Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-08-10
GENERAL NEWS NOTES
Items Of Interest Gathered from All
Around the World.

itomS OF tHtcTcot SdkH0toa "S" nv
Around the World.
Revised estimates Of the damage at
Erie, Pa, and vicinity by the storm OF
Tuesday and Wednesday, places the
figures at $6,OOO,0OO. The known total
dead Is %.
Dohrman ]. Sinclair banker, was
killed by a train at Steubenville, O..
Friday. A year ago. an assassin fired
two bullets into hiss body in an at
tempt to kill him.
Postmaster General Burleson has
passed an order to the effect that no
grass widows" are to be given posi-
tions in the postal service until after
they obtain divorces.
F. H. Juergens, 26 years old, Is held
under $4,000 bond at San Antonio,
Texas, charged with sending letters
through the mails threatening the lives
Of President Wilson and Col. Roose-
welt. He wants to enforce strict neu-
trality.
The French chamber Of deputies has
passed bill Carrying an appropriation
Of .12O,000,000 francs ($24,000,0 ,00O,
to be used in the purchase Of wheat
and flour for feeding the civil popula-
ton. The limit Of such purchases is
fixed at 20s, ,O00,O 900 francs.
A Philadelphia man, whose heart
was on the right side Of his body and
his other organs transposed, committed
suicide last week through fear tina,
surgeons were eager to get his body
for dissection. Because he died q
penniless pauper that Is just what will
happen to him.
Harry G. Hontz, Of Lehighton, Pa
surrendered to the police at Salt Lake
City, Utah, Thursday, and confessed
that he wrecked the Senic Limited, or
the Denver and Rio Grande railroad
near Springville, Utah, last Monday
when several cars left the rails ant
many persons narrowly escaped in
jury. Hontz is mentally defective.
]. Hampton Moore, former Republi
can congressman, Is to be a candidate
for the mayorality Of Philadelphia.
The DUPONT Powder company ha
announced that hereafter all Of 1T
$4,000 employees will work only eigh
hours a day and will run three shifts
Of eight hours each.
| Edmund NJ. Allen has resigned hi!
position as warden of the Illinois state
prison at Joliet, on the ground tina
the governor refused to allow him t.
occupy rooms away from the prison
and demanding that he occupy tht
rooms in which his wife was murder
ed by a prison trusty q few weeks ago
The new state insurance commits
sioner of Wisconsin has put an end t.
the state insurance plan that has beer
worked in that state for several year:
past. The state plan Is found to be 6
| failure and outside companies vii
again do business in the state aftel
present laws are modified so that the!
can do business on fair basis.
| Drs. Alexis Carrel Of the Rockefel
ler Institute Of Medical Research, ant
Henry D. Dakin Of Lester Institute
Paris, have discovered after exhaus
tive tests, what they believe to be th'
ideal antiseptic. which II applied II
time, will make infection on wound!
/ hn nti IL 10
lorite Of lime with the addition o.
carbonate Of lime and boric acid
| Wonderful results have been obtained
from the new antiseptic.
| An Associated Press dispatch from
Toxic says: Now that the danger o.
war with China Is over, Japan ant
Korea are engaged in making supple:
for Russian and her allies. The wal
brought big financial losses to Japan
but the gaps are being filled in part BY
the furnishing Of guns. ammunition
and general necessities to the armies al
the front-particularly the armies OF
Russia. Officially, Japan has giver
increased practical expression to hei
friendship toward Russia by going te
the limit Of dismantling some Of hei
Qualifications on the northeastern coast
Of the empire. Big coast guns stripped
from these Notifications have beer
shipped to Valdivostok and thence
forwarded to Russia to strengthen the
artillery Of the armies Of the czar.