Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-06-25
GENERAL NEWS NOTES

GENERAL NEWS NOTES
Items Of Interest Gathered from All
Around the World.
Citizens of Salina, Okla. are raising
funds with which to erect a monu-
ment to the first white settlers Of that
state, the Chocteau brothers, Indian
traders, who established a trading
post at what is now Salina in 1894.
Frank O'Leary, one Of five men in
dicted at Marshall, Tex, on the charge
Of numbering William Black, an anti
Catholic lecturer, on February 8. in a
hotel Of that city, was acquitted by a
jury Monday.
John Reed, a we'll known Ameri-
can war correspondent, with Board
man Robinson, an artist, are under
arrest at Kholm, Russia, for having
entered the war zone without permis-
sion.
Thos. A. Edison has recently per-
fected a portable searchlight. with a
variable capacity up to 100000 can
dlepower. 1t Is very small in size and
its power Is supplied by storage bat
teries.
VIM. H. Rand, one of the founders
Of the we'll known printing concern
Of Rand, McNally & Co., died at New
Canaan, Conn.,. Sunday, aged 81 years.
Mr.. Rand was one Of the syndicate
that brought the Mergenthaler limo
type machine to perfection.
Henry Seigel, one time multi mil
lionaire and head Of chain Of de-
partment stores. has begun serving a
term Of ten months in a New York
prison for fraudulent transactions in
volving hundreds Of thousands Of dol
lars.
The public service commission Of
Missouri has notified the Southwest
ern Telephone and Telegraph COM
pany, that its schedule Of home rates
for st. Louis were too low, and gave
the company until August 10 to file
new schedules.
BY direct orders from Governor
Brumbaugh of Pennsylvania, the sale
and use of intoxicating liquors will be
strictly prohibited in the camps Of the
various regiments of the Pennsylva-
MIA National Guard this year, for the
first time in the history of the militia
Of that state.
Governor Brumbaugh Of Pennsyl-
vania, has vetoed the recently passed
bill to repeal the full crew railroad
law in that state. The railways
claim that the law costs them $780,
900 per year, without any special bene-
fit to the public. either in service or
safety.
The annual convention Of the Asso-
ciated Advertising Clubs Of the World
is in session in Chicago this week.
Fifty Chicago pulpits were occupied
by advertising men at the services last
Sunday morning. Instead Of advocat-
ing that Honesty Is the best policy"
many Of the speakers advocated the
motto, Honesty is the only policy"
President Lowell of Harvard uni
versity, made the assertion few days
ago, that man attains the zenith Of
his physical and mental power at the
age Of 23, and from that time Is on
the down grade. President Lowell'c
observation Is being made the subject
of much discussion and ridicule by ed
ucators and men Of large affairs.
Joseph Mark of Middlefield, Conn.,,
shot his bride-to-be Monday after
noon just a little while before the
marriage ceremony was to take place.
He was showing his skill with pistol
at a target, and playfully pointing
the pistol at the girl. accidentally pull
ed the trigger. She Is seriously. II
not fatally, wounded.
A woman and a barrel stave settled
a strike at Martins Ferry. o., Mon
day. She visited the headquarters of
1000 strikers; her husband was there;
she frailed him for his obstinacy and
then used the stave on others. The
strikers fed and union men, who were
prevented from working by the strik-
ers, entered the plants and got them
in operation.
In a sermon at Eaglesmere, Pa, on
Monday. Bishop Woodcock Of Ken
lucky, said in part: There Is not
one country engaged in the present
war which can be said to be Christian.
No matter how much individual belief
in God may. exist nationally, there Is no
in Europe. We are In an
age where any religion, however obso-
lete and obscene. can get a foothold
and a following Is Christianity pos
sible under these conditions?"
B. D. Ackley, former secretary Of
Billy Sunday. who recently broke
with the evangelist and made state
ments Of inside facts" to the detri-
ment Of the Sunday evangelistic cam
paigns, has issued an apology to Mr..
and says in part: I'm un-
guarded and almost unconscious mo-
ments, owing to an unfortunate weak
ness, and under very peculiar circum-
stances, may have said things
which have been distorted with state
ments for which I disclaim RESPONSE