Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-07-29
MERE MENTION

Congressman Frank Clark Of Florida
has introduced measure In the house
calling for an investigation of the
police methods of the District of Co.
lumbia, during the recent race riots
in Washington. He would also limit
the sale Of firearms in the district Of
Columbia..............Governor Dorsey Of
Georgia has offered rewards aggre-
eating $1,500 for the arrest and con-
viction Of the persons who lynched
Berry Washington, a 72-year-old negro
near Milan, Ga, May>26, last. The old
negro Is alleged to have killed q white
man in defense Of colored woman
mans friends. The affair was kept
secret until recently Legislation
for the enforcement of war time and
constitutional prohibition probably
will not be enacted for two months at
least as the result Of the decision
Saturday Of Republican leaders to
have the house recess from August
to September S............Mrs. Stewart Abb
bott, prominent society woman Of
Atlanta, was seriously injured and
Doughlas Barnes, until recently an en-
sign in the navy with whom she was
joy riding was killed Saturday, when
an automobile driven by Mrs. Abbott
was overturned. Perry Burrus of At
slightly injured. The trio was en- route
to a dance. Mrs. Abott's husband was
in Detroit on a business trip.John
Armstrong Chaloner Of Merrie Mills,
Va. won his twenty year fight for the
legal establishment of his sanity In
New York state Saturday when the
supreme court granted his application
for the discharge Of the committee Of
his person and property. Chaloner is
a grandson of the late John Jacob
Astor and owns property valued at a1,-
500, O,000.-..A bill authorizing an increase
Of $500 In the official personnel OF the
army has been introduced by Chair
man Wadsworth Of the senate military
committee at the request Of Secretary
of War Baker. Prof. K J. Sthal-
berg has been elected president Of the
republic Of Finland by the Finnish
diet.......Th Tennessee Supreme
court has upheld the validity of the
law recently enacted by the Tennessee
legislature giving women the right to
vote in municipal and presidential
elections............Six men were killed Sat-
urday in boiler explosion on the u.
SIS. Melville. a naval tender attached
to the Pacific fleet. Patrick Cudahy,
president Of the Cudahy Packing Com
pany Of Cudahy, Wis, died at Mil
waukee. Wis, Negotiations
Of the Deutschs Bank with New York
financial institutions for a large loan
Of unannounced proportions, are pro-
ceeding favorably. according to infor-
nation in official quarters In New
ho III -
acquitted by jury at Columbus, Ca,
Of the charge Of murder resulting from
the clash during a textile strike on
May 21............James M. Johnson, vete-
ran of the Indian, Mexican and Civil
Wars and formerly United States
marshal in Kentucky, died in Cincin-
natl, o., Sunday, aged 102 years..
Thomas Fitzgerald, night watchman of
a residential hotel in Chicago, has
confessed to the murder Of six-year-
old Janet Wilkinson, a neighbors
child. Fitzgerald is 80 years old and
married d..Dr. Otto Baur has resigned
as Austrian foreign minister but has
retained the post Of minister Of social
iZation. Under Baur's administration
there was failure to secure union be-
tween Austria and Germany and like
wise failure to obtain the aid of Italy
in advancing Austria's desire toward
that end........Preparation for the well
come Of General Pershing on his re-
turn home are being made by both
congress and the war department but
the plans of neither are yet complete.
1900. Lieut. Francis NJ Bryan Of Moren-
Gle, AriZ., was instantly killed at Hous-
ton, Texas, when the airplane which
he was driving, fell to the ground.
Private Will Poncik Of Holland, Texas,
was seriously injured............Th Pacific
fleet which left the Atlantic seaboard
last week has safely passed through
the Panama canal and is now in Pa
c!fic waters. The ships of the fleet
were the largest ever to pass through
the Panama canal and all of them
made the passage through the rather
narrow canal without mishap
Otto Baur, Austrian foreign minister,
the Austrian treaty Sunday
said: For thirty years we will be the
slaves Of the Allies economically. This
shameful peace can be destroyed only
through the victory of internal soli-
darity"