Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-02-12
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items of Interest Gathered From All
Around the World.

tO january To- are SiNeH dS ioho"S
$4,000 killed; $4,000 wounded, anc
1872 900 missing.
President Hibben Of Princeton uni
versity, has refused to invite Rev
Billy Sunday to Princeton to preach
to the students.
Buyers Of bread in Berlin, Germany
are now required to have coupon
tickets, limiting the amount Of bread
that can be purchased each week.
The Cotton Loan Committee, having
the Wade fund" in charge, has an.
nounced that the $100,000,000 cotton
President Wilson expects to be in
standing total only $4,000.
Bellevue hospital, New York, or
Monday offered SIS for a quart OF
blood for transmission to a patient
There were 80 applicants who want
ed the SIS.
Ben" Rosenstein died in Chicago
Monday, after having lived with
Pauline Rosenstein for seven years as
her husband. "Ben's' death disclosed
the fact that the husband" was a
woman.
Postmaster General Burleson has
awarded contract to a printing con-
Germ at Columbus, O.. for 100000,
900 stamped envelopes, at a cost OF
IS, 10000 The contract runs for four
years.
The police throughout the country
have been asked to aid in finding Jas.
w, King, ESQ.,, a Philadelphia lawyer,
who disappeared from a Washington
hotel on January 9, and has not since
been heard from.
Governor Hays OF Arkansas, has
signed the statewide prohibition bill
and the state will be dry after jan
uary 1st Arkansas Is the sixteenth
state to have a state wide prohibition
law on it's statute books.
In an address at Pittsburgh, Pa,
Monday, night, Jas. A. Farrell, head
of the United States Steel corpora
ton, said that the tide had turned,
and predicted an early return Of great
PROSPERITY throughout the United
States.
Samuel Briscoe, a member Of the
Arizona legislature, in session at Phoe-
nix, was on Monday taken to the local
pesthouse, On account of the develop
ment Of smallpox. All the members
Of the legislature were ordered to be
vaccinated or be quarantined. The
legislature adjourned while the capitol
was being fumigated.
The death rate of the United States
during 1913, the last figures available,
show a mortality Of 14.1 per 1000 OF
population. Washington state showed
the lowest death rate, S.5 per 1000, and
New Hampshire the highest, III per
1000.
Impeachment proceedings against
Federal Judge A. G. Dayton of the
northern district of West Virginia, are
under consideration by the lower
house of congress. The judiciary
committee, E. Yates Webb, chairman,
has reported in favor Of impeachment
proceedings.
The Cologne Gazette, copy Of
which has reached Amsterdam, says:
Prisoners of war must starve first.
We have 100000 prisoners and the
parts of Belgium and France we oc-
cupy contain 100000 people. If it
comes to starving, the subjects Of hos
tile countries will suffer first"
Mrs. R. c. Saufey on Monday, using
a biplane, equipped with a Sperry sta
bilizer, flew over New York city,
Brooklyn and the statue Of Liberty.
At one time she attained an altitude
of 1000 feet. Mrs. Saufley was the
first woman aviator to fly over New
York
A New York astrologer, "Profes-
sor" Mayer, has forecast the horo-
scope Of Francis Sayre, Jr., President
Wilson's grandson. He says: "The
moon is his ruling planet. This sig
nifies he is born for wealth, success
and fame. He will take a stirring part
in politics.
A Washington man is suing the
management Of a theatre in that city
for s1,5OO damages, alleging that he
suffered great mental pain and an
guish" when a chorus girl rushed
down the aisle and kissed him. His
wife was with him at the time.
The comptroller of the currency has
called upon the directors Of the
National Bank of Commerce, New
York, to make good a large loss in
CURED by the bank prior to 1907. Other
good similar losses. The loss was in
Cured in an underwriting scheme
that did not turn out as well as the
directors hoped for.
On the arrival of the Dacia at Nor
folk last Monday, at least eleven Of the
crew asked for their discharge. Some
said they were sick and others said
that they did not care to take the
risk of capture by the British. The
Dacia is the ship that was recently
purchased from German owners end
laden with cotton for Rotterdam. The
British government has threatened to
seize the ship and take it to prize
court on the ground that the pur-
chase was not bona fide.
Attorney General Gregory from
Washington, has notified district at
torneys throughout the United States,
that in future the department Of JUS
tice does not propose to sit idly by
and permit Federal judges to suspend
either the imposition or
execution of sentences on a convicted
criminal. Mr.. Gregory says: NO
court has such power. 1t Is in effect
a pardon or communication. 1t has
tended to somewhat discredit the ad-
of the criminal law in the
Federal courts"