Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-11-18
MERE MENTION.

The peace time military establish
ment of the, United States will be
, about 100000 officers and men, the
house military affairs committee hav-
ing agreed upon these tigureS.--... Thc
city of Paris is said to be covered
with the heaviest snowfall Of recent
years This fact coupled with the
coal shortage and strikes, is said to
bottle cause Of much suffering among
the poorer claSSeS-........The state OF
Main on Saturday certified to the SEN
ate the ratification of the %Oman's Suf-
fr2gc amendment to the Federal con-
stitution. ......- Disclosures of large or
ders for arms in Europe were follow
ed Saturday by revelations tending to
show that the Reds" underground line
from Soviet Russia 70 the UnitCu
States runs by way of MeXico.....-..-.......
Hope for an immediate settlement of
demands of the four great railroad
brotherhCOdS vanished Saturday when
further sessions Of the ConicrCnC" be-
tween Director General Hines and tGc
brotherhood head was postponed ia
defiItely ly.........Announcement Saturday
that prohibition had gone into effect
in the Canal Zone through the Vol
stead act, created CONSERVATION. It
had been expected that prohibition
would not be effective until January.
1.-THE Lackawanna Railroads con-
crete passenger station ut PaSSaic,
n. J. was demobiliZed by an cXplOS
ion last Saturday. 1t is believed that
the explosion was caused by leaking
gas.......-.The Right Rev. William Crane
Gray, retired Episcopal Bishop OF
Southern Florida, died in Nashville,
Tenn, Saturday age S4....-.--.-..--~Rather
than abide by the conditions Of par
cyiN-ar him hV (NnVnrnnr lRipEptt
Albert Horner. white man of Leban-
on Township Durham. n. c., requested
that it be revoked. His request
was granted and after n day and a
night of liberty he was returned 10
the county chainganG last Friday TO
serve five months of a twelve months
sentence for blockade. The condition
to which Horner objected was that ne
live with his father.......CounteSS Leo
Tolstoi widow of the famous Russian
novelist died at YaSnaya POliana on
November 4, according to a dispatch
to the London Daily Mail............. Gilbert
Fl. Bassett, engineer on the Ameri-
can steamship Lake lrio was @CQuit-
ted in United States court in SaVan-
nah last Friday of the killing Of Thorn
as Sanchez. q fireman on the high
seas. He pleaded self defcnse.-.....-....
Discovery has been made that six
teachers in the public schools Of New
York are members Of the Communist
Party Of AmeriCa...........Thc first OF
Michigan hero dead of the world war
came home" last Sunday. Sixty
eight of her sons who made the Su-
preme sacrifice in the far north OF
Russia received all the honor that Il
greatful city and commonwealth would
accord thenl........LatcSt reports arc 10
the effect tEat returns from recent
elections in Belgium show that the
Catholics have lost about fifteen seats
and the Liberals seven seats TO the
More than 100000 milk
consumers of New York arc on strike
as a demonstration Of the ability OF
the consumer TO orgaAize...........A float
ing mine was RESPONSIBLE for the sink
ing last Wednesday of the American
steamer Council bluffs. off the coast
of Holland, according to advicCS re-
ceivcd in London. The crew was
Saved.......L L. McCOmmOn, 3S. sen
ior member Of the firm of McCommOn
Bros dry goods merchants Of Macon
Ga. committed suicide Saturday by
cutting his throat. He had been in
i'll health for some timc.............The
steamer John Owen Is missing and its