Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-01-19
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items Of Interest Gathered From All
Around tho World.

Around tho World.
The clipper ship Aryan, Is st Sgd
ney, Australia, loading 10000 bales OF
merenio wool for Boston, Mass.
The steamer Mantanzas arrived at
New York, Thursday, from Amster-
dam, with a $1,O00,000 cargo Of dyes
from Germany.
Severe shocks were felt in the Alps
mountains last week at the time Of the
disturbance in Italy. Many great ava
lanches were caused by the shocks.
A ship building concern at Montreal,
Canada. is to build feet Of twenty
submarines for the British navy. Work
has already been begun on ten Of the
| underwater craft.
The Russian government has ne
gotiated loan Of 325,000,000 from New
York bankers. The money was OBJ
tained through the ]. P. Morgan COM
pany, and more business Of the same
kind is expected.
According to reports from Berlin,
England is sending thousands Of men
to France every week. The Germans,
aware Of this, are making great mill
tary preparations for counter move
ment.
The Japanese ship Mexico and the
American ship Governor. are detained
at Vancouver, B. c., because 1t Is al
legged that part Of the cargoes taken
| on board the vessels are contrabrand
under regulations promulgated for OF
tawa.
The Alabama legislature has passed
q bill to make that state prohibition
state after June 80, 1915. Should the
governor dissaprove the bill, It will
probably be passed over his veto. The
vote Of the house was "A to q, and in
the senate the vote was 6to 8.
Tho government mint at Philadel-
phia, is to coin two million silver dol
lars for the government Of Cuba, at
once. American silver dollars now
command a premium Of over per
cent in Cuba. 1t is expected that the
total coinage will reach $10,000.000.
A Geneva dispatch says that mem
bers of the royal families Of Germany
and Austria, are making large depos-
its of money and script in the banks
Of Switzerland and Vienna fnanciers
are given orders for the purchase OF
American securities.
A. Leo Well, a Pittsburgh. Pa, law
yer, civic jurist, head Of the Voters
league, was arrested in West Virginia,
last week, charged with attempting to
bribe a member Of the West Virginia
public service commission, in behalf Of
lighting and heating company OF
Pittsburgh.
Fifteen specially designed 14-inch
guns, said to be more powerful than
the great Krupp siege guns, used by
the Germans, have been shipped from
Bethlehem, Pa, via Pacific port to
Vladivostock, Siberia, thence to Rus
sia, where they are to be used against
the German fortifcations Of Przeymel.
Washington Mcmillan, a negro farm
er, of New Richmond, Ohio, was last
week awarded a verdict Of $4,000
against the Pennsylvania railroad, In
Cincinnati court. The negro sued for
$50, alleging that his farm wagon was
struck by train Of the defendant
and seven ribs fractured.
The United States district attorney
for the eastern district Of Illinois, has
been authorized to begin an investiga-
ton Of the published charges Of elec-
ton frauds in the 18th Illinois district,
in the fall elections, when former
Speaker Cannon was returned to con-
gress.
Joseph Cassidy, ex-Democratic boss
Of Queens county, N. Y, and VIM.
Wiilett Of Flushing, have been sent to
Sing Sing prison to serve eighteen
months, having been convicted OF hav-
ing sold and bought a Democratic
nomination for the supreme court
bench. They were convicted in 1911,
but appeals and technicalities kept the
pair out of Sing Sing until last week.
Chas. T. Oman, 17-year-old
burglar, was convicted Of murder In
the first degree at Los Angeles, CAL,
last week. He shot and killed VIM.
Alexander, retired millionaire Of
Dallas, Texas, in Alexanders home
on the night Of December 21st He
was later arrested, while having
wounds dressed by physician, that
had been inflicted by Alexanders
daughter with a heavy hair brush.
Victor E. Innis and his wife, Ida
May Innes, Of Eugene, Ore., must stand
trial at Atlanta, Co., on charges OF
larceny after trust, according to de-
cision Of the Texas court Of criminal
appeals, sustaining Governor Colquitt
in granting extradition Of the 1nneses
to Georgia. Innes and his wife were
recently cleared at Sen Antonio OF
charges in connection with the myster-
ious disappearance Of Mrs. 1nness
two sisters.
The United States navy department
last week, made a contract for the
building Of a sea-going submarine,
which will be the largest submarine
in the world. The cost is to be ST.
$4,000. The diver will be Of 1000
tons displacement and is to have
submerged speed Of II knots. The
radius Of sailing Of the submarine Is
to be about 5000 miles. against 1000
miles for the ordinary boat Of the
kind.
After 32 votes, the house naval COM
mittee last week agreed on a ship
building programme for the navy OF
the United States. The committees
bill provides for building appropria-
tions Of s53,16S,S2S and provides for
two dreadnoughts, costing $14,750,000
each; six destroyers, seventeen subma-
rines, one oil fuel ship, one transport
and one hospital ship. The total naval
appropriation is placed at $14S,5O0,0O0,
which is about s4,0OO,oOo more than