Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-02-05
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items Of Interest Gathered From Al
Around tho World.

Items Of Interest Gathered From All
Around tho World.
Mrs. Margaret Garwood died at an
old ladies' home in Philadelphia, Sun
day, aged 10S. years.
The case Of Leo M. Frank will be
heard by the United States supreme
court on February %.
The Chicago and Northwestern rail-
road has placed an order with the
United States Steel corporation for
$1,000 tons Of steel rails at $2S ton.
A London dispatch says that both
Greece and Italy are endeavoring to
buy some of the German and Austrian
ships interned at Mediterranean ports.
Twenty boys and girls were injured
at an orphanage in New Orleans,
when a building collapsed Sunday,
during a heavy wind and snow storm.
The lower house Of the New Jersey
legislature has passed unanimously a
bill to submit a constitutional amend
ment for women suffrage to the voters
Of that state.
The national Republican committee
has reduced representation in the ma
tional convention from southern states
by SO delegates less than there were
in the 1912 convention.
Chicago bakers have put the price
Of bread up to cents a loaf, on ac-
count Of the rise in the price Of flower.
Bakers in other cities will probably
follow Chicago's lead.
National banks throughout the coun-
try are being notified by John Shelton
Williams, comptroller Of the currency,
that overdrafts should be entirely
stopped, and asking them to take steps
to that end.
Dan s. Lehon and c. c. Teder,
Burns detectives, and Arthur Thur
man, a lawyer, were acquitted in At
lanta, Ca, Monday, Of the charge Of
subornation Of perjury in the Leo NJ.
Frank case.
The New York police took a travel
ing bag from the baggage room Of the
Grand Central station Monday, the
property of "St. Louis Billy" a well
known yeggman. The bag contained
enough soup" to have blown the
station to atoms.
Revenues collected by the govern
ment in January failed by sS,116,427
to meet the months disbursements.
The trial Of 1,10O voters, who are
charged with bribery, alleged to have
been committed at the last November
election, are on trial at Pikeville, KY.
The Arkansas house of representa-
tives on Monday, passed a statewide
prohibition bill by vote Of "a to %,
after defeating all amendments. The
same bill is pending in the senate and
its passage is assured. June 1st was
fixed as the date for closing all sa-
looms.
Edward ]. Smith, hotel sneak
thief and gun fighter Of New York,
was arrested in a Philadelphia hotel
Sunday, charged with thefts Of jewelry
in New York hotels aggregating s12,-
900. The Philadelphia police are said
to have gotten a tip on Smiths identi-
ty from a girl whom he had Tilted.
A statement issued by the postoffice
department, says that the names Of
more that 100000 persons have been
added to the list Of postal savings
banks deposits since the European war
began. On January 1st, tho deposits in
postal banks was approximately $59,-
900 to the credit Of $4,000 persons, an
average Of $119 per capita.
Before the house postoffice commit
tee Monday, Representative Gallivan
of Massachusetts, declared that 4S Of
the So Democratic members Of the
house who lost their seats last Novem-
Der were opposed and defeated by the
Menace, an anti Catholic organ, pub
lished in Missouri. The occasion was
to authorize the postmaster general to
bar from the mails scandalous, sour
rilous and libelous publications.
The chief Of police Of East Newark,
N. j., going home early Sunday morn
ing, discovered a bomb with a lighted
fuse, on the piazza Of an Italians
home. Running to the piazza, the Of
ficer pinched the fire from the fuse
and left the bomb. Hiding himself
he watched and later arrested two
men who were bonding over the bomb
to discover the reason for its non-ex-
plosion.