Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-05-14
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items Of Interest Gathered From All
Around the World.

Items Of Interest Gathered From All
Around the World.
A Copenhagen dispatch says that
the Germans have fifteen submarines
in course Of construction at Kiel.
Among other losses on board the
Lusitania was 100000 contributed in
America for the use Of the Belgian
Red Cross society.
A leading German paper of Chica-
go, charges that the people Of that
city are boycotting Chicago Germans
since the sinking Of the Lusitania.
Mrs. o. ]. Johnson and three CHI
dren were drowned in the st. Johns
river near Jacksonville, Fla, Sunday
night, when an automobile ran off a
ferry boat into the river.
Preachers, prominent bankers and
business men are behind movement
to invite Rev. Billy Sunday to conduct
a revival campaign in Chicago. The
invitation will be accepted, it Is said.
The British steamship Queen Will
helmina, from Philadelphia to Lieth,
Scotland, was torpedoed by German
submarine Saturday. The crew was
allowed to leave the vessel in small
boats.
why fear death? 1t Is the most
beautiful adventure in life," were the
last words Of Charles Frohman, the
theatrical man, as he went down with
the Lusitania. His body will be ship
ped to New York for interment.
Franklin D. Stafford, a hotel clerk.
convicted Of perjury in the Osborne
Tairzer breach Of promise suit in
New York, has been sentenced by the
United States circuit court to serve
nine months in Jail and pay a fine
Of 81.
John F. Coar, professor Of German
at the University Of Rochester, N. Y,
refused to teach his class Monday,
explaining that because Of the sinking
Of the Lusitania, he did not feel able
to teach the ideals Of Goethe and
Schiller so wholly incompatible with
present conditions.
Although no official announcement
has been made to that effect, it Is the
belief in Washington that the propos-
ed cruise Of the north Atlantic fleet
through the Panama canal to San
Francisco in July will be abandoned
in view Of possible developments in
which the United States might become
involved.
The Trumbull Manufacturing COM
pany Of Plainville, Conn.,, up to the
sinking Of the Lusitania, had consist
emily refused to manufacture NUM-
tions Of war. Isaac Trumbull, men,
ber Of the firm, lost his life on the
Lusitania- Since then the company
has decided otherwise. John B. Trum-
bull has made the following statement:
"Our plans are still embryonic, but we
are figuring on the machinery neces-
sary for the manufacture of NUM-
tions Of war; In the past we have
turned down orders for rifle parts and
shrapnel, but the death Of our broth
er has determined us to go into the
business"
Leo M. Frank, convicted Of the
murder Of Mary Phagan IN Atlanta,
has been resentenced to be hanged on
June 90. In a statement made be-
fore he was sentenced, Frank said, in
part: II am innocent Of this charge,
and I assert that the record Of the evil
dence conclusively proves this. No
appellate tribunal ever has passed
upon this evidence. The only judge
who has ever heard it, stated that he
had the most serious doubts as to my
guilt. My hanging will not avenge
Mary Phagan's death. A life will
have been taken for life, but the
real culprit will not have paid the
penalty. 1 will suffer for anothers
crime. My trust is in God, who
knows that my protestations Of inno-
cence are the truth. At some future
date, the whole mortal world will
realize 1t. 1t Is the knowledge that
God knows it now, and that the world
will know 1t some day, that inspires
me as l stand before you honor and
as face the future"