Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-06-19
FRIDAY, JUNE 1e, 1914.
MERE MENTION.

respondents in London, Monday, that
he would have plenty to say on poll
ties when he got home. He SAID ne
would talk politics for about -FOUR
months. The death of six sailors on
board the British oil ship San Valerie
on May 22, was reported When the YES
sci reached Philadelphia Monoay' me
tragedy occurred May %, while the
vessel was laying off TuXpan, Mexico.
one man was asphyXiated in the hold
of the vessel and the other five lost
their lives trying to rescue the body OF
their companion. ..... the ntl-local
option contributions for use in the re-
cent primary elections in Pennsylvania
are said to have totaled more than
S5OO,OOO. The largest slush fund ever
raised for a primary campaign, is the
way one Pennsylvania Democrat ue
ccrihed il Two motors OF lOO
horsepower each, are to be lnstaIleu "
drive the big aeroplane which Rodman
Wannamaker of Philadelphia, is nav
ing built and which he hopes VIII De
able to make trans Atlantic flgnt. :
Twenty-Five election inspectors OF the
Twelfth assembly district OF New
York. Chas. F. Murphy's home district
have plead guilty of misdemeanors IN
connection with election frauds In q
tion. The amendment carried over
whelmingly in the Twelfth district.
The states of Kansas, Nebraska ana
oklahoma will produce almost one
third of the estimated 900,000.OOO BUSH
81 wheat crop of the United states thls
wear. Three commissioners from
China, who will have charge OF the
Chinese exhibit at the Panama -Paclnc
exposition, have arrived at San fran
yi1
expenditure of S700,0OO including
permanent pavilion to cost $4,000
which will be presented TO the United
States at the close Of the eXposlton'
Dorothy Schless, a Brooklyn. n.
V girl was operated on Monday in the
hope that she might be cured OF way
Wardness. The operation was to re-
move pressure from the brain, Whlch
was said to cause her deficiency.
The government has filed SUITS against
the Southern Pacific railroad, ana va
rious oil companies, in an effort to re-
cover so 600 acres of mineral lands IN
California During the recent strike
in Italy. the strikers burned sixteen
churches. damaged forty and looted
twenty-three others Much railroad
and telephone property was DESTROYED
Fourteen thousand acres OF the
finest redwood lands OF Callfornla, are
to be converted into national reserve
park. Evangelist Slough has end
ed a seven weeks evangelistic meeting
at HaZleton. Pa. There were 5.l2l
professed conversions. Five hun
dred coal miners went on a strike at
Wilkes Barre. Pa, Monday, because
boy driver was discharged for kllllnS q
mule. =. Two Armenians, members Oh
the BLACK Hand" society, were on
Monday sentenced to the PennsylVa-
fnf. N
Years each on charges or blacKmall
The National Society of DGugh-
ters of the Revolution is holding its
twenty-third annual session at Mime
apolis. MINI. .Acial A. Williett dled
nj AmericuS Ga. Monday night, aged
100 wears. .W. r. Green, well-to-
do farmer. was killed by lightning near
Flat Rock. Ga, Monday. Seven men
were burned to death and twenty Sc
riOusly injured in a lodging house nre
at Milford Mass, Tuesday. -. James
G, Fargo. for 80 years president of the
American Express Co.. has resigned
that office Congressman William M.
Calder of Brooklyn, Republican, is TO
be a candidate for the senatorial seat
now occupied by Senator Elihu ROOT:
of New York. England has started
the organization of volunteer clvllan
patrols TO circumvent arson on the part
of suffragettes. The first duty of the
patrols will be the protection OF
churches. The fourteenth annual
convention of the Tobacco Association
of the United States is now in session
at Louisville Ky. y....Twenty-hVe mem
bers of the Russian bar have been
placed on trial in ST Petersburg, Rus
sia accused of insulting the Russian
ministry of justice in connection with
the case of Mendel Beiliss who was
1az m
ritual murder. The North caro-,
lima Medical society held its annual
meeting in Raleigh, N. c.. this week :;
With Lord Mersey. a distinguished
British jurist, presiding, government
court of inquiry is now investgatlno
the cause of the collision which sank
the steamer. Empress of Ireland,
some weeks ago. About seventy-five
witnesses have been subpoenaed. ....
Mrs. Dollie McCarley who killed her
husband several weeks ago. at Char
lesion. w. Va, after he had attacked
her with a hatchett. has been eXhoner.-
ated by Kanawha county grand
Jury. Representative Of the Ameri-
can Electric Railway association ap-
peared before the senate this week ana
asked that body to exempt street rail-
wavs and interurban lines from pro-
visions of the railway securities Dill.
William Butler HOrnblower. associate
Justice Of the court of appeals of New
York. died in I4itchfield, Conn. this
week after long illness. He was re-
rarded as one of New YOrk's foremost
lawyers The Train DiSpatchers
Association of America. is in session
this week in Jacksonville, Fla. En- :
tv men were cremated in Sre whlch
DESTROYED a pulp mill in Moscow. Rus
sia Wednesday. Bennett Burlelgh
a famous war correspondent dled al
RreX Hill England. Wednesday. after
q nrotracted illness. The treasury
department has announced that CO.
Operative dairieS and farmers insur-
ance ComnanieS arc liable to the in
come Sir edward Gray. the
British foreign secretary gave a lunch
con in honor of Colonel Roosevelt this
week. Rural credits legislation has
been side-traCked by congress and the
subject will not come up during the
present session. The Tel Hung. a
cruiser. built at Camden. n. J.. for
the Chinese government. and sold by
il to the government of Greece, viii
leave the yard of the builders in few
davS for Greece. The vessel was re-
christened the Eli. .... Because OF the
widespread epidemic of smallpox al
Galveston. army surgeons are TeartuI
that il will be communicated 10 some
Of the thousands O1 regular u"opS a'
Texas City. and start an epidemic
among the soldiers. 80. James Camp.
bell a utility manufacturer. who dice
recently in st. Louis. Mo-. willed ms
residuary estate of more than $35 OOO.'
600. after the death Of his wife and a
daughter. To the st. Louis University
for the establishment of a hospital anC
the promotion of the sciences of med
iCine and surgery" The body ol
Warren McCarrick. an S-year-old boy
who disappeared from his home IN
Philadelphia ON March -. and caused
\ nation n-wide search on the theory
that he had been kidnapped, was
found i'm the Delaware river, Tuesday
.....An English polo team on Tues
day. won the second of series 0
three games at MeadOwbrooK. L. |.
thereby taking back to Great Britain
the famous West Chester cup. More
than 40 coo witnessed the game.
The house naval committee has refus
ed To agree to an item in the naval ap
prnpriation bill. proposed by Secretary
Daniels, to sell the old battleships Ida
no and Mississippi to Greece. Sur
yivnrs of the General Slocum disasteI
h, I nm victims were lost in th'