Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-10-16
MERE-MENTION.

A Mercer, Pa, company has re-
celved an order for $4,000 sheet met
al tent slaves for use of the British
and French soldiers during the coming
winter. -. The body of Harry Woods,
secretary of state of Illinois. was
found in his garage, in the rear OF
his home at Springfield, Monday, a
suicide. No reason for the suicide is
given. .......A dispatch from Cape
Sarichef, Alaska, says that six men
were drowned near there on October
10, by the swamping of a boat be-
longing to the revenue cutter Man
ming. Eighteen students at Lehigh
university, Bethlehem, Pa, have ty-
phoid fever. The cause of the fever
is mystery. The United States
for the fall term, with 652 cases ready
for consideration q. New York city
will celebrate the 300th anniversary
of its founding on October 25th. 49,.
. r,tdiy of the Navy Daniels has
been spending this week making
campaign speeches in Tennessee,
Kentucky, West Virginia and Mary
land Macchi d Cellere, the
new Italian ambassador to the Unit
ed States. has arrived in Washington.
.... The Salvation Army of New
York, has been offered 100000 for
relief work in the belligerent countries
of Europe. 80. Frank Blacklidge OF
Chicago is suing Judge Kennesaw
NJ. Landis of the Federal court, for
SIS. 900 damage, because the judge
sent him to Jail for thirty days for
contempt of court. George Cas-
per, a farmland, of Ashland, Wis,
quarreling with his employer about
the European war, lured him into the
woods and killed him. He then COM
mitted suicide. United States Sem
ator James A. Reed of Wisconsin, is
lin bad" with his people at home on
account of his fighting the Wilson ad-
ministration. The senator is anxious
to try to make satisfactory eXplana-
tions. .... Italians throughout the
United States celebrated Columbus
Day, last Monday. An oil pipe
line is to be built from Tulsa, Okla.
to some point on the gulf. The line
will be coo miles long and will cost
about $1,000, 1000. ......A New York
commission firm has made contract
with buyers in the northwest to pur-
chase $50 carloads of apples.
The production of gold in the United
States last year amounted to 4,299.-
7S4 fine ounces, valued at $SS,SS4.-
800. CALIFORNIA; yield was the larg-
est of any state, it being 919,l14
ounces: Colorado was second and
Alaska third. The value of the sill
yer produced was 66,SO1.5OO ounces,
valued at $4O,34S, 900. go. The ele-
waited railways of New York city
during the year ending June 30, 1914,
handled 311.473 56S passengers. 49,.
\ cotton boulder fell 100 feet from
precipice and struck a fast pas
senger train near Giard Junction,
Col, Sunday. Four passengers were
killed and fourteen injured. .... The
pure shoe law" for the protection
of fraud in the manufacture of shoes,
has been declared valid by decision
of the Kansas supreme court.
Cardinal Petrio GaSparri, an Italian,
has been selected by the pope to sue
ceed Cardinal Ferratta as papal sec
retary of state. The PINK Doll
worm, which is said to be more de-
structive than the boil weevil, has
made its appearance near Madison,
Fla. Several persons were in
jured by a bomb explosion in Cath
Ollie church in New York, Tuesday.
The American BOttlerS' Protect
i've association met in Louisville, KY,
this week. more than 1000 delegates
are in attendance. The appellate
court, sitting in Chicago. on Tuesday,
ordered dismissed suit for an ac-
counting in the long drawn out liti-
gltion between the heirs of Col. y.
IC. Pabcock and former United States
Senator &. Il. Farewell and others,
over Texas land and cattle deal in
volvirg millions Of dollars. The
CruCihle Steel company of PittSburg.
has received an order for 5000 tons
of bavun"t and saber steel from the
French government. j. i. Nor
"an has offered To sell the Copper
River railroad in Alaska, to the gov
CrnmcEt Progressive ana DEM
ocrItic fuSOniStS in Utah. are making
4 strong effort to defeat United States
Senator Root for reelection.
Thirteen hundred conviCtS in the state
prison at Joliet, H., have signed a
pctition to the legislature, asking for
statr-w wide prohibition in that state.
.N convict picked the pocket OF
one Of a number of visitors at the
prison at auburn. y. Y. Tuesday. The
Mutual Welfare league, composed or
"orvictS, made the thief restore his
loot New York dispatch says
that the proposed fund of $lA0,OOOO 600
" the Wade bank syndicate. is prac-
ticallv assured. 49,. The Jones Phil
ippinps bill declaring ii To be the pur-
pose of this country, TO give lnde-
pcndence to the f'ilipinos rs soon as Il
stable government can be established
on the island, has passed the house.
The bill will not be passed in the SEN
ate.