Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-11-08
MERE M ENTION.

Commenting on Senator Watson's
assertion that American soldiers had
been hanged in France without trial,
General PershirE said Friday: "lt was
the most outrageous and untrue accu-
satiOn that could possibly be made,
and absolutely without foundation
According to the latest figures of
the department of agriculture, the to-
tai wheat production this year OF 70
leading wheat producing countries, eX-
Guiding Russia, is 2,J52.S2J,OOO bushels,
or 100000 bushels more than in 1920.
Prohibition Commissioner Hayes
has asked for an appropriation Of SlO,-
600 600 70" use il: enforcement Of the
prohibition laws during the next a%Cal
Near.............Thc Chicago, Milwaukee
and st. paul railroad a few days ago
placed an order for 800 steel freight
cars to cost about $4,000 00O. 1t is said
to be the largest order that has been
placed since the system was turned
hack from government cnntrol..-.-....-..-
The president on List Friday signed
the measure making November II
national hOliday.............f'iVe men in an
automobile held up two bark runners
of the Corn Exchange bank of Phila-
dclphia last Friday and escaped with
$4,000. O.............The trial Of Lena Clark,
former postmistrcsS at West Palm
Beach. l1a., who shot and killed Fred
\. Miltmore of that city in local no.
tel several months ago, was taken up
at Orlando, Fla, cstcrday.........-.--Put-
nam Inn. q large hotel at Dcl.and, Fla.
was destroyed by fire on. November 4.
The loss was estimated at about *G6.-
900. Farmers sold wheat ut June
tiOn City, Kansas. last Saturday. for
So cents huShcl, the lowest price
ln hnpinDin,r Hf tho world
The bodies of five of eleven fisher
men drowned off the y. J. coast last
EIonday, have been recovered Five
Of unknown origin destroyed -four
docks of the Erie railroad at Wee
hawlicn, New Jersey. Thursday. The
loss totaled $4,000. O.O00....--..AltOnio Al
ba, who attempted to asSaSSinat" Kin"
Victor Emanuel in 1912. and who has
since beer in prison, has been pardon
cd by the italian kin%...-.......SccretarE
of Mar Weeks has recommended the
hardening of five American soldiers.
row serving life sentences mt Fort
LcavcnwOrth. for the murder Of IN
English army captain in Germany a
wear ago... New York city is today
voting on the election of mayor to
succeed Mayor Hylan, who i$ opposed
by a cualitiOniSt and un independent.
Indications are that llShtn viii he re
elected Fifteen persons were lost
bv the sinking Of tn" steamship Mis-
Gura. off West Jutland, last week.
Vnc New York city board Of elections
was compelled TO advertise lur 6,OOG
men to act rs poll and ballot clerks.
and canvaSsinG inspectors, as that
number Of men suggested for tn"
places declined TO serve. although tEc
;oug pay so and So per day DR..
Harvey Wiley, famous pur" food cX-
,,ort underwent ~ OU"rHtion for re-
moyal Of a cataract from one of his
., i'm Cincinnati. ohio. hospital,
last wcck...... Abraham Cohcn, fined
~ in Il New York police court for
rarkinr his car on Williams street lest
week. rendered a $1,000 Till in pay
rr;:; of the fine. lily means "i
nnwcrful ampliiicrs attached I" t".c-
nhonc lines President Hardin%'s Ar
mistice day speech will hc heard all
GO, the country rs for away as san
Francisco. .. Babe Ruth has made
his uohut on the vaudeville Sta"c.........
4 truck containing 81 Fordham col
lcgc students. fell through Il bridge in
tn ConnwiAgu creek in Maryland, Fri
d,v There were 40 fata'iti"S......-..-..-A y
freight train Of 10 cars loaded with
1rl nna bushels Of wheat, pHll"d by ore
cnaine. WAS handled over the Canadian
ttaritic railroad last Friday The an
rroyiratc weight OF the train was g.
SGS tons.