Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-08-20
GENERAL NEWS NOTES
Items Of Interest Gathered from All
Around the World.


A case of bubonic plague has been
reported in Havana Cuba.
The body of Leo M. Frank will be
buried in Brooklyn, N. Y, his boy
hood home.
The Atlantic Coast Line railway has
recently placed an order for $50 new
freight cars and 10 locomotives.
The navy department has sent out
proposals for the purchase of thirty
eight aeroplane motors.
John higgins, a negro was lynched
by a mob at cambridge, Ga Tuesday
following his Identification as the as
sailiant Of a white woman.
Since the beginning Of the war,
nearly half a million Iron Crosses have
been given to German and Austrian
soldiers for bravery in action.
Pennsylvania's anthracite coal mines
last year produced 90.S21.5 07 o Of
coal valued at the mines at $1SS,1S1,-
399.
Beach guards rescued 90 persons from
drowning in the surf at Atlantic City,
N. j., and nearby beaches last Sun
day.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels has
issued a formal statement concerning
the lynching of Leo NJ. Frank in which
he bitterly denounced the action Of
the mob.
The striking molders, stove mount
ers and polishers at the Toledo Stove
and Range Company's plant returned
to work Monday after five weeks, their
differences having been settled.
Donald Gregory, aged "a years Of
Ann Arbor, Mich, an aviator on the
United States militia ship Essex Of
was killed Tuesday when he
fell 800 feet from an aeroplane.
More than 1000 Americans are
fighting for the Allies in the ranks Of
the Canadians, according to a state
ment given out by the Canadian min
lister of militia, Gen. Sam Hughes.
Between 1900 and 1900 employees
of the Warner Brothers Company,
Bridgeport, Conn, makers of c~orsets,
this week for al eight-hour
day, with ten hours pay.
The body of William Compers, the
young sailor who was killed in Haiti
July 80, was buried in the national
burying grounds at the Cypress Mills
cemetery, New York. Monday.
Ten thousand delegates are attend
ing the annual meeting Of the National
association, in session at
Oakland, Cal. The association repre-
700, 900 teachers and about 3d.
600, 900 children.
Silas N. Ebersole, a former Dunkard
minister, held for the murder of fif-
teen-year-old Hasel Macklin in Au-
gust, -914, committed suicide by
hanging in the county jail at South
Bend, Ind, this week.
A Catholic priest Of Pittsburgh, Pa,
has declined to receive an inheritance
Of SIS, 0O00,0 90 left him by his uncle In
Australia and Bolivia He says he
does not care to undertake to handle
such a large sum.
w. L. Mccarthy, Of Danville, KY,
midshipman of the Annapolis second
class, died Monday night aboard the
b%attleship Ohio, n of the United
naval practice squadron, which
reached San Pedro, Cal, yesterday.
Twelve buildings, constituting about
half of the business section Of Upper
Rochester, Nevada, a gold and silver
camp, two hundred miles east Of
Reno, are in ruins as the result Of a
fire Sunday. The loss is estimated at
$500, 600.
A red flag. indicating that the
shooter had made a clean miss, was
very conspicuous on the rifle range
Of the military instruction camp at
Plattsburg, N. Y, this week where
the amateur soldiers were practicing
shooting.
Speakers at the opening session
Monday Of the annual convention of the
National association of Mercantile
Agents, at Duluth, declared that the
business outlook was brighter than it
had been for three years and that a
wave of prosperity soon would sweep
the country.
President Wilson has approved the
findings of the court martial investi-
cations into the scandal growing out
Of ''gouging' in examinations at the
naval academy at Annapolis. Two
have been ordered dis
and a number Of others dis
by being turned back to low
er classes, demerits, etc.
An attempt was made to assassi-
Gov. lose Maytorena, right hand
man of Gen. Villa of Mexico at Chi
hushua City Sunday, a time bomb
been placed in a room adjoin-
ing that occupied by the Villa COM
mander. Capt. Rojas Of Maytorena's
personal guard, was executed for his
alleged completely in the bomb at