Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-01-13
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George r. STduudii, ehC oio'SSs AAs~~-
carrier in the United States, retired
from service at Binghampton, n. u
Friday, after serving since 1855. His
trips as driver of a mail stage aggre-
gate $4,000 miles and his pay from
the postoffice department aggregated
$4,000. 80. There are 500 students
at the Georgia agricultural college at
Athens, who are studying farming.
-. Ralph Lopez, the notorious
Utah bandit and outlaw. is reported
to have been seen in Los Angeles,
CAL, within the past few days.
In the province Of Soldau, East Prus-
sia, Friday, family Of father, mother
and FIVE children were found with
their throats cut, and gas turned on.
Poverty is supposed to have driven
the parents to kill their children and
then commit suicide. ..At Ham
burg, Germany. Friday. city police
man killed his three daughters ana
then himself, following family quar-
rel. Two persons were killed and
twenty six injured when a Georgia
Florida and Southern train jumped
from a trestle near Cordele, Ga, FRI
day morning. 4. q. Mexican rebels have
seized 800 miles OF the Kansas CITY,
Mexico and Orient railway and are
now operating trains over it......A
movement has been started at Nash
Vile, Tenn, to raise fund Of 11,ooo'-
600 by popular subscription, to erect
a memorial to General Andrew JACK
son, the hero Of the battle OF New
Orleans, fought on January y, 1919.
80. The new Catskil aqueouct,
which Is to supply New YORK CITY
with water, was practically completed
Saturday morning, when a final blast
of dynamite was exploded at 149th
street, 400 feet underground. The
work will require nearly year ror
final completion, and will have cost
the city $l62,0O0, 900, and required the
labor of $4,000 men, and cost the
lives of nearly four thousand. When
in full operation the big aqueduct VIII
deliver 5O0,000,000 gallons OF water
daily. Because Of the operation
of the new eugenics law in Wiscon-
sin. Milwaukee furniture dealers say
their business has been ruined. During
the first nine days Of January, the
marriage license clerk Of Milwaukee
issued only five licenses. Previous TO
that he had been issuing twenty-nve
or more daily. -. Farmers In the
vicinity of Greenville, Tex, propose
to build a railroad eight miles long,
to haul their products to market.
They say they can build the railroad
at less cost per mile than they can
build hard roads Of the type approved
by the state department Of highways.
BY the laundering OF a cutter
of the battleship wyoming, In Hamp-
ton Roads, Friday, four of the sixteen
men on board were drowned. :. by
the operation of the new child labor
law in Pennsylvania, telephone COM
panies at Pittsburgh have dispensed
with the services Of girls as night
"centrals," and replaced them with
young men. .....J. M. Foster, mil
lionaire of Browns Mills, N. j., mas
been arrested at Mobile, Ala, on war
rants charging violation Of the Mann
white slave law. -. Eugene II. Grace,
Of Newman, Ga, VINO two years ago
was shot by his wife, Mrs. Daisy
Ulrich Opie Grace, and so injured
that he had since been an invalid, died
at his home at Newman, yesterday.
At the time Grace was shot, physi-
clans predicted his death almost
hourly, but to the surprise Of every
body, he continued, to live and al
though every effort was made to help
him by surgical operations. his case
was hopeless. His widow Is living In
Philadelphia Twelve coal miners,
five of them white men, were killed
by a gas explosion at Rock Castles,
Ala, Saturday morning. 49,. Rail
road workers in the Transvaal and
Orange Free States, South Africa,
have gone on a strike and tied up
traffic in those two provinces. Fear
ing trouble, the government authori-
ties of South Africa have issued or
ders for the mobilizing Of $4,000 citi-
zen soldiers. .... In testing new
aeroplane parachute at Los Angeles,
Cal, Friday, a young woman stepped
from a machine while $50 feet above
the ground and landed without in
jury. -. "A moving picture actor was
badly injured by a tiger near st.
Augustine. Fla, Friday, while taking
part in the production on an "Afri-
can" wild animal picture. ..- After
q desperate fight with attendants and
guards, $50 insane patients OF a Chi
cago asylum were removed from the
building Friday night, on account OF
fire. The railroads Of the United
States last year built 3,071 miles OF
new track, and 1858 miles Of second
track. Railroad car builders turned
out 207,684 freight cars, 3,29S pas
senger cars, and the locomotive build
ers turned out 5,3S2 new locomotives.
all Of which figures show a decided
increase over the outturn Of 1912....