Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-11-14
MERE M ENTION


The Eighteenth amendment to the
constitution and the Volstead act
were voted into the law of California
last Tuesday by majority of $1,000,
..-..-.There will be pretty general re-
organization OF the committees of the
house and senate in the next congress
as the result of last Tuesdays elections
While Governor Lee NJ. Russell,
of Mississippi, was attending football
game in Memphis last Saturday he re-
ceived q report that Lieutenant Gov
ernor Castell had pardoned some lie
term negro prisoners and Immediately
be got back into his own state, not
knowing what else the lieutenant gov
ernor might do during his absence
across the line......Four men were
killed and three were injured when a
locomotive boiler exploded near Corn
ing, New York last Saturday.....-..---ln
case Senator Shields Of Tennessee is
appointed to be a justice Of the United
States supreme court Governor All
Taylor has announced his purpose 10
appoint Guy L. Smith, Of Johnson City
editor to be his uccessor....-......Lleut-
enant John NJ. Blaney, an army fiier,
was killed near Hartford, Connecticut,
Saturday when the plane in which he
was making a relay race struck tree
and crashed to the ground. A Shanghai
dispatch says that 200 Chinese lost
their lives in the destruction of a river
boat by fire at the mouth of the Yang
Ste river few days ago~.~--..~.--All re-
ports now are to the effect that Great
Britain, France and Italy are agreed
in their attitude to the Turks---.--------
The principal effort of the president at
the session Of congress will be to Sc
cure the passage of the ship subsidy
! bill A woman was killed in New
| York Thursday by being struck in the
head by a screw driver that fell from
the pocket Of a workman who was en-
gagged in fixing a window seventeen
stories above.....~..The British nome
office has forbidden a fight that was
scheduled to take place in England be-
tween Joe Beckett and Battling Sikh,
the order being based on the color line.
"A proposed beer and wine amend
ment to the Ohio state constitution
was defeated by about 100000 ma
| iority. Heads of the railroad
brotherhocds claim that the votes of
the railroad employees had much TO do
with the results of the recent general
| election, the railroad men having been
instructed to vote against the Republi-
can party because of it's attitude on
labor issues. s.......Mrs. Winifred Mason
Huck of Illinois, will fill the uneXpired
term of her father the late William A.
Mason in the present Congress.-----------
Lynn j. Frazer, rc-callcd Non Partisan
League governor of North Dakota has
been elected to the United States
| senate. ....... France celebrated Armis-
tice day by unvcilng a monument on
the spot in the Compigne forest where
the armisticc was England
celebrated ArmiStice day by observing
an hour of silence from II o'c!ock--.-------
Lloyd George has been telling his au-
diences chat Great Britain is facing the
| same fate that has come to Russia..-.----
John Emmett Garland, one of the
! Judges Of the United States circuit
court of appeals for the Eighth judi
cial circuit, died at his home in Wash
ington last Saturday....~.-.~.-The cotton
goods market has been advancing
steadily during the past wcek....--,.--.--..-
Miss Florence f. Allen, of Cleveland,
Ohio, has been elected to the position
of Associate Justice Of the Ohio su-
preme court. Her majority over her
nearest opponent was 2+,536. She is
the only woman in the world to hold
judicial position of such importance.
............Neyer in the history Of American.