Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-06-24
Tuesday, Juna "a, 1919.
MERE-M ENTION

William S. Devery. former chief of
police Of New York, known as big
Bill" dropped dead at his home at Far
Rockaway. N. Y, Friday.........Y Yale de-
feated Harvard in a four-mile varsity
boat race on the Thames river at New
London, Conn.,, Friday...........--An extern
sive newspaper propaganda against the
United States is being waged through
out Brazil by means Of paid notices.
The daylight saving law has been
repealed, the repeal bill to become op-
erative the last Sunday in October.
The senate has decided to investigate
the administration Of Attorney General
Palmer, especially with reference to
his acts as alien property custodian.
-Four men were convicted at Smith
field, N. c., last Thursday Of second
degree murder. They were charged
with killing a deputy sheriff during a
raid on blockade distillery. They
were sentenced to twenty years each
"A million dollar housing corpora
tion is being organized by business
men Of Richmond, va...........T The Vir-
ginia Bankers association, in session at
Old Point Comfort, Va. last week,
adopted resolutions endorsing the
league Of nations.-...--Six thousand stu
dents have been arrested and are being
held by Japanese and Chinese author
tiles at Fuchow, China, in connection
with the boycott propaganda...........-.
Theodore N. Vail, president Of the
American Telegraph and Telephone
company has resigned, to become the
chairman Of the company's board Of
directors Lane wants
congress to continue the war time re-
strictions on the sale Of explosives. He
advocates the appointment Of fifteen
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the authority Of the interior depart
ment, to look after such things......The
navy has announced that the practice
Of bringing troops back from France
on battleships Is to be discontinued
after the return of the ships now going
across. .-....One hundred and fifty per-
sons, including many children, lost
their lives In the burning Of a picture
show at Mayguez, Porto Rico, on last
Thursday night..--.-.-The Russian cruis-
er Oleg was sent to the bottom Friday
by British submarine..-...-The Amer
lean Federation Of Labor has re-elect-
ed Samuel Gompers as president at
salary Of $4,000 a year...--....Represen-
tative Weaver, Of North Carolina, has
introduced bill providing for the ap-
Of q postoffice at Rutherfordton, N. G.
Four passengers were injured in
wreck of the Dixie Flyer at Antioch,
Tenn, Frank Fokall,
white farmer Of Silver Hall, Tenn,
was shot to death at Bay Minette,
while he lay asleep In cell Of the jail
| to which he had been committed to
| answer charge Of numbering Robt
Bishop on June 1. A posse Of nine
men overpowered the jailor and shot
Fokall..~--.The steamer Lake CRANKY,
400 ton capacity, all steel and con-
structed in Chicago. ILL.,. sails tomor-
a snip of the United States shipping
boards feet from Chicago to England.
John fairfield, a negro Is being
sought at Ellisville, Miss, by posses
Of whites and negroes to answer
charge Of attempted assault upon
white girl.............The house Of repres-
entatives has sent to the senate the
sundry civil appropriation bill author
izing $S3,600,000 Of expenditures...........
Miss Mullicsa, deputy sheriff of
Grady county, Okla, has resigned her
job in order that It might be given to
a returned soldier.--.......Clyde Ellison,
negro was lynched by mob near
Star City, Ark last week because of
an alleged attack upon a'young white
woman approximately 200 persons
were killed by a tornado that struck
Fergus Falls, Mimi, Sunday afternoon
and wiped out three business blocks.
Premier Orlando, Of Italy, has
been compelled to resign his portfolio
because Of his failure to get through
with his plan to induce the Allies to
give over Fiume to Italy.--......-.-Captain
John Alcock, pilot, andLeutenant A.
w. Brown, navigator Of the vickers-
vimy airplane that aew across the
ocean from North America to Ireland.
not long ago, have announced their
disposition Of the $4,000 prize money.
They say that they will take $4,000
each and give the remaining $4,000
to the men who built the machine.