Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-04-09
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items Of Interest Gathered From All
Around the World.

Items Of Interest Gathered From All
Around the World.
Estimates based on the 1910 Federal
census, places the population Of New
York city at 4,327,095.
The Central Railroad of New Jersey,
was on Monday, fined 100000 by the
Federal district court at Trenton, on
conviction Of rebating.
A Copenhagen dispatch says that
Prussian losses officially announced,
brings the total up to 1,133,0S1 in
killed, wounded and missing.
VIM. Disston, president Of the
Henry Disston & Sons saw manufac-
turing concern, died at his summer
home near Philadelphia, Sunday.
Counterfeit gold pieces heavily al
loyed with glass to give them the right
ring, are reported from Chicago. The
spurious coins have been in circula-
tion during the past eight months.
VIM K. Pierce, a millionaire raidia-
tor manufacturer of Syracuse, N. Y,
committed suicide in Washington on
Monday. Financial troubles is as
signed as the cause.
Otto Zinn, a restaurant owner, and
two Of his employees. were killed by
thieves in Zinn's restaurant in New
York early Monday morning. The men
were killed with butchers cleaver.
About a dozen members Of the
Aero club Of America, have arranged
to use hydro-aeroplanes in travelling
from their suburban homes to their
business places in New York city.
A railroad gateman at Wilmington,
DEL, on Monday, attempted to commit
suicide by heating a poker red hot
and pressing it to his body over his
heart. He tainted before finishing the
job.
A constitutional convention was
convened at Albany, N. Y, Tuesday,
to revise New York's basic law. Ex
Senator Root is president Of the body,
which will be in session for about four
months.
A dispatch from Genoa, Italy, says
that word had been received there that
the Italian ship Luigi Parodi, from
Baltimore January %, with a cargo
Of coal, had been sunk by a German
submarine.
A violent earthquake shook a large
portion Of Italy last Monday. Shocks
have been Of daily occurrence, but
the one on Monday was the most Sc
we're since the disaster Of January 13,
when so many lives were lost.
Major John o. Skinner, a retired
army surgeon, was on Tuesday pre-
sented with a medal Of honor by
President Wilson, in accordance with
an act Of congress, for "gallantry in
action" in an assault against a Me-
doc Indian stronghold in January,
1873.
When between $500 and 5000 wood
finishers Of Chicago, went on strike
Monday, after a demand for an in
crease Of wages, the Building Con-
tractors association answered with a
lockout that threw 5000 more men
out Of work. Now $4,000 carpenters
are threatening to strike.
Three men and a woman were land
ed at Philadelphia Monday, having
been taken off a water logged barge
so miles southeast Of Cape Hatteras,
by the Norwegian steamship Sosua.
The barge broke away from it's tug
Friday night and for thirty-six hours
the party Of four were kept continu-
ously busy at the pumps.
Testifying before the United States
commission on industrial relations at
Chicago, Monday, the general manager
of the Pullman company, testified
that Pullman car porters were paid a
wage of S27.50 per month during the
first fifteen years service. After that
there was per cent increase in
wages.
The German authorities have refused
to permit Clifford Pinchot, acting as a
special agent of the state department
at Washington, to proceed with his
work as a member Of the American
relief commission in Belgium. 1t is
stated that the refusal to allow Mr..
Pinchot to work in Belgium Is because
his sister is the wife Of a former Brit
ish minister to Denmark.
A French war office statement says:
The military authorities have receiv-
ed precise information concerning the
results Of the bombardment carried
out by British aviators in Belgium,
March &c. A dirigible hangar at
Berghen-Ste Agathe, was seriously
damaged as was the dirigible airshfp
sheltered there At Hoboken, the
Antwerp naval construction shipyards
were blown up, two German subma-
rines were destroyed and a third dam
aged, while 40 German workmen were
killed and 62 wounded"
IN A genius is a man who seldom
makes good at 1t.