Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-11-27
MERE MENTION

until the second Oh next JUNE W llldh'
good to former creditors. He will begir
life over again and endeavor TO make
good President Wilson has com
muted to one year and day, the sen
tence of G. P. Strow Of Dallas, Tex.
convicted of conspiracy to ship liquor
to Indian territory. ..... .Cardina
Aristides Cavallari, patriarch of Venice
died in that city, Tuesday. ..... United
States Senator Isaac Stephenson o
Wisconsin, is seriously i'll. He is S;
years old. The United State:
transport Hancock, with 500 marine:
aboard, has been sent to San Domingo
on account Of another revolution in tina
country. School authorities Of
Pittsburgh, Pa, have decided that NJ
more maps of Europe will be purchas
ed for use in the schools OF that city
until the warning nations have set
tied down and quit changing European
geography. :. The president Of Guate-
mala has issued a decree intended tc
restrict the immigration Of negroes
which decree requires each negro i'm.
migrant to deposit $50 in gold with
the government, the money to be re-
turned when he leaves the country.
The stock exchange opened in Chica-
60 Monday, for the first time since
war was declared in Europe. Stocks
listed on the New York stock eX.
change were turned in and brought as
good or better prices than they did or
the day the exchanges were closed or
July 80. Gen. Funston and tine
United States troops evacuated Vera
Cruz, Mexico, according to previous
announcement sailing for Galveston or
army transports. On the transports
were 4,044 officers and men of the
Of
and 52S regulars. The men Of the army
will remain at Texas City, so as to be
near the border in case there is need
for further service in Mexico. .... The
Illinois Steel company at Chicago, put
1,500 men to work, Monday, after al
idlenesS Of three weeks. The super
intendent of the plant is quoted as
saying that he will soon have the full
force Of 10000 men at work. .... John
Laws, SO years old, died at Hillsboro
y. c., Monday, after having held the
office Of register of deeds of Orange
county Of 81 years. He was elected
first in 1850, and held the office con-
tinuously until his death. Laws leaves
three children by his second wife, tC
whom he was married at the age OF
Sc. ..... The English house of lords
has agreed to petition King George fol-
the erection Of a national monument
to the late Lord Roberts, parliament
paying the cost. ..... Mrs. John K
Drexel and her daughter, Miss Alice
Gordon DreXel Of Newport R. l., are
being sued for 100000 each, by a
young French woman, a maid, who was
injured in an automobile accident when
Miss DreXel was driving the car.
Armin Futchs banker Of New Bruins
wick, was killed in an automobile ac-
cident at Metuchen, n. j., Monday. -.
Marie PalancarZ, 20 years old, lost her
life at Wilkes Barre, Pa, by fire, Mon
day, while trying to save her purse
containing 20 cents. Plans for the
building Of a new railroad line from
Pittsburgh, Pa, to New York, are un-
der way to be known as the New York
Pittsburgh and Chicago railroad. The
line will be almost an airline between
New York and the Pennsylvania city
and will be 81 miles shorter than any
existing lines. The Hartman estate
is behind the project. "A London
man with mathematical turn of mind
calculates that in the present Euro
pean war, the weight Of bullets re-
quired to kill man is 16S pounds
more than the weight Of the average
man. Corporal Paul MaZur of the
i6th Canadian regiment, is under ar
rest at Toronto, charged with high
treason. He is Canadian born OF
Austrian parents, and he is accused OF
attempting to help three Austrian re-
Servists to leave Canada. The penal
ty is death. .... Governor Carey of
Wyoming, has issued an appeal to the
people of his state to donate flour fol
the Belgians. The first reply was a
carload from Sheridan. The last OF
the six 14-inch guns that are to guard
orla a. n
and are to be mounted as early as
possible. . One of the state district
court judges of Minnesota, has handed
down a decision holding the minimum
wage act passed by the 1913 legisla
ture, to be unconstitutional. ......
Adam y. BOggs, a widely known
Florida lawyer, and Marjorie Boggs,
his 1S-year-old daughter, were killed
with an axe at their country home,
near Miami. Fla. Wednesday. The
home was then burned in an effort to
conceal the crime. .AnastaSlouS
LoiZeOZ, found Saturday living over a
cafe in the heart of st. Louis, Mo-,
has been declared a leper.. Gov
ernor Major of Missouri, has issued
proclamation setting aside Decem-
ber 8, as Charity day for relief con-
tributions for the destitute of Eu-
intermittent investigation of the Prai-
rie Creek, Arkansas, mining troubles,
involving disagreements between coal
interests and miners ended Wednes-
day when the special grand jury ad-
journed after returning 3b indict-
ments, all charging conspiracy ard
contempt of court, against "a persons.
all members of the United Mine
Workers Of America. .... Governor
Coluuitt of Texas, has honored extra
dition papers issued by Governor
Hooper of Tennessee, for Lilo Prince,
wanted in the latter state in connec-
ton with the circulation OF counter
felt Mexican money. The appellate
court of New York, has reversed the
ruling of the state supreme court,
the trial of the $4,000 suit brought
by William Rarnes. the Republican
leader of New York. against Colonel
Roosevelt Mr.. Roosevelt sought the
change. Richard Croker, former
Tammany leader, aged q. was mar
ried in New York, yesterday. to Miss
Beulah Benton EdmonSon. 23. men,
Der of the Cherokee Indian tribe. -.
Secretary of State Bryan emphatically
denies the report that he VIII re-
tire from President Wilson's cabinet
next March. .FpftN-tnTee persons
have been rescued and eighteen bodies
washed up from the wreck of the
schooner Hanaler. which went to
pieces on DuXburs reef, nine miles
from the Golden Gate, San Francisco,
Tuesday. Governor Hunt of Ari-
Zona. who sponsored the anti-capital
punishment bill, recently defeated in
a referendum election, says he will
invite all the leading capitalists, who
he charges defeated the bill. to wit
ness the eleven hangings in the peni-
tentiary in December. 1890. Andrew
Carnegie celebrated his 18th birthday
i'm New York. Tuesday, and says. i
am still a young man." ......The Brit
ish prize court has ordered the release
of the British ship Miramichi, loaded
with wheat. which sailed from Gal
weston before the war began, with its
cargo destined for Il German firm, and
captured as a prize of war. The
number Of Belgians now dependent on
soup kitchens, is placed at one million
and Il half Miss Corn Patterson,
12 wears old. Of Caldwell, Kan, has
cultivated four acres Of wheat the past
season. doing practically ali the work
herself. except harvesting, and got II
WELD of ISIS bushels. ..... Cotton en-
ports from United States ports. Tues
dav. tOtaled 64.S04 bales, 51.I6S bales
going to Great Britain. : $50 To con-
tincntal Europe. and the balance Ia
Mexico. Japan and China.