Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-07-21
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Happenings That Have Occurred All
Over the World.

- One mouse caused the death of 27
cattle on the ranch of Robert Pott.,
OF Spraguc, Wash. The mouse be-
came stuck in the pipe leading from
spring to the pasture watering
trough. The animals died of thirst.
Some OF them crawlcd through the
fence into another field In their des
pcrate Gcarch for water, Mr.. Potts re-
ported.
- NJ. L. Stoner, who was so seriously
injured by a mule five weeks ago, has
sufficiently recovered to he able to
leave Salisbury, n. c., hospital, and
is now with his daughter, Mrs. J. Ii.
Cook. Mr.. Stoncr's injury was of
such n nature that attending physi-
clans held out no hope OF his recov
cry, His skull was badly fractured
and his brain injured. A large hole in
his forehead exposed his brains and
Tie nature Of his wound was such rs
class the injury as fatal
- William Rice of NADIA, Kentucky,
on Tuesday was spcechless and in
very weakened condition on the sixty
fourth day of his voluntary fast. Ply
sicians who have examined Rice do
not expect him to live much longer If
he continues to refuse SuStcnancc.
Rice said he intended to fast only 10
days to purify his body as Christ
did" but when the forty days were uD
he still continued the vigil, saying if
he ate he would go to hell and assert
rg that he was living on spiritual
food Until few days ago Rice was
able to talk, but now his speech has
left him. BY his bed are n Bible, a
cross, fan, n trumpet and likeness
of Christ.
- Arrested in Washington Tuesday
night, while transferring four large
trunks said to contain liquor from n
Southern train to one bound for New
York, John Foley, who gave his ad-
dress as Brooklyn, n. "" told the
police, they said, that he was employ
cd by liquor distributing syndicate
representing millions of dollars in
capital, and which distributing system
covered the entire country. Foley, who
was quoted as saying that the trunks
were shipped from Savannah, Ga,
gave the police chase when they dis
covered him in the act of transferring
one of the trunks, but was overtaken
after a short dash. The trunks when
opened by the police, it was said were
found to be divided into compart-
ments. each large enough for n quart
container, insuring it against break
age.
- Russ Harris, jailcr, and Henry
Bond, moonshiner, sentenced to hang
for the murder of prohibition agent
and q marshal near Richton, were kill
ed in a gun fight in Jail in Jackson,
Miss, last Tuesday. Harris was shot
by Bond. He then took the pistol
away from the prisoner and shot him
dead. Harris, mortally wounded, then
walked from the Jail to the sheriff's
office and expired while telling of the
shooting. Henry Bond was one of the
moonshiners who was convicted for
the murder of Jacob Green, Federal
prohibition agent, and murder of J. f.
Dunman, Richton marshal, during
raid on q still in the heart of a swamp
ne2r Hichton on April l, 1921. Nance
Kelly, another of the moonshiners SEN
at Lcakesville, by committing suicide
on the morning of the execution day.
He had been held in Jail in Jackson
until just before the date OF execution.
Kelly used knife and slashcd his
throat.
Walter Fairchild, aged s, is with
his mother, Mrs. Minnie Hendrickson
of Nicholasville, KY, who claims she
located her son through a dream at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. A. n. Miller,
after an absence of six years. The
mother instituted habeas corpus pro-
cecdings to secure her son from the
Miller family who claimed the child.
Mrs. Hendrickson told the court she
left the child with the Miller family
when she was taken i'll six years ago,
and since that time had been unable
to get him to return to her, the boy
believing the Millcrs were his parents.
- Authorities of Akron, Ohio, arc in
vcstigating the death of 7-year- old
boy, said to have been burned ut the
stake late Monday by companions dur
ing a game of Indians" The boy,
Billy Durbin. n cowboy" He
was captured" by the Indians and
tied to the stake. One of his play
mates, it is said, playfully piled wood
about the Captive" and poured gas
olinc over it.