Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-08-13
GENERAL NEWS NOTES
Items of Interest Gathered from vari'
Gus Sources

| Joseph w. Folk, ex-governor. has
been nominated by the Democrats OF
Missouri. for the United States senate
defeating Senator Nenophon p. Will
fey by $4,000 votes.
| The United States navy now has all
the men II needs at present and an
extension OF the draft age is not at
all necessary so far as securing men
for the navy is concerned.
Marco Fidrl SaurrZ was inauSu-
rated president OF Colombia on last
Thursday. II Is stated that ther, Is
an Increasingly favorable sentiment
throughout Colombia TO the cause Of
the Allies.
| The ways and means committee has
decided To extend the income tax TO in
clude the president. the justices Of the
supreme court, the Judiciary through
out the country and state officers.
President Wilson's salary would be
taxed $4,000.
Postmaster General Burlcson will
have commission to investigate the
trouble or differences existing between
the Western Union Telegraph COM
pany and its operators and then settle
| the differences on q basis Of the report
OF the commission.
| General standards for fire protec-
tion. 10 be applied particularly TO war
industries, have been recommended
jointly by the war industries board
and the bureau OF standards, II was
announced last Thursday. and y. y.
Boniface has been designated as the
CO. operating agent between the fire
prevention section Of the board and
the bureau.
| Spencer =. Ransom and Adam Ste
phan are being held under bail by the
New York district attorney. charged
| with swindling more than 1000 men,
many of them soldiers and sailors.
Posing Us general organizers OF the
ed scottish Rite Masons." they flccccd
their victims Of $50 each for the de-
grccs OF the fraternity.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Fries. natives
of .Nsacc. but who have lived at
| Maunch Chunk, Pa, many years are
the happiest people in the town be-
cause they have a son old enough to
join the United States forces for SER
vice overseas. The boy, Edmund, is
in training at Camp Wadsworth, =. G..
The parents say: We want our native
land TO he free like America" The
sons last words when he departed
were: Don't put service flag out
for me until have killed seventeen
Huns"
| I'm Il series of raids by Federal Of
licrrs OF private homes I'm Reading,
Pa, Thursday in search for German
sympathizcrs and propagandists. Il
veritablc little Germany was brought
to light. There were numerous pic
lures of Kaiser Wilhelm. Gen. Won
Hlndenburg and other German leaders
on the walls. There WAS wealth
OF German literature i'm libraries. II
is said that much OF the German
propaganda work throughout the
country cmanatcd from German
homes in Reading.
/ Letters from relations and friends
In Germany Of U-boat crews intern =
cd in the United States are begin
ming to arrive in London. They throw
little light on internal conditions in
Germany but some are very amusing
as showing the appalling ignorance OF
the mass of Germans regarding the
United States. One letter from the
wife of n prisoner, apparently written
in all seriousness. says: I'VE hope
YOU will soon return. You are GER
tainly to be sympathized with. W"
are always praying with our deepest
feeling that you may not be eaten up
by Indians or hanged by cowboys with
lasso ropes. II they should wish to
scalp you. you should first make ap-
peal to the king Of America. Is hc
also an Indian?"