Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-08-18
TUESDAY, AUGUST1s, 1914.

states cruiser tennessee 10 enter
Bremen, Germany, bearing gold for
American tourists. go. Sailors, fire
men and stewards of the steamer Min
lnewaska, went on a strike in London,
Saturday. demanding danger" money
on account Of the risk they were tax.
| ing In crossing the Atlantic. .... The
steamship San Giovanni sailed from
| Naples, Italy, Saturday, for New York,
with 700 American tourists on board.
.. The United States senate on
Saturday passed the house resolution
authorizing the secretary Of war to re-
turn to the state OF Louisiana, her
original ordinance of secession. The
White Star liner Celtic, from London
to New York, reached the latter port
Saturday, with 1866 Americans on
board. More than 500 wealthy per-
sons had to make the homeward jour-
lney In the steerage. -. Two persons
were killed and two seriously injured
] in an automobile smashup near New
Vienna, Iowa, on Saturday. :. Geo.
Boillot. who three times won the
French Grand Prix race, Is now en-
ployed as chauffeur for Gen. Joseph
Joffre, -chief Of the
French army. ..... Pierre Gastrono-
me, a Frenchman, and Ferdinand
Brand, an Austrian, both cooks in a
Saratoga, n. Y, hotel, fought in the
hotel Friday, as the result Of an argu-
ment concerning the war. The men
battered each other with hotel crock
cry, a large number of dishes being
broken. 80. James M. Lynch, New
York state commissioner Of labor, was
on Friday voted a gift Of $4,000 by
the International Typographical Union
in recognition Of his work for the or
ganization. Mr.. Lynch was for many
TxaN .nl
| Union. More than 5000 employees
of the Baltimore street railway have
received an increase In wages during
the past few days. An average Of 25
cents per day increase has been given
all motormen and conductors. .....
The border Of Austria Is reported to
| be so closely guarded and little news
drifts in from the outside, that the
people Of the interior are said to be
lapathetic as to the war. Food supplies
are very scarce and the money situa-
| tion is serious. Lord Kitchener,
the British secretary of state for war,
predicts that the European war will
last eighteen months. .... The United
States army transport Hancock. sailed
from Caimanera, Cuba, Friday for
San Domingo, with the Fifth regiment
| of infantry on board. .... Three Ger
man aeroplanes, flying over Diest, Bel
GUM, Friday, were brought down by
| [ elgian artillery. Two Of the aviators
were dashed to death and the third
was seriously injured. DIR. Alexis
Carrel, head of the Rockefeller Insti-
tute of New York, and a surgeon Of
worldwide reputation, has offered his
services to France as a surgeon dur
ing the war. He Is a French citizen.
800. Grain exports, flour included,
from United States ports, for the week
ending last Friday, were valued at
l$3.726.319, as compared with $751;
654, for the same week last year.
Immediately following the beginning
of an investigation of the high price OF
food stuffs, by District Attorney Whit
man in New York, Friday, all kinds Of
meats dropped from l to cents a
pound. ..At picnic at Oak Orch
ard, Pa, Thursday, attended by 5000
people. the dancing prize for variety
Of steps, was won by John Tom Jones,
who had won the prize continuously
for 81 years. Notice has been sent to
foreign governments that the Panama
Pacific exposition will be held regard
less Of the European war. Andrew
J. Peters, congressman from Massa-
chusetts, has resigned to take the po-
sition as assistant secretary OF the
treasury 49,. Secretary Of the Navy
Daniels has arranged with Postmaster
General Burleson, to extend the postal
money order service to war vessels, so
naval men can send their money to
their homes or elsewhere, without the
inconvenience Of obtaining a treasury
check, as is now necessary. =. Dem
ocratic leaders OF congress have de-
cided to postpone until December,
any move toward putting on q war
tax to raise the necessary revenue for
government expenses. The people
of the United States last year spent
more than five billion dollars for
"luxuries and unnecessaries," includ-
ing jewelry, candy. chewing gum, soft
drinks, tobacco, millinery, intoxicat-
ing liquors, and only gave twelve mil"
lion dollars for Christian missions, ac-
cording to figures compiled by Rev.
DIR. w. E. Biederwolf of Baltimore.
Three men were killed on grade
crossing near Leesburg, o., Friday,
when their automobile was struck by
a fast passenger train. An army
warehouse building at Wolsely Bar
racks, near London, Ontario, was fired
by an incendiary early Friday morn
ing. The fire was eXtinguished by
guards. -. The United States senate
has passed a bill to put Col. JANUS L.
Powell, U. S. army, on the retired list
as a brigadier general. Colonel Powell
is the only officer in the regular army,
who served on the Confederate side
in the Civil war. He entered the United
States army as a surgeon, by special
act Of congress in 1879. The war
department steamship Ancon, with
commercial cargo on board, passed
through the Panama canal, Saturday.
thus opening the canal to the worlds
commerce. E. Mad because Of repri-
mand, a negro at Spring Green. Wis.
on Saturday set fire to the bungalow
Of his employer, and then as the in
mates came out of window he killed
three Of them with an axe.