Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-10-27
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ure of his parachute. FleXon was
feature at the county fair. .... Two
New York policemen, sent to Paris
for fugitive from justice, were ar
rested as spies in the latter city, last
week. They were released when they
showed their credentials. German
newspapers are being sent to the
mayors Of various American cities,
with the request that the papers De
placed where Americans may nave
the opportunity of reading war news
from the German point of view. ....
1t is estimated that American stocks
TO the value of $1,000,000,000 are
owned in Europe. A very large part
of these stocks will probably be put
on the American market as soon as
the stock exchanges open for busi-
ness again. 80. The United States
senate on Friday, ratified peace COM
mission treaties with Paraguay and
Seneden, and a treaty with the re-
public of Panama, fixing the bound
aries of the canal zone. West
minister Abby in London has been
insured for s750,000. against airship
attacks. The Citizens bank OF
Ocilla, Ga, has been closed and
receiver appointed therefor, upon the
voluntary petition of the stockhold-
ers. s.... Baseball clubs Of the Fed
eral league played to 100000 per-
sons during the past season, accord
ing to statement recently issued by
Jas. A. Gilmore, president or the
league -. Two bandits and Can
adian immigration inspector were
killed in a fight between five bandits
and Canadian and American officers
near Blaine, Washington, Friday. The
bandits, who were supposedly Rus
slams, had robbed Washington
bank of $4,000. One Of the bandits
killed, had $4,000 in gold in his belt.
......O. V. Allen. state treasurer of
Idaho, last week plead guilty OF en-
bezZlement of state funds. He was
sentenced to a term of from five TO
ten years in the Idaho state peniten-
tiary. Jack Levendowski, a pugi-
list, 19 years old, was killed by Jack
Sundgren in a prize fight at Tolleston,
Ind, last week. A son was porn
10 Queen Victoria of Spain, saturday
morning. The queen is the mother OF
six children. w. B. McDougal,
bank examiner for the Chicago clear
ing house association, has been elect
ed governor of the Chicago district
Federal reserve bank. The salary Is
$4,000 a year Thirteen persons
were drowned in San Antonio, Tex,
Friday. as a result of five inch rain
fall which caused several creeks
in the southern section OF the city
to overflow. The property damage
is estimated at S150,OOO. The
war department has announced the
cancellation Of the aeroplane competlt-
ton the army signal corps planned 10
hold at San Diego, Cal, with the OBJ
iect of purchasing the three best ma
chimes shown. Governor Golds,
borough of Maryland, was operated
on for appendicitis, Saturday. He is
getting along nicely. The Amer
ican Red Cross hospital ship which
sailed from New York last month
with American surgeons and nurses
for relief work in Europe, has re-
turned to the United States. "A
Paris report to the effect that Porhro
Diaz, ex-president of Mexico, Is DEAD
has been denied. Senator MOTIFS
of Nebraska, believes that whisky
lobby has been active in Washington
for several weeks past, and is de-
manding an investigation by the SEN
ate lobby committee. The Nebraska
senator asserts that the representa-
tiyes Of the distillers have been try
ing to prevent a war tax on rectlneu
spirits. The French parliament
will probably be convened in Paris
about the 1st of November, according
to advices from Bordeaux. .The
pope of Rome is said to be using ms
utmost endeavors to bring about peace
among the warning nations before
Christmas. The new war reVehue
act became Of force Thursday with
the signature of President Wilson.
Sections Of the law will become effect
i've November 1st, December lst and
December 31st. Taxes on banks or
81 for each $1,000 of capital and sur
plus, becomes effective on November
ist. IA Swedish ship, the Alice,
homeward bound. struck floating
mine in the North sea, Friday, and
sank in three minutes. All OF the
crew were saved. .... American lie
insurance companies doing business
in Europe, are refusing to insure the
lives of persons who expect to take
part in the fighting. German
troops guarding the Pekin- Mukden
railway in China, have been with
drawn, and are to be replaced by
American troops from the Philip
pines. BY an arrangement pc
tween New York bankers and wall
street brokers, it is probable that the
New York Cotton Exchange Will De
reopened for business next Monday.
The steamboat Belle of Calhoun. was
sunk in the Mississippi river near Al
overloaded with apples, having
cargo of 400 barrels. The 80 pas
sengers on board were landed safely.
Two carloads of horses were ship
ped from Fort Collins, Col, Friday, to
France. Agents of the French gov
ernment said the animals would be
used for food. .... Eureka, Cal,
city of over 10000 population, on the
coast. has recently been connected
with the outside world by its first
railroad. The railroad is lO6 miles
long and cost $12,0OO,OOO. Eureka
had the distinction of being the larg-
est CITY in the United States without
a railroad. ..... Mrs. Jack Bayse, the
wife of a wealthy merchant OF Bos-
well, Okla, has been sentenced to life
Imprisonment for poisoning ner step
SON.. Commercial organizations OF
Minnesota are planning to secure the
emigration of large numbers or Bel
gians, now refugees in England ana
France. to that state. swift q
Co, have opened a $l5O.OOO plant IN
st. Louis, for the manufacture OF ole
omoragine. Rev. DR.. Edward Jud-
son, one of the best known Baptist
preachers and teachers of the United
States. and a son of Adoniram Jud-
son. a pioneer American missionary
died in New York Friday. DR.. Jud-
son was born in Burma in 1874.
Expectations of lard to Copenhagen
from Philadelphia, last week totaled
S,9S7,TO6 pounds. valued at $443, l56.
...... A Philadelphia knitting mill has
has contracted to furnish the navy
department with 10000 cotton un-
dershirts, with a wool mixture, at
1925 cents apiece. 80. DIR. Ernest La.
garde, for forty-five years professor OF
English literature and modern langu-
ages at Mount st. Mary's college
Maryland, died Sunday. .Promi-
nent farmers of Bibb county Ga, In
assembly at Macon last week, pledged
than SELVES To reduce their cotton acre