Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-08-05
MERE MENTION.

The German national assembly at
Weimar has approved the new Ger
man constitution by vote of 2G2 TO
President Wilson has asked
congress to create board and regulate
railroad wages to the cost Of living.
The president has expressed himself
in favor OF the policy Of allowing the
railroad to increase railroad rates suf-
ficiently to meet the increased hnng
cost............ The population of Petrograd,
Russia which was more than 100000
in 1912 has decreased under Rolshevik
rule to 100000, according to papers
taken from Bolsheviki prisoners .--.......
Caproni airplane flying from Venice
to Milan, Italy, with fourteen passen-
gers, fell Saturday from height of
more than 1000 feet. All on board
were killed............Two negroes were
killed in a clash between negroes and
whites at Whaley, Ala, Saturday
morning Hundreds of Jews living
in the city of Odessa, Russia have
been massacred by Russian soldiers.
............It Is estimated that the increase
Of 50 to $3.50 in the weekly wages OF
all shop clerks will cost merchants Of,
the United Kingdom s125.000,000 to
$50, 100000 a year.......,Four white men
have been arrested by Texas rangers
in connection with the lynching on
July "a of Chiffon Jennings. a negro.
........Gov. James D. Black, of Bar
louisville. KY, defeated Judge John
d. Carroll Of Newcastle for the Demo-
cratic gubernatorial nomination In
Saturdays primary by majority OF
| Is, ,OO0......In the Eighth congressional
district King Swope, a returned SOL
dier, running on the Republican ticket
was elected over Judge Charles A.
Hardin, Democrat, by a majority OF
more than 1000. 1t was the first time
| a Republican candidate ever was VIC
| torious in that Establish
ment of a training school for the men
tally defective has been authortzed In
| a house bill passed Saturday by the
Georgia senate. The bill provides Tor
an appropriation of 100000 for the
purpose. Naval Lieut. Benoit l.
Ellert, will be tried by court martial
charged with assisting men OF draft
age to get into the navy instead Of the
army during the late war..::....Deputy
Sheriff Lloyd Clonninger of Moores-
Vile county, N. c., was shot and killed
Sunday by an unknown negro while ne
was attempting to arrest another
negro. Governor T. w. Beckett of
North Carolina, answering the query
of O Chicago newspaper, says that
North Carolina can absorb 25,O0o
negroes who want to return from 1lli-
nois to the south unless they have
become tainted or intoxicated with
dreams Of social equality or political
dominion. Earl of Lytton will
probably be the next British ambassa-
dor to the United States....-.-.....Oscar
Lawter, former assistant United States
attorney general for the interior de-
partmeEt. was probably fatally burned
and Mrs. Lcwter badly burned when
their home was destroyed early Sun
day morning by what the police believe
to have been a gasoline bomb.
Six dreadnaughts Of the Pacific fleet
were shaken severely by double
earthquake shock at Ais Sunday
afternoon twenty miles or the coast
of the state of Colima, Mexico. None
Of the warships reported any damage.
............Aside from few minor distur-
Dances order prevailed Sunday in the
Chicago "black belt" where race riot
ing last week caused the death OF
thirty-five persons and injury to sew
eral hundred others.