Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-06-23
MEEE. MENTION.

preparation bills and adjourn unit
December, before passing the anti
l trust bills. .... Two children are
dead in a Pittsburgh, Pa, family ano
three other members Of the family are
under Pasteur treatment as the re-
suit of wounds inflicted several weeks
/ ago on one of the children by mad
dog. The other victims infected them
selves by kissing the first victim.
a large shipment of American made
rifles were landed by gun-runnerS In
Ireland last week for the Nationalist
who are opposed to the plans OF the
Ulsteriles The latter party imported
several shipments from Germany sew
cral weeks ago. Before leaving
Europe for America, last Thursday
Colonel Roosevelt is reported as say
ing that he will not run for governor
of New York, but will accept the
Progressive nomination for president II
Il9l6. He also promised to "show UP
the frightful errors" of the Taft and
Wilson administrations when he gets
back to America. ..... Jas. T. Morris
| of Coatesville, Pa, was convicted in
the Federal court in Philadelphia,
Thursday, Of using the mails to de-
| fraud. Two years and six months was
the courts sentence. Morris scheme
was selling thoroughbred" dogs. An
| Alabama farmer paid for an Irish set
ter, and when the dog arrived it was
a toothless poodle. Growing out
| of the recent failure of number OF
the state banks in Chicago, ex-Sena-
tor Lorimer and c. B. Munday Will
face charges of looting the banks.
| The greatest fire in the history
of Glasgow, Scotland, occurred Thurs
day. Fire broke out on the docks,
freight we'll
as several schooners, were destroyed.
The loss is estimated at $2,5OO,OOO.
The Andrew Jackson Memorial
association of Nashville, Tenn, will
undertake to raise $1,500,O0O for a
memorial to General Jackson at Nash
vile Dominic Dominica, an
Italian, is in Jail at Greensburg, Pa.
charged with a murder committed
near there nineteen years ago. Domi-
nico escaped and spent the interven-
ing years in Italy, until a short time
ago. .. The fire loss of New York
city last year totaled $7,467,999.
Nearly 20 per cent of the fires were
caused by carelessness with matches,
cigarettes and cigars. The average
loss per fire was $576.32. The city's
fire department now includes 29S
companies, 921 pieces of apparatus
and 1852 uniformed men. More
than 44,000,000 Red Cross Christ
mas seals were sold in the United
States, last December, netting the So
ciety more than $4,000 for anti
tuberculosis work in various parts OF
the country. New York's mayor
is using his efforts to cut out the use
of fire works in any form for the
Fourth of July celebrations this year.
Various railroads of the coun-
try last week placed orders for more
than 1000 freight cars. Lawyers who
figured in the trial of Mendel Bells,
at Kiev, Russia, last fall, were con-
victed at st. Petersburg, Friday, on
charge of insulting the ministry OF
justice. The sentences of the lawyers
ranged from six to eight months each
......... In a coal mine disaster near
Lothbridge, Canada, Friday, 250 min
erS were entombed. During the day
so miners were taken from the mine,
SO of them being dead. .....A New
York sugar company estimates that
sugar consumers of the United States
$4S,7l4,7OS by tariff reductions dur
ing the past three months. .......
George Jamison a juror and Milton
solomon, an alleged jury tiXer," have
been indicted by New York grand
jury on a charge of robbery. The
men were to be paid $500 for fix
ing a jury in a civil suit. The
private bank of Pleva & Co., of
Vienna, Austria, failed Friday for
81, 600, 900. Thomas +. Nolan, a
police inspector, was killed in Bos-
ton. Friday, while attempting TO ar
rest Lawrence Robinson, wanted at
Grand Rapids, Mich, for u triple
murder. -. Twelve lives were lost
in l1 nd N a tnnnpl l.
road from Nice, France, TO Cuneo,
Italy, Friday .... The London City
and the Midland Bank of London, last
week absorbed the Metropolitan bank
of Wales, giving the two banks total
of $525,0O0.0O0 in deposits. The
new union railroad station at Kansas
City, Mo-, with its train shed cover
ing eighteen acres, and costing $780,
900, 900, will soon be ready for use.
The new station will be the largest
west of New York. ..... Il. G. Dill OF
St. Louis, Mo-, a Republican, was un-
seated by the house Friday, and his
seat given to Michael j. Gill, a DEM
ocrat. .... The annual meeting of the
American Medical association will
convene at Atlantic City, n. j., tomor-
row, with about 5000 delegates in
attendance. ... Plans for 200 mile
suffrage march from ST. Louis to
Springfield, Mo-, have been arranged
by st. Louis women SuffragiStS. An
automobile filled with suffrage litera-
ture will accompany the women.
savannah, Ga. has been selected as
the place for the 1915 convention of
the transportation and car accounting
officers association, which recently
closed its annual meeting held this
year in Atlantic City, New jersey.
afE talp haN oiN
number of letters from business
men from all parts of the country,
which tend to uphold the presidents
contention that business conditions
are good and that there is organ
lied effort on the part of big bust
ness" to postpone action on antitrust
legislation. ... George ThOs. Mayre,
Jr., Of San Francisco, Cal, has been
selected by President Wilson as
United States ambassador to Russia.
..... The board of aldermen of
Asheville, y. c., has changed the name
of South Main street in that city to
Biltmore avenue, as a mark of re-
Spect to the late Geo. w. Vanderbilt.
......... DR.. r. ID. Alderman Of New
York. specialist in mental and nerv-
Gus diseases, in recent address de-
clared that alcohol creates more in
sanity than all other causes cOmbin-
I'd. ..A nude body was taken from
the Mohawk river near Schenectady,
y. Y, Friday night, by fishermen.
The head, arms and legs had been
severed from the body. which was
Sewed in Il sack. The annual
marathon race from Windsor castle,
London, to the Chelsesa football
grounds, was won, Saturday, by
Djebelia, Frenchman.. Gail
Borden, millionaire manufacturer of
Burdens Matted Milk, is being sued
for divorce by his wife, who charges
deSertion President Wilson has
asked for the resignation of Henry l..
Johnson. AN Atlanta. Ga, Republi-
can negro. who is recorder of deeds
for the District of Columbia. .....
iiudman Wannamakcr has given the
name, America" to his flying boat,
now being constructed at HammOndS
port. y. Y, and which he hopes will
be able To fly across the Atlantic.
1890. Ty. cobb. the famous ball play |
er. was arrested i'm Detroit, Mich, |
night, charged with assault |
ing Harold Harding. butcher.
William f.. Mason, United States SEN
atOr from Illinois from 1897 to 1913. |
will again seek the Republican nom
iuation for that office. ......A turpen- |
tine still belonging to K. \. Bell of
Carlo, Ga. was destroyed by fire, Sat
inc