Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-05-28
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items of Interest Gathered From All
Around the World.

| Around the World.
The condition Of King Constantine
of Greece, continues very serious.
| Oklahoma wants $4,000 men for the
wheat harvest, and offers SO a day
with board.
The German armies fighting the
Russians in Galacia, are said to be
short Of shells and many Of their
guns are silent.
| Six Of the eight Filipino prisoners
in the Jail at Passing, Philippine Is
lands, escaped Monday by filing
through the bars.
Ten thousand newly naturalized
| citizens of Chicago will be given a
formal welcome as American citizens
in that city on Sunday, May 80.
Eight men were killed in a gas ex-
plosion at the Valley mine near Johns
town, Pa, Monday afternoon. Anoth-
er man, a rescuer, lost his life by gas
asphyxiation.
Ten Of the twenty-five deputies who
fired into the strikers at Roosevelt,
N. j., last January, are on trial at
New Brunswick on the charge of
murder.
Baron Burian, the foreign minis
ter Of Austria, has resigned his post.
The resignation is said to be because
Of his failure to keep Italy out Of the
war.
The North Carolina supreme court
has declared unconstitutional the re-
Gently passed law providing for the
appointment of women as notaries
public.
A dispatch from Athens, Greece,
says that a Turkish garrison at
Smyrna has mutined and fled, many
of them seeking refuge on board ships
Of the allies.
A dispatch from Northern France"
on Monday, says that after the Brit
ish had captured Front line trenches,
they found two German artillery
men chained to their machine guns
The chains were fastened to their
waists and doubly padlocked.
Representatives of France are in
East st. Louis, Mo-, to buy 10000
horses. France has already bought
80, 900 horses in that market. Italy
has purchased 1850 horses and Great
Britain 10000 in East st. Louis.
The famous Drs. Mayo Of Rochester,
Minn., have donated 100000 to
Mayo Foundation of the University
Of Minnesota, for medical research.
The Mayos are probably the most
famous surgeons in the world.
A racing automobile, driven by Jno.
DePalma, at Indianapolis, Ind, Sum-
day, while going 80 miles an hour,
| skidded, turned four somersaults and
then crashed through a 12-inch con-
crete retaining wall DePalma and
his helper were badly injured
Rev. Billy Sunday closed his SIX
weeks revival cmpaign at Paterson,
N. j., Sunday last. The number Of
professed conversions was 1880. The
last days converts numbered 1000.
The free will offering to Mr.. Sunday
was $4,000.
VIM. ]. Bryan is said to be the
only prominent man in official soci-
ETY. life at Washington, who has not
been invited to the wedding of Miss
| Genevieve Clark, daughter Of Speaker
Champ Clark, which is to take place
at Bowling Green, Mo-, on June 2.
After thirty-seven years work on
the idea, Thomas A. Edison has an
nounced the perfection Of the "tele-
scribe" a combination Of the tele-
phone and phonograph which will
give both parties a photographic rec
ord Of a telephone conversation.
| Jacob Solas. New York tobacco
merchant; John Burke, manager OF
the commissary department of the
canal zone, and Ricardo Bermundez
| ex-governor of Colon, ARE on trial in
the Federal court in New York
charged with conspiracy to defraud
the government.
Dispatches from Vera Cruz, receiv-
ed in Washington, state that the Viii
la forces left 1000 killed, wounded
and prisoners, when they evacuated
Monterey, last week, and that four
teen troop trains with complete
equipment, fell into the hands of the
Carranza array.
A naval expert at Washington says
that if necessary, the United States
can build one complete submarine of
the latest type every week. Nine sub
marines now being built, will be COM
pleted by March 6, next. These will
have a speed of II knots and capa- =