Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-05-11
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items Of Interest Gathered From All
Around the World.

Items Of Interest Gathered From All
Around the World.
Snow fell in Kansas and the pan
handle" Of Texas, Thursday.
President Wilson will review the
North Atlantic fleet in the Hudson
river, at New York. May 18th.
:. John R. Earnshaw. a Philadelphia
lawyer, has teen sentenced to year
in prison for obtaining money under
false pretenses.
Three ships left Savannah, Ga, on
Thursday for English and Italian
Iports The vessels were loaded with
cotton and naval stores.
Up to and including May 7th, the
Germans have sunk total Of 80 ships,
costing $40 lives. excluding Of those
in the Lusitania disaster.
The date Of the sinking Of the IT,
tanic by collision with an iceberg, was
April IA, at midnight. OF the 1928
passengers and crew on board 1,517
were lost.
The Italian chamber Of deputies will
convene May 20. The Italian press
considers that only miracle can keep
Italy out of the war.
The British government proposes
to absolutely prohibit the sale OF
spirits less than three years old.
Duties on beers and wines will be
withdrawn.
Albert Hill, veteran gravedigger
of the Odd Fellows cemetery, Phila-
delphia, known as the Laughing
Gravedigger," finished a grave Fri
day afternoon, climbed out, said he
felt queer, and fell back into the grave
dead.
Fifty automobiles of Chester, Pa,
were temporarily put out Of business
Thursday night by punctured tires,
caused by hobnails scattered in great
numbers on the streets, supposedly In
an effort to drive the jitney cars out
Of business.
Because Of lack of ships to carry 1t
to Europe. there is a big increase in
the amount of fresh meats held in
American cold storage warehouses. In
New Jersey April 1, there were stored
16,223,115 pounds Of fresh meat, as
compared with 6.766.6ss a year ago.
Frank A. Munsey, owner, has an
nounced a reduction in the price OF
the New York Sunday Press from 5
cents to l cent a copy, and says he
will make it strictly a newspaper,
cutting out the magazine and "fubb"
sections.
Rev. George Chalmers Richmond
has been deposed from the rectorship
Of st. Johns Episcopal church. Phila-
delphia, by decision Of Bishop Rhine
lander. The deposed clergyman is
charged with conduct unbecoming a
clergyman and violating his ordinance
vows"
An agricultural departments re-
port estimates the total acreage Of
winter wheat as being 40,169,OOO
acres, an increase in acreage Of A.
161, 900 acres over last year, and an
indicated yield, based on May 1, re-
ports, Of 6s3,OOO,OOO bushels, an in
crease over the April estimate Of a.
100000 bushels.
Early in March, John H. McFadden,
the millionaire cotton broker Of Phila-
delphia, engaged passage on the May
/, sailing Of the Lusitania for himself
and family. Later, he says, he had
premonition that the ship would be
torpedoed and Cancelled his reserva-
tion. His friends ridiculed his fears.
but he didn't SAIL
The Atlantic Fruit company. New
York, has purchased the steamships
Sarnia and Sibiria, formerly owned by
the Hamburg-American line. Both
vessels have been tied up at American
ports since the beginning Of the war
and have been transferred to United
States registry.
John Mock, a wealthy citizen of
West Philadelphia, recently offered
Mrs Howard Gray of Roaring Branch,
Pa, 100000 if she would relinquish
her rights and claims to her daughter,
Vivian Jane Lieb Gray, two years old,
that he might adopt her as his own
child. The offer was refused. Mrs,
lGray's husband is telegraph opera
tor.
| special messenger Of the prohibi-
ton forces in England, Mr.. Henry
Randall, has sailed for the United
States to urge Rev. Billy Sunday to
go to England to lead the prohibition
fight on the liquor traffic in Great
Britain. Mr. Sunday says he has all
the work he can possibly attend to in
the United States.
In an address at Madison, Wis, ex-
President William H. Taft commended
the neutrality policy of President Will
followed" Further, Mr.. Taft said:
1--WE are in state Of anxious expect
Iancy-a state Of sorrow. For a time
we are enjoying a feverish activity in
many branches of industry. We must
take care that we are not overjoyful
and misled-that all Of this is real
prosperity. We have been criticised
for the sale of arms and ammunition
permitted under the international
rules. The rule has always been that
neutrals could furnish arms and food
stuffs. AS a nation we should not
place ourselves at a disadvantage and
take an opposite view of this ques-
ton"
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