Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-09-19
MERE MENTION.

The United States Mine Workers as
sociation in session in Cleveland, Ohio,
has endorsed the Plumb plan for the
naturalization of the railroads..
Corpus Christi, Texas, was the prin-
cipal sufferer from the west Indian
hurricane Saturday and Sunday. About
seventy-five, people lost their lives and
the property loss amounted to more
than three. million dollars. Port Ar
kansas, short distance from Corpus
Christi was razed. The mayor of Cor
pus Christi has appealed for help and
the appeal is being answered by the
towns and cities in the vicinity.
Benny Leonard, worlds lightweight
boxing champion, .outfought Johnny
Dundee of New York in an eight
round bouth in Newark, N. j., We'd
nesday night Cincinnati has
cinched the baseball championship in
the National League.......Pe Persistent
rumors are in circulation that Auguste
B. Leguia, president of Peru was as
sassinated last Tuesday..The Rt.
bishop of the New York diocese Of the
Protestant Episcopal church was elec-
ted bishop of the New York diocese of
the Protestant Episcopal church on the
third ballot at special diocesan con-
vention. He succeeds the late Bishop
David II. Greer. Discussing at length
the Shantung provision of the peace
treaty, President Wilson said in an ad-
dress at San Francisco Wednesday that
he had been assured by the great pow
ers that under the league of rations
there would be new International po-
licy for the protection of Chinese in
tegrity.......samuel Gompers, president
of the American Federation of Labor
has issued statement in which he
condemned the authorities Of Boston
for working conditions in the police
department and declared that the
striking patrolmen were not to blame
for the disorders that occurred during
the first few days of the strike.....
French troops will relieve the Brit
between Palestine and Syria before
November 1..-..Chief Of Police Aga
pate Perez of Tuxpan Mexico federal
army, have been arrested on orders of
General Murguia, accused OF compli-
city in the recent robbery of the Tux
pan office of the Penn Mex Oil Co., an
American corporation............ The gov
ernment opened it's fight against the
Big Five packers Wednesday in Chi
cago....-R. Morgi has been appointed
Japanese minister to MexicoIn
view of the alarming spread of vice in
Vienna. tho. police authorities have de-
cided upon a system Of segregation by |
which women of the underworld will
be under virtual arrest in barracks, un-
der close police and sanitary super
vision..---..SiX hundred men, employees |
of eight box factories in New Orleans |
went on strike Wednesday when their
wage increases were refused. Pupils |
of the grammar school in Griefswald /
Germany have struck because the por-
traits Of the former kaiser and popular
army leaders were removed from the
school rooms during the vacation sea-
son.........The grave of every Jewish SOL
iier who died in France will be mark
cd with the Star of David" ca double
triangle) Harry Cutler, chairman OF
the Jewish Welfare Board announced
this week.........A campaign urging the
government to reissue the two cent
coin, withdrawn from circulation in
1874, the new coin to bear on the OBJ
verse side a bas-relief portrait Of the
late President Roosevelt was Inaugural
ter Wednesday by the Woman's Roose-
welt memorial association. r.., !