Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-05-15
MERE.MENIloN.

| Eugenio Montero- Rios, the Spaniard
who drafted the treaty which brought
! the Spanish-American war to a close,
died in Madrid, Spain, on Tuesday.
aged S2.....A London suffragette who
gave her name to the police as Mary
Ansell, seriously damaged a portrait Of
the Duke Of Wellington in the royal
academy in London, Tuesday after
noon. She used hatchet. The first
ship to pass through the Panama canal
| under the regular conditions. will
probably make the trip next week. 80.
Myron T. Herrick, United States am
bassador to France. will probably be
| recalled In order to make way for Sec
retary Of the Treasury McAdoo. who.
| according to rumor. will resign his
cabinet position. -. .Chas. w. Morse.
the financier and ex convict. Is report
ed to be contemplating suit against
| the New York New Haven & Hartford
| Ry., for $10,500,000, alleging damages to
the stockholders Of the Metropolitan
steamship company. ;. Charles Hen
derson. president of the Alabama state
railroad commission. defeated Govern
or Conner for the gubernatorial nomi
majority of more than 1000 votes. -.
A bomb was thrown into a room
| occupied by q Mrs. Hinckley and her
| two daughters of Kingston, N. Y.
Tuesday. One Of the daughters was
| unhurt, the other suffered serious in
juries and Mrs. Hinckley received In
| juries which may result in blindness.
Other tenants Of the house were hurl-
ed from their beds and received more
/ or less serious hurts. -. A Pittsburg
Pa, woman found a bug an inch long
| in a loaf Of bakers bread, recently. AS
| a result Of the discovery another re-
form has been started. 49,. Art stu
| dents CT the Latin quarter in Paris de-
clare chat collars are expensive mar
| tisti; and unhealthful, and have form
| ed an anti collar league, the members
Of which have pledged themselves to
give up all neck wear. -. Mrs. Have
lock Ellis. prominent New York suf-
| fragette. has advised suffragettes OF
New York to go on strike and refuse
| to kiss their husbands until they have
| obtained the ballot. -. Miss Maud E.
Miner Of New York, as chairman OF
| the committee on social hygiene. told
the National Conference on Charities
and Corrections, in session at Mem
phis. Tenn. Tuesday night. that sup
preston was the only solution Of the
| social evil and that regulation had
proved failure wherever attempted.
| reach vote on the proposed Panama
tolls repeal exemption for at least ten
days or two weeks. Eight persons
| were killed when one Of the boilers In
the engine room Of the Old Dominion
| line steamer Jefferson. burst last Tues
day. The explosion occurred when the
steamship was five miles inside Cape
Henry, bound for Norfolk, Va. -. The
1talian government has instructed It's
consul at Mexico city to provide for
the return Of Italians who wish to
leave Mexico. -. THE newspaper pro-
fession Is as sacred a calling as the
ministry" said DR.. Washington Glad
den Of Columbus, Ohio, who addressed
hundreds Of newspaper men at the Ma
tional Newspaper Conference, held in
Lawrence, Kansas. this week. :. Geo.
8. Bruce, civil engineer Of national
reputation, and the builder of the
Florida East Coast Railway, died In a
Baltimore hospital, Wednesday, aged
g.. Paul v. Sauls, the young man
who killed Tennessee Dutch" and
another safe cracker, after they had
tried to crack the safe Of the Tallahas-
see, Fla postoffice, four years ago, was
rewarded FOR his heroic defense We'd
nesday, when President Wilson issued
an order appointing him a clerk in the
Jacksonville, Fla, postoffice without
examination. More than 100 women
were trampled on and injured We'd
nesday night in a stampede which ac-
companied the efforts Of thousands to
view the body Of Daniel Haggarty. one
Of the Vera Cruz heroes, as the body
lay In state in the military lrmory in
Cambridge, Mass. 800. Seattle, Wash,
has been selected as the city in which
the 1915 Shriner's convention will be
held. DR.. Frederick r. Smith, Of Da-
mascus Temple. Rochester. N. Y. was
on Wednesday elected imperial poten-
tate Of the imperial council. .Secre-
tary Bryan and DR.. Don Carlos Meze,
Salvadorean charge d'affaires at Wash
ington, signed convention Wednes-
day evening renewing for another pc
riod Of five years. the limited arbitra-
ton convention between the United
States and Salvador. 49,. The Penn
sylvania, a 5000 ton steamship of the
Pacific Mail Steamship company, was
towed through the Panama canal Mon
day, to load cargo Of sugar at the
Bilboa docks for New York. Madame
Lillian Nordica, the priIna donna, who
died at Batavia, Java. Sunday, from
pneumonia, is to be buried in the Unit
ed States. ..... French troops scored a
decisive victory over large force OF
Moors at Teza. Morocco. Sunday. The,
artillery fire OF the French was direct
ed by Taxa, a military aviator, and he
also did considerable damage by drop
ping bombs among the Moors. :. Leon
Cardenas Martinez, q Mexican, was
hanged at Pecos, Tex, Monday, for the
murder about three years ago Of Miss
Emma Brown, school teacher. Martf-
nez confessed his crime at the time Of
his arrest, but later repudiated the
confession. The official estimate OF
the number Of deaths following the err
ruption Of Mt. Aetna a few days ago.
Is 200. The American Red Cross con-
tributed $1,000 for the relief of the suf-
ferers. -. {. .Southard p. Warner, Unit
ed States consul at Harbin, Manchu-
ria, committed suicide Monday in a
Harbin hospital. 80. Arthur E. Mayer.
19 years old. arrested in London. has
been ordered extra nted to the United
States. He is wanted in Maryland for
grand larceny. When arrested in Lon
sion. -. After spending four days in
selecting a jury in which process 3S1
talesmen were examined, the second
trial Of ex-Lieut. Becker for the mur-
der Of Herman Rosenthal in July, 1912.
began in earnest in New York, Mon
day. The trial will probably last three
or four weeks. .. 1t is announced from
Washington that the organization COM
mittee of the Federal reserve banks,
hopes to get the banks open for bust
ness on August 1st. 80. Two British
army aviators were killed at Aldershot.
England, Tuesday, the result Of a COL
lison between two biplanes. Heavy
rainfall did much damage in Michi-
gan, Illinois and Ohio. Tuesday The
rainfall at Bloomington. ILL.,. was 81
inches in "a hours. 80. Two oil tanks,
holding approximately 10000 gallons of
oil, were set on fire by lightning at
Tusla, Okla, Tuesday. James Kelley
has become the owner Of the Chicago
Record Herald and Inter- Ocean news
papers, and consolidated the two pub
lications. ..... There are three Demo-
Gratis and four Republicans in the field
as candidates for the governorship Of
New Hampshire. ....... The Salvation
army on Sunday celebrated it's thirty
fourth anniversary. The army now has
property to the value Of 800 600, 900 In
the United States. ..... Preston Will
liams, aged 16, shot Ebert and Robt.
Gay and Jesse Summers, at his home
near Ocilla, Ga, Sunday. An insulting
remark about a member Of Williams
family is given as the cause of the
triple killing. John c. Calhoun Mayo,
the wealthiest citizen Of Kentucky,
died in New York. Monday. Mayo
built his fortune on the meagre earn
ings Of a school teacher.