Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-03-23
TUESDAY, MARCH %, 1915.
MERE.MENTION

Total attendance at the Panama
Pacific exposition as announced ofl-
cially for the four weeks ending a t
urday night, was 1,S59,S24, an av-
erage of about $4,000 a day.
General Scott, chief Of staff Of the
United States army, accompanied by
Tes-Ne-Gat, a Piute Indian, wanted
by the Federal authorities on the
charge of murder, Olo Poke, his
father: Chief Posey and the latter's
son. arrived in Bluff, Utah, Saturday.
General Scott entered the territory
occupied by the Indian d~esperadoes
about two weeks ago. alone and un-
armed. .... Mrs. Helen Henry, ed
itor of the Woman's Magazine. pub
lished in Detroit, Mich, and a well
known writer of short stories, plunged
to the ground from the fifth story OF
a New York building Saturday. she
was delirious from typhoid fever.
Miss Rae Tanner, who recently sued
James w. Osborne, former assistant
district attorney of New York. Tor
$4,000 damages, alleging preach OF
promise, has been released on S5,oOo
bond on the charge Of using the mails
for the urpos of extorting money.
Osborne is the son Of Judge F. L.
Samuel Liebmen of New York, has
confessed to the police that he threw
his two little children out of a fifth
story window because he was tired
of supporting them. ....- Miss Han
nah Moore. aged 81 years, an original
daughter of the American Revolution,
died at Gettysburg, Pa,
Her father, George Moore, was a
teamster in the Continental army
......Six trains were held fasI IN
cuts along the Milwaukee railway
system in South Dakota, Saturday, on
account of heavy snowstorms. go;
Charles Francis Adams, author and
publicist, died in Washington last
week. following a weeks illness with
grippe. He was 80 years old......Tne
British steamer John Hand1e, le1t
Newport News, Va. Friday afternoon
bound for Belgium with a cargo OF
grain, valued at $SS!,s9o...''ine
British steamer Hyndford was tor
pedoed in the English hanne FIJI
day. by a German submarine. 80.
General Villa of Mexico, has purchas-
ed three flying machines from Amerl-
can manufacturers $50. henri COL
lignin, consul Of state OF France, mas
been killed in the field OF battle In
eastern France. He was serving as d
private, having refused to accept pro-
motion for bravery. During the
first six months Of its operation, whlcn
period ended February Is, the Pana-
ma canal earned a total of 81, 6 1872.
1900 Alfred Braun, who says he Is a
member Of a wealthy family Of Chile,
is under arrest in a francisco,
charged with smuggling opium into
the United States. The SerVlan
minister of education has prohlplteu
the teaching Of the Bulgarian IAN
The law recently passed by the legis-
lature Of Alabama, prohibiting the
shipment of more than n quart OF
LIQUOR to any one party in a month,
has beer declared unconstitutional.
$1,000. Frank Jones Of Chicago, nj
been appointed secretary of the Fed
eral trade commission. .....Fou SAIL
ing vessels with Spanish dock labor
ers on board, were lost In a great
storm on the Spanish coast last Week
5000. John Hone, former vice president
of the New York Stock Exchange,
died Sunday, aged 1......P President
Wilson celebrated the arrival Of spring
Sunday, by walking from the White
house to the Geological park, two
miles away. Accompanied by several
secret service men, he mingled freely
with the crowds in the park......A
Norwegian steamer arrived at Calves
ton, Texas, Sunday, bringing 215 re-
fugees from Progresso, Mexico. Among
them was Arthur Pierce, for A years
British consul at Progresso. The
German steamer Odenwald attempted
to leave the port Of San Juan, Porto
Rico, without clearance papers Sunday
but when two guns from Fort MORO
Castle were fired across her bows
and machine guns were fired directly
at her, she abandoned h attempt.
...... infectious diseases have appear
ed in Italian concentration camps, in
Guiding cerebo spinal meningitis. .....
A Denver, Col, firm has sold $4,000
bales Of cotton to Lindeleof & Co, OF
Gothenburg, Sweden. The price paid
was around 81, 99c,990. The cotton will
be shipped from New Orleans and the
Swedish firm will assume all risk.
Major General Sir William Rob
erts has been appointed chief OF the
general staff Of the British army TO
succeed Major General Murray. -.
Thomas Safer, alias North Carolina
Tommy" said to be a safe-cracker
with a bad record, was arrested In
Asheville, N. c., yesterday. Lieut..
Commander w. F. Bricker, OF n u.
S. converted yacht Scorpion and three
sailors, Charles Ford, Irven Dowell and
A. f. Leverens, were drowned on the
night of March 20, while attempting
to reach their vessel with a row-boat.
The Scorpion was anchored in the
Bosphorus off Constantinople. 49,.
Rev. Billy Sunday concluded his eleven
weeks revival meeting in Philadelphia,
Sunday night. During the meeting
there were approximately $4,000 trail
hitterS"