Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-06-27
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A number of United States govern
ment aeroplanes are now being con-
centrated on the Mexican border.
Lloyd Ranew, who killed his brother
Arch near Statesboro, Ca, last week
and accidentally wounded his 72-year-
old mother, has been acquitted.
The German note accepting the .Al-
lied peace conditions without reserva-
ton. made only one typewriter page.
Samuel Gompers has been re-elected
president of the American Federation
of Labor.
Ycggman robbed q safe in Peters
burg. Va. Monday morning and es-
caped with $4,000 in cash. and securi-
ties
The signing of the peace treaty Is
not likely to take place before Friday,
according to authentic announcement
from Paris.
Fire in the aerodrone at st Cyr Paris
Sunday destroyed eighteen hangers and
1872 airplanes. doing a property damage
OF more than 100000 francs. q
A great northern train was blown
from the tracks twenty-one miles west
of Fergus Falls during a cyclone which
struck Minnesota few days ago.
Admiral Won Reuter-, in command
of the German fleet scuttled and sunk
IN the Scapa Flow, will be courtmar-
tailed for having broken the armistice
conditions.
Cotton mill workers Of Lancashire,
England, have refused to settle strike
on a basis of 80 per cent increase in
wages and a working week of forty
eight hours.
Alfred Cocchi, charged with the
murder of Ruth Cruger, in New York
in 1917, is on trial for his life in Bo-
logna, Italy. He denies the crime,
which he charges to his wife.
The lower house of the Texas gener-
al assembly has adopted a resolution
ratifying the woman suffrage amend
ment to the Federal constitution. The
vote was 96 to FL.
More than sixty bodies have been
recovered from the ruins Of a moving
picture show which was destroyed by
fire at Mayaguez, P. r., last week. The
injured numbered hundred and fifty
many Of whom will die.
More than 5000 teamsters, porters
and chauffeurs are on a strike in New
York city. The city's supply Of fruits
and vegetables is we'll nigh exhausted
as result of the strike.
German sailors were shot by thar
own officers when they attempted to
ebay British naval officers who ordered
them to return to their ships and shut
the seasocks at the time the Germans
sunk their ships in Scapa Flow.
Seventy trained observers have been
sent to the Kansas wheat fields in an
effort to prevent incendiary fires and to
warn the farmers against I. w. w. agi-
tators, believed to be in the wheat belt
and to run down radicals.
More than 5000 persons visited the
tomb of ex-President Theodore Roose-
welt at Oyster Bay last Sunday. Three
men in the uniform Of naval officers
of the Republic of Brazil placed a
large wreath Of orchids on the grave,
Development Of closer commercial
relations between Brazil and other
countries, the United States especially,
was declared Tuesday by DR.. Epitacio
Pessoa, president elect of Brazil, to be
one Of the aims of his coming admins
tration.
Richard IT. Berry, assistant light
housekeeper at Sanibel, Fla, was kill
cd Sunday by j. w. Lee as a result OF
difficulty earlier in the day in which
Lee demanded an apology for an al
legged insult to his wife which Berry
refused to make.
Gordon Fawcett Handy was con-
victed in Brooklyn, N. Y, Tuesday, OF
the murder Of two employees Of the
East Brooklyn Savings bank, in hold
up last December. The trial was but
form, Handy having pleaded guilty
to the charges against him.
Friedrich Won Berg, formerly chief
of the civil cabinet of William Hohen-
zollern, died Sunday at AmeronSen
where the one time monarch is stop
ping. The former emperor is said to
have sawed 5000 trees since he sought
refuge in the Dutch castle.