Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-07-20
GENERAL NEWS NOTES
Items ef Interest Gathered from All
Around the World.

Items ef Interest Gathered from All
Around the World.
The business section Of Valdez,
Alaska, was damaged 100000 by fire
Thursday.
Major Richard Sylvester. formerly
chief Of police Of Washington, has been
appointed chief Of the dupont police
at City Point, Va.
Robert Rosenthal, convicted by
court martial in London as a spy, he
having a forged American passport,
was executed Thursday.
Champ Clark, speaker Of the national
house Of representatives. has pledged
himself to support women suffrage in
his home state, Missouri.
Federal customs records show that
during the eleven months ending June
30, the United States exported auto
mobiles, parts and tires to the value
Of $41, 100000
A Geneva, Switzerland. dispatch Is
to the effect that big strike Is threat
ened in the Krupp gun works at Es-
sen, Germany. The men are demand
ing more pay and shorter hours
During last week munition orders
totaling $35,00G,000 were placed by
agents Of the Russian government with
the Westinghouse company Of Pitts
burgh, Pa.
The dupont Powder company has
announced that 3 s>-.ce were declared
now they have orders ahead for
powder and other explosives sufficient
to keep all their plants busy at full
speed for five years.
The Liberty Bell arrived in San
Francisco Friday, after a triumphal
journey across the continent. The
bell was greeted by 5000 school chill
dren in a parade through the city
streets on Saturday.
DR.. r. E. Pratt, chief Of the Federal
bureau Of foreign and domestic COM
merce, estimates that the total loans
of American money and credit to
European belligerents is over $780,
900, 900, and says such loans are an
economic error.
Mrs. Inez Marnship. 2S years old,
killed herself and two children, aged
Q and years. in Philadelphia Friday
by shutting herself and children in a
closet and turning on the gas. She
left a note saying that her husband
loved her children more than he did
her and she didn't care to live.
John Moran, a machinist, started a
riot in New York Friday night, when
he pulled an American flag from a
platform from which an evangelist was
preaching to a crowd Of men. Jack
Powell, a sailor from the battleship
Maine, lead the assault on Moran, who
was badly maulcd before being rescued
by the police.
Secretary Daniels has deferred the
opening o: bids for sixteen submarines
to Septemb, : 20, in order to give the
New Port Nnws Shipbuilding company
and the New York Shipbuilding COM
pany an opportunity to make bids for
the work. Neither Of these concerns
have heretofore bid for submarine
work.
Says q dispatch from Copenhagen:
A private dispatch from Berlin, which
was passed by the German censor,
thot to oy.nxutnO n
idly among the German population on
account Of Social Democratic pam
phlets demanding q rapid conclusion
Of the war owing to the increasing
prices for all foodstuffs. Martial law
will be declared all over Germany, 1t Is
said, to suppress all demonstrations.
The German submarine U-51 has
been sunk In the Black sea by Russian
battleships, according to information
received from Varna, q Bulgarian port
on the Black sea, by tho Athens cor
respondent Of the Exchange Telegraph
Co. The submarine U-51 gained fame
by eluding the British blockade and
passing through the Strait OF Gibral-
tar. 1t left Wilhelmshaven, the great
German base, to operate againSt the
allied fleet in the Dardanelles and was
reported to have been successful In Its
mission. The U-51 has been credited
with sinking several vessels belonging
to the allies, including the British
battleship Majestic.