Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-09-28
GENERAL NEWS T
Items Of Interest Gathered from All
Around the World.

Items OF Interest Gathered from All
Around the World.
Fire destroyed property to the value
Of 81, 900, 900 in Los Angeles, CAL,
Wednesday.
Ten representative Japanese journal
lists are on their way to the United
States for the purpose Of studying
conditions in this country.
Investigation in Philadelphia a year
ago showed thousands of men out OF
work. A recent canvas shows a short
age Of about 10000 skilled laborers.
81 am Adam of the Garden Of Eden
the first man in the world" said q
caller at the White House to President
Wilson. Thursday. He was placed ir
m in sane asylum.
Tilted by his bride-to-be at the al
tar. Michael Ziegler, at Ashley, Pa
proposed to Miss Mary Nobel. the
bridesmaid and they were married a,
once.
The Baldwin Locomotive Works OF
Philadelphia, has a rush order for 25(
Locomotives for the Russian govern.
ment, and Is turning them out at the
rate Of five a day.
Percy E. Bonner Of Pittsburgh, Pa.
has been suspended from the New
York State Exchange for one year
because his firm furnished stock quo
tations to bucket shops.
At a conference Of the leaders Of the
National Progressive party held In
New York, Thursday, it was decided
that the party would put q. presidential
ticket in the field next year.
Twenty-Five hundred more doctors
and surgeons are needed by the Brit
ish hospital service at the front
America will probably be called on to
supply a part Of them.
Five mon, charged with election
frauds, have been sentenced by the
Federal court at Corps Christi, Texas
to the Leavenworth, Kan, prison fol
terms Of six months to a year and a
half.
The Of $50 reindeer are
due to arrive at Seattle, Wash, from
Nome. Alaska, this week. to be put or
sale in competition with beef and
mutton. Other shipments are to fol
low.
The Rockefeller Foundation in q re.
put oIi 10 tlHIN a o.lIo nv Afooh ~
says the work Is being carried on ir
eleven countries. and that the disease
is found in a o n on both sides OF
the equator. Sc degrees wide, and
populated by 900, 900. 900 people.
The army committee Of the French
chamber Of deputies has decided tc
recommend that the pay Of French
soldiers be increased from / cent to
cents a day. Such a change would
mean an increased expenditure OF
s25 000,0 900 a year.
During the meeting Of the Medical
Society in Philadelphia Friday. IS:
surgical operations will be performed
by SO eminent surgeons in 80 hos.
pitfalls. The work covers everything ir
surgery from minor operations to the
most DANGEROUS and intricate Of ma.
jor operations, including removal Of
stomach cancers.
A dispatch from Geneva, Switzer-
land. says reliable information from
Tri~edricthafen, Germany, Is to the eff.
feet that German headquarters admit.
the loss Of fifty derigible balloons
during the first year Of the war. The
balloon loss totals s25. 600, 900, bombs
from which have killed and wounded
500 persons.
Eight sticks Of dynamite, weighing
IL pounds, were found in a packag,
in the foreign branch Of the New Yori
postoffice a few days ego. The ex-
plosivc was mailed from Napa juno
ton, CAL, to Ceva, Italy. It's failure
to explode in the mails is explained
by it's having w%rappings.