Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-02-07
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Allen s. Williams, b4 autnor, natu-
ralist and friend OF the late John Bur
roughs died in New York; SUNDAY
Two meE were droWhse
and two others narrowly escaped dealn
when an automobile in which the Iour
were riding at Toledo, Ohio, early sun
day morning skidded on slippery
ma pavement and plunged into creek
thirty feet below the payement:--."---..
Mrs. Martha Smith Beatty, idow or
DIR. Robert Beatty, famous surgeon and
said to be the first white child to live
in Floyd county, Ca, died at her nome
in Rome, Ga5 Sunday, aged 81 years.
Thousands of Mortified specta-
tors looked on at Cooge, seaside near
sydney, Australia, last Sunday while a
shark attacked and fatally bit Michael
Coghlan. an 18-year- old bather--.-----..-
The end of danger within week from
influenza and pneumonia was foreseeh
Sunday night by Health Commissioner
Copeiand Of New York, who SAID ne
based his optimism on the mildness OIL
the epidemic and the low death rate
this year He recalled that during tne
same period Of the 1913 epidemic there
were hundreds of deaths daily from
both diseases. Smallpox is report
ed TO have become epidemic In many
districts in Costa Rica and a commis-
sion of physicians and Red Cross
workers is beginning sanitation cam
paign and taking other measures 10
check the epidemic---.--.....Gen. Chrlstian
De Wet. commander in chief OF the
Boer forces IN the war Of 1893 died at
his home in Dewetsdrop, Union or
South Africa, last Friday....--...-O opera
tions of the postal service for the three
months ending September 80, last snow
a deficit of s25,252,35S according TO an
official statement issued by the post
office department Sunday.------...----"--
New cases of influenza are being re-
ported in New York at the rate or
more than one thousand a day..
President Harding, in a talk to gov
ernment officials Friday said, that
while government expenditures up to
December 81 forecast deficit on July
/. the indications now. are thct on July
1 the receipts will show surplus over
expenditures, .,...---..,.On motion or SEN
ator LaFollette, the senate his adopt
ed resolution intended to forestall
notifications of the United States
court requiring the big Five" meat
packers to relinquish their unrelated
lines of business Mrs. Della San
ford, aged 10S years, Of South NOR
walk, Conn, says that the one ambl-
ton of her declining years Is an ar
plane flight.--.......-~!The public execu-
TONERS of Karlsruhe, Germany, nave
notified the minister Of justice that
they will go on strike unless their pay
is raised, alleging that it Is Impossible
to properly behead criminals at pres
ent prices. Dottson, village
marshal, shot his brother, Al, tn death
at Becorah, Ia, Friday, when the lat-
ter interfered in an arrest being mace
by Matt. More than $4,000 rail-
road workers of Germany are on q
strike for higher wages. Transporta-
tion Is almost completely tied up.....--"~.::
DIR. B. C.. T. Loder, former member OF
the Dutch supreme court, has been
chosen president of the International
Court of Justice, which begins its for
NAL sessions OF The Hague on Febru-
ary Miss Elsie Hill, daugh-
ter of the late Congressman e. j. Hill,
has announced her candidacy for con-
eress from the Fourth Connecticut dis
trlct on the farmer Labor ticket.........".".
Miss Ruth Muskrat, Cherokee Indian
student, will be one of the American
delegates 20 the Worlds Student Fed
Grafton convention at Peking, China,
next April. l..........-.The entire Atlantic
feet of the United States navy is now
p Guantanoma, Cuba, for winter prac-
tice work.-.r........Ussel mountain, IN
France. is said to be sliding toward
the village of Malmon at the rate of
one mile q week The, 5000 people of
Malmon are terror r-stricken....-----The
Chilean ministry has resigned follow
ing censure Of the finance minister Dy