Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-02-23
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items Of Interest Gathered From Al
Around the World.

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and wounded British soldiers.
The Kirschbaum company of Phil
adelphia, Is working Of a contract for
100, 900 uniforms for the British army.
John Talap, white, a wife murder
er, will be the first victim Of the cleo
trio chair in Pennsylvania, at Rock
view tomorrow morning.
Frank Fuller, governor of Utah
during the civil war, is dead at the
age Of SO years. He was a friend Of
President Lincoln.
A policeman was so badly injured
in a department store bargain rush
at Trenton, N. j., Thursday, that he
had to be sent home for repairs.
Government officials destroyed 1000
| bottles of a proprietary medicine in
Philadelphia, Friday, because Of un-
justified claims on the battle tables.
Miss Cecilia S-e-z-e-p-a-n-ke-w-i-
c. Of Philadelphia, is petitioning the
common pleas court Of that city to
change her name to Abel.
Frances Chandler, charged with
shop lifting, pleaded guilty in Chica-
60, Thursday, and then shot herself
as she uttered the words, II never
had a chance"
Bandits entered a Seaboard Air Line
railway train neal Alexandria,, Va,
Thursday, locked the express messen-
ger up, threw the safe off he train
and escaped with It.
President Wilson recently broke an
other presidential precedent by call
ing at the home of Speaker Clark to
discuss the ship purchase bill pending
before congress.
A dispatch from Mexico City is to
the effect that Zapata soldiers had
seized Henry B. Rhoads Of Wilkes
! Barre, Pa, and carried him off, sup
posedly to hold him for a ransom.
A surgeon at a Philadelphia hospital,
last week, removed a tumor, several
inches in diameter, from the brain Of
q man 20 years old. There Is a chance
for his recovery, the surgeon states.
Records Of the department Of COM
merce, Washington, show that 129
ships have been transferred to the
American flag under the new regis
tration laws.
A new natural gas well at Washing
ton, Pa, Is estimated to be delivering
20, 600, 900 cubic feet Of gas per day.
The gas Is beyond control despite all
efforts to stop the flow.
Ten thousand Pennsylvania railroad
men attended the Billy Sunday meet
ing in a body in Philadelphia, last
Wednesday night. More than $4,000
people were unable to get into the
tabernacle.
British merchant vessels plying be-
tween Ireland and British ports, are
flying the Irish flag on the theory that
any outrage on this flag will arous
strong feeling among the Irish in the
United States.
A treasury department statement Is
to the effect that there Is now out
standing only $38, 1858 Of emergen-
cy currency, or a little less than 10
per cent of the amount issued since
the outbreak Of the European war.
One hundred and fifty prominent
business, professional and society men
sold papers on the streets Of that city
last week and gave the proceeds to
charity. They gave no change to
their customers.
Four of the five officers Of the de-
funct Chickasaw Bank and Trust COM
pany of Memphis, Tenn, were on Fri
day sentenced to serve five years in
the Atlanta prison. The fifth man
was given n year. Misuse OF the
mails was the charge.
The largest sum ever paid in a
single check was paid to the Pennsyl-
| vania Railroad company last week by
Kuhn, Loeb & Co., New York bank
ers, in settlement for 41-2 per cent
bonds Of the company. The check was
for $49, $685. 600.
A witness before the congressional
subcommittee, investigating charges
against Federal Judge Dayton, at
Wheeling, w. Va, testified that the
Judge told several companies with
which he vas connected, how to dodge
the Federal laws and yet get around
the antitrust laws.
Ten thousand members Of the Ma
tional Association of Master Bakers,
are sending out letters all over the
country asking the people to write to
their congressman at Washington,
III 3 dH CIllbdl 81 VII "iiCo III
ments in order to reduce the price of
flour in the United States.
/ Frank Madalena abandoned a pros
porous business in ~Steubenville, O.,
and on Thursday surrendered to the
police Of New York to answer an in
dictment for murder returned five
years ago. Madalena said his con-
science troubled him as the Lenten
season came on and he could stand 1t
no longer.
Harry Chandler, land owner, and
son-in-law Of General Harrison Gray
Otis, owner of the Los Angeles Times,
has been indicted by a Federal grand
jury at Los Angeles, together with six
others, charged with recruiting SOL
diers in the United States to serve in
a revolution to be started in Lower
California.
Although President Hibben of
Princeton university, refused to invite
Rev. Billy Sunday to Princeton to
preach to the student body, the facul-
ty of the Princeton Theological semi
nary have invited the evangelist and
the university students will hear Mr..
Sunday on March 9Th. The two in
situations are separate and distinct.
Frank James, brother of Jesse James
and a member Of the notorious James
Brothers gang Of bandits, who terror
lied a dozen western states in the
seventies, died on his farm near Elk
celsior Springs, Mo-, Thursday, fol-
lowing a stroke Of a%ppopleXy. He was
"A years old, and had been living the
life Of a quiet farmer since his pardon
thirty years ago..
VIM. H. Tanning, a Baltimore print
err, has been arrested by postal de-
tectives on the charge Of counterfeit
ing postal money orders. Tanning
turned out fine work and has been
travelling all over the country cashing
the orders" The amount Of money
lost by the government is said to be
large. The accused man claims that
he had no helpers. A woman's tip
lead to his arrest.