Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-10-01
MERE.MENTiON

The freight steamer Isabel struck
submerged wreck / n Long isiano
sound Tuesday night and sank In ten
Fourteen members OF the
crew are reported as missing. -.
The turnover Of stocks on New
York Stock Exchange TUESDAY toIaIeo
~1,663;97S shares, the largest slngie
days business since SepteniDer o.
1911. Baldwin Locomotive WORKS
stock reached it's highest price at 15V
a share. BY the explosion OF q
tank car of g%asolene at Ardmore,
okla. Monday, A lives were lost ano
q large portion Of the city recke
The explosion was caused by q sparh
from a machipist's hammer.
49th annual encampment or the Crane
Army OF the Republic was held ID
Washington this week. Presloen'
Wilson delivered the address OF WEI
come to the veterans la snip .!
irving at Philadelphia Tuesday, lncluo-
ed in its cargo 3,341 cases OF German
made toys. The ship came from ROT
Compulsory military ed
ucation for all youths over IA years o.
age. with exemption from poll taxes
for those serving three years In the
militia. Is being advocated by Govern
or Walsh Of Massachusetts,. -. Troop
of General Carranza have captures
the city of Torreon, Mexico, from VII
10 forces The enrolment at Har'
ward university this year is 4,26s...::
r. l. Smith, serving q sentence OF ~
DAYS on the city farm OF columbus
Ga, for q misdemeanor, was brownies
Wednesday when he attempted TO es-
cape from his prison by swimming tne
Chattahooche river while shackieo'
His sentence would have expired wed
IL. -,nhf Tho main business
block and twenty-five residences IN
Sufferin, N. Y, were destroyed by nre
Tuesday night. Nc lives were LOST.
The italian battleship Benedetto Brln
was destroyed by fire, on Brindls
Italy. this week. 1t Is said thai the
fire was accidental. A portion OF the
crew was saved. Thomas St John
CARNEY, American consul general al
Munich, Germany, has been asked py
the United States government TO re-
sign his post because OF partisan Ut
terances on the European war;.
While his lawyers were arguing ms
cause in the Asheville, n. c., police
court Tuesday, Monroe Hensley,
charged with selling liquor, boldly
walked out of the courthouse and
made his escape. He has not been re-
captured. 49,. Captain John L. Knapp,
commandment of the Philadelphia navy
yard, died Of apoplexy in Philadelphia
Tuesday. He was So years old.......
Sergeant Edward c. Thompson OF the
Sixth corps Of u. 8. marines at o
au Prince, Haiti, was killed by Haltlen
rebels this week while returning 70
CAMP. Eugene F. Schmidt, de-
posed as mayor Of San Francisco at
the time of the graft prosecutions In
hat city in 1906-07, failed to come
back in the primary held in a Fran
cisco, Tuesday. being Overwhelmingly
defeated by Mayor James Rolph.....
Washington Irving Morley, son Of a
wealthy Kansas City contractor, sho'
and killed Mrs. Mary Whitney, a piano
player in a Chicago, ILL.,, cafe Tuesday
and then killed himself. ...... Five
men were killed and clever others
were wounded when a train dashed
through a gang of trackmen who were
working in a railway tunnel at Phoe-
nixville, Pa, Tuesday. Rabbi Man
Samfield, n Of the best known Jew
ish rabbis in the south, died at his
home in Memphis, Tenn, this week,
aged II years.. $50. Mrs. Henry Cabot
Lodge, wife Of United States Senator
Lodge Of Massachusetts,, died sudden
ly this week.. The first snow OIL
the season in England fell yesterday
morning.. .... One man vas killed and
twenty others were imprisoned by an
explosion in a mine at Hanna City,
Ill, yesterday. .....A railroad section
foreman and 16 negro section work.
ers were drowned during the severe
storm at Manshac. La, this week..
Rev. DR.. John Wesley Hill, we'll known
as a lecturer On politics and peace, lis
being sued for $1,000 by Miss Luz
Gle Ccvington of New York, for alleg-
ed breach Of promise. AT yester-
days session of the Farmers National
congress at Omaha, Neb., Presiden:
Wilson's foreign policy was endorsed
......M. Weinstein, a Jew, has been
elected a member of the Russian coun-
sci of the empire. He is the first Jew
to be elected to that body. Among
the British officers killed in the fight
ing in France this week were Lieut..
General Sir Thompson Capper ano
Major General G.. H. TheSinger.