Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-03-16
Items of interest Gathered From All
Around the World

A Stockholm dispatch says that Rus
sia and Germany have arranged to ex-
change 100000 war prisoners.
The Panama canal is again open fol
traffic after a slide Of earth which
closed the canal on March 9Th.
The Red Cross division Of the Emer-
gency Aid committee, New York, has
voted $1,000 to buy wooden legs for
legless Servian soldiers.
Two American physicians have died
in Servia from typhus fever. Nine out
Of twelve American Red Cross nurses
have been stricken with the disease.
A Danish oil tanker, from Philadel-
phia to Stockholm, Sweden, was held
UP by the Germans in the Baltic a few
days ago, and taken to Swinemunde.
A New York barkeeper was on Sat-
urday fined SO for sending wine, label
ed medicine" through the mails as
parcel post package.
The city of Philadelphia Is advertis-
ing the sale Of $2,0OO,00O Of school
bonds, the proceeds to be used for buy
ing new sites and erecting school build
ings.
John B. McManus, an American, was
killed by Zapatistas in Mexico City, on
Friday He was shot to death in his
home, over which a United States flag
was flying.
Governor Gates Of Vermont, has
signed the prohibition referendum bill
recently passed by the legislature OF
that state. The election will be held IN
March, 1916.
The Spanish government has issued
a decree forbidding the expectation OF
oils, fish, fresh meat, cattle, eggs, poul-
try, beans, lentils, wheat, -four, jute,
linseed, etc, from the empire.
The British home secretary announc.
ed to parliament few days ago that
England would soon raise the ban on
importations Of sugar from America
and other neutral countries.
The members Of the crew Of the
steamship Dacia, recently seized by a
French warship and taken to Brest,
are on their way to New York, where
they will arrive next week.
A new submarine, the L-3, for the
United States navy, was launched at
Fore River ship yards. Quincy, Mass,
yesterday. A second submarine, the
La, will be launched March 29.
A Copenhagen dispatch says that
the Duke Of Brunswick, son-in- law OF
Emperor William Of Germany, Is suf-
fering from a nervous breakdown Que
to the war, and Is probably incurable
A Socialist member Of the SAKE
Coburg diet and editor Of the Gotha
Voiksblatt, has been sentenced to
serve three months In prison for sar-
castle remarks about Emperor VILLAIN
The Volksblatt has been suspended.
A son was born to Governor and Mrs
Whitman at the executive mansion al
Albany N. Y, Thursday. The house
of representatives voted to extend the
privileges Of the floor to the newcom-
er in the official family.
DR.. Herman Bodenheim, New York
chemist, was arrested in st. Louis, Mo-,
Thursday, charged with transporting
guncotton in checked trunk on pas
senger train. 1t is said there Is enough
Of the explosive in the trunk to blow
train or a railway station all to bits
During the first six months Of the
operation Of the Panama canal, 496
ships Of all classes, passed through the
waterway, carrying cargoes totaling
2,367,244 tons and paying tolls amount
ing Of $2,126,832. There were 252 yes
sells westbound and 244 eastbound.
Charles A. Schieren, ex-mayor OF
Brooklyn, N. Y, died Wednesday, aged
73 years. The next day his widow, also
aged 73 years, died. The wife had been
unconscious for three days and did not
know Of the death Of her husband
They had planned to celebrate their
golden wedding in November next.
Peter Krakus and Bernard Montvid
held by the Wilmington, Del, police
on the charge Of numbering a police
man, are also suspected OF being the
murderers Of a priest and housekeepeq
at New Britain, Conn, on February
%. The chain Of circumstantial evil
dence against the suspects Is strong.
The Judge of the county court OF
Lawrence county, Pa, has refused to
grant liquor licenses to nine applicants
and the county will continue dry as
it has been since 1911, shortly after q
revival campaign by Rev. Billy Sunday
the 1000 converts Of the meeting do
lll6 HuCll W wipe Out thS AfooA eAaANS
Five. officers Of the international
Lumber and Development company
convicted in the Federal court al
Philadelphia, on charges Of using the
mails for fraudulent purposes, and
sentenced to the Eastern Pennsylvania
penitentiary, have been granted 30
day respite by President Wilson. The
gang cleaned up more than $6,000,000.
The VIM. P. Frye, the American
ship sunk by the PrinZ Eitel Fried
rich, was built at Bath, Me-, in 1901
and cost $150,000. Her cargo included
1853, BOG bushels of white Walla Walla
wheat and 25,276 bushels Of red wheat
The cargo was valued at $262,000. The
vessel was sunk January %, in the
south Atlantic.
Clarence H. Mackey, q New York
capitalist, has leased for a long term
of years as a shooting preserve, Gar
diners Island. off the easterly coast OF
Long Island GARDENERS Island includes
5000 acres and came into the posses
sion Of that family in 1889, when Lyon
Gardiner bought it Of Wyandanch,
chief Of the Mashanketts. and gave In
exchange, "One large black dog, one
gun, some powder and shot, some rum
and a few Dutch blankets. the value
of five pounds sterling" The island
is now valued at $3,000,000.