Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-04-12
MERE MENTION

4 big cotton seed oil mill at Gov
ingtpn, Ca, was destroyed, by fire last
Friday with a loss Of S125,
president has appointed Rush D. ST.
monds of Wisconsin to be chief Of. the
postoffice experimentation ohm .Drap-
er who ip March last led q mob that
went after jim Gordon, a negro who
was being held in Halifax, Va, jail for
the murder of q white man. was last
week sentenced to pay n fine of $500
and 30 TO Jail f6f oile5 veal i'm
to 100000 acres of land in Texas
and Oklahoma, including the cities Of
Tulsa and Oklahoma city and practi-
cally the entire Burk-Burnett oil field,
was filed in the supreme court Friday
int tbehalfSof the Cherokee Indian Ma
tion,. supported by Il government pa
tent issued by President Van Buren,
and certified as authentic by the
interior. Department.. Thirty
thousand bales of linters, belonging to
the Buckeye Cotton Oil company. at
Macon, Cas- were damaged by fire last
Friday to the amount Of between
$4,000 and S150,0 ,000.........The National
Bank of Cuba which has been in dif-
ficulties since the drop on sugar
prices, suspended payment last Fri
day and closed it's doors. Wharton
Barker, populist candidate for presi-
dent in 1900, is dead at his home in
Philadelphia, aged 71.....-....Irish po-
tatoes sold at is cents per bushel at
Traverse City, Michigan last Friday,
due to. the dumping on the market OF
thousands of bushels which have been
held for higher prices since last fall:
.......-Major General Leonard F. Wood
is TO go to the Philippines as governor
general He is now on the way there.
...........It is reported that trading in
cotton seed oil futures is to be COM
menced in Chicago soon under regula-
tions of the board Of trade----....----Judge
Jeter c. Pritchard, Urited States CIR
cult judge for the Fourth district. died
at his home in Asherille Sunday morn
ing, after an illness Of four months,
aged Ga years...........-Sleet and snow are
renortcd from Richmond and Bristol,
Vm, and Cumberland, Nd, Sunday.-......;
Senator Smoot, Of Utah., announced
Yesterday that he would Introduce to-
day a bill providing for tax Of l per
c>1t on gross sales, which is expected
tc raise S1,50O,000,000 annually.......--...
The Newton county, Ga, grand jury
took up investigation of the Williams
farm murders yesterday. There was
talk to the effect that rs many MS
twenty negroes had been killed on the
farln..........The city Of Chicago has
adopted Il curfew ordinance that will
take children off the streets between
10 D. m. and g. Il. m..........-.. waiter ..
posue Of Wytheville, Va, has been
apnointed solicitor Of the comptroller
Of the currcncy--.....l'rank II. Crom-
we'll, nf ArraTlt temple, has been
elected president of the Shrine Direc-
tors association of America.-".".Three
hundred COWS assembled in q pen at
Scotland, S. D., for shipment to Ger
many as Il gift to the Germans, have
been turned loose :hy some unknown
persons and they arc scattered over
two counties. Former Empress Vic
tnria, of Germany died ut Doom, Hol-
land. Sunday of heart troEble.....--..:...
Francis j. Carey. the 19-Ecnr-o!d
bank cashier of Ottowa. Ill.,. whose
Theft of 100000 last November was
followed by criticism of Judge lands
wien the lattGI permitted the youth
full culprit to return home pending
sentence. has been sentenced by Judge
! 7Sbndis to serve. one ycur in the Nat
ional Training School for Boys at
WASHINGTON. d. C..........Thc grand jury
of Newton county, Ca: en- yesterday
returned true bills against John 5.
Williams, his three sons and Clyde
Manning for the murder Of eleven
negroes in that county.