Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-11-04
CURRENT EVENTS
Items of Interest Gathered From All
Around the World.

Il Items of Interest Gathered From All
Around the World.
a The emperor OF Japan on Friday
&ratifled the peace treaty OF Versailles,
i "A French engineer is installing a
3wireless system in the republic o,
a Ecuador, South America.
4 - John r. Rutherford, age 90. we'll
i known farmer living near Aaheville'
I'm. c. was killed Friday by a railway
$train.
i a new high prices record for bright
I leaf tobacco was touched at Danville,
wa. Friday when $50 pounds were sold
4 for 1885 Il pound.
- Four hundred soldiers arrived at
Huntington. w. Va, Friday from
4 Camp Taylor, Ky, for strike duty in
the West Virginia coal fields.
Il -. The United States army transport
4 President Grant, with 5000 American
Il troops on board who are destined for
q Coblenz. Germany, arrived at Brest,
i France last Friday.
- Rev. Robert S. ArrOwocd. g.. ~
Candor, n. c., died at the home of his
4 daughter in Sanford Friday where he
a had stopped over on his return from
4 the annual meeting of the state synod
Vat Raleigh.
United States District Judge \. y.
Inland on Friday granted temporary
injunction at the request of the L. ;,
ADistrict attorney prohibiting the sale
$of all liquor containing one-haif OF
lone per cent or more alcohol.
Il - Following the lead of the Literary
XDigest the Nashville Tennesseean, Il
81 daily newspaper of Nashville, Tenn,
4 printed it's Sunday edition from photo
Rgraphic plates because of the strikes
&of linotype operators employed on the
tpaper.
n -. Inmates of the house of blind
}Sworking men have presented demands
for increased wages and threaten to
{strike next week, unless they are
+ granted says q Philadelphia dispatch
5of Friday. The blind men, who made
|3brooms, whisks, carpets. and cane
work, claim their board has been in
icreased with no increase in wages.
II - Under authority given by congress
Ito retain $4,000 commissioned officers
Hin the army until the end of the fiscal
n year, the war department has decided
sto retain in their present emergency
#grades about 100 general officers in
#cluding General March and Lieut.. Gen
\ Hunter Liggett and Lieut.. Gen. Rob-
ert L. Bullard. There will be 55 major
= &generals headed by Leonard Wood
-Angered by a series of robberies
and attacks upon white men, 4 mob at
i aCorbin, KY. on Friday rounded up
A practically all negroes in Corbin eN-
Mcept the oldest residents, placed more
f than 200 on departing trains and
g forced the remainder to leave on foot.
4 During the demonstration a large num-
fber Of shots were fired and one negro
Twas killed while two others were
< wounded.
A - Figures announced by Youngs-
town. o., bank based upon the pay
rolls to the end of last week give the
#number of men working in Youngs-
town steel mills at $3.50 out Of more
"than 10000. 1t was estimated that
u 5000 men returned to work last week.
4Frederick Fl. Mills, superintendent Of
&the institution said: Il don't sec what
4 the men can do. as this is their home
= and they can do nothing without hurt
ing themselves. The real reason is
THAT they have banded together and
Hike the rest of the world have got the
strike fever"
j - Headquarters here Of the For
r ward Movement of the Associated Re