Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-03-05
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GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

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GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items of Interest Gathered From All
Around tho World.
Thos. w. Miller Of Delaware, will
be the baby congressman" Of the
64th congress. He Is not yet 2S years
Of age.
The Italian government has placed
orders in the United States and Ar
gentina for 13,500,000 quintals (49,-
100000 bushels) Of wheat.
Governor Brumbaugh has begun an
active campaign with the legislature
Of Pennsylvania to secure the passage
of a local option liquor law in that
state.
Automobiles killed eighteen persons
on the streets Of New York city dur
ing the month Of February. Nine Of
these were children under 1S years Of
age.
Major William Arthur, u. 8. A., re-
tired. a native Of Vermont, and a
brother. Of the late President Chester
A. Arthur, died at Cohasset, Mass,
last week.
Madam Sarah Bernhardt, the noted
French actress, who last week suf-
fered the amputation Of her right leg,
is reported to be we'll on the road to
recovery.
A correspondent writing from Bud
apest, Hungary, says that Austria's
losses in the first seven months Of the
war total 100000, although officially
losses of only 400, 900 are admitted.
The ELLEN Wilson Memorial Homes
Corporation" which is to build model
homes in Washington, is authorized
by a bill passed by the senate on Mon
day. It is to be a memorial to the
late Mrs. Woodrow Wilson.
Because Of the European war situa-
ton President Wilson expresses some
doubt as to whether he will visit the
Panama-Pacifc exposition at San
Francisco this spring. The president
is quoted as saying, II am tied by the
legs"
A memorial building at Lynn,
Mass, in which were stored many
relics Of the Civil war, including the
flag carried by the Sixth Massachu-
setts regiment in the Baltimore riots
at the beginning of the war, were de-
stroyed by fire Monday.
A report issued by the Commission
for Relief in Belgium, with headquar-
ters in New York, has announced
that up to February 3rd, 15O,043 tons
of food supplies had been sent to Bal
GUM. About IS per cent Of the sup
plies were wheat and -four.
One thousand convicts in the East
ern Pennsylvania penitentiary, have
sent a petition to the legislature now
in session at Harrisburg, asking the
legislators to give favorable consider
alton to any measure that has as its
object the curtailment of the sale Of
intoxicating liquors.
The receipts Of the treasury depart
ment from all sources for the month
of February, totaled $43,636,272. The
expenditures for all purposes for the
month totaled $56,137,624, leaving a
deficit for the month Of about $12,-
100000. The total cash assets Of the
treasury on March 1st were $685.
S59,376.
The Hamburg-American steamship
line and five Of its officers have been
indicted by a Federal grand jury in
New York. The indictment charges
conspiracy to defraud the govern
ment through false records and vio-
lation of the customs laws in furnish
ing German cruisers supplies at sea.
The story that was widely circulat-
ed at the beginning of the war, to the
effect that large bodies Of Russian
troops were being rushed through
Scotland to France, is now admitted
by the British press bureau to have
been a hoax, originated by General
Kitchener for the purpose Of bluffing
the German general staff. 1t Is claim
ed that the hoax served its purpose.
The room clerk of the Windsor
hotel, Philadelphia, was notified by
long distance phone from New York,
Monday night, that if he would go to
room No. 26 he would find the dead
bodies Of man and a woman. The
clerk did as directed and found the
bodies. The woman was the wife of
a New York man and was married
last October.
The Harrison anti-narcotic law,
which went into effect last Monday,
is creating much comment throughout
the country. In Chicago the police
say that 95 per cent of the habitual
criminals Of the city are users of CO.
caine and heroin, and express the fear
that the dope fiends will commit all
kinds of crime in efforts to get the
drugs.
AS the result Of a riot growing out
Of the beating of a woman by a
drunken foreigner, at Langeloth, Pa,
Sunday morning. Charles Smith, a
desperate, who had no part In the
beginning of the riot, was killed, and
a trooper of the state police was IA
tally shot. The officer received two
wounds in the first fire, but chased
Smith for more than a mile before
he was finally killed.
In his annual report Superintend-
ent Maxwell of the New York city
schools, says in part: 1T is now gen.
orally admitted that the American
boy on leaving high school at or about
Is years of age is at least two years
behind the German or French boy Of
similar age in his studies" Mr.. Max
well says, THE American boy must
have completed the sophomore year
in college before he is on par in in
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