Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-12-04
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1914
MERE MENTION

Captain Davis, of the steamship Eto-
man, which arrived in New YORK.
Monday, from London. reported the
sighting Of a mine with five contact
points extending from 1t, afoat SIX
miles west of Fire Island light, on
New York 1t is not known how the
mine came to be there. 80. j. Ford
ner Harrison, a prominent retired
New York banker and broker, died in
Washington, Tuesday, after a pro-
tracted illness. :. Max Rumbonourtz,
q 10-year- Patterson, n. j., boy Is
in jail in that city charged with the
murder Of Sammy Hickman, aged IL
years. -. Interstate passenger rates
raised to an almost uniform IL
cents a mile level, went into e1eet ,,I
December /, on railroads operating
east of the Mississippi and west OF
Pittsburgh, Pa, and Buffalo, n. Y.
John c. Wendell, New York
second largest realty holder, died In
Los Angeles, Cal. last Tuesday. HIS
wealth is estimated at more than Soo'-
600. .O00. More than 1000 Ohio boys
and girls, who have distinguished
themselves for corn growing, other as-
ricultural pursuits and domestic econ
omy, captured" Washington, this
week. The youngsters called on Pres
ident Wilson and also saw Secretaries
BRYAN and Houston. William b.
Emmal aged 81, said to be the Oldest
Odd Fellow in the world, died in Lex
ington, KY, Tuesday night He Joined
the order in 1899. Former Presi-
dent w. H. Taft will deliver three
lectures to the students OF the Uni
versity Of North Carolina, March H.
Is and 19, Of next year. .Ihe ele-
vator Of the Wisrodt Grain company
of Galveston, Texas, was destroyed by
fire this week. The plant was Valueo
at $4,000. Three members OF the
family Of A. H. McNeill Of Delgard,
Del, were burned to death in fire OF
unknown origin, which destroyed their
home early Wednesday morning: -.
Capt. ]. ]. Carey, master OF the steam
err Hanelee, wrecked on November %,
off the California coast with loss OF
23 lives, has been exhonerated by
coroner's jury, which placed the blame
on the second officer, William Reece,
who was drowned. .....A furious bliz-
zard has the Bering Sea Ice pack hlgn
upon the Alaskan shore, and has
driven the water further inland than
trails in the vicinity Of Nome, Alaska,
are impossible. .... "A verdict Of gull
ty of criminal libel was pronounced
in Raleigh, Tuesday afternoon, against
President j. B. Dudley, OF the negro
A. and M. college, Greensboro. N. C.,
and ]. E. Dellinger, c. G. Amey and
A. H. Reverb, also Of Greensboro, they
being convicted Of circulating an open
letter to negro Masons, charging tne
grand master, grand secretary and
grand treasurer with responsibility for
shortage in grand lodge finances. ...-.
A New York policeman, Tuesday morn
ing, detected a bomb planter in the
act Of placing a bomb in hallway
in that city. The policeman put out
the fuse, the bomb planter escaping
in the meantime. ..... Queen Alex
land, celebrated her 10th birthday In
London, Tuesday. Emperor William
Of Germany, some months ago, was in
vited to England for the event, but he
was not present. The United States
cruisers Tennessee and North Caro-
lima, are to be kept in Turkish waters
indefinitely for the protection OF Chris
tians. General T. Coleman dupont
has offered to build boulevard across
the state Of Delaware, at cost or
$3.000,000, as gift to the state, If the
United States supreme court will grant
him the necessary authority. .......
Philadelphia is raising fund Of $780,
900 for furthering the interests OF the
Boy Scout movement in that city and
vicinity. .... More than 100 Philadel-
phia bank directors will have to re-
sign their places because or the pro-
hibition Of interlocking directorates by
the Clayton antitrust law. The
Pennsylvania capitol building at Har-
risburg, completed a few years ago at
a cost exceeding S13,000,000, including
the grating, for which number OF
men served prison terms Is now to
undergo alterations at cost Of S2,-
100000. .....T The state Of New Hamp-
shire is to erect monument to Frank
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United States, from that common
wealth. Queen Elizabeth Of Belgi-
um. is reported as being quite i'll and
confined to bed, due to overwork in the
Red Cross service. The United
States supreme court has decided the
Oklahoma law, barring negroes from
Pullman cars, to be unconstitutional.
80. Arbitration hearings between SO
western railroads and $1,000 enginemen
are being held in Chicago. The sea-
sons fatalities among hunters in Wis
consin, Minnesota and Michigan, so
far total 48. .... Kansas has promised
100000 barrels Of flour for relief of the
Belgians. Fifty thousand barrels were
to go forward this week. 80. "A Rot
terdam dispatch says that Germany's
effort to fix maximum prices for food
throughout the empire, has proven a
failure. -. George C. Tilyon, pio-
HecT SOIlcy lSldiu eiiiuSSihSht Pio
moter and owner Of the famous
Steeplechase park at that resort, died,
Monday, at his home in Brooklyn, n.
Y. When his place was burned, July
1907, he put up placard reading as
follows: ITO my kind and inquiring
friends-I have troubles today which
had not yesterday, but had troubles
yesterday which l have not today" ....
The Harvard football team this year,
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pie. The gate receipts at the various
games totaled 100000. Of which Har-
ward got $160,000. The United States
Metal Product company, at $1,000
900 Massachusetts corporation, has
gone into voluntary bankruptcy, with
liabilities Of s1,00S,000, and assets of
$3,700, 900. The Pennsylvania rail-
roads statement Of gross earnings for
October, shows decrease or $4,Il2,-
$50, as compared with the same month
last year. 80. Because Of the inter-
ruption Of the beet sugar industry in
France, that country will have to i'm
port 25O.00O tons of sugar during the
next twelve months. Much Of this will
go from the United States. Stray
bullets from Naco. Sonora, wounded
two persons on the American side of
the Mexican border, Tuesday. making
total Of 43 killed and wounded there
during the two months siege. 49,.
President Wilson has decided that the
United States troops will not be re-
moved from the strike zone OF Colo
RADIO, for the present. .....J. Borden
Hartman, a brother Of the late E. H.
Hartman, railroad magnate, died in
Washington, Tuesday, after protract-
ed illness. Mr.. Harriman's home was
in New York. ...... Rear Admiral AL
fred T. Mahan, U. S. N, retired, ac-
claimed as the greatest modern writ
er on naval strategy" died in Washing
ton, Tuesday, aged "a years. Books
written by Admiral Mahan are said to
be text books used by German naval
officers. The New York police have
arrested Harry Cohen, alias kid Grif-
TO-" a poultry inspector, in connection
with the assassination of Barnett Baf,
the independent poultry dealer, last
week. 1t is stated that Baff was
about to go to Whitman, the district
attorney, with evidence against the
alleged poultry trust" when he was
killed .... The 1915 tax budget as
passed by the board of aldermen OF