Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-06-02
MERE-MENIlON.

through congress. 1T seems TO me we
ought to he able to get through by
September 1st." says the speaker. ......
The st. Lawrence river at the point
where the wreck of the Empress of
Ireland occurred. is thirty miles wide,
and is particularly dangerous in the
spring and fall because Of the dense
fogs. ...... Judge George Gray Of the
United States circuit court, Washing
ton. Del, has resigned from the bench
after a service Of fourteen years. 49,.
The general education board which
administers on Rockefeller fund, on
Friday, donated $1,4OO.O00 to various
colleges and universities. ....... Con-
gressman Richard Bartholdt Of st.
Louis, is conducting a campaign on an
elaborate scale, to prevent his re-elec-
ton to congress. He announced in De-
cember that he would not stand for re-
election, but his constituents want to
re- elect him anyway. The Califor-
mia railroad commission has ordered the
directors Of the United Railways of
San Francisco 10 restore to the COM
pany's funds 81 l.096.O0 which the COM
mission charges Patrick Calhoun. for
mer president of the railways, diverted
to his personal use. go. .Chas. Becker,
eX-police lieutenant Of New York. is
for the second time occupying cell in
the death house at Sing Sing prison,
having been transferred from the
Tombs t. Sing Sing, by automobile.
Friday afternoon. The centennial
Of the battle Of Horseshoe Bend, Ala
bama, is to be celebrated on July 4. In
this battle Andrew Jackson whipped
the Creek Indians and saved the great
southwest from British domination. 80.
Dr. Francis p. Veneable, president OF
the University Of North Carolina since
1900 has resigned on account Of Ill
health. :. Gay & Sturgis. Boston brok-
ers, specializing in Mexican mining
stocks. have failed with liabilities Of
SO. 900 900: assets 81. 900. 900. :. A wire
less telegraph station at Hickory Is
land. n. j.. on Friday sent 5000 word
wireless dispatch direct to Germany.
At the established rates the message OF
Friday would cost $3.50. Six men
were killed in a coal mine near Tama-
qua. Pa. Friday by fall down the
mine shaft Of 700 feet. ..... The trial Of
Nine Cailleaux for the killing Of Edi-
tor CASTOR Calmette Of the Figaro. is
to begin in Paris on July 20. go. Vice
Admiral Wa Matsumoto Of the Japan
ese navy, has been sentenced to three
years in prison for accepting bribes in
connection with naval contracts. Capt.
Sawasaki was sentenced to a year on
the same charge. The narrative OF
the 126th general assembly Of the Pres
byterian church, in session in Chicago.
showed a membership Of 1.446,490, and
that $27.122.265 was expended by the
church for all purposes during the past
wear. Col. Theodore Roosevelt and
party sailed from New York, Saturday,
FOR Madrid. Spain to be present at the
marriage of his son, Kermit to Miss
Belle Willard, the ceremony taking
place June TO-. Coal miners of West
Virginia. to the number of 10000. were
ordered to go on a strike today. .....
Harry X. Thaw. in company with Off
GERS, will spend the summer in the
White Mountains of New Hampshire.
..... Jean Granini, a 16-year-old boy,
has been acquitted at Herkimer, n. Y,
of the charge of numbering Miss Ida
Beecher, his school teacher, on the
ground that he was a criminal imbe-
cile. He was sentenced to the Mattea-
wan insane asylum. The United
States senate has passed an amend
ment to the naval appropriation bill,
authorizing an appropriation Of $780,
900 to increase the governments capac-
ity for manufacturing smokeless pow
der for the navy. Gen. Bennett H.
Young is candidate for the seat in the
United States senate made vacant by
the death Of Senator Bradley Of Ken
lucky. part of the cargo Of the
wrecked steamer Empress OF Ireland
was $l,000,000 in silver bars. -. There
has been so much rain in parts Of
Texas during the past month as to
make crop conditions very bad. The
rainfall at Houston during May totaled
Is inches. In Tyler the records show
~ inches of rain since September 1st.
..... Peter Paul Won Mauser, inventor
of the rifle bearing his name, died at
Stuttgart, Germany, Friday, aged rs
years. The new Cunard liner Aqua
tania, $1,000 tons, sailed from Liver
pool for New York, Saturday. Cast
ings for a 100-inch telescope to be in
stalled at Pasadena, Cal, are being
made at Quincy, Mass The tube Of
the telescope is to be 43 feet long and
complete will weigh nearly twenty
tons. The telescope will be the largest
in the world. ..... Eleven miners were
killed and a number injured in coal
mine explosion at Wharcliffe, England
Saturday. -. .Archduke Charles Fran
els Joseph, second son of Emperor
Joseph Of Austria, is soon to visit the
United States. The government Of
Greece will increase its standing army
to 100000 men. .....A new member OF
the French chamber Of deputies says
he will introduce a bill to put gradual
ed taxes on duelS. ...... The Interna-
tional congress of the Salvation army
will open in London on June IL. 1t Is
expected that 10000 men and women
representing SO countries and speaking
"a languages will attend the congress.
The largest single delegation, more
than 600, will be from America. .......
A general census Of India, taken March
10, by 100000 enumerators, shows
that the population Of India is 3l5,-
56,396, as against 294,361 ,056 ten years
ago. There are 3,S76,203 Christians in
India. An auction sale of Jersey
cattle at Linden Grove, Pa, Saturday,
totaled 100000 for 12S head. The high
est priced cow brought $2,755. "A gas
well of an estimated daily capacity Of
1000, 000 cubic feet, has been blown
in just outside the city limits OF
Cleveland, Ohio. ..... Ten persons were
more or less seriously injured in
trolley car collision in Philadelphia,
Friday afternoon. r. Bruce Nc
Clure brother Of :. 5. Mcclure, the
magazine publisher, committed suicide
Saturday, at his home at ionkers, n.
Y. III health is assigned as the cause.
....Secretary Bryan is to make a num-
Der of chautauqua addresses in North
y
Wilson and Speaker Clark were the
Memorial day speakers at Arlington
cemetery, Washington, Saturday. .....
A New York surety expert estimates
defalcatiOns throughout the United
States during 1913, to total $40,000,000
$500. Fifteen men, the crew Of the
ocean-going tug Teaser were rescued
by the tug Boxer off the New Jersey
coast six hours after the Teaser had
sunk. The rescued men were taken off
a coal barge. ..... Louis Kuehnle, one
time political boss of Atlantic City. n.
j., was released from the state prison
yesterday, after serving five months of
Il one years sentence, the sentence
having been commuted. Kuehnle IS
worth about $750,000. u. n. Camden,
chairman of the state Democratic exc
cutivr committee, has been named to
fill the vacancy caused by the death OF
Senator Bradley of Kentucky, in the
United States senate.