Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-04-02
MERE-ME NTlON

The American steamer City of Mem
phis left Wilmington, n. c., tues
day carrying 10, 200 bales of cotton, for
Rotterdam, Holland. The Frencn
senate this week adopted a bill which
already had passed the chamber OF
deputies, providing for the advancing
TO Servia, Belgium. Greece and Monte
negro as friends of the allies the sum
of $270,000,0 900 ..... Mrs. Clotllda
Cohen, aged IS, q member Of a promi-
nent Philadelphia family, was shot
and killed Tuesday by Henry B. Cohen,
her grandson, who then inflicted on
himself bullet wounds from which he
later died. He is supposed to nave
been insane. .....John d. Rookie
Teller, Jr., in a telegram to the Colo
RADIO state committee. has announced
that the Rockefeller foundation stands
ready to contribute $780, 600 to re-
lieve distress mons the mine work.
ers in Colorado. .... The department
of agriculture has issued an order to
all circuses I remain in the states in
which they are at present. 1t is feared
that animals carried by circuses might
be carriers Of the foot n mouth
disease and it is for that reason the
agricultural department a forbidden
the various circuses from crossing
state lines. 1.-THE North American
Buffalo and Cattle Co., at Fort Pierre,
:. D., has been incorporated with q
capital stock Of $4,000. The company
will raise American bison (now almost
extinct) and other stock. ... Ernest
n. Thompson. superintendent of the
Midnight Mission, a philanthropic in
stitution Of Richmond. Va, has been
arrested charged with cracking the
safe of a Richmond store last Sun
day. When arrested he had a large
sum of money in his posseSsion.......
RAYMOND Rolfe Swoboda. an Ameri-
can citizen. and representative of a
French syndicate engaged in purchas-
ing supplies for the French govern
ment, is under arrest in Paris charged
with setting fire to the French steamer
La Touraine in mid-ocean several
weeks ago. The fire on the steamer
was eXtinguished ..-..A dispatch
from Simla, India of Wednesday. says
that 10000 Indian tribesmen Of the
vicinity of Tochi, in the northwestern
portion of the Indian empire have re-
volted. In a battle with British troops
on March 20, 200 of the tribesmen
were killed and about 800 were wound
ed Nathan Rothschild, first
Baron Rcthschild. died in London
early Wednesday morning. Baron
Rothschild was the first member of
the Jewish faith ever To be elected
to the British parliament, serving in
that body from 1865 to 1SS5.......
Four men on Wednesday bound and
gagged Charles Ball. teller of the
Hayes National bank Of Hayes, Pa,
and robbed the bank Of $1,000.
The Vllla-Zapta government of Mex
leo has paid over the sum of 100000
in gold to Mrs. Ruth McManus, widow
of John B. McManus. an American
killed by Zapata troops during their
re-occupation Of Mexico City several
weeks ago......T The British steam
ship South Pacific, bound from Glas-
gov, Scotland to New York, was sunk
in a collision with an unknown vessel.
off Aran. an island on the west coas
Of Scotland, Thursday night. 49,. EN-
ports Of cotton from the port of Gal
weston, Texas during he month of
March totalled 4SS,462 bales. the
highest figures on record for any pre-
vious March. Wheat exports for the
month totalled 1890 600 bushels. -.
R.. II. Sitken, who arrived in FL Paso,
Texas. yesterday. from Mexico, said
that Baron Smith and Roscoe Billings