Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-08-21
MERE-MENTION

A race riot at Wilmington, Del,
Monday night assumed such proper
tions that 1t was necessary to call out
the militia to quell the rioters. The
trouble started when q negro on a
street car fired into crowd Of white
men. .....A fire in a livery stable at
Jenkinstown, Pa, Monday, destroyed
twenty-one horses. :. A decree grant
ing civil and political rights to all
Jews in Russia, Is to be issued by the
cZar without delay, according to infor-
nation from St. Petersburg. .....
British and French army officials have
called all permits for newspaper cor
respondents to accompany the armies.
......An official dispatch from Brus-
sells, gives the German loss at the bat
tie of Halen, last week, as 5000 kill
ed and more than that many prison.
ers. The Belgian loss was $50 killed
and 400 wounded. The British
cruiser Essex fired a shot across the
bow of the Holland-American liner
Nieuw Amsterdam, Monday, 200 miles
south Of Halifax. The liner arrived
at New York, Tuesday morning. ....
Twelve hundred German soldiers were
buried In one grave on the battlefield
Of DieSt and Halen, in Belgium, last
" eek 800. The steamship Laconia
arrived in New York. Monday, from
Liverpool. with 1900 passengers
aboard; mostly European tourists,
hurryng home on account Of the war.
The British cruiser Glasgow is re-
ported to have captured the German
steamship Canta Catharina. which
sailed from New York on July %, for
South American ports. ......A num-
ber of American cowboys in Paris,
have enlisted in the French army for
service i'm rough rider squadron.
Five cargoeS of sugar from Hilo,
Hawaiian Islands. are on the way to
Philadelphia. The total tonnage Of
sugar is 42,50O tons. According
to New York dispatch, the North
German Lloyd steamship line has Of
fered to sell To American buy6r rs all
its steamships in the Atlantic a..d Pa
cific, for $25.000,000 The Hamberg-
American is offering 100000 900
worth of its ships to American buy
erS. Custom receipts at New York
last week, totaled $2.77340S as COM
pared with $4.647.06S for the same
week last year. 500. An official COM
municatiOn made public in Paris. is
to the effect that the crown prince Of
Germany has been seriously wounded
and is now at -Chappelle..
More lnan nlllllOn DuSnclS Dl OdlS
have been sold for export to France
through the port Of Baltimore. .....
Orders from American importers for
silks, textiles. dressmaking, etc, ag-
gregating 60.000.000. will enable
French industries employing women.
to operate as usual. -. Traffic through
the SueZ canal has been practically
stopped as a result of the war. "A
report from Nish. Servia. is to the ef-
feet that $1,000 Austrians were killed
near Sabac, 81 miles from Belgrade,
last week. E. Russia has notified the
Turkish government that 1t will send
its Black sea fleet through the Darda-
nelles. regardless of Turkeys wishes
in the matter. The Dardanelles have
been closed To foreign warships since
1888. Six hundred glove makers of
GloverSville. y. Y. are threatening to
strike unless granted an increase Of
pay The first warship to pass
through the Panama canal was the
Peruvian destroyer Teniente Rodri-
gueZ. Tuesday morning. .. President
Wilson has decided to appoint Attor-
ney General McReynolds TO be asso-