Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-09-09
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and her four-year- old daughter in the
Ocmulgee River near Macon, Ca, last
week. She was despondent because
of the death of her husband IN an aux
tomobile accident. ......... Controlling in
terest of the Chadwick -Hoskins Co..
one of the largest cotton mill proper
ties in the south, located at Charlotte
has been sold. to the Cotton Mil De-
velopment company Of New York
Arthur ]. Draper, heretofore president
of the mills will be chairman OF the
new. board of directors..-.-.....SheriiI
Williams of McRae, Ca, will probably
be removed from, Office because 1t IS
alleged that he did, not take proper
care of Berry Washington an aged
negro prisoner who was taken from
the jail and lynched by a mob severai
weeks ago.........The vogue of the bead
neckless has reached the point
in London, England where women are
buying them by the yard and fhe
twelve inch circlet of a few. years ago
has given way to strings nearly three
yards long, ending in o tassel which
falls below the hem Of the skirt...........,-
Organized entertainers and theatre
employees in Paris are on strike. iPrac-
tically all of the show houses OF the
city are closed. PLANS are now un-
der way for the annual meeting on the
American Bankers Association to be.
held in st. Louis, Mo-, September 20
to october s.....,1General Pershing ar
rived in New York, yesterday.---...An
unknown negro. charged with assault
was taken from a sheriff's posse near
Monroe, La. Saturday and lynchcd......
An earthquake believed to have
been somewhere in South America was
recorded on the seismograph at
Georgetown University Saturday...........
The cornerstone marking the landing
place of the first American troops IN
France and the point from which La
Fayette sailed for America to aid In
the Revolution was laid at Bordeaux,
France, Saturday by President Poin-
care. General Foch and other promi-
nent men spoke. Thames,
25, a farmer living near Brookhayen,
Mich, is under arrest, charged with
the murder of his wife on August z, 1t
was at first believed that Mrs. Thames
died of heart disease but physicians
now say that her neck was broken...--.
A resolution was introduced In the
German National Assembly OF Berlin,
requiring oil army officers to
take an oath of allegiance to the new
republican government. credit
Of $17,OO0,00 was advanced by the
United States government to Italy,
making q total Of $1,G1S,-.
s78;e90 loaned to Italy by the United
States and a total to. all the. Allies of
nine and one half billion.......,...,A prize
Of $25,O00 has been offered for the
first aviator who makes q non -stop
flight between Paris and. New York in
either direction......Gen. G. w, Hooper,
state commander of the X United Con-
federate veterans of Alabama, died
at his home in Selma, Ala.
:. Mrs. Mary Josephine Wolfe, aged
a2. shot ther husband and. herself lin
their bathroom in New Orleans, last
Friday. No cause Is known for tho
deed. Richmond baseball fans are
raising purse OF $1,000 for Chief
to whom they. give credit for
a pennant for their team, the
Colts" .De Dempsey Clark, q negro
was killed by officers who were raiding
q moonshine still in Pulaski. Ca,
few days ago. Clark Is said to have
fired on the officers first..-..."...Settle-
ment of the strike of the Charlotte
Street Railway conductors and motor
men was announced last Thursday by
President Taylor of the Southern
Utilities company, the terms being
about the same as in the case of the,
Greenville strike...........The war de-
partment has, offered 100000. pounds
Of frozen meat. ON storage in New
York and Chicago for resale by NUM-
cipalities. The retail price fixed is 80
cents q pound...........The- United States
district attorney: with Jurisdiction In
Chicago, seized 200 tons of sugar that
the Aaron company of New York, had
sold to Chicago concern at s1S
the seizure being made on
the ground that the Aaron company
had purchased the sugar at $3.50 a
hundred. 1t was stated that the
Aaron company would be required to
make good to the Chicago concern..-..
The Russian army, fighting the Boil
sheviki is making heavy bids for the
services of German physicians in the
army. ............T There are 1900 army cars
stored at Camp Holabird, Nd, accord
ing to testimony before the military
affairs committee. Many of them
never uncrated and many others have
been standing out in the weather for