Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-02-09
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items Of Interest Gathered From All
Around the World.

Around the World.
Twenty persons were killed and
many were injured in a boiler eXplo-
sion in Madrid, Spain, last Friday.
A nationwide search has been be-
gun for H. C. Coe, Jr., of Boston, who
disappeared m~ysteriously last week.
The Japanese cruiser Asama, carry
ing 500 men, was wrecked off the
Lower California coast last week.
Fred A. Hines of Los Angeles, past
, potentate Of the A. A. O.. y. of Mys-
tic Shriners Of North America, died
in Shranton, Pa, Friday.
Ten men were fined a total of $5,-
900 in Louisville, KY, Thursday, on
pleas Of guilty to operating hand
books in connection with horse racing
Master Francis Woodrow Sayre. the
infant grandson of President Wilson,
is being credited with the contribu-
ton of $40 to the Belgian Relief fund.
The steamer Iowa, was crushed by
ice foes and sunk last week in Lake
Michigan. Her crew of forty-five men
escaped by walking to land over the
ice.
Fred Myers, a merchant, was killed
and several persons were wounded
when a gasoline tank exploded in
Winston-Salem, n. c., Friday.
Forty cargoes Of wheat, valued at
$12, 900, 900, are said to be tied up at
Genoa. Italy. waiting to be unloaded.
Most of the grain is for Italy.
Twenty-four hundred Turks are re-
ported to have been killed in the
fighting along the Suez canal last
week.
A Philadelphia man is held under a
$500 bail bond for having sent a bot
tie Of alcoholic liquors through the
mail as a parcel post package.
The navy department will OF Feb
ruary 81, open bids for furnishing the
navy with six hydro-aeroplanes. The
navy now has twelve airships.
Lee Dock and Eng Hing, Chinese,
were e]lectrocuted in Sing Sing prison,
| New York, Friday, for the murder OF
a fellow countryman in a Tong war
in New York.
The Ohio river is wide out Of it's
banks and great damage is being done.
Much Of the city Of Cincinnati, o.,
near the river, was under water Sat-
urday.
The United States bureau of navi-
CATION has announced hat there were
thirty-two sailing, steam and unrigged
vessels of 12,25S gross tons, built in
the United States during January.
E. F. Kingead resigned as congress
sional representative of the Eighteenth
New Jersey distryict resigned Thurs
| day, to become sheriff Of Hudson
| county, N. ]. He was elected sheriff
last fall.
A New York insurance company
during the past two weeks, has made
a nva Of the unemployed in that
city and reports that there are APP
proximately $4,000 persons out of
work.
According to postal statistics pub
lished in Munich, Bavarian troops in
the western fighting zone in Europe,
sent home $780, 600 Of their pay for
deposit in savings banks during the
first five months Of the a
Because she had failed on an ex-
animation in chemistry, Miss Grace
Myers, aged IS, Of Millville. \. Y,
drank laudanum in the presence OF
her classmates last week. She will
probably recover.
The bodies of Mrs. Lizzie Drake,
Mrs. Irene Spencer and her daughter,
Gertrude Spencer, were found in their
home in Salamanic, n. Y. early Fri
day morning. Their heads had been
crushed with a sledge.
Police reports the past year from
Warsaw, Poland, show that the num-
Der of suicides in that city has de-
creased one-third. The number OF
suicides last year was Gil as against
1908 for the previous year.
Fifty-two indictments charging
murder, were returned Friday, al
New Brunswick, N. j.. against &c
deputies in connection with the shoot
ing of nineteen strikers at Roosevelt
n. j.. January 10.
The Standard Oil tank steamer,
Chester, which left New York Janu-
airy %, bound for Rotterdam, Holland,
has been abandoned in mid-ocean
after her crew Of thirty-five men had
been rescued.
Postmaster General Burleson has
suspended the 2 cents letter postage
rate to Germany, and until direct
transportation to Germany is again
established the postage on letters will
be 5 cents.
A number Of students Of Living
ston college, Salisbury, n. c., were
convicted Of cruelty to an animal last
week, a mule which had wandered on
to the college campus having been
ridden and tantalized in such a man.
ner as to warrant the judgment.
DR.. A. y. Culberson of Evans, Ga,
a prominent physician vas riddled
with bullets by an Infatuated mob OF
citizens Thursday night, following his
attempt to criminally assault a young
married woman.
The Norwegian steamer Artemus
limped into Halifax, n. s.. Friday, with
two blades of her propeller gone and
several feet of water in her hold,
She left Shields, England, forty-three
days before.
Seven men were convicted at Pike
Vile, Ky. Friday, of selling their
votes at the August primary. William
Romes, a negro Baptist preacher, was
fined $3.50. All the others were given
small fines and disfranchised.
Emperor William of Germany. in
spected the crew of the famous Ger
mar submarine U-2l, last week, and