Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-04-27
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items of Interest Gathered From All
Around the World.

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Around the World.
There are 373 "jitney" cars doing
business in the city of Philadelphia
A secret service official recently run
across two 4-foot towels with dupli-
Gates of the faces Of IS and $40 bills
woven into their faces.
Secretary Bryan is refusing to issue
passports to Americans who wish to
visit the warning countries Of Europe
for sightseeing purposes.
Herr Steffens, a German inventor,
has applied for letters Of patent for
the making Of lubricating oil from
molasses.
The Atlantic fleet is scheduled to
pass through the Panama canal to the
Pacific in July, according to plans Of
Secretary Daniels.
Gen. Joffre, commander chief Of
the French army, has retired twenty
nine more generals to make room for
younger and more active men.
Mrs. Margaret Harkins has been ar
rested at Douglas, Ga, charged with
numbering her husband with shot
gun while he slept last Tuesday night
at Leliaton.
The local option bill before the
Pennsylvania legislature. was last
week defeated by vote Of nearly 2
to l. The local optionists say that the
fight has only begun.
BY the margin of one vote-that of
the speaker cast to decide a tie
prohibition in the city Of Halifax, N.
S.. was defeated Thursday by the
house Of assembly.
All German and Austrian subjects
living in Switzerland, even those who
never did military service, have been
recalled by their respective govern
ments.
Secretary Of the Treasury VIM. G..
McAdoo, who has been quite Ill for
some time past, expects to return to
his desk in the treasury department
on May 1st.
More than 1000 hogs in the vicinity
Of Philadelphia, are to be slaughtered
on account Of the prevalence Of the
foot and mouth disease among hogs in
private pens. Cats and dogs are also
being killed for the same reason.
The secretary Of the Kansas agri-
cultural department, reports that
present crop indications in that state
indicate a wheat production in Kan
sas Of 159,OOO,OOO bushels.
A Paris letter tells a story Of ar
aviator who stuck to the helm of his
flying machine and piloted it fifteen
miles to safety after having one Of his
feet shot off while flying over a Ger
man position.
The steamship Southerner from
Charleston on March 81, to Rotter.
dam, is detained at Falmouth. Eng
land, pending negotiations for the
purchase Of the cotton on board by
the British government.
Premier Asquith announced in the
British house Of commons Thursday
that David Lloyd-George would an
nounce plan shortly. probably to-
morrow, for dealing with the limit
ing Of facilities for drinking"
United States exports for the month
of March exceeded imports by $14O,-
969,347. Exports for the month total
ed s299,OO9.563. and imports $751;
040,216. giving the United States the
largest March trade balance in It's
history.
Thomas DiXon's moving pictur'
drama, Birth of a Nation" dealing
with the Ku-Klux- Klan, and Recon-
struction times in the south, now ex-
hibiting in Boston, is agitating a large
part Of the population of Massachu-
setts, and especially the politicians
who want to keep on friendly terms
with the negro voters The feature Is
attracting immense houses, seats In
the theatre being sold four weeks In
advance.