Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-04-16
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items of Interest Gathered From Al!
Around the World.

items OF interest Gathered from Al
Around the World.
General Victoriano Huerta, ex-dic-
tator Of Mexico, arrived in New York
Monday, from Spain.
During the first three months OF
the year, the New York police made
4S,103 arrests. There were 32,93S
convictions.
Woman suffrage will be industrl-
ously pushed before the nex session OF
the Georgia legislature, when it meets
in the summer.
Miss Alberta G. Helm, a trained
nurse, was killed on the streets OF
Washington Sunday night, by an au-
tomobile driven by joy riders. There
were no arrests.
Port and quarantine officials along
the Atlantic coast are taking extra
precautions against the possible i'm
portation from Europe Of typhus
germs into the United States.
E. Thompson Seton, the naturalist
just back in New York from France
says that England has landed 1,10O,-
| 900 men in France during the past six
weeks.
According to a Paris dispatch. the
allies are holding 1856 miles Of the
battlefront. The French line is SAC
miles; British 81 miles, and Russian
S51 miles.
Mrs. Helen Ring Robinson, the only
woman senator in the Colorado legis-
lature, says that the first thing neces-
sary for a woman who would succeed
in politics to learn, is to hold thy
tongue
Paul Borchard. a Republican lead
er and proprietor of a chain Of New
York drug stores, has been sentenced
to six months in prison and a fine OF
$500 for failure to register the pur-
chase of narcotic drugs.
Cecil Malcolm Peoli, a South Ameri-
can, and the first aviator to fly over
the Andes mountains, was killed a,
College Park, Md, Monday, while
of his own invention. He fell 900
feet.
A Belgian army officer, in charge OF
captured war materials, says the Ger.
mans have solved the problem OF
shortage of copper and brass for CUR
shells by casting the shells out OF
steel. The steel shells are more diff
cult to make but cost less.
After lying in a Muskogee, Okla.
morgue unidentified for seven years
the body of Charles Williams, a Sar
Antonio, Texas, ranchman, was identi'
fled Sunday, by his sister, who haC
been looking for him for seven year:
past.
The French now claim to have theil
new 55-centimeter guns ready for use
The gun have a bore of % inches, anC
the shell to be used is five feet long
weighs two ions and will be hurled
fifteen miles, according to the claim:
of the French.
Queen Wilhelmina Of Holland, ha:
called for an International Woman:
Peace conference to be held at Thu
Hague on April %, % and 80, in the
hope Of averting the national sui
eide" of the nine nations now engaged
in the European war. Numbers OF
American women will attend the con-
vention.
The American liner Minnesota, from
Manila, p. l., to Seattle, Wash, went
ashore in the Inland sea, off the Jap.
anese coast, Sunday. A wireless IS
o. s." call brought five steamships
and two japanese warships TO her res.
cue. The 1900 passengers and the
mails were transferred to other ships
The Minnesota, badly damaged, ma!
be floated.
Mayor Dom NJ. Roberts Of Terr'
Haute, Ind, has been sentenced tc
serve six years in prison and pay {
fine Of 50, 600 for his part in the cleo
ton frauds in that city last Novem'
Der. Nine others received sentence!
of five years and 1000 fine down t
two years and 500 fine. Count!
Judge Redman and Sheriff Shea eacl
received the maximum sentence.
Governor Carlson of Colorado, ha'
vetoed the bill recently passed ant
designed to put Judge Ben Lindsa.
and the Denver juvenile court out q
business. Frank Rose, a lawyer, ha
been indicted by a Denver grand jur.
on charges of circulating slanderou
stories against Judge Lindsay in hi
fight for the passage of the bills t
abolish the court.
During 1914, according to the Spec
tator, an insurance publication O
New York, insurance i'm force increas
ed by 1915, 900, 900 ordinary and $206,
7O0. 900 industrial, SO that the total OF
the books of the companies now reach
es $17,465,975.S ordinary and 81,
125.077.S16 industrial, or Il grand tOta
of life insurance protection Of $21.
591, O53, 669.