Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-06-25
GENERAL NEWS NOTES
Record Of Current Happenings Col
Iected from Various Sources.

Record Of Current Happenings Col
leeted from Various Sources.
4 we'll constructed explosive boml
was found in a mail sack Mt Scarcy
Ark. Monday.
According to advices received in
Washington, half of the Russian pris-
Oncrs freed by Germany and arriving
at their homes, are Victims OF tubcr-
culosis.
Twenty-Five young married men
appeared before n Philadelphia draft
board ono day last week with babies
in their arms to show TINT they did
not deserve Reconsideration.
The Consolidated Express company.
TO start operation July !, will in
crease its rates about 10 per cent with
the sanction OF the interstate COM
mcrce commission.
Mrs. Ida Cavell. mother of the hc-
roic nurse, Edith Cavcll, executed by
the Germans In Belgium. died last
week at her home. Henley-on-the-
Thames. England, at the nge Of 81.
She had been In failing health since
the death Of her daughter.
Samuel Gompers was reelected
president Of the American Federation
of Labor by acclamation by the annu-
al convention at st. Paul. Mimi. last
u. }. iuptn Oh nioEna
po'iS were reelected secretary ant
treasurer, respectively.
Eight hundred and thirty-flv air
planes have been destroyed since
January /. according to French Of
ricial statement just issued, which
tends to prove that the German com
lmuniqucs are not reliable when deal
ing with losses Of airplanes. Th'
statement says that on June > th'
| Germans lost 4S, while on June 9 ant
| TO- there were 40 of their machine:
brought down. The British were re-
sponsible for the destruction OF 33 o
those lost on the latter date.
4 story from France tells of an ar
! tillcry officer who one night recent!
left his billet TO visit n friend. an in
| fantry officer, some distance away
| When the artilleryman reached tn
billet of his friend he found hin
mortally wounded by an cxplosiv'
shell which had dropped on his quar-
ters. When the artillcrymen returned
| 10 his own quarters he found that hi
domicile had been blown out of ex
istcncc by n shell which had droppc'
squarcly on his own place Of abode.
| Twcnty-onc German dcstroyers.
large number OF submarines and nu
mcrous auxiliary craft are pcnncd Ii
| the Brugcs canal docks as the res.ll
OF the recent British naval operation
lat Zerbruggc, the German subma
| rine base on the Belgian coast, Thos
J. Mcnamara, financial secretary O
the British admiralty, told the hous
of commons last week. He said tn
operations were more successful tha
had been supposed. The German
craft, he said. were the subject o
constant bombing.
There Is q growing opinion amon
military men at Washington an
abroad that the quickest way TO en-
the war Is by striking at German
through Austria. This idea was frs
suggested to the allied war council i
1917, bu: it found no favor with tn
confirmed western frontiers but de
velopments on the Austro-ltalin
front during the past few weeks hav
brought about a decided change O
opinion and 1t is quite probable tina
large numbers OF American troop
will be sent to Italy to help the 1tali
ans against the Austrians and Ger
mans.
Hand hand fighting between IA
trolls in No Mans Land has made ne
cessary n change in equipment Of tn
American army that will call for in
creased> output of the As calibre au
tomato pistol. Manufacturers ar
urged by the war department to spec
up production although the outpu
now Is about 5000 pistols daily. Tn
Germans are said to have a whole
some respect for American pistt
fighters, one bullet from an America
forty five" invariably putting an enc
my completely out Of commission
Men hit by shots from the smalle
pistols used by the Germans fire
quently continue In action.
The war risk insurance bureau
carrying on a vigorous prosecution
women who have married two or MOI
soldiers to get their war insurance.
number OF cases are pending in va
rious parts Of the United States.
NJ. Smith. in charge of prosecution
said Friday that "a large number
frauds of this character have bee
brought to the attention Of the bt
reau. So far as I am advised. III
case Of a woman who has marie
four soldiers to get their insuranc
discovered at Camp Mills has nj
come to the bureau. 1t raises tt
ante a little. There are many case
In which one woman has married tw
soldiers. They are in all sections
the country, from Maine to Califol
MIA"