Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-04-30
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items Of Interest Gathered From All
Around the World.

Items OF Interest Gathered FROM AZ
Around the World.
King George Of England, has opened
a new public relief fund for Belgium
with a donation of $4,000.
Common pleas courts Of Philadel'
phia on Monday, granted thirty-thret
divorces.
The Hercules Powder company
earned $36O,157, or 20.15 per cent or
it's common stock for the three months
ending March 31st.
The Florida legislature has defeat
ed a resolution to submit a suffrage
amendment to the people in the 1916
election.
Fifteen persons were more or less
seriously injured by an explosion OF
ammonia gas in a refrigerating plant
in New York, Monday.
One hundred and fourteen coal
companies Of Indiana are to be merged
into one $4,000, 900 corporation in or
der to reduce marketing expenses.
The Missouri bureau Of labor sta
tistics finds that immigration to that
state has fallen off rs per cent since
the beginning Of the European war.
Rumors current in Cologne are to
the effect that Emperor William and
General Won Hindenburg are to visit
the battle front in Belgium this week.
1t is estimated that because Of the
European war the transatlantic ship
lines are losing sS,OOO,OO0 in fares
for American tourist to Europe this
year.
John Bunny, the famous movie
comedian, who died in Brooklyn, N.
Y, Monday, had an income greater
than that Of the president Of the Unit
ed States.
The last installment Of the British
war loan Of s1,75O,O 100000, was paid on
Monday. 1t Is understood that there
will not be another public loan for
some time TO come.
A Rotterdam dispatch says that a
neutral who has arrived from Berlin,
says that Germany yet has at least
fully 100000 men well within the
military age who have not yet been
called to the colors.
Reports from Ottawa, Canada, are
to the effect that the Dominion re-
cruiting offices are overwhelmed with
men who want to join the colors in
the European war.
The A. D. Matthews Sons depart
ment store of Brooklyn, N. Y, capital
lied at s5,OO0,OOO, and doing business
for seventy years. has gone into
with liabilities Of $1,1OO,-
900, and assets Of 100000.
Forty American women delegates to
The Hague Women's Peace congress,
are marooned off Deal, England,
aboard the steamship Noordam, be-
cause of an English admiralty order
ships crossing the channel
to Holland.
William Hale Thompson, RepubH-
can, was inaugurated mayor Of Chi
cago. Monday. A feature Of the oc-
casion was a parade miles long"
One of his campaign pledges is to
clean up" Chicago.
The suit of Max Kleist against
N. Breitung, for s250,0OO
damages, in the Federal court Of New
York, alleging alienation Of affections
Of his wife, was dismissed Monday
by Judge Hough.
Customs receipts have fallen off
s72 900, 900 during the first ten months
Of the present fiscal year. according to
a report from Washington. Receipts
and disbursements at present indicate
a deficit Of s6O,OOO0OO to s75,OOO,OOO
for the year ending June 80.
An exhaustive investigation I'M
Paris has disclosed the fact that OF
the 147 charitable organizations in|
Paris, soliciting funds for army relief,
i6 organizations are fraudulent. The
collections Of the fraudulent organi-
cations are said to have never been
ess than $500 a day each.