Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-05-18

cieties of New York, because Of hi!
utterances following the sinking o.
the Lusitania-
A thousand or more completed shells
and material for 5000 more 6-incf
shells, were destroyed by fire at th'
plant Of the Standard Steel Car com
pany at New Castle, Pa, Thursday.
The White Star liner Cymric lef
New York Friday, for Liverpool, with
965 passengers on board, including
crew Of 400. Not single American
was on board.
The New York police force have
begun a nation wide search for
500, 900 pearl necklace stolen from
woman guest of New York hotel las
week, while the woman and her hus'
band were asleep.
John D. Rockefeller's income tax
this year will amount to s3,5S0,o00 on
an income Of $60,OO0,00O. This will
be nearly per cent Of the total in
come tax collected, estimated at $780,
900.
John Welsh, an engineer. and Certa
Nelson, a millionaire, who escaped
from the wreck of the Lusitania, were
married in London Friday. They met
first on the day the Lusitania sailed
from New York.
Washington correspondents say that
senators and congressman in that city
are finding that there Is widely
growing demand for better prepara-
ton for war, and especially a demand
that the United States navy have more
submarines.
The steamer Michigan sailed from
Philadelphia, Saturday, for Liverpool
carrying an immense cargo Of contra
band war materials. She will load
LOO horses at Newport News. The
cargo also includes IS automobiles
for war uses.
James Morrison Darnell, Unitarian
minister, was last week convicted In
the Federal court at Milwaukee, OF
violating the Mann white slave law
charged with having transported a
young woman from Wisconsin to ILL.,
nois, for immoral purposes.
A proposal that the Texas Equal
Suffrage association endorse the Wo-
mans Peace party, failed Of adoption
at Galveston, Texas. Friday. One
woman said: II am opposed to war,
but If our country is subjected to in
suit will willingly give my four sons
to assist in wiping out that insult"
District Attorney Perkins of New
York, is after a number Of lawyers OF
that city, charging them with being
patrons to illegal agreements drawn
up by gangmen and manufacturers
The district attorney believes that
there are a dozen lawyers mixed up
with crooked deals with the gangsters
and he proposes indictments and dis
barment proceedings.
Officers of the steamer Northwest
ern, arriving in Mobile, Ala, says that
conditions along the Mexican coast are
very bad One officer Is quoted as
saying: AT Tampico we fed 100
starving residents. Every steamer
is besieged by starving people, who
beg to be taken away from that
port" Famine conditions are said to
exist at Mexico City.
William B. Pettus, skilled steam
filter of Richmond, Va, has been ar
rested in Philadelphia by Federal au-
thorities on a charge Of mutilating q
mail box at Newark, N. ]. Pettus de-
liberately mutilated the box in order
to get back to the Atlanta prison
from which he was discharged some
months ago, and has since been un-
able to get work.
A petition containing $1,000 names
and over one mile in length has beer
presented to Rev. Billy Sunday, ask
ing to conduct a campaign in Chica.
go. Mr.. Sunday has accepted the
invitation and the campaign will
probably begin early in 1916. Seven.
ty-eight clergymen, representing ev-
cry church in Bridgeport, Connecticut
have invited Mr.. Sunday to conduct 6
meeting there.