Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-09-04
MERE MENTION

According to q TOXIC ulSpdtSh' nv
than fifty Japanese are oeing uiilaw
fullv detained in Germany. .Tne
ioint congressional committee on ran
way mail pay, last Tuesday submitted
q final report recommending a law
which would increase annual compen-
sation to the railroads about s5'VVO,
mn Deciding that he wished TO hVe
after all. Frank Cain, l9-year-olu
boy of Sanderville, Ga, rusheu 10 d
hospital after drinking a dimes worth
of carbolic acid and begged TO De SaV-
ed. Medical assistance proVeu ar;nnsiv Tr W
avail. Five persons were seriously
injured when Grand Rapids and lnal-
ana passenger train was ditched near
Kalamazoo, Mich, Tuesday. .Russell
Foresman of Allenwood, Pa, WearlHs
a red tie. was attacked and seriously
gored by a vicious bull, Tuesday. Ine
bull could not stand the color OF the Tic:
Lieut.. Archer Windsor ChVe' ot
the Cold Stream Guards, second son ot
the Earl of Plymouth, is deao as tne
result of wounds received at Moiis'
Belgium. The third battalion OF the
First u. S. infantry, comprising ZSo
men. now at Fort Wright, Spokane
Wash, has been ordered TO Fort VII
liam Henry Harrison, near Helena
Mont. to await developments In the
troubled mining districts. go. .tTlenos
of James w. Gerard, present Unlteu
States minister to Germany, nave an
nounced his candidacy Tor the CiHteu
States senate from the state or New
York. Senator Reed Smoot OF Utah'
has been renomnated by acclamation
nv the Utah state Republican conven-
tion Among the 3SS rich tourists
reaching New York, Tuesday, on the
Italian steamer Principessa Matalda,
were some who paid as much as S''oVo
for their accommodations and passage
The excursion boat, City OF Chl-
cago, caught fire twelve miles out III
Lake Michigan, early Tuesday morn
ing. No help being near, the captain
ordered his engines full speed ahead,
and in 40 minutes he jambed his boat
into the government pier on the Chlca-
90 water front. The 300 passengers
were safely landed. The boat was bad
ly damaged and partially sunk at the
pier. ..A painter at Ellzaoetn' fa''
on Tuesday, got tangled in an electric
feed wire carrying ll,0OO VOLTS. Al
though rendered insensible, he Will re-
cover. The seaman's bill, which has
been before congress for a year or
more, after being passed by poth
houses, has been e-tracKed 10 the
conference committee, and IT Is expect
ed that the bill will die in committee,
because il contains items that mghl
shipping under present conditions.
The eleventh annual encampment OF
the Veterans of the Spanish American
war is in session at Louisville, KY.
The Russian government is losing $780,
OOO 900 a month by prohibiting the sale
of beer and spirits throughout the EN-
pire during the mobilization of troops,
and it is probable that the prohibition
will continue until the end of the war.
.. VIM. Waldorf Astor has contrib
uted 100000 to the British Red Cross
society. .....An unsuccessful attempt
was made to wreck a Canadian troop
train, 80 miles west of Montreal, Mon
day morning on the Canadian North
ern railway Three liners from Eu-
ropean ports, landed 1,60O American
refugees in New York, Monday. Many
Of these were unable to pay their pass
age and this was paid by the United
States government. The American
Red Cross society has chartered the
Hamburg American liner, Hamburg,
for use on the European relief trip,
which will take more than hundred
doctors and nurses to the war zone.
The Hamburg will sail from New York,
tomorrow, and will be manned by
American officers. +. F. Davis, state
electrician of New York, in charge OF
electric executions, has resigned the
Superintended two electrocutions at the
Auburn prison on Monday. The
annual New York horse show has been
abandoned for this year, because of the
seizure of many bloOded horses in Eu-
rope for war service. 1t is estimated
that l,4O0, 900 school children will be
enrolled in the schools of the 1850
school districts of Pennsylvania this
fall. BroOding over the war, Jacob
Keener, 50 years old, German, COM
mitted suicide by drowning himself
near Lancaster, Pa, Monday. Ivan
d. Chandler, sergeant of the West
Virginia National Guard, on Monday,
won the National Rifle association rap
id fire match at Sea Girt, Nj, making
a perfect score of 100. "A PennSylva-
MIA automobile company is building a
large number of armOred automobiles
for a foreign government, supposedly
Great Britain. Mrs. George GoethalS,
wife of the builder Of the Panama ca
nal, was arrested in France shortly
after the war began, as a German spy.
After considerable trouble she proved
her identity by her marriage certifi-
cate, and was released by the French
men with profuSe apologies. $500.
CONGRESSMAN ThOs. w. Hardwick was
on Wednesday nominated for the
short term senatOrship by the Georgia
Democratic convention on the fOur-
teenth ballot. Gov. SlatOn and At
torney General Fielder were the other
candidates. ..... Jules Nedrines, the
famous French aviator, working with
the army of France, says that the
wings of his biplane have been pune
tured many times by German bullets.
one day as many as thirty-seven bull
let holes were made. ..... Prince Won
Buelow, commander of one of the Ger