Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-01-05
MERE MENTION

pal Christmas tree and pal! was nelo
on the plaza at st. Louis MO-, New
Years eve and was participated In by
$4,000 people. President wilson
received New Years greetings from
most of the rulers of the nations OF
the world on New Years day.
to the estimates OF the
leading meat packers the meat con-
sumption during 1914, was siZ,oOO,-
900 pounds less than D 1919. sta
tistics show that therew was q snort
age Of 3,500,000 meat snimaIs ior the
year. Sophie Ghee peheVeo 10 De
the most successful smBgier OF opium
into the United States mas Deen ar
rested at Liverpool ar returned to
this country with her. trunks scared
up. Customs officers elieVe that the
Ghee woman's trunks contain fully
$4,000 worth Of the Drug. The
1000 policemen Of Jew York have
virtually told the ciIs police COM
missioner that If he yll allow them
little more personal dpcretion In max.
ing arrests, searching premises ano
protecting them aganst attacks ano
suits for false arrest that they Will
clean the city Of the thugs and law
less elements within en Gays. .......
During the year 1sA, the state OF
Pennsylvania receivd $l,oSo,OsS.6O
from automobile fenses. The
European war cause a 1aii on OF ap-
proximately $36,000oO at the New
York custom house or the year 1914,
as compared with sl3. custom re-
ceipts for the yeaf 1914 were .ap-.
proximately $167,0000o. imports OF
merchandise totales about $766,000,-
900. Domestic exprts were approx
mately $S00,000.09 a decrease OF
$103,000,000 as coapared with 1913:
The war ris insurance board
of the treasury apartment Is now
writing marine innrance on cotton
cargoes to Germay, up to S760,0OO
on cargoes and vssels. -. "A New
York hotel propritor estimates that
people celebratineth ethe advent OF the
New Year in this city, spent fully
S2,31O,000 for cables and drink
ables in the hotel and restaurants OF
Broadway, last thursday night. ....,.
There were 72 hmicides and 63 sui
cides in New Ydk city last year, as
compared with II homicides and S6
suicides in 1919 The decrease In
homicides and sicides is placed to
the credit of tb Sullivan anti-wea-
pom law, which makes the possession
of a pistol q fpny. BY COLI
sion Of passenge trains near Liberty,
Mo-, Friday, 16 ersons were more or
less injured. Misunderstanding Of
orders was give as the cause. ......
Only Is of thel20 counties Of Ken
tucky, now perit the legal sale of
LIQUOR. .Tb Panama-California
exposition at Sn Diego. Cal, which
is to run for year, was formally
opened Friday morning, by President
Wilson touchin an electric button in
the White Ho1 at Washington. Sec
retary McAdoowas the presidents
personal representative at San Diego.
Hot Spngs, Ark, is now the
only wet" spt in that state. Saloons
in all other bwns were closed at
midnight, Dember 81. The
councils of Progard and Moscow,
Russia, on Fiay, rejected petitions
to permit thefesumption Of the sale
of beer and Int wines in those cities.
No compound containing alcohol or
any kind is abwed to be sold without
a permit. :. : Bankruptcy petitions
to the numbt of 1886, were filed In
New York, iuring 1914. Billy
Sunday, the amous evangelist, ar
rived in Phydelphia, Sunday, to be-
gin a ter mlk's meeting in that city.
u. M. Wight of Kentucky, mar
shall of theUnited States supreme
court since BSS, died in Washington,
Saturday, aer a long illness.
Radium trement Of cancer was used
in the famns Bellevue hospital or
New York, !or the first time on last
Saturday. .. The Yaqui river in the
state of Saora, Mexico, Is in flood.
Many inhahants Of the country have
been drowrd, and hundreds have
fed to the ills. Richard Sparks,
a seyenteeryear-old boy, was electro
cuted in tn New Jersey state prison,
yesterday. He had murdered man
whom he nbbed. .Lucius Young,
arrested irNew York last week, on
his wifes darge of desertion, said ne
ran away kcause she made him COMB
her hair. g. The Portland, Ore, or
dinance wfch required that all dogs
be muzzla was repealed Saturday:
The ordnance was passed seVerai
months an, following a threatened
epidemic q hydrophobia. :. ...- Geo.
Carr shot md killed his father, ]. ].
Carr, at Grr's station, Ga, last Fri
day. becase his father was beating
his moths He was exhonerated by
a coroner jury. Miss Fern HOODS,
priyate ssretary to Gov. West OF
oregon, md a woman Of national
fame, has been appointed a member
of the sute industrial accident COM
mission. The position pays salary
of $500 a year. She Is the only
woman nember Of the commission.
=. According to statement issu-
ed by the immigration bureau last
week, immigration through the port
of New York during 1914, fell of to
the extent of 601,410 persons, or 45
ner cent as compared with 1913.. -.
The Georgia child labor law went into
effect on January l. 1t prohibits the
employment of children under IL
years OF age. and provides that chill
dren between the ages of IL and 14a
wears can only be employed when
they have a permission certificate
from their county child labor COM
mission. William I. Lewis, for IL
years assistant sergeant-at-arms In the
limited States senate, and veteran of
the war between the states, died In
washington, Friday, aged "A years.
The French government has
arranged to place s50,000,000 S per
cent treasury bills on the London
A revolution broke out
In Paraguay. South America, last
week. DR.. Eduardo Sherer, president
of the country, has been taken pris-
oner. The fifth Belgian relief
ship to leave Philadelphia, sailed from
that port last Tuesday, laden with six
thousand tons of foodstuffs. :. .Presi-
dent Poincare of France, in an ad-
dress to foreign diplomats in Paris,
friday, predicted that the close Of the
year 1915, would see the close Of the
uar In Europe. -. Negro workmen
IN Charleston, Mo-, attempted to lynch
one of their number last week, after
he had stabbed their foreman, white
man. A passing train crew saved the
negro after rope had been placed
around his neck. ..-. Louis Gherna
was arrested in Tucson, Arizona, early
Frida, morning, after Arizona's pro-
hibitiOn law had gone into effect. His
violation of the law and immediate
arrest was previously arranged for the
nurpose Of testing the law. TWO
safe rackers dynamited the safe In
the s. Clairsville, Ohio, postottce
early Saturday morning. and got away
with 1900 in cash. =. photographs
" tn remains of a cannibal feast
we're brought back from Nukahyla, IN
the Arquesas islands, near Thltlt, py
p D Armstrong and others OF Los
Ange,s, Cal. who arrived in san
Frantsco. last Tuesday.
To vital statistics law, which was
,;gne September l, became effective
Trids. though local registrars for