Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-05-17
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Record Of Current Happenings Col.
Iected from Various Sources.

| lected from Various Sources.
George Kirkenburst. married Christ
mas day, shot his wife to death at
Johnstown. Pa. Sunday.
Four men held up the patrons OF n
| Richmond. Va. pool room last Satur-
day night and got away with $4,000 In
cash and $4,000 in jewelry. The high
way men escaped in an automobile.
| President Wilson has decided to
pass the entire summer in Washington
I this year, as he did last, so that he
can keep in constant personal touch
with all the nations vast war-making
machinery.
The total of British casualties re-
ported in the week ending Tuesday is
41,6l2. They are divided as follows:
| Killed or died Of wounds: Officers 2ol;
men, 5.065. Wounded or missing:
officers, .. 123: men, s3,s2s.
Official figures show that the num-
her of houses in Paris damaged by
German aerial bombardments is one in
| 900. The insurance companies gave
10. 900 francs insurance for premium
Of twenty francs, or at the proportion
of 500 to /.
| There are 107. 900 women employed
| in the Prussian railroad service. The
Prussian railroad minister, Won Brett
cnbach, in so announcing in the Prus-
sian house of deputies, said it was as
| tonishing to see what the women
could do.
The Berlin municipal granaries near
Grosbecrcn have been destroyed by
fire with the loss of 10000 quintos OF
grain, according to n dispatch from
the Zurich correspondent Of the Paris
| Petit Journal. A quinto Is equivalent
to hundredweight.
Some Of the German prisoners Oh
war arc suspected Of having rolun-
tarily agreed to their transfer from
| Russian prisoner of war camps 10
France. This action must be con-
sidered as desertion, declared General
Won oven in the German reichstag' ac-
cording to the Cologne Gazette.
| Railway fare Of one cent mile, IN
GLIDING war tax, may be granted 10 en-
listed soldiers and sailors by DIRECTOR
General McAdoo within a short time,
| according to William E. Golden,
Chicago attorney, after a conference
with the director general. The reduc-
cd rate, Golden declared, will enable
soldiers and sailors to visit their homes
more frequently.
Mrs. Antionetta Smith, celebrated
her 1O6th birthday at Springfield, Ill.,
Monday, by eating candy while IN
yalided in bed. Her oldest son, Man
uel, aged so. is her only worry she
saws. "Aunty" Smith was born in the
| Madeira islands, in 1912. She has four
other children and a great, great
grandchild living.
Eight steel ships totalling 4S,lbo
tons were completed during the seven
days siding May : FoIreeei: {
were launched with total tonnage Oh
57.1OO, Of which seven were steer
with a total capacity Of 32.1OO TONS
The steel deliveries included one re-
frigcrator ship, two tankers ana i've
cargo vessels.
"My name is ]. P. Baggs. 1 am the
father of H. T. Baggs, who was one oi
the boys lost on the Cyclops. want
,o do something for my country The
sneaker, n heavy-set man "earihe
snoctocles, stood before one OF the
draft boards as he spoke. An in'esti-
cation revealed that he was skiiieu
mechanic. He was sent to one OF the
United States shipyards
rount James Minotto, son-in-law Oh
Louis F. Swift, the packer, was taheh
into custody, in Chicago. TUESDAY oy
denuty United States marshals on
presidential warrant ordering MS III
ternmcnt. A habeas corpus action was
Immediately instituted in behalf Oh
the count and he was taken Deiore
Federal Judge Carpenter and released
on $4,000 bond. Hearings OF areu-
ments on the habeas corpus proceeu-
ings was set for May 20.
Army surgeons at Camp upton, ~
Y. have rejected George Bell giant
negro, because he is too big to be
soldier George is about seven feet
eleven inches tall ("lucky combina-
tion." he says) and tips the scales at
a5O mounds. He had to be carried on
the company rolls as two men because
he couldn't get along on the ratlons
NJ n single soldier. His shoes cost $lS
n pair in peace times and he polnleo
ont the regulation equipment OF three
pa;rs would knock a big hole In the
Liberty Loan.
The murder Of Captain Hadjcjoulo'
the Greek commander, who In 1916
surrendered 5000 troops TO the
enemy in eastern Macedonia, was re-
ported to the Greek legation In wash
ington, in a dispatch from Athens
sunday. The colonel was killed by
Greek sergeant. He had been held
with other Greeks as prisoner IN
Macedonia. The murder was inspired
the dispatch said, by hatred OF the
colonel for his part in the movement
said to have the sanction OF King Con-
stantine, for recruiting Greeks in Tur-
key to fight against Greece.
After escaping from Bolshevik pur-
suers who had offered a price for her
capture, dead or alive, Nine. Leona
Batchkereva, who was senior captain
of Russia's famous Battalion Of Death
arrived at a Pacific port. Monday.
Nine. Batchkereva Is en- route 10
France, where she will offer her SER
vices to the Allies. II am ready to die
on the field of honor" she said. With