Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-05-25
Items of Interest Gathered From All
Around the World.

GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items Of Interest Gathered From All
Around the World.
More than 1,100 sheep have died In
the past two weeks in the vicinity of
Boyds, Wash, as the result Of eating
|, white camas weed.
Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, the ia
nous British suffragette, is advocating
the enlistment Of English women for
home defense.
The Italian steamship Mar Carusco,
from Baltimore, foundered near Gil
braltar, May IA, following a collision
with another vessel.
Charles H. Elliott, a veteran oars
man, aged IS, was drowned In the
Schuylkill river, near Philadelphia,
Friday, by falling out Of a racing shell,
supposedly a victim Of vertigo.
Charge d'afrairs Magnus, Of the Ger
man legation, Mexico City, was attack
ed and stabbed by a robber near the
legation, Thursday. No political sig
nificance Is attached to the incident.
Italian officials in Washington say
that there is little probability Of call
ing Italian reservists in the United
States to the colors Of Italy inside of
year II the war lasts that long.
The Pennsylvania legislature ad-
journed Thursday, after a session of
several weeks. Among the more i'm
portant measures passed was a child
labor law and a workmen's compensa-
ton act.
The British government has COM
mandeered the steamship Transylva-
mia for naval uses, leaving only two
ships, the Orduna and Tuscana in the
transatlantic service Of the Cunard
and Anchor lines
Since the war began, England has
detained 33 ships carrying American
cotton. OF these eight are in the prize
court, ten have been released, and the
government has agreed to purchase the
cargoes of thirteen Of the ships.
A special bulletin issued by the CEN
sus bureau, gives the total wealth of
the United States as $1S7,739. .0OO,0 900,
or $1,965 for each man, woman and
child in the country. The total wealth
Of New York state is estimated at
SIS, oil, 100000.
British sentiment is reported to be
much aroused against the London
Daily Mail and the Times because Of
attacks Of these papers against Lord
Kitchener. The papers have been ex-
cfuded from various clubs on account
Of the attacks.
A flood of mud Is reported to have
swept over Hat Creek valley, following
an eruption from Mount Lassan, in
Shasta county, California. Houses were
swept away, many cattle killed and in
places deposits Of mud reached a
depth Of six to eight feet.
At least one Of the public schools of
Philadelphia has adopted the address
of President Wilson in that city on
May 10, to 1000 newly naturalized
citizens, as a model for the use Of the
English language. Schools throughout
the country will probably use it for the
same purpose.
A Paris paper publishes dispatch
from Turin, Italy, to the effect that
the last proposal Of Germany and Aus
tria to Italy, was that the latter stay
out Of the war and act as mediator
for peace between Germany and the al
lies. The report has not been received
from any other source.
Judge A. G. Powell, former men,
Der Of the Georgia court Of appeals,
has written a letter to Governor Sla-
ton, in which he says that Judge Roam,
now deceased, who presided in the
Frank trial, had expressed doubts to
him, Powell, as to Franks guilt Of the
murder Of the Phagan girl.
The Dupont Powder company has
increased the force Of workers engaged
in building its new plant at City Point,
Va, 1900 men, making the total num-
ber employed 5000. The workers are
paid from $1.90 a day for laborers up
to SIS day for skilled laborers. The
work Is being pushed "a hours a day,
in eight hour shifts.
The Bethlehem Steel Works, Bethle-
hem, Pa, Is reported to have contracts
for war munitions and guns to the
amount exceeding s100,000,000. A
part Of the order Is 100000 4-inch
lydite shells, which are to be delivered
to Lord Kitchener at the rate Of 1000
shells says: "A mile and a half away,
in field on a hillside, were seven
cows, scattered over an area Of about
an acre. A single shell was planted
them, and 1t killed them ALL So pow
erful is the explosive that the crucible
steel shell does not burst into frag-
ments, but explodes into an impalpable
death to any living thing within so
yards Of where it bursts"
ItaIy's Fighting Streneth.-Accord-
ing to latest reports, Italy's strength
on land and sea Is as follows:
Infantry-Two regiments Of gren-
adiers. "a Of infantry Of the line, IL
Of bersablieri or light infantry, and
s Of Alpine chasseurs, 81 regiments
Of mobile militia corresponding to the
German landwehr) and about 100000
infantry of the territorials (corre-
spending to the landsturm.) Each
regiment of the first line has its re-
serve unit. Total infantry, about l.
0,O00 men, all mobilized.
Cavalry-29 regiments, each, with
it's reserve unit; 81 squadrons Of
militia, 10000 terrtorials; total, about