Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-07-01
CURRENT EVENTS.
News Paragraphs. Cleaned from All
Around the World.

News Paragraphs. Cleaned from All
Around the World.
The New York stock exchange will
be closed July and s.
Four men were killed in the wreck
of zinc mine near Knoxville, Tenn,
last week.
A bill to nationalize all the railroads
of France has been introduced in the
French chamber of deputies.
Ollie Pecord, we'll know sportsman
of Toledo, O., will referee the Willard
Dempsey prize fight in Toledo, on
July 4.
The Seashore Hotel at Wrightsville
Beach, N. c., was destroyed by fire at
late hour Thursday night. The 500
guests escaped without injury.
On board the French transport Ma
ria Teresa which arrived in New York
last week were twenty-nins French
wives Of American soldiers.
Four firemen were painfully burned
at New Orleans, La, Friday in fire
which destroyed a cotton warehouse,
involving a property loss Of $4,000.
Helen Boyle, kidnapper Of Willie
Whitla Of Sharon, Pa, ten years ago,
has heen paroled after serving ten
years Of O twenty-five year sentence.
President Wilson has advised the
senate that he is considering sending
another commission to Poland to inves-
tigate reports of Jewish massacres.
The original Of the treaty Of peace
was signed by all Of the plenipoten-
tiaries on Japanese parchment. 1t cost
Is, 900 francs to prepare the document.
The Seashore hotel at Wrightsvtlle
Beach, N. c., destroyed last week with
property loss Of approximately $780,
600, will be rebuilt immediately, it was
announced Friday.
DR.. Walter Keene wilkins, promin-
ent New York physician, was found
guilty last week in the first degree of
the murder Of his wife. The case will
be carried to higher court.
The Episcopal Church will launch
campaign for s2O.o0o,0Oo this fall
for progressive work. A preliminary
educational campaign already Is IN
progress.
Mrs. Burdine Pigg, wife Of prom
inent farmer living near Monroe, N.
c., was burned to death last Thursday
when her clothes became ignited
while she was kindling fire with OIL
A brown leather bag containing hu-
man bones was found in a New York
hotel, Friday. The bag was checked
at the hotel in November, 1915 and
never had been claimed.
Tom Gwynn, negro, was electro
cuted at the state penitentiary In Raj
eigh, N. c., Friday, for assault upon
school girl. Eleven other persons are
in the death cells of the North caro-
lima penitentiary awaiting execution.
Five robbers held up the offices Of
the Middle Fork mine near Benton,
Ill.,, Friday and escaped with $4,000.
One of the bandits was killed but his
body was carried off in an automobile
by his companions.
The Norwegian Ship Owners Asso-
citation has announced that no Norwe-
gian will place contracts in America
until the American government has
settled for contracts and ships taken
from Norwegians when the United
States entered the war.
Gordon Fawnett Handy, convicted
in Brooklyn, NJ Y, last week Of the
murder of two men following bank
robbery, declares that his only wish is
to live long enough to learn the result
Of the Willard-Dempsey prize fight in
order that he may carry the news to
"the boys on the other side."
William A. English and John H