Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-07-15
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with the American Federation Of
Labor were passed by the Alabama
Rural Letter Carriers Association
which held it's seventeenth annual con-
vention in Montgomery, Ala, last
week........Bob Ashley, negro Is In
jail at Dublin, Ga, charged with the
shooting of two white men. An at
tempt was made to lynch the negro
following the shooting...........-Ventura
Cellar, a Mexican seaman ABOARD tne
American schooner Jean L. SomerVllle
is under arrest at Mobile, Ala, charged
with attempting to murder Capt. u. A.
Reicker, master of the schooner while
on the high seas............W. Q. Swift, the
first Of six former detectives OF Macon,
Ga, to be tried in connection with
killing of two young men In a store In
Macon on the night of April 80, which
is alleged to have been frame up,
was convicted Of murder by jury
Friday and sentenced to life lmprlson-
ment.......---The last OF the billion dol
lars worth of stores purchased by the
United States government In Englano
and will have been disposed or by
August /. is the opinion of Major
General ]. c. Biddle....---.-...t Is stated
that Macmillan Hardin will probably
he the German Ambassador TO the
United States as soon as diplomatic
relations are restored..-...--A plot IN
volying the wholesale theft OF food
stuffs. automobile tires, tubes, ETC.,
from American army stores and IN
volvinp American army officers and
German civilians, has been uneartned
at Coblenz......The British Liquor
control board has withdrawn lts no
healing order and it is no longer un-
lawful for a British subject 10 ouy
hiC friends and
companions Switzerland must i'm
mediately join in the league OF ma
tions or lose the seat Of the league.
The Jury in the trial OF lresi-
dent A. c. Townley and Joseph Gill
bert of the National Non-Partlsan
League on Saturday night found the
defendants guilty of the charge ol
Conspiracy to teach disloyalty In Vlo-
lation of the Minnesota law.......''.
Brigadier General Lawrence d. Tyson
OF Knoxville, Tenn, commander OF the
Fifty-ninth Infantry brigade Oh sns
Thirtieth Division, has been awaraeu
the distinguished service cross tor
exceptionally meritorious ana ois
tinguished services" as connna1ues Vi
the brigade, especially for able leaoers
ship in the capture OF Brancourt any
Fremont, with many prisoners ano
much war material............Tw .Twenty-n nVe
thousand French soldiers died from
tuberculosis during the war and 12o,0Oo
men of France were exempted from
service because of the disease.....::.......
Mexican bandits killed General Juan
Carrasco. Carranza commander at
Villa Union, Sinaloa, Mexico last
Thursday ano carried of eleven Mex,
can girls, looted stores and commlttea
other depredations::I me foLisr i,
diet has decreed that all titles sliai, MAJ,
he abandoned in future. There VIII
he NO decorations except military
orders and no titles except university
degrees Seven firemen were KILL
ed in a fire which DESTROYED a hve
story warehouse in Phlladeipnla,
Saturday. The victims were plunged
into the flames when the ROOF ano
walls collapsed without warning.
Fourteen others were injured-;;;; :;
Representative Baker of Dekalp
county. Ala, has introduced IN the
Alabama legislature a bill prohipltihS
Sunday fishing, purchase OF cigars anu
cigarettes and soft drinks on Sunuas
and seeking to do away with the pur-
chase of articles of almost every ueS-
cription on the Sabbath day........;W.
G. Adamson, formerly an Atlanta, Ga
school teacher has been sentenced W
twenty years Imprisonment 1olloWlhs
his conviction of a statutory oHense
Involving a number Of young girls. he
would have been electrocuteo eHcepl
for a plea in his behalf made py the
mother of the young girls lnVolVeo''';,'''
Since the signing of the armlstice' -
100000 British have been dlschargeo
from military service and OF thls
number only 4OO,0 900 remain unemploy-
Cd President Wilson has vetoed
the agricultural bill because Of the
clause providing for the repeal OF the
daylight savings law..........t Is eSll-
mated that the city Of Paris now mas
a population of more than 4,OOO,0OO...;;;,.-
C,bartering an aeroplane at Seattie'
Washington, Saturday, at a cost OF 81
q minute to catch the steamer kalslna
Maru which he missed when the yes,
sci sailed from Seattle for oriental
points. ]. j. Mayer, Red Cross worker
booked for Vladivostock, succeeaeu IN II,
catching up with the ship near Port
,Townsend, Washington after a hlght
of twenty-five minutes........L- u. Strlp-
ling a former city detective or Macon
Ca. who was to face trial at the NO
vember term of court in Macon on d
charge of murder in connection Win
the killing of two men In an alleSeu
frame-up to catch burglars In Macon
committed suicide at his nome sun
day by shooting hllnSeii VIII 60;
yolver ..Jose Pardo, Formerly presi-
6ent of peru is en- route to France to
which country he has been exiled: L..
Daughters of the Confederacy in New
orleans have appealed to Daughters
in Montgomery, Ala, to prevent II pos
sible the destruction of the first whlte
house of the Confederacy whlch Is
located in the heart of the business
district of Montgomery. The property
on which the house stands has been
leased to an automobile concern Tor a
commercial garage and it is under
stood the famous old home OF Jener-
son Davis will be torn down TO MAKE
room for the garage........--The ltallan
crown nrince proposes to make a tour
of the world........The prohibition move
ment in America has been followed by
a movement in Japan which woulo
stop the sale of sake. the Japanese
national drink, which is made from