Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-12-15
MERE MENTlON.

Charles Oerier. president Of the
French academy Of medicine, died in
Paris, Sunday. He was born In 1886.
..... Arthur Brisbane, editor Of the
New York Evening Journal, is criti-
cally Ill in Atlanta, Ga. Rev. Sedg-
wick Bidwell, said to be the Oldest
Methodist minister in the country,
died at Middlebury VT, Sunday. He
was los years old. The Norwegian
steamer Sigrum which left New York
Nov. 9, Is being detained at Newport,
Eng, pending a search by the British
authorities for contrabrand goods, sus-
pected to be in her cargo. Fire Sun
day night completely destroyed the
wharf at Skagway, Alaska. The loss
is estimated at 100000. .....A Phila-
delphia manufacturing concern has
received an order for 100000 worth of
steel shells and other munitions of
war from European power. ..... Two
men were frozen to death in Kansas
City, Sunday night. The weather has
been unusually severe in Kansas,
few days. -. .Wnen Conductor Black,
running a freight train from Sanford,
N. c., to Fayetteville, N. c., Saturday,
saw two fine young deer Looping beside
the train in a deep cut he became so
excited that he fell from the engine in
which he was riding. He landed on
the back of one Of the deer and man
aged to hold the animal until the train
was stopped, when the crew captured
it. go. An Italian warship has gone to
Beirut, Asia Minor, to protect Italian
Moore, recently shot at Waycross, Ga,
continues to live although his spinal
cord was completely severed by the
bullet Moore will never regain use
Of his lower limbs, but physicians say
he may live for years. The Ele-
monte, the first steamer to sail direct
from New York for a German port
since war was declared, left New York
Saturday. Fire in Birmingham, Ala.
Saturday. destroyed department
store valued at 100000. Joseph
Gamble, a farmer living near Wash
ington, Tenn, has been arrested
charged with beating his wife to death
with the butt end Of shot gun......
Clark L. Borton, a Germantown, Pa,
contractor, on Saturday decided to
risk his fourteen -year-old sons life in
surgical operation, In an effort to
cure the boys criminal tendencies. -.
Mrs. Frances OReilly Of Brooklyn.
has appealed to the New York su-
preme court for q divorce from her
husband, Dennis ORielly. She Is 6S
years old and he Is a.. Henry Sien-
kiewicz, author Of Quo Vadis," and
holder of the 1905 Nobel prize for lit
erature has been elected an honorary
member Of the Russian academy Of
sciences. -. Edward Crouch and his
wife, living in Warren county. Miss,
were killed In their home last Friday
night. The house was afterward burn
ed. No clue to the murderers has
been discovered. John Shequeen
aged l06 and his wife, aged Sc. cele-
brated the 18th anniversary Of their
wedding, at Balaton, Minn., Friday.
The steamship Liberia. which sailed
from Galveston, Texas last October,
with Chief Alfred C. Sam and his fol-
lowers In the Back to Africa" move
ment among Texas and Oklahoma
negroes, has arrived at Salt Pond,
Gold coast Of Africa. ... yellow fever
has broken out at Caracas, Venezuela.
..... .Ras Christianson, cashier and
principal stockholder Of the Bank
of Romeo. Col, has disappeared and
about 500 900 Of the banks funds
cannot be found since his departure.