Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-05-04
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items of Interest Gathered From All
Around the World.

Items of Interest Gathered From All
Around the World.
A serious bread riot is reported
to have occurred at Trieste, Austria,
Thursday. Several rioters were killed
and 300 wounded.
Twelve hundred bridge builders OF
Chicago went on strike Friday, be-
cause they were refused a raise OF
pay from 6S to 10 cents per hour.
A Washington dancing school pro-
prietor was fined SO last week be-
cause he refused to admit a United
States soldier in uniform.
Philadelphia last week voted S5,-
9T2 to S,772, to issue bonds for &c.
O00, 900 for subway and elevated rail-
way lines.
The steamship Chaco left Phila-
delphia Friday for South American
ports with $3O0),000 worth Of Ameri-
can machinery and ammunition.
Captain William S. Benson, COM
mandant Of the Philadelphia navy
yard, has been appointed to the newly
created office Of chief Of naval opera
tions.
Mrs. Reginald Brooks Of Boston,
has fallen heir to an estate Of $780,
900 in England, by the death Of Capt
Hon. G. H. Douglas s-Pennant, who was
killed in the fighting in France.
The importation Of champagne into
the United States. according to a New
York authority has declined &C per
cent in volume since the beginning OF
the European war.
Miss Sally McAdoo, youngest
daughter Of the secretary Of the treas
ury, christened the United States coast
guard cutter Ossipee, launched at
Newport News, Va, Saturday.
Admiral Senes and fifty-two men
Of the French cruiser Leon Gambatta,
torpedoed by the Austrians last week,
were buried by the Italians at Cape
Lueca, Italy, with military honors,
Thursday.
The Canadian minister Of militia
says that there are 200 factories In
Canada engaged in the manufacture
Of gun shells for England and the al
lies. The orders for war munitions
are said to total $175,000,000.
The publishers Of the Menace, an
anti Catholic paper published at Au-
rora, Mo-, are to stand trial in the
Federal court at Joplin, in June on
the charge Of sending obscene matter
through the mails.
Two carloads OF liquor shipped
from Cincinnati, O., to Charleston,
w. Va, billed and packed as furni-
ture. have been seized by the authori-
ties because they were filled with Ii
quor Several arrests have been
made.
Ten persons killed and s2,000,00O
property loss resulted from a fire
which burned over twelve city blocks
of Colon, Panama, Friday night.
Twelve thousand people are rendered
homeless.
Pierre M. LOCKER has been sentenc-
ed to one year in the Federal prison,
Atlanta, for misuse Of the mails
Lockers scheme was promoting real
estate sales by mail and he and his
partners are alleged to have cleaned
up s1,OOO.0O0.
The Florida legislature has passed
a stringent package" liquor law. The
bill provides that no liquors Of any
kind can be sold in a licensed bar
rooms except in sealed packages. 1t
also prohibits the sale Of beer and 9TH
er liquors in hotels, clubs and cafes.
French and Belgian cardinals, arch
bishops and bishops. according to a
Rome dispatch, have united in an
appeal to the pope to abandon his
attitude Of neutrality. maintained
since the beginning Of the war, and
declare himself in favor Of the allies.
Hunter Brooke of New York, we'll
known business man and clubman, Al
years Of age, committed suicide on the
grave Of his father and mother at
Media, Pa, Thursday night. He is
survived by a wife of year and an
infant child of a week old.
Secretary Daniels has under con-
sideration the idea of transferring the
German ships PrinZ Eitel and Kron-
prinz Wilhelm, interned at Newport
News, to the League Island navy
yard at Philadelphia, to give the men
Of the two ships cooler quarters dur
ing the summer.
The Westinghouse Electric Co., OF
Pittsburgh, Pa, is reported to have
closed a contract for 100000 rifles at
$27,000,000 for the allies. And 1t Is
also reported that the Baldwin Lo-
comotive works of Philadelphia, are
negotiating for a contract for wal
materials that will total $10,00O,0OO
Philip T. White. a we'll known club
hie'ii VI bioohiSii' 4N' ir A"
manager Of the Masury Paint Co. at
a salary of $4,000 a year, last week
confessed to participation in the
holdup Of a messenger of the paint
company who had the pay roll Of the
concern. Both White and the udge
trying the case are members of the
Mystic Shrine, as was also one of
Whites accomplices.
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