Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-08-07
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President Wilson has sent the name
of Frederick A. Delano Of Chicago,
to the senate for confirmation as a
member of the Federal reserve bank
board Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt,
who was married in Madrid, Spain, on
June 10, is in New York hospital
with typhoid fever. Governor Hall
of Louisiana, has been asked to send
800 state convicts to New Orleans, to
be used in fighting the bubonic plague.
......T The supreme lodge of knights
of Pythias is holding its golden ju-
bilee convention at Winnepeg, Canada,
this week. A Paris dispatch says
that at Cirly-les- Forges, Monday, a
French aviator, high in the air, de-
liberately rammed a German dirigible
war balloon, throwing its occupants
out and daShing them to death. The
Frenchman was killed in the smash
up. ..... Australia has offered to send
England 10000 troops for her de-
fense. ...... The Allentown, Pa, plant
of the American Steel and Wire COM
pany, employing 800 men, has closed
down on account of cancellation of
foreign orders. The New York
clearing house association has author
lied the issuance of clearing house GER
tificateS and emergency currency to
relieve the financial situation. Chica
go, Detroit, Kansas City, ST. Louis and
other cities will also resort to the
same methods .... More than 200
American ministers are marooned in
Europe on account of the war. AT
the request of President Wilson, the
managers of the railroads west of
Chicago, whose engineers and fire
men have been threatening To strike,
have agreed to submit their differ
ences to the Federal arbitration board
under the Newlands act. President
Wilson based his plea on the unusual
conditions in the United States and
the European war. ......A dispatch
from Sattillo, Mexico, says that 10000
ConStitutionaliSt soldiers well armed
and equipped, began Tuesday to march
toward Mexico City on orders of Gen
eral CarranZa. ....A dispatch from
Nish, Servia, says that the Servians
defeated nearly 10000 Austrians near
Semendria, on Sunday. 80. Vice Ad-
miral Sir John Jellicoe has been plac-
ed in supreme command of the Brit
ish naval forces, and on him will de-
pend the future of England on the
sea. go. Seymour Beach Conger of
Grand Rapids. Mich, representative
of the Associated Press, is in prison at
Gumbinnen, Prussia, charged with
DelilS d spy JStSh oOllllSol' Iii'
negro prize fighter, has asked per-
mission to enlist in the French army.
...... An American tourist in Berlin,
Saturday, paid $40 for three cups of
coffee and S21l for fare from Berlin,
Germany, to Dover England. ;. The
proposed attempt to fly across the
Atlantic ocean from New FOundland,
by way of the AZoes to England, has
been abandoned for the present. .....
The government of Japan has issued a
proclamation in which it is stated
that Japan will, if possible, remain
neutral, but if ii has to get into the
war. it will give its help to the side
England is on. Four hundred
Chicago school teachers, under the
lead of Mrs. Ella Flagg, superintend-
ent of the city schools. are among the
Americans now in Europe. Be-
cause of the unsettled financial con-
ditiOns, New York city has held up
$50 900. 900 worth of city improve
mentS indefinitely Negotiations
for the peaceful transfer of Mexico
City to the COnstitutionalists have
failed of their purpose, says Sattillo
dispatch Of Tuesday. The Consti-
tutionalists refused to entertain the
the conditions provided by the Car
baial commissioners. ..... Imports in
to the United States during the year
ending June 80, and including nine
months under the new tariff law. to-
tailed $1.S93,925. .651. an increase over
the previous year of $S0.917,4 En-
ports fell off during the fiscal year
nearly $99, 900. 900. .....