Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-03-08
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Record Of Current Happenings Col
Iected from Various Sources.


A large ferry boat a coal barge and
government lightship were destroyed
by fire at Norfolk. Va. Sunday.
Porto Rico went dry at midnight on
March =. This followed an act OF
congress which an election held last
July failed TO repeal.
1t was announced in the German
reichstag Saturday that the German
national debt has now reached nearly
SO, 0,UOO,OOO.
The Texas senate has passed the
ASSEMBLY resolution ratifying the pro-
hibition amendment to the national
constitution. The vote was Is TO :.
Colonel Roosevelt has been dis
charged from New York hospital
after treatment Of several weeks for
an ear trouble. He will be permanent
ly deaf in one ear.
Secretary of Agriculture Houston
has made IL direct appeal to the farm
crs Of America to buy more thrift and
war savings stamps and thus help 10
bring the war to a quicker conclusion.
Miss Anna Martin. vice chairman OF
the National Woman's party. has an
nounced her candidacy for the Unit
ed States senate, to succeed the late
Senator Francis G.. Newlands OF Ne
vada.
4 meeting of the Belgian senators
and deputies, now residing in France.
England and Holland. will be held in
Paris this month. This will De- the
first attempt to hold the Belgian par
Lament since the fall of Antwerp.
win the war for permanent peace
is the name OF a convention called by
ex- President Taft and other prominent
men to meet in Philadelphia May l6
TO Is. under the auspices OF the
League to Enforce Peace.
\ Copenhagen dispatch says that
information has reached there that
the Turks have committed new mas
sacres among the Armenians in the
districts which have been deserted by
the Russians.
Rev. Billy Sunday closed his meet
ing in Washington last Sunday night
after an eight weeks campaign. The
trail hitters were estimated at $4,000.
Mr.. Sunday was given purse of $2O,-
600. His next meeting will probably
be held in Chicago.
The Judge in an alienation of affcc-
tions case, on trial in Los Angeles,
Cal. told the husband plaintiff that
he hadn't lost anything, and that he
was better off without the affections
Of a woman such as his wife was
than with her. He dismissed the case.
March Is has been set as the day
for the electrocution at Raleigh. y.
G., OF Earle Neville, Il negro, convict
ed of attacking Il white woman last
| October. The negro escaped lynching
| by n direct appeal of Governor Bick-
ct to allow the law to take its course.
A gas well in eastern Washington,
flowing thousands Of feet of gas per
day, after burning for eighteen
months, has at last been placed under
| control and the gas will be turned TO
commercial use. While burning. the
tall beacon Of ilame could be seen for
many miles.
Twcnty-siX complete vessels will he
placed in operation by the shipyards
Of the United States during this month
and thirty-four additional vessels Will
be launched, according to q statement
of Chairman Hurley OF the shipping
board. He says 'wc have 130 ship
yards with 700 ways and Il half mil
lion men. who should produce 1000
ships during the year
Jennie Mattana. 22 years old, plead =
ed guilty to manSlaughter IN New
York saturday and was given Il SEN
tence of seven days in the city pris.
ON. The girl killed man who had
wronged her under promise of mar
| riage and she had her prison born
babe in the court room. The district
attorney requested minimum sen-
tcnce because of exceptionally extcnu-
| ating circumstances.
The extent to which the war trade
board has restrained exports to neu-
tral countries In Europe Is shown by
a resume of exports during .fnuary
issued by the department COM
Fmesce- The most striking, i
that of shipments to Sweden hrom the
United States, which fell from $5.-
674,171 in January, 1917, to 1882 In
January OF this year, and the total
for the seven months of the fiscal year
WAS s33.O55.9S6 for last year. against
$2,1SO,79S for a similar period ending
with January 1918. Exports to Nor
| way during January, 1917, were ST.
y33.y2S and $1,3l0.l57 during Janu-
airy of this year. Shipments to Den
mark fell from $5,4I5,516 to $405,3I6;
those to Spain from $9,l15,S30 to ST.
0S3,265 and those to the Netherlands
| from $l4,7I6,742 to $419,510.