Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-06-15
GENERAL NEWS NOTES
Items of Interest Gathered from All
Around the World.

A severe snowstorm continued for
more than twelve hours in portions OF
Montana, Friday.
Sunday school children to the num-
ber of $4,000, paraded the streets of
Brooklyn, n. Y, Thursday.
1t is reported from Rome that the
pope will receive the $4,000 Nobel
peace prize this year.
President Wilson expects to spend
, the 4th of July with his family at their
summer home at Cornish, N. H.
Two British fishing boats were sunk
in the North sea Friday by Zeppelins.
This is said to be the first feat of the
kind in the history Of aviation.
Officers and several members Of the
crew of the German raider Prinz Eitel
Friedrich, interned at Norfolk, Va.
have broken their parole and disap-
peared.
Five hundred refugees from Mexi-
CO City, third Of them American
citizens left Vera Cruz for Galveston,
on board the army transport Buford,
Friday.
Up to June 10, more than 10000
horses have been shipped from East
st. Louis, ILL.,, to the governments of
Great Britain, Franch, Italy and Bel
gium.
John Strando, a Sicilian, was lynch
ed by a mob at Johnson City, ILL.,, on
Thursday. Strando had murdered a
wealthy farmer and wounded his
daughter.
Francisco Lagos Chazaro, a Villa
delegate from Chihuahua, has been
elected provisional president of Mexi-
CO, by a convention sitting in Mexi-
co City.
A silver pew plate bearing the auto
graph Of George Washington, has been
stolen from Grace church, Alexandria,
Va. A sight seeing tourist is suspect
ed Of the theft.
General Christian deWet, one Of the
leaders of the South African rebellion
against Great Britain, on trial at
Blomfontain, pleaded not guilty to
treason, but guilty Of sedition.
Mrs. Ida w. Freedley, we'll known
Philadelphia woman, and Duncan Nc
Kenzie, her chauffeur, were killed at
Cross River, N. H., Friday, when an
automobile went over a 25-foot en-
bankment on a curve.
Fire destroyed 100 Red Cross am
balances and 200 army motor vans
entailing a loss Of $500, 900, when the
automobile plant Of Brian, Huges &
Strachan at Park Royal, England, was
burned Thursday.
Seventeen persons confined in the
penitentiary at Santiago, Panama,
revolted Friday and ten Of them es-
capped to the jungles. all heavily arm
ed. A policeman and guard were
killed and five guards were dangerous
ly wounded.
Gustav Stahl, the German reservist,
who made an affidavit alleging that
he saw four 6-inch guns mounted on
the Lusitania before she sailed on her
last voyage, was arrested in New York
Thursday, by Federal officers, charged
with perjury.
The Alabama court holds that the
new anti-liquor advertising law Of that
state to be constitutional in all its de-
tails, and further that the law abro-
gates all contracts for liquor advertis-
ing between advertising agencies and
newspapers.
Nine military training camps have
been established in Canada for train
ing soldiers for European service.
During the summer 100000 men will
be instructed in the various camps.
The instructors will be officers from
the front Of the invalided home.
Anthony Comstork, for 40 years a
United States postoffice inspector, will
soon retire from the service. He has
made a speciality of all kinds Of vice
and it is said that enormous pressure
has been brought to secure his re-
tirement.
In the investigation Of crooked
methods in the Annapolis Naval acad-
emy examinations now in progress, it
was testified Friday that there was
only one cadet in all Of the four
classes, who did not use dope" in the
examination work.
Jacob Miller, aged 20, who on
March 20, fatally wounded two Phila-
delphia police officers, has been SEN
fenced to electrocution by a Philadel
phia judge. Miller was a dope fiend
At the same time James Reilly was
sentenced to electrocution for the
murder of his wife in November,
1912.
Five thousand horses broke out of
stockyards at East Alton, ILL.,, early
Friday morning during a storm, and
did great damage to growing crops,
lawns and fences before being recap
tured. The horses were intended for
the British and French armies. About
700 Of them were captured by German
farmers, who refused to surrender
them until indemnified for all damages
done.
The twentieth annual convention of
the Wholesale Liquor Dealers associ-
alton. ended at Cincinnati, o., Thurs
day. In closing address the vice
president said: Such machines as
the Anti-Saloon league are apt to do
harm that will be great. The evil
which lies in such a system is plain,
for no matter what kind of a man the
legislator may be, or what principle
he may present, or what methods he
may employ. just as long as he is
dry voter and a dry advocate he is
doomed by the Anti-Saloon league"
Science and Iaughter-Without
question, man has every reason to be
grateful to science for her assistance