Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-09-07
GENERAL NEWS NOTES
Items Of Interest Gathered from All
Around the World.

items OF interest Sdtnerco IToW H'i
Around the World.
The 1915 peace crop of West Vir-
ginia is estimated at 100000 BUSH
els.
The Alabama senate has defeated
an equal suffrage bill by vote Of FL
to %.
thirteen New York families own
ondt Fifteenth of all the land of the
city, assessed at $205,404,S75.
The Krupp family, gunmakers of
Germany, have subscribed for $10,-
100000 of the new German war loan.
Effective September 18th, the Stand
ard OIL company Of New Jersey, has
granted its 25,000,000 employees an
eight hour day.
Compulsory education has been in
troduced in the city Of Warsaw, pat
termed after the compulsory educa-
tion law Of Germany.
Jos. ]. Etter, Industrial Workers of
the World organizer, has been SEN
fenced to six months in jail at Water
bury, Conn, for breach Of the peace.
Five men, one of them a negro. all
murderers, were electrocuted at the
Sing Sing. N. Y, prison last Friday
morning, in IS minutes. Three of
them had murdered women.
The municipal council Of Lodz, Po-
land. now in the hands Of Germany,
has banished the use of the Russian
language, and only Polish and German
will be used.
The municipal administration OF
Berlin Is reported to have used $13,-
100000 during the first year Of the
war in relief work among the families
of soldiers.
According to estimates Of DR.. A. D,
Melvin, chief Of the Federal bureau
of animal industry, the cattle tick last
year cost the United States $90,000,-
900.
The police of New York and other
eastern cities are looking for Leopold
Godowsky, a celebrated pianist OF
Avon, N. ]. He disappeared in New
York last Wednesday afternoon and
has not been heard Of since. 1t Is
feared that he is suffering from apha-
sia, due to overwork.
f1 tn rnnnivQ0
by the Presbyterian Board Of Foreign
Missions, New York, 1000 Christians
were slain in Urumiah, Persia, during
the five months occupation OF the
place by the Turks. More than 1000
others died of disease during the same
period.
The police of Philadelphia believe
that Samuel S. Cord, the real estate
dealer of that city, whose dead body
was found near Laurel Springs, N. j.,
last Tuesday, was murdered in Phila-
delphia at the instigation Of business
rivals and his body taken to the place
where it was found in an automobile.
The police claim to have n strong clue
to the murderers.
After he had been badly beaten by
two prisoners and locked up by the
pair, Friday, the chief Of police OF
Hingham, Mass, was released by
street car men. The officer then went
after the pair, and killed one and ar
rested the other and locked him up
The policeman's skull was fractured
and his nose broken by blow from
hammer in the fight with the two men
whom he had arrested for stealing an
automobile.
Mrs. elizabeth F. Mohr is held un-
der SIC, 900 bail at Providence. r. l.,
charged with having melted the MUIR
der of her husband, a prominent ply
sician, by three negroes on Tuesday
night of last week. She was arrested
on the alleged confession of the ne
groes. The negroes allege that they
were to receive $1,000 for the murder
of the doctor. The negroes have since
denied the truthfulness Of their con-
feSsiOns