Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-01-12
MERE. M ENTlON


200 small Chicago bakeries have been
compelled to close their doors be-
cause of the high price of -four.
G. F. Stringer, Jr., of the firm OF
Stringer & Co., Of the New York
stock exchange, committed suicide,
Saturday, following the forced sus-
pension Of his firm on account or the
high advance in the price OF wheat.
Mrs. Robert Van Looey, wire
Of a soldier in the Belgian army, ana
her three children, were found
strangled to death in their home In
Montreal, Canada, Saturday. The
police have no clew to the murderer.
80. Twenty-Five thousand voters
mostly Democrats, have signed a pc.
tition asking Governor McCreary OF
Kentucky. to parole Henry Youtsey,
the only man Of forty accused of
complicity in the murder Of Governor
william Goebel in 1890, who Is still
in prison. Coffee stands will be
established by the Women's Christian
Temperance union in Hoboken, n. j.,
to compete with saloons for the trade
of the German sailors interned aboard
German liners there. or 2,2O0
persons arrested in Topeka, capital
of the prohibition state of Kansas,
on 81 different charges last year, 10!
were arrested on the charge OF
drunkenness. William L. Jerome
has been appointed a special deputy
attorney general Of the state or New
York, to prosecute Harry x. Thaw
when Thaw Is returned to that state
from New Hampshire. The que
bee provincial government has de-
cided to contribute S40,o90 year 10
the relief of distress in France, ere
atad hy the war Jack John
son, the negro champion heavyweight
pugilist Of the world, and Jess Will
lard, a whit fighter, will engage In
a forty-five round bout at Juarez,
Mexico, on March 49,. Secretary
of the Interior Redfield on Saturday.
presented Capt. Paul H. Keribohm or
the Red Star liner Kroonland, with
watch for the heroic rescue of the
steamship Volturno's survivors in Oc-
tober, 1918. officers and crew or
the Kroonland received medals. ....::..
The steamer John Hardie, Maryland
relief ship to the Belgians. carrying
foodstuffs valued at S46o'Oo0, went
ashore off Norfolk, Va, Saturday
The vessel was later floated without
injury. The Atlanta. Ga, board
of education has turned down an Of
fer of free tickets to motion picture
house for every pupil in the city
schools, taking the ground that
this step would lend the schools to
further advertising the moving pic
ture hsow. Gen. Guttirez an
nounced to the convention in Mexico
City, Friday night, that the warning
factions have negotiated practicai
solution Of the problem of pacihcation
in Mexico. "A monster celepratlon
of the peace centenary between
yrtt
held in New Orleans, last week. .....
A regiment of United States marines
has encamped on the Panama-Pa-
cific exposition grounds. where they
will remain throughout the exposition
period Former Governor Hodges
of Kansas, has entered the lecture
platform in the interest OF prohlpl-
ton. Two men were killed at
Clinton, n. c., Saturday, when
scaffold on which they were working,
cola psed 80. There is an epidemic
of smallpox in Chattanooga, Tenn.
The United States weather bureau
on Friday, issued warnings for Hood
stage on the Cape Fear and Roanoke
rivers in North Carolina, and on the
low reaches Of the great Peedee, In
South Carolina. .....: TWO ROBBERS
killed a policeman who discovered
them in the act, blew the safe in
depot in the suburbs of st. Louis,
and escaped, Saturday. Twenty
eight British officers and men tenn
porarily detached from service on
European battlefields. reached New
York, Saturday, on their way to Beth
lehem, Pa, to inspect large Quanti-
ties of ammunition for the British
army, for which Charles M. Schwab
obtained orders while abroad. ......
Representative Post Of Ohio has pro-
posed an expenditure Of S24O,0Oo,-
600 for the fertilization and increases
in the navy, in a bill which he IN
troduced in congress last week. -.
80. The Peruvian government mas
ordered DR.. Billinghurst, former pres
ident Of Peru, to leave the country.
80. Fire in Lexington, Va, last
Friday, caused a loss Of 50,O0O.....
The cotton loan committee at New
York, announced Friday, that 1t had
made it's first loan. the application
being made through the Alabama
committee. The amount Of the loan
and the name Of the applicant were
not disclosed. .... Railroads ope-
rating in Kansas have filed petition
with the railroad commission or that
state, asking that they be allowed to
increase their passenger rate from
two to three cents mile. The rail-
roads allege that business has slump
ed greatly in the past year, owing 10
the increased number Of automobiles
in Kansas. 80. The Virginia supreme
court of appeal on Friday, decided
that Bishop S. Harold, Harvard
graduate and college chum OF Vincent
Astor, must pay fine of 500 impos-
ed on him in a magistrates court IN
Charles City county, Va, several
months ago, for not aiding two wo-
men in a carriage when their horses
became frightened by his automobile.
Harrold's defense was that he did not
want to get his trousers dirty.
The biggest wedding ever held among
Sioux Indians in Nebraska, was cele-
brated at Chadron, Neb., last week,
when James Galligo, a white ranch-
man, married Miss Josephine Rich
ards, granddaughter of Red Cloud,
one of the most famous of the Sioux
chieftains. ... Heavy, unreasonable
rains throughout Cuba last week, cul-
minated Thursday night in a torrential
downpour, completing the destruc-
ton of the tobacco crop in all parts
Of the island. The sugar cane was
also seriously damaged. The
French cabinet has approved a meas
ure for the submission to parliament
making permanent the prohibition or
the sale Of absinthe and similar liquor
in France. The government finds
that the military decree forbidding
absinthe has benefited the people.
...... The British ambassador at
Washington has informed Secretary
Bryan, that the English government
will pay damages to the families OF
Walter Smith, an American, who was
killed, and Charles Dorsch, who was
wounded by Canadian militiamen,
while near Fort Erie, on December
%. Relief vessels, carrying sup
plies for the Belgians, valued at
s950,000, left Baltimore and Boston,
Thursday. ........ Following the dis
aster in the New York subway last
Wednesday morning, in which several
hundred people were suffocated, eight
official investigations into the causes
Of the accident were begun. ....: In
an address at Pittsburgh, Pa, last
week, Senator Oliver told the associa-
ton of Credit Men that one of the
principal causes Of the high cost OF
living was too much legislation. both
national and state The villa
Gutierrez government of Mexico, has
notified Washington, officially, that 1t
proposes to issue s300,0O0,OO0 of 3
per cent bonds Ito refund the various