Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-06-29
GENERAL NEWS NOTES
Items Of Interest Gathered from All
Around the World.


Around the World.
Alfred Cantner, 40 years old, shot
his wife to death and then killed him
self in their home in Philadelphia FRI
day night.
A Fort Worth, Tex. firm has taken
a new contract to supply $4,000 horses
to the French and British govern
ments.
The election for the presidency Of
Chill was held Friday. Available re-
turns indicate the election Of Senior
Don Javier Figuerca, who ran on the
liberal ticket.
The Westinghouse Electric and
Manufacturing company at Pittsburg,
Pa, last week closed a contract with
representatives Of the allies for $780,
100000 Of war munitions.
An automobile ran into a bunch Of
horses being driven along a highway
just out Of Philadelphia Friday, and
three Of the animals were killed. A
man and a woman in the car were
badly hurt and the car was wrecked.
According to a Zurich, Switzerland,
dispatch, on information received
from an authoritative German source,
Germany will be able to place Is new
army corps in the field by the end Of
July. A German army corps Is ap-
proximately 10000 men.
The WHY'S Overland Automobile
company Of Toledo, O., has announced
that on July 15 1t will increase the
wages Of its 10,500 employees 5 per cent.
The per cent increase will add $780,
900 per year to the payroll OF the
company.
The sultan Of Turkey, Mehomed, has
recently undergone serious opera
ton for gladstone. The royal princes
have decided that In the event Of the
death of the sultan, Yussof IZzedine,
eldest son Of the late Sultan Abdul
Aziz, should assume the regency.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Berlin under date Of Friday, says: 1t
has been learned upon good authority
that Doctor Dernberg will immediate
ly be called into consultation concern
ing the forthcoming German answer
to the second American note on the
Lusitania incident
Mrs. s. Osgood Pell. New York
society woman, was given verdict
of $4,000, plus s per cent interest
and costs, Friday, in a suit against
the Long Island railroad for the death
of her husband, which was caused by
train running their automobile down
on q grade crossing.
Senator ]. Hamilton Lewis Of Illi-
nois, is in Washington, advocating the
appointment Of Senator Kern OF In
diana to q Federal judgeship, as 1t Is
said that the Democratic leader OF the
senate prefers q judgeship nearer
home to his present seat in the United
States senate.
David and Maxwell Slade, lawyers,
charged with conspiracy to obstruct
justice, are on trial in the Federal
court Of New York. The SHADES were
attorneys for Rae Tanner, the young
woman who sued James w. Osborne,
New York lawyer, several months
ago for $4,000 for alleged breach OF
promise.
Joseph Campbell. a negro convict
trusty in the Joliet, Ill, penitentiary,
is accused Of having murdered Mrs.
Edmund Allen, the wife Of the war
den of the prison, last Sunday morn
ing. Campbell stoutly maintains his
innocence, but has been removed to
another prison to be sure that he ID
not put to death by the. convicts OF
the Joliet prison.
"Syd" Jones, hanged in the jail yard
at Birmingham, Ala, Friday, for
murder, left a note in which he con-
fessed to thirteen murders in differ
ent parts Of the country, mostly in
the west Eleven Of his victims were
negroes. He expressed regret that ne
failed in a fourteenth attempt, which
would have made an even number. He
gave a detailed list Of his victims.
In the boat races on the Thames at
New London, Conn.,, Friday, the crews
representing Yale university took all
three races from the crews represent
ing Harvard. In each Of the three
races the victory Of Yale was so de-
cisive as to leave no ground for doubt.
It has been about ten years since Yale
has been the victor in these classic
events