Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-04-09
MERE.MENIION

A. c. Link, postmaster at Hickory,
N. c., died Tuesday. Edward N.
Woodruff, Republican, was reelected
mayor Of Peoria. ILL.,, last Tuesday.
He is now serving his fourth term as
mayor. lone thousand bales Of cot
ton were destroyed by fire at Troy,
Ala, Tuesday night. -. William Hale
Thompson, Republican, was on Tues
day elected mayor Of Chicago, Ill, de-
feating Robert M. SweitZer, his Demo-
cratic opponent, by a plurality. OF
about 10000 votes. -. Unofficial re-
turns from sixteen Michigan counties
in which the question Of local option
regarding the sale of liquor was the
issue Tuesday, show that the prohfbi-
tionists were successful In fourteen
Of the counties. .....1n the Federal
court at Indianapolis, Indiana, last
Tuesday, Mayor Don M. Roberts and
twenty-one other citizens OF Terre
Haute, were found guilty Of conspir-
acy to corrupt the voters in the mu-
nicipal election Of last November. 49,.
Curtis Guild, formerly United States
minister to Russia and at one time
Boston this week. New YORK
Stock Exchange seat sold Wednesday
for $4S, 900, an advance Of $500 over
the last previous sale.......F. Hop
kinson Smith, author and artist, died
at his home in Washington, D. c., this
week. aged II years. 80. AT army
~manoeuvre near Talco, Chile, We'd
nesday, two Chilean officers weres kill
ed by the fall of a military aeroplane.
...... Moving pictures Of the Willard
Johnson prize fight, which was held
in Havana, Monday, are prohibited
from exhibition in the United States
on account of a Federal law which ex-
pressly forbids the interstate trans
portation of fight films The home
of Vice President Marshall in Indian
apolis, Ind, was entered by burglars
this week.. 1914 woman suffrage
amendment was rejected by the Con-
necticut house Of representatives on
Wednesday, by a vote Of 124 to 1O6.
.....Gov. Whitman of New York, has
signed a bill recently passed, by which
needy mothers are pensioned. 49,.
Jess Willard, champion heavyweight
pugilist Of the world, has declared
that he will never again fight a negro
boxer. Willard says he will fight no
more battles within a year.. Grown
Princess Cecelie Of Germany. gave
birth to a daughter this week.......A
bill submitting the question Of terri
torial prohibition at the general cleo
ton November 4, 1916, passed the
lower house Of the Alaska legislature
this week, IA to 2. 1t now goes to
the senate. ..... The Florida house Of
representatives on Wednesday passed
a resolution endorsing President Will
son and the national administration.
-. THE United States cruiser Chatta-
nooga has been dispatched to Nicara-
qua on account of a revolution in that
country. 800. Several persons were
burned to death in a fire which de-
stroyed a hotel in Toledo, o., this
week. .... One hundred and fifty
aeroplanes for the Russian army, ar
rived IN Tacoma, Wash, last night
for shipment to Vladivostock, Russia.
......A new movement of the old
Culebra cut slide on the west bank of
the canal on yesterday, closed UP the
canal. Several ships are now tied up
on account of the slide. .... The
French general in command Of the
army of the Vosges, with the consent
Of Gen. Joffre. has forbidden pur-
chase or sale of spirituous liquors in
the territory occupied by his army.
Carl Busch, one Of the owners Of the
large Busch breweries, died in Pas
edena, Cal, yesterday, aged SO years.