Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-03-02
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items Of Interest Gathered From All
Around the World.

| case, before the United States supreme
court at Washington, were completed
Friday.
German postal figures show tina,
| since the beginning Of the war, S6+
| German newspapers have suspended
publication.
/ Miss Maude Armfield has beer
awarded a verdict of $4,000 in a $780,
| 600 breach Of promise suit against
Bryant Howard, Jr.. by a San Diego
Cal, jury.
The city officials Of Amsterdam, N
Y, D to convert the Carnegie
city library building into a city jail
rather than continue to pay $4,000 a
year for it's maintenance.
Joseph Letter, the noted Chicago
wheat sp%eculator, testified in New
York, Friday. hat the present high
price Of wheat is due to the foreign
demand and not to speculation.
A Federal grand jury at New York,
has returned a superseding indictment
against 81 directors Of the New Hav-
en- railroad, charging violation OF the
Sherman antitrust laws.
Wheat exports from the United
States for the week ending Friday,
were 7,35S,0OO bushels, against TO-
227, 900 the previous week. and q
GAS, 900 bushels for the same week of
last year.
The body Of James w. King, the
prominent Philadelphia lawyer, who
disappeared from a Washington hotel
on January 10th, was found in the
Potomac river near Washington last
week.
The First National bank Of Schaf-
fertown, Pa, has been ~re-opened, fol-
lowing it's suspension after he suicide
Of it's cashier, on February 9Th. The
shortage of the cashier was made
good.
Emperor Francis Joseph Of Austria,
has written a most pathetic letter to
the children Of the empire, in which
he asks the FLOWERS Of the Empire
to pray for the success Of the Ger
man-Austrlan arms in the war.
Two masked bandits entered a bank
at Havana, Ark, Thursday, and TAX
ing more than 1000, forced the bank
president, who was alone at n time,
to walk down the street with them.
The president was found later, un-
harmed, eleven miles from town.
May wheat sold at $1.46 a bushel in
Chicago, Friday, IA 1-2 cents a bushe
below the previous week, and "a cents
lower than the price on Thursday, on
receipt Of the news of the probable
successful attack on the Dardanelles
forts.
Citizens Of the 3Sth police district
Of Philadelphia say that they will
form a "vigilence committee" fol-
protection against criminals unless the
department Of public safety gives
them assurance Of better protection
from criminals than they have been
getting.
The Judge Of the New Jersey su-
preme court trying the case against
Mrs. Nettie Solins, charged with pois-
oning her husband at Mays Landing
instructed the jury to disregard an al
legged confession forced by means Of
the third degree" The woman was
acquitted.
Adolf Mendel, an East Side, New
York, banker, who failed recently fol
49, 900, 900, has filed an offer in the
Federal court to pay 100 cents on the
dollar-10 per cent cash at once, II
per cent in 80 days and the balanct
| in income notes of a new corporation
to continue the business.
The promoter Of the Willard
| prize fight has announced that thu
proposed fight has been postponed
| until the last Of March or the first o.
April. Johnson is in Havana and viii
hardly give General Carranza a chanct
to arrest him and turn him over t.
United States officers.
The earnings of the Baldwin Loco
motive Works Of Philadelphia, las
year were $35O,229, against ~$4,O17,S0(
in 1913, a decrease of 81 per cent. Thu
interstate commerce commission the
| tariff and the war are blamed for the
L laa-aa.a Cr4cc co1ac ocf Hyoor total
| ed s13,616,163; in 1913 the total sale:
were s37,630,96s.
Richard P. Stegler has been arrest
| ed in New York, charged with at
tempting to obtain a false passport
that he might go to England as
| German spy. Stegler accuses Captain
K. Boyed, German naval attache a
Washington, with trying to get hin
to serve as a spy, and furnishing the
bogus passport.
Justice Weeks of the New York su'
preme court, has refused to grant
new trial to Chas. Becker, the police
lieutenant under sentence of death 70,
the murder of Gambler Rosenthal
The next move of Becker's attorney:
will be before the court of appeals or
the strength of an affidavit from
negro witness hat his testimony or
the trial of the case was false.
A Chicago policewoman last Friday
followed two suspicious characters un'
til they boarded a street car. Sht
ordered the car to stop. The suspect:
jumped off and started to run Thu
female officer followed one on a run
firing her pistol until the fugitive
stopped, when the bullets got toe
close. He was locked up. The Other
escaped.
A report made to Mayor Mitchell
| shows that the sheriff Of New Yorl
county, in the ten years following
January 1st, 1915, received in fees al
aggregate of s402, 329. in addition to
salary of $4,000 a year, giving hin
an annual income of more than 1884,
900, thus showing that the sheriffs' Of
flee of New York is the most lucrative
public office in the United States mex
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