Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-10-02
MERE MENTION

Mrs. Frank Leslie, who died re-
Gently in New York. has bequeathed
her estate of more than $2,OOO,OOO, 10
the cause Of womans suffrage. .....
Charles Howell was arrested in Duluth,
Mimi. Tuesday, charged with send
ing blackmailing letters to James }.
Hill, demanding $4,000 from the
railway magnate More than 200
graduates and undergraduates of Nc
Gill university, Montreal, Canada,
have Joined a British regiment which
will be sent to Europe in the near fu-
ture. .....W. ]. Trent, secretary OF
the negro Y. NJ. c. A., of Atlanta, Ga"
and ]. w. Walker, negro physician,
were eXonerated of the charge or ar
son in Asheville, on Tuesday. 1t was
alleged they burned a church to OBJ
tain the insurance. In sermon
before the American Federation OF
Catholic Societies in Baltimore, Tues
day, Bishop Joseph Schrembs of To-
ledo, O., severely arraigned Secretary
Bryan. Among other things saying
Mr.. Bryan had done nothing TO protect
Catholics in Mexico. societies OF
Birmingham, England, have placed
10000 homing pigeons for use in the
mail service at the disposal or the
British government. ... Mrs. klong
Saim, an aged Chinese woman, was
convicted in San Francisco, this week,
of holding a girl, 10y Gum, slave.
This is the first case of its kind on rec
ord. Margaret di San Guiliano.
foreign minister of Italy is dying in
Rome. $500. Wilfred Genest of Pitts
field. Mass, was awarded $1,000 dam
ages in the district court this week,
for injuries received in a baseball
game. Genest was spiked in the game
and his leg broken. II. h. Thearle,
president of the Pain Fireworks Dis
play Company of America, with head
quarters in Chicago, and three en-
ployes, were killed Wednesday when
an explosion destroyed the company s
plant. r. NJ. Denholme, business
manager of the Shreveport, La, Times,
was killed at the office of the paper
Wednesday night, by an insane negro.
Two well known New York ply
sicians. and four fourth year students
of the College of Physicians and Sur
geonS have taken passage for Paris,
where they will join the field squad
of the American ambulance hospital,
caring for the wounded on French
battlefields Miss Lucy BurleSOn,
daughter of the postmaster general.
on Wednesday offered prizes of $40.
SO and $5 in gold for photographs of
the best and most artistic displays OF
cotton SOOuS safes uuliIS ONNO'Ni'
The contest will be under the super
vision of the National Cotton Fashions
show. to be held in Washington.
Sir Charles Johnston has been elected
lord MAYOR of London, but owing TO
the war, the usual elaborate exercises
incident to the installation of the lord
mayor. will hardly take place at the
present time. ..... Many works OF ART
from France and Belgium, are finding
their way TO London, to save them
from German lOOterS. Railroads
of Australia and India are asking car
builders of Pittsburgh, Pa, for prices
on railroad cars for quick delivery.
This business has heretofore gone TO
England and Germany. The Amer
lean Express company has issued or
ders to its agents to accept money for
transfer to the American Red Cross
relief fund without charging the usual
rates. Richard w. Sears. one Of
the founders of the mail order house
Of SearS-ROebuck x CO.. Chicago. died
on Monday He left an estate eSti-
mated at $25,00O.OOO. He started his
mail order business while a telegraph
operator. with one dozen watches. He
was 8 years of age. .ThoS. \. Edi-
son has perfected the "teleScribe. an
instrument which will record tele-
phone conversations. II is Il cOmbina-
ton of the telephone and the phono-
graph. ..A number of wealthy Wall
street. New York. brokers' have form
ed a committee for the relief of the
army of clerks who have lost their pO-
SitiOnS or are working for lower Sala-
rieS owing to the closing of the en-
changes.