Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-01-08


Thelma, having been rescued in Mid.
Atlantic three weeks ago. The Pill
grim was bound from Newport News
Va, to Buenos Aires, and foundered
during heavy storm. 80. Italy has
| succeeded in floating a loan Of $780,
| 100000 for military purposes. ......
| Among the presents sent to the French
| soldiers fighting at the front, there
were included 100000 gallons OF
! wine. go. "A Philadelphia lumber yart
fire started Sunday morning and
burned for % hours, destroying prop
erty valued at $1,000. 900. ....A bomb
| flinders, was discovered In Catholic
church at Patterson, N. j., Sunday
..... London hotel men are trying tc
| induce Americans to visit that city
by advertising to See London in wal
time. 80. Fire broke out in the
capitol building at Madison, Wis.
Monday. while Emanuel L. Phillips
was being inaugurated as governor
The fire damage was slight. Three
unmasked robbers entered the Central
bank at Little Rock, Ark, Monday
and after locking the cashier, teller
and a woman stenographer In the
vault, made their escape with $4,000
800. The city of st. Louis, Mo-, or
ing company on a lighting contract
that has been in the courts for four
teen years. The amount involved was
| $100, 900. Seven hundred employees
of fertilizer factory at Roosevelt
N. j., went on a strike, Monday, de-
manding shorter hours and more
pay. The 1915 tax rate Of Lancas-
ter county, Pa, will be 21-2 mills on
the dollar. This levy will raise $3.50,
sos. :. Fire losses in the United
States and Canada during the year
ending on December 81, aggregated
1926, $50, an increase Of $1,000,
900, over the previous year. The larg-
est single months losses were In
June, when the total was s29,S4S000
The biggest single fire was at Salem
Mass, with a loss of more than $13.
000, 900. 80. Rev. Billy Sunday began
his ten weeks revival meeting In
Philadelphia, Sunday. The evangelist
preached three times during the day
and his auditors at the three services
totaled $4,000 people. The Grecian
government has instructed all Cana
dian reservists to report in Greece on
March 1..... Mrs. Chas. R. Burner
and her three children were killed In
their home near Lura, Va, this week
by William Nichols, who later COM
mitted suicide. Jealousy caused the
crime. "A policeman and gunman
were killed and a hold-up man was
fatally injured in pistol fight be-
tween robbers and policemen in Chi
cago, Tuesday. DIR. Chas. w
Chancellor, chief surgeon in General
Pickett's brigade buring the civil war
died in Washington this week. aged
S3 years. go. Gov. Stuart and Sena-
tor Swanson Of Virginia, have asked
President Wilson to appoint ]. E. b
Stuart Of Norfolk, Va, grandson OF
the famous Confederate cavalry lead
er. a cadet to West Point. 80. Three
men were killed at Jennings, La, this
week, when a brick wall under which
they were working. collapsed. .......
Gen. Jesus CaranZa. brother of the
famous Mexican chieftain, is being
held q prisoner by soldiers Of General
Villa. 80. The comptroller Of the cur
rency on Tuesday. called for report
of the condition Of the National banks
at the close Of business. December 81
$500. Policeman Thos. j. Williams of
Chicago. for the past twenty five
years. to the Spaulding school for
crippled children. this week, decided
to resign rather than give up his care
of lame boys and girls. The police
department had transferred him to
other duties. -. Edward OFT. a sail
or on the battleship Florida. at New
York, was killed in a boxing match
last Saturday. 49,. John Burke, form
er manager of the commissionary de-
partment of the Panama canal, will
be tried in New York next month on
the charge Of accepting a bribe. Col.
Goethals and former President Roose-
welt will testify against him. The
American Round Bale Press Co.. cor
poration capitalized at s6.000.000 has
voluntarily filed a petition in bank
ruptcy. Governor Hooper Of Ten
neSsee in message to the Legislature
this week. advocated the honor sys-
tenn" of working convicts. BY this
system, prisoners are worked without
having to wear shackles or be guard
ed. -. Napoleon Lajoie. for thirteen
years second baseman Of the Cleve-
land American baseball team. will
play with the Philadelphia American
league team next year. 80. Gen. j.
S. Carr Of Durham, n. c.. has offered
reward for the arrest and conviction
of the person who dynamited the
monument to Prof Mitchell on Mount
Mitchell. near Asheville N. c.. last
week. go. Directors Of the Savannah
Ga. cotton exchange have decided to
send formal protest to the British
government against the interference
in London with cablegrams sent by
he exchange to foreign countries.
Federal troops that have been station
ed in northern Colorado coal fields
since last April were withdrawn last
Tuesday. The supreme court OF
Connecticut has handed down a de-
cision holding that some 200 Con.
necticut labor union members must
pay the sum of s252.190.09 to the firm
of D. f. Lowe & Co.. Of Danbury
Corn. as damages for nation wide
boycott against the manufacturers
who refused to unionize their shops
The case has been in the court for
eleven years. -. Miss Jessie Cope
plead mot guilty" in Chicago, Tues
day. when arraigned on the charge OF
attempting to bribe Federal officials
to aid her in obtaining $50 600 from
wealthy man by threat of prosecu-
tion. 80. William F. Barnhardt a
collector for the Daily Telegraph. OF
Macon Ga, was stabbed to death by a
! negro boy in that city, Tuesday. .....
J. K. Hall a former Pennsylvania
congressman and prominent in the
politics Of that state, died in Tampa
Fla. this week. The steamship
City Of Savannah left Washington
y. c.. this week carrying $500 bales
| Of cotton to Rotterdam Holland. go.
Three men were electrOcuted in the
New Jersey state prison at Trenton
| Monday. 1t was the first triple cleo
trocution since the electric chair had
been installed. Arthur Martin a
| boy. was killed. and William Butler. a
policeman was wounded in n pistol
| battle in Bartlesville Okla. this week
Martin and companion had held W
and robbed a hotel clerk. .... Car
| rama forces have taken the city ri
Pueba Mexico. after a long siege
About 900 prisoners and ninety can
| non were taken.
! Germany does not expect legisla
| tion in this country to prevent eNpor-
| tation of arms and ammunition to the