Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-06-26
MERE MENTION.

Thomas ]. Mccormick has succeed
ed James Clancy as warden Of Sing
Sing prison, New York. Congress
man Smith of New York, has intro
duce6 a bill in congress to settle the
priority of the North pole discovery
IL is not likely that congress vii re-
open the Cook Peary controversy. -.
Barron Horace Courtnay Gammell-
Forbes. 18th representative of the
house of Forbes, committed suicide In
a Dundee, Scotland, hospital this week
by cutting his throat. He was 80 years
Of age. .... Fifty children were inJur-
ed Tuesday when pavilion in an At
lanta amusement park collapsed.
There were no fatalities. The Por-
tuguese cabinet has been reconstruct
ed. changes being made all around.
Arthur Daily and DR.. E. f. Gilpin of
the University of Pennsylvania on
Tuesday completed barefoot walk
from Philadelphia to st. Louis. The
men explained that a university CLUB
had offered $1,000 to any two men who
walked the distance barefooted. TWO
boys were suffOcated in cave near
Athens. Ga, this week, when the roof
collapsed Rev. DR.. w. l.. Pickard,
for the yast eight years pastor of the
First Baptist church or Savannah, Ga.
has accepted the presidency of Mercer
University. The Manion bill, pro-
yiding for the submission to the voters
of Louisiana of a constitutional amend
ment granting woman suffrage, mas
been defeated 60 to Al. The steam
er Gothland, Montreal to England,
struck rocks off Scilly islands, Eng
land this week. Her passengers and
crew numbering 216 were rescued. -.
Capt j. W. Haas, who commanded the
Ninety sixth Pennsylvania volunteers
during the Civil war, is dead. After
President Lincoln was asSasslnated,
Haas who greatly resembled John
Wilkes Booth, his slayer, was ar
rested in the Cleartield oil regions by
government troops who had much diff
fculty in keeping q mob from hang
ing him. Mrs. Edgar McCaulay shot
and killed her husband in Baltimore,
Tuesday. She was afraid he was go
ing to attack her....... Mrs. George
Westinghouse, widow of the electrical
inventor, is dead. The thirty hrst
saengerfest of the North American
Saengerbund, the great German sing
ing society of America, is now in ses-
sion in Louisville, Ky. There are 70
600 people in attendance The Unit
ed States senate has passed Senator
HOke Smiths bill allowing Federal
and Confederate veterans TO take
fourth class poStOffice examinations
regardless of their ages. Nine per-
struck WatertOwn, South Dakota, this
week. Alumni of the Virginia Military
Institute in which Stonewall jackson
was once u professor will endeaVor TO
raise Il $10OO,OC0 endowment fund OF
the school. w Dr. Victor c. Vaughan
of Ann ArbOr, Mich, has been elected
president of the American Medical as
suciatiun. The association on Tuesday
presented Il gold medal to Col. VIM. Z.
al ftf1n
Robert W. Woods, cashier of the Citi-
ZcnS Banking and Trust Co. of Athens
Ga, has been arrested charged with u
shortage of $4,000 in his accounts. -.
Peter RebaCCi, - years old, member
of Il Black Hand gang, was electrocut-
cd in Sing Sing prison, Tuesday, for
the murder of two of his cOuntrymen.
The Prince of Wales, eldest son
of King George Of England, was twenty
wears of age. Tuesday. There was
much celebration of the event through
out the British isles. Fire IN Man
chester. ~ h., Wednesday, caused
loss of Sl,O0U,OOO .... King Peter OF
Seryia. has abdicated his throne in
favor of the crown prince. LII health
is given as the cause. W. X. Bal
lou, a wealthy citizen and alderman ol
stamford, Conn, was Killed Nednes-
day. Mrs. Helen NJ. Angle, wealthy
widow. has been arrested in cOnnec-
tiun with the crime. President ana
Mrs Wilson on last Wednesday lnfor-
mally celebrated the twenty ninth an
nivorSary Of their wedding. They were
married IN savannah, June %, 1883.
Government experts estimate that
2gG. 900 acres of cotton are infested by
the boil weeVil this year. r......A terri
ble storm swept over Wertburg, Ger
many. Wednesday. Many fishermen
are missing. Jack Johnson, the
negro pugilist, is to fight Frank Moran
in Paris. June oxford unlVer-
Sity has conferred an honorary degree
on Walter Hines Page, the United
States ambassador To Great Britain.
\ monument in memory OF those
killed in the Spanish American war
was unveiled at EaStOn, Penn. Wed
ncSday. Sultan MenneS v, OF
Turkey. has conferred the Order OF the
Shcfakat on Dr. Mary Mills Patrick,
an American woman who is president
Of the COnStantinople college of wO-
men. This honor is in recognition Of
her services toward education for
Turkish women. The Herald Square
theatre in New York, was sold recent
IL for $4,000. 900. ...... The MaSsachu-
setts School of Technology will offer
a course i'm aeronautics next year to