Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-11-21
MERE-MENTION.

The next annual meeting Of the
United Daughters of the Confederacy
is to be held in Washington, d. c..
Former Governor Locke Craig of North
Carolina, is critically i'll at his home
in Asheville, n. C.....--...A. Dallas, Tex
as. dispatch says that the Texas Farm
Bureau Cotton association has rcceiv-
ed an order from States Universal
! Stores, Ltd, Of Russia, for $4,000 bales
of cotton for which the Russians will
pay about $4,000, Acting State
Director Yellowly of New York, has
dropped fifty prohibition agents from
the New York ,ity force of 250 his
action presumably being with view
! to reorganization After starting
fire in another section of the town
to attract the attention of the people
| Genoa (Ohio) Banking company and
escaped with several thousand dollars.
One citizen was fatally shot.........T The
Southern railway has applied to the
Interstate Commerce commission for
authority to issue $5,OOO,O0O in per
cent general mortgage bonds. The
money is to be used fo~ additions and
betterments........... dispatch from
Mexico City says that a cold wave
which has swept virtually the entire
republic, has injured corn and beans,
the principal crops of the country,
from 80 to 10 per cent............ The lead
irg prospective possibilities for DEM
ocratic senatorial leadership as sue
Cessor to Senator Underwood are Sen
ators Harrison of Mississippi, Walsh
Of Montana, and Robinson Of Arkan-
saS.~...... ....~.....C Crown Prince Abdul Mejid
Effendi, cousin Of Sultan Mohammed
VI, has been elected caliph, according
to dispatch from Angora.........r.~.T The
body Of II. c. Bailey, division passen-
ger agent of the Louisville and Nash
vile railroad, was found in the Brook
haven lake of tie Capital City country
club near Atlanta. Saturday morning.
Police believe he took his own life
The Jeff Davis monument, being erect
ed at Fairview, Ky, on a part of the
Davis old homestead, by the Kentucky
L. ID. c., is nearing completion, when
it will reach a height Of PIC feet.
Major General James G. Harboard, 4
prominent figure in the World war, has
resigned his army commission to go
into private business. He is succeeded
as deputy chief of staff by General
John l.. HineS.....-~Aftcr CVading pos
sos for three days and nights, Thomas
r. Clark was arrested Friday afternoon
at McNatts, Ind, charged with having
murdered his wife and their S-year-
old Dispatches from Guaya-
quill, Ecuador, say that 100 persons
were killed and many wounded there
Friday in a battle between strikers
and regular troops. A general strike
Of telephone and street car workers
Was declared November 13........--Rcv.
w. f. Robb, sheriff and former 4. f.
T.. chaplain, will on next Friday at
VIC Mdu'SoH peIIIchtlaIA, lOWa, nilnS
one Orric Cross, who murdered a Dcs
Moincs grocer. This will bc the sec
ond hanging in which Rev. Robb has
ofiiciatcd as cXecutiOn"r.---.........F Forest
fires of unusual severity are being re-
ported from the various national and
private forests throughout the coun-
try........--~~Mrs. Nellie Klimck is being
held by the Chicago police on the
charge that she has murdered three or
more of her husbands with POISON.