Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-09-05
SHORT NEWS STORIES,
Paragraphs Of Interest Gathered Here,
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paragraphs OF INTEREST SdthS'Sa i'S'S
There and Everywhere.
Wisconsin's woman candidate for
congress, Miss Martha Riley, the Dom
ocratic nominee for the Third district,
issued her platform last Monday. The
summary said: '1 am opposed to tax
revision for the buccaneers and to
cenate seats for the auctioheers." Miss
Riley says she favors Il peoples bloc
in congress instead of a mlllionaires'
bloc"
Tho Chamber of Commerce of the
United States, through its railroad
bureau, recently placed before its MEM
bcrs statistics relative to the condition
of railroad equipment and to safety OF
operation, showing that there were 80
employees and passengers killed or Sc
riously injured this year in July in
railroad accidents, as against 213 in
the previous month and 125 in July
last year. July was the first month OF
the shipments strike. =.
- Charles NJ. Warmers reply to
Treasurer Allies, of the Republican
congressional committee, declining to
contribute and telling why, is the most
annoying thing that has happened to
the Republicans, says the Washington
correspondent of the New York World.
II is not that they will have to get
rA,.'Gs I.i
ton or even that q contributor of his
prominence and length Of service
should feel that the Republican con-
gress merits Democratic defeat, but
that these things should be said out
loud causes distress.
- The province of Quebec has pur-
chased from the United States Radium
corporation one gram Of radlum valued
at 100000. The radium will be sent
to the medical faculty of the Univer-
sity of Montreal, where, under DR.. j.
A. Gandreau, it will be used in the
treatment of cancer and other maliS-
nant diseases The contract for the
radium was signed by l.: A. Tasche-
I.reau, primo minister of the province
and the radium is for the use OF CIT
izens of Quebec. The radium was
mined in the Undark mines of Colora-
do and extracted and refined at Or
angc. n. J. It's measurement is certi-
fed by the United states bureau of
| a+o rdc in WASHINGTON.
- The town authorities attribute the
Ercat shortage of water at Frost
burg, Md, to moonshining, says a
special dispatch ito the New York Tri-
bune. 1t is estimated that 100 stills
are located in FrostburS, Md, and
that each still consumes an average
of 90 gallons an hour or nearly 2'OOC
gallons. for the time in operation tc
| make one batch of "hootch." a hum
dted stills ;,would use. 100000 gallons
of water. or the exact amount in ex'
cess of the present water supply es'
timated by an expert from Baltimore
as needed by town the size of Frost
burg. 1t is estimated that tho aver
ago still will use as much water as Y
families. The F'rostburg water suppl!
is now so low that the authorities have
sent out Il warning to use it sparingly
, - Some interesting and novel fact!
respecting .England's social progress
and national health are revealed in th'
current report of the registrar genera
of England, a monumental work of SO
closely printed pages. More childrel
were born than ever before, while th'
death rate of 12.4 per 1000, was tn,
lowest ever recorded. Never befor
were there so many marriages in on,
year The divorce rate continues Il
increase, the number being thrice tha
of any year prior to 1919. There wa
n striking growth OF marriages Of boy
less than 30 years old. Tho numbe
Of young widowcrs and elderly bachc
lOrs who married was double previous
records, while the total of widows un
der 25 who married again was exceed
ed in only one previous year.