Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-09-16
MERE MENTION.

ment have ratified the treaty with
Germany.....The strike ordered by
the union employees of the United
States Steel Corporation for Septem-
ber %, has been postponed until after
the conference called by the president
to be held on October G.........Dr. j. w.
Smith, an American and e. Monson,
Swede, have been ransoned from
Mexican brigands for $6,000............The
Chilean ministry has resigned.
The Ohio Public Utilities Commission
in a decision handed down last Sat
urday ordered the telephone COM
panies operating in Ohio 20 discon-
tinue. on October l, the $3.50 service
connection charge authorized by Post
master General Burleson while the
wires were under the federal control.
Some of the seized German liners
are to be retained permanently by the
United States as part OF the army
transport corps...........The British gov
ernment is making raids OF Sim F'ein
organizations throughout IrclanG..-.........
A negro woman and q negro girl were
shot in Macon, Ga, late Friday after
noon, by strikers who fired upon a
truck load Of workers who were on
their way to work in cotton MILL
............ Several villages in the province
q of Vienna, Italy, were shaken by an
earthquake Saturday. One person
was killed and dozen were injured.
THE twenty-nine lumber dealers,
ice cream dealers and manufacturers
of Dayton, O., were charged Friday
with violation of the antitrust law in
fixing prices. jackson Barnett OF
Henrietta, o., full blooded Creek
Indian, has subscribed 100000 to the
Baptist s75,OOOO0O campaign
General Pershing is back in Washing
ton and has re-established his head
quarters at the offices of the war de-
partment in Washington. Two
schooners went down at Cat Island,
Bohama group together with all on
board during the recent hurricane on
the West Indian coast........W. E.
Rountree, a negro preacher who was
convicted at q special term of the
superior court at Quitman, Ca, on
charge of criminal assault was legally
hanged last Friday. Hen
derson, the noted British Labor leader
has been reelected to the British
house of commons, defeating his op-
ponent, F. II. Fisher, the Coalitionist
candidate by q majority OF less thar
1000 votes............Miss Ellen Harvard
A, was burned to death in the home
of Robert Mitchell at Richmond, Va,
Saturday when her clothing caught
fire from the gas range in the kitchen
of the home..........The Northern district
or lower California was closed to fur
ther >ipmigration by Japanese,
Chinese and Asiatics" in an order is
sued Sunday by Gov. Esteban Cantu.
The order is to be>efrective until the
Mexican Federal congress- takes action
on the immigration question.
coal famine in Europe this winter is
said to be inevitable by Col. c. Cod
year VI builalO, N. =, lllcIlDeI vi
the inter-Allied commission who re-
turned from overseas last week..
Textile workers of Macon. Ga, voted
at q mass meeting held in Macon,
Sunday to call off the strike that is
entering upon it's fourth week..
The steamer Barnstable, sailing from
Savannah for HAVANA, Cuba on Fri
day, went down at sec in northeast
gale off the coast of Georgia, Satur-
day night. Twelve of the crew, in
cluding Captain Moon, are missing.
Charles l.. Lacey, negro mate of the
schooner William III. Sumner, which
ran aground in Top Sail Inlet week
ago was implicated as the murderer
Of Hobie l.. Cockrum, the vessels
captain Sunday afternoon, when three
members of the negro crew broke
down under n grilling examination.
Lacey killed Captain Cockrum, who
was only "a, because of jealousy over
Cockrum's promotion to command
of the schooner.