Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-07-27
GENERAL NEWS NOTES
Items of Interest Gathered from All
Around the World.

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Items of Interest Gathered from All
Around the World.
Floyd Justice was killed and his son
seriously injured by the explosion Of a
sawmill boiler near Granite Falls, N.
c., Saturday.
One hundred women "sargeants and
corporals" have been detailed to the
British army corps to teach the Tom
my Atkins" how to cook.
H. Clay Ford, manager Of Ford's
opera house, at the time President
Lincoln was shot, died at Passaic, N.
j., following an operation, Thursday,
aged 72 years.
During the week ending July %,
1926 ships arrived or departed from
English ports. Not single British
merchant vessel or fishing ship was
sunk during the week.
The kaiser is reported to have sent
orders to Field Marshal Mackensen to
take Warsaw by August 1st, to cele-
brate the first anniversary Of the wal
with great victory.
E. E. Baldridge, president Of the
Fort Worth Savings and Trust COM
pany, Fort Worth. Texas, was found
died Saturday from self-infiicted
wounds. The bank was closed Fri
day.
David Isaacson, sentenced to a year
and a day in the penitentiary in At
lanta, Ca, by the New York Federal
courts, made his journey to his prison
without guards. He arrived there
Thursday.
UP to March 81, according to the
Cologne Gazette, total Of 344,754 Iron
Crosses had been awarded German and
Austrian soldiers. More than 120,21O
yards Of ribbon were used for suspend
in the crosses.
A Pittsburgh, Pa, dispatch says that
German agents have contracted with
American firms for 100000 rifles at
$50 each. It is reported that the Cru
chile Steel and the Carbon Steel COM
panies have the contracts.
The little yellow automobile Of DR..
Anna Howard Shaw, the suffrage lead
er, was sold at Media, Pa, Saturday,
under tax execution and brought $3.50.
The car was bought by friends and re-
turned to DR.. Shaw.
AS Col. Roosevelt stood before the
Liberty Bell at the Panama-Pacific ex-
position few days ago, he turned to a
friend and said: Can any puerile,
peace-talking mollycoddle stand before
this emblem Of liberty without blush
Of shame"
At the request Of Thomas A. Edison,
chairman Of the new advisory commit
tee Of the navy, the American Society
of Aeronautic Engineers has been
formed. This was announced last
Thursday at the Aero club Of America
at New York, which Is the temporary
headquarters Of the new organization,
which was formed to aid the Edison
board.
An official declaration published In
Berlin Thursday, calls attention to the
fact that Germans working in fac
tories in neutral countries, particularly
in the United States, producing war
supplies for the enemy, render them
selves liable to prosecution for treason,
under paragraph SO Of the penal code,
penalizing such assistance to an enemy
with a maximum Of 10 years impris-
onment."
The interstate commerce commits
sion has decided that the revenues OF
the principal express companies OF the
United States are inadequate, and
modified it's former orders to provide
additional income. The present ex-
press rates are composed of three fac
tors: an allowance Of 20 cents for COL
lection and delivery Of each shipment
which does not vary with weight or
distance; a rail terminal allowance OF
25 cents a hundred pounds, which
varies with the weight but not with
the distance and the rail transporta-
ton rate a hundred pounds. which
varies with the weight, the distance
and the zone.
Hudson Maxim, inventor Of high ex-
plosives and war materials and advo-
cate Of the high power suns as means
of insuring peace, told 200 members OF
the chamber Of commerce at Harris
burg, Pa, Thursday, that there Is
possibility that this country may be
invaded by foreign power after the
close Of the European war, and he urg-
ed immediate preparation. He did moi
say what country might make the in
vasion. 1.-The time to prepare for wal
is now, not when the enemy Is upor
u.s." he said. Mr.. Maxim's subject was
Things We Lack to Make This Nation
Safe Against Invasion and Able tc
Maintain it's National Honor Abroad by
Force of Arms If Necessary"