Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-02-05

throughout Yorkshire, England, Mon
day night. One miner was killed..
John p. Branch Of Richmond, a bank
er, reputed to be one Of the wealthiest
men in Virginia, died Tuesday. He
was "a years ld....... Nine members
Of the Macedonian Woodmen were
cremated at Maybury, Pa, Wednesday
morning as a result of a gas explosion
in a hall where they were holding a
celebration .....W N. Conoly, at
one time one Of the best known evan
gelists in the south, died in Tampa,
Fla, Tuesday. Last summer ].
w. Britain, a Valley Falls, Kan, farm
er, bought a pig for seventy-five cents.
The animal was killed the other day
and weighed 565 pounds, and sold for
$780,. ... Naval Liuet. o kluck,
eldest son Of Gen. Won Kluck, the
famous German commander, was kill
ed in an artillery battle January ~,
according to a dispatch OF Tuesday.
A bill to separate whites and negroes
on passenger vehicles in the District
of Columbia, vas favorably reported
to congress this week.. Riots grow
ing out of the agitation over the high
price of bread have been raging in va
rious parts Of Italy this week, strong
bodies Of troops being necessary to
preserve order. Mrs. George w.
Doyle and two Of her children were
burned to death Wednesday, when hre
destroyed their home near Cass, w.
Va.......D DR.. Len G.. B~roughton, for
merly Of Atlanta, Ga, has resigned as
pastor of Christ church, London. Ill
health is given as the reason for the
resignation. The whipping OF a
pupil by a school teacher near Mel
rose, Fla, Tuesday, resulted in a fight
in which William Yates, the teacher,
was killed and Claude Holtzendorf,
father of the pupil, was probably IA
tally wounded. .... Alexander Cam
O a millionaire tobacco man Of
Richmond, Va, died this week, aged
50 years. .....A. Hill, a rural mail
carrier running between Walnut Cove
and Danbury, NC, Is missing, togeth-
er with q mail pouch containing
$4,000. Albert H. Smith, a prom
inent real estate dealer Of Macon, Ca,
was drowned when a canoe into which
he had leaped from a sinking ferry
boat, capsized in the Oumugee river
near Holton. Ca, Wednesday,. .'....A
Joint resolution for an amendment to
the state constitution dividing Texas
into three states, has been introduced
in the Texas legislature.......A poll
Of the lower house Of the Pennsylva-
MIA legislature, shows that a majority
Of the members are in favor Of a local
option liquor law. A bill for state
wide prohibition has been introduced
in the house.. .Pieter Grobler, q
grandson of Paul Kruger, Is under ar
rest at Pretoria, South Africa, charged
with treason against the British gov
eminent. :. When the price Of bread
Is raised to 6 cents a loaf, it Is esti-
mated that New York's bread bill will
be increased SIC, SOC, 900 a year........
May wheat reached $1.65 a bushel in
Chicago, Tuesday. This is S cents a
bushel higher than the top price
reached in the James A. Patten deal
in 1909. Sheriff Houghton of Mid
dlesex county, N. j., who hired the
deputies charged with shooting strik-
ers at Roosevelt, N. j., about ten days
ago, has been placed in jail and will
probably have to face a charge OF
murder. One hundred and fifty
indictments have been returned
against Colorado labor leaders, charg-
ing murder, assault and arson. Twelve
Of the accused men are held in Jail
without bail. .... Mrs. Sophie Ghee,
known to the New York police as the
Opium Queen" was sentenced by
the Federal court in that city Tues
day, to pay a fine of $4,000 for SNUG
CLING. Because Of aid given by the
woman, eighteen men are to be tried
on the same charge.