. -.
The Hay bill, providing for an aviation
and $50 enlisted men, passed the lower
house of congress, Monday. :. Charges
signed by 5000 union miners. have been
filed against Judge A. G. Dayton, OF
the Federal district court Of West Vir-
ginia. The case is in the hands Of a
congressional committee. Four Rus
sian electricians were killed near Que
bee. Canada. Monday, by coming in
contact with a wire carrying 50.0On
volts. The Chinese government wants
a United States army engineer to make
an examination Of the Huai river val
ley with a view to relieving flood and
famine conditions along that water
way. 80. Robert A. Leguia, vice pres
ident under a previous president. Is
laying claim to the presidency Of Peru.
by virtue Of secret congressional
election last Friday. Colonel Bena VII
des, who holds the presidency by vir-
tue Of a congressional election, also has
firm control of the Peruvian army.
Refugees arriving in New York from
San Domingo. describe conditions on
the island as far worse than are condi-
tions in Mexico. President Bordas Is
in a desperate condition. and desires to
leave the country with his loot, but his
army officers won't let him leave until
they are paid. AS a result Of 81 three
weeks evangelistic campaign by Evan
gelist Slough at Hazleton, Pa, there
have been 1887 converts. among them
the mayor and chief Of police Of the
city. ..... The state Of Mississippi has
begun antitrust suits against the cot
ton seed oil mills Of that state and de-
mands statutory penalties amounting
to nearly $50, 900, 900. The village Of
Alfred, Mich, was wiped out by for
est fire. Monday. ..... The agricultural
department has given "otice that the
serial numbers heretofore allotted to
manufacturers Of proprietary foods
and medicines are to be withdrawn dur
ing the year. Lots Of fraudulent claims
have been built on these serial num-
bers. .. Common pleas court No. 5. of
Philadelphia. granted forty-one di-
vorces Monday.
Columbia State, Friday: Immedi-
10 convention adjourned.