Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-07-16
GENERAL NEWS NOTES
Items Of Interest Gathered from All
Around the World.

AROUND the WoEIo.
During the first six months Of this
year GAL divorce cases were put
through the courts Of New York city
OF the 10000 school teachers in the
German armies, 1900 are reported as
killed up to June 80.
Ten thousand garment workers went
on a strike in New York Monday
5000 others threaten to strike in sym.
pathy.
Seventy thousand members of the
Ancient Arabic Order Mobiles Of the
Mystic Shrine are attending the i'm
perial conclave at Seattle, Wash.
this week.
Samuel Ross, a Philadelphia paint
er, Is serving a ten days sentence for
desecration Of the American flag, hav-
ing wrapped the flag around his dog
to protect the animal from flies.
Thomas A. Edison has accepted an
invitation from Secretary Daniels to
head an advisory board Of civilian in
ventors for a bureau Of invention and
development to be created in the navy
department.
Sir Thomas Upton Of London, who
went to Servia in his yacht, the Erin.
a short time ago, to bring back fif-
teen American nurses, half of whom
had contracted typhus fever. has him
self contracted Mediterranean fever.
The worlds Christian Endeavol
convention adjourned in Chicago Mon
day, after adopting resolution de-
manding that all church workers unite
to procure "saloonless" United States
Of America The convention will hold
it's next meeing in New York in 1917.
Divers, operating for the recovery
Of the Italian submarine Medusa in the
Adriatic, says a Turin dispatch, have
discovered another submarine, evil
IDENTIFY Austrian, near by on the bot
tom. 1t is evident that both were
sunk in a submarine duel.
AL Jennings. one-time bandit, now
an evangelist, had the novel expert
ence of being held UP by highway
men in California a few days ago,
He lost 81, having slipped $25 in q
paper bag under his seat when the
highwaymen entered the car he was
occupying.
A small runabout, the gift Of her
friends, to DR.. Anna Shaw, the fam
GUS woman's suffrage leader, has been
seized by the tax collector Of Media,
Pa, for unpaid taxes. DR.. Shaw
claims the car Is not liable to taxa
ton in Pennsylvania, as her perma-
nent home is in New York state.
The United States Steel corporation
officials have issued orders for all OF
its plants to be placed In operation al
full capacity. The untitled orders Of
the corporation on June 80, are figur-
ed at 4,678,196 tons. When all the
plants are running full blast they will
employ 100000 men with payroll OF
s450, 100000 per year.
London reports that the German
cruiser Konigsberg, which in the fall
Of last year took refuge from the Brit
ish fleet in the Rufiji river, in German
East Africa, has been totally wrecked
by British river monitors. The British
casualties were four men killed and
six wounded The Konigsbers, a ves-
sci Of 3,346 tons, had speed of "a
knots.
More than 100000 cent pieces
4,s75,53s nickels, 22,4SO,O0O dimes
nearly 100000 quarters, 1,422,550 hall
dollars and $4O,53s,S1O in gold were
coined by the United States govern
ment during the fiscal year ending
June 80. Official mint figures also
show a coinage Of 22,157,7O0 pieces fol
foreign governments. Nearly 2,OO0,O0(
pieces were coined for the Philippine
government
Consul General Cheshire at Canton
China, has sent the following dispatch
to the state department at Washing
ton: unprecedented floods. Great
distress among the Chinese in the in
terror of Kwangtung and Kwansl
Many lives lost. Shameen flooded two
or three feet. There is total cessa'
ton of trade and railroad traffic. Con-
tributions to suffering humanity urg'
entity needed at once. Kindly inform
the Red Cross and the Christian Her.
aid"
Rev. Olympia Brown, president Of
the Federal Suffrage association, and
the first woman ordained for the min.
istry in the United States, in opening
the national convention Of the asso.
citation at San Francisco Monday, sai6
in part: 1--WE must start our girls tc
studying for the ministry. The mer
have been lured away from their du.
ties as ministers by frills and pink
teas. The trouble with our ministry
is that the men ministers spend theil
time writing pretty essays that will
please their parishioners. instead OF
driving hard at reforms"
When the army estimates are sub
mitted to the next congress. they will
include provision for the creation o.
machine gun company for every
regiment of infantry and cavalry
These organizations have machine pla
toons, and some Of the regiments have
as many as four machine guns; bu
these platoons are all provisional ant
without legal status. The total mum
ber Of machine guns in the army i:
about 1S0, as compared with $4,000 ir
the German, the same number in tht
French and more than $4,000 each ir
the British, Austro Hungarian ant
Russian armies.
DREADFUL sAYoNET CHARGES