Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-03-12
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items Of Interest Gathered From All
Around the World.

Items Of Interest Gathered From All
Around the World.
Railways Of Nebraska are preparing
to give work to 10000 unemployed
men. as section hands, repair gangs,
etc.
The Chinese government has ex-
TENDED for q period Of SO years the
| Japanese lease Of the ports Of Dalny
and Port Arthur.
More than $1,000 miners Of the New
River, w. Va, coal fields are threat
ening to go on a strike, over a ques-
tion Of a scale Of wages.
Major Benjamin F. Rittenhouse, U.
S. A., retired, committed suicide in
Philadelphia, last Saturday, and was
buried at Arlington Wednesday.
Building contractors of Chicago, are
threatening to suspend all work in
that city in case the lathers strike.
following their demand for Sc a day.
The total prison population Of New
York state for the year ending Sep
tember 30, 1914, was 1858, an in
crease over the previous year Of 1917.
The total number Of commitments
during 1914. was 11S,027.
General Goethals, at a recent dinner
at Panama, announced that he had
asked the war department to relieve
him from his work on the canal, that
1t might be turned over to a younger
man.
The political complexion Of the next
congress will be as follows: Demo-
Gratis. 232: Republicans. 1874: Pro-
gressives, Z; Independent, /; So
cialist, /.
A dispatch received at Boston, from
the captain Of the American steamer
Pacific, cotton laden, from Galveston,
held up last week at Deal, England,
says the ship has been released and is
proceeding to Rotterdam.
The Countess Szechenyi, formerly
Miss Gladys Vanderbilt Of New York,
is i'll in a Budapest hospital with
smallpox, having contracted the dis
ease while acting as a nurse in hos
pital for Hungarian soldiers.
The French liner La Touraine, from
New York on Feb. q, arrived at Ha-
vre, France, Monday, after sending
out a distress signal on account Of q
fire on board while 1000 miles at sea.
Several ships responded to the call for
help, but were not needed.
The Holland-American line steam
ship Ryndam left New York Wednes-
day for England, carrying mails. The
Ryndam is the only passenger carry
ing vessel sailing from New York to
England this week, and was sent on
the trip especially to carry the mails
The national banks Of the United
States on December 31st reported sur
plus reserves s423,000,000 larger than
on October 81. This enormous gain
in surplus reserves is said to be one
Of the results of the new Federal re-
serve banking laws.
Rev. Billy Sunday preached two
sermons to Princeton university stu
dents at Princeton, Monday, despite
the fact that President Hibben refus-
ed to invite the evangelist there be-
cause he didn't like his style and lam
guage. Nearly 1000 undergraduates
"hit the trail"
Carl Ruroede, a German-American,
and four German reservists, plead
guilty in the Federal court in New
York, Monday, to charges Of fraudu-
lently obtaining passports. Ruroede
was given a sentence of three years
in the Atlanta prison. The others
were fined 5000 each.
Rev. Billy Sunday has agreed to
extend his revival campaign in Phia-
delphia until March 21st, in order to
give his assistance to the campaign
being waged throughout the state for
a local option law. Mr.. Sunday will
speak from the same platform with
William ]. Bryan and Andrew Carne-
gle on March Is.
Because of the cutting off Of the ex-
port trade by the European blockade,
wholesale prices Of beef in Chicago,
have declined one-half to three cents
a pound The price Of the retailers
to the consumers have remained sta
tionary 1t is estimated that $4,000
900 worth Of beef intended for export,
is held up in Chicago.
| A belated letter received in Boston
few days ago from a. missionary In
Mexico, tells Of a railroad catastro-
phe that occurred on January lS, on
the line between Colima and Guadala-
jara A special train Of twenty cars,
loaded to capacity, inside and out,
plunged down a steep incline and off
into an abyss. Six hundred persons
were killed outright, 300 injured and
| only six were unhurr.
| President Wilson has set May 10 as
the date for a conference between
leading bankers Of the United States,
and finance ministers and leading
bankers of Central and South Ameri-
ca. The conference will be held in
| Washington and its purpose is to de-
velop more cordial business relations
| between the United States and the
nations to the south Of us. The visit
ors will be entertained by the govern
ment.
National leaders of both political
parties can see little or no chance for
escape from fights to a finish over the
liquor question on the floors Of the
presidential nominating conventions
in 1916 In an open letter Senator
| Clapp says: IF business is good In
1916, prohibition will be most i'm
portant factor in the 1916 campaign.
The question has become an economic
issue and the saloon has become gen.
orally recognized as a menace both by
employers and workers"
Hudson Maxim, the inventor, said
at dinner in New York, Monday:
1.-The dove of peace is a stool pigeon