Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-07-23
Tuesday, July %, 1918.

Konenkamp OF the Commercial Tele-
sraphers' Union complained to the
war labor board last Friday that II
had not decided the demand of IN"
tclccraphcrs for increased wages and
better working ..Clar-
rncr Walker. outtieldcr Of the fhila-
dclphia American league baseball
club WAS placed in class by IN"
draft hoard OF Johnson city. Tenn
last Friday The Offering Of $780,
oOo. 600 certificates OF indebtedness.
subscriptions for which closed July
Ii, was ovcrsubscribed 10y &9.iSS,0OO.
the treasury department announced
last american air squad
rons now scattered 1t numerous points
throughout Great Britain, have Won
golden opinions from the British AIR
iighters....Thc strike Of the express
company employees at Richmond. Va.
in effect Tor TWO days, was SET
tied late Friday night and thr men
ayrrrd 10 return 10 work.-...--....- Three
men wcr, killed and damage rstimat-
rd at several hundred thousand dol
lIls, MAS uonv u! IN explosion At the
nitrate plant uI the Aetna Explosive
,unIIsluN near IsnpcmInS, Mirh., last
l. rIulN \ The Brltlsh transport
Iiarung;l W;IS sunk by submarine
as :Inuuunvvu 10y ItIr admiralty last
Iiuay. mere were no CASUALTIES
.....,.crnan aNIatols have uroppd Il
note III the American lines confirming
the death vi quentin RooseIelt...........
There Is another story about the shoot
ing OF Emperor NIcholus OF Russia. lie
Is now s;tId ~ have been executed on
July lG......-.........Gcncral March gave IL
out last saturday that there were IT
that time l,2UU,UUU American troops III
France. The allied drive last week
penetrated the German lines To
depth of from seven ~ ten milcS.............
Chas. l.. Hughes has written Colonel
Theodore Ruusc\ cit a letter urging HIM
10 accept the Republican nomination
for governor OF New Iork."......An im-
mense gas bomb plant Is 10 be bullt 1T
Hastings on Hudson, y. I.............A biz
bronze figure Of Gcrinanla, weighing
800 pounds, has been removed from
the pinnacle OF Germania hall. Troy,
y. Y, and replaced by Il figure or CO.
lumbia. The name OF the nan mas
been changed to Columbia hafl.........The
Oklahoma council Of defense has pass
ed an order forbidding all carniH;tiS
and tent shows from exhibiting IN the
state. .............An Evansville, Ind. tailor
had a picture OF the kaiser on the
walls of his shop. and claimed he did
not know IL was Il picture OF the Ger
man cmpcror He was told to remove
the picture and show little more IN
trrcst in American war activities.
The st. Louis board of education has
passed resolutions Ia employ none but
American citizens In the schools or
that Major Theodore Roosc-
welt, oldest son Of Colonel Roosevelt,
has been wounded I'm action and IL now
i'm a Paris hospital............A nine-foot
man eating shark was killed by fisher
men with an axe I'm the bay ut Egg
Harbor. N. J.. Saturday. Diego I.
Madero. Il first cousin OF the late Pres
idcnt Madcro of Mexico. has enlisted III
the United States coast artillery. ............
Military training for freshmen and
sophomorcs will D." compulsory AT the
University Of Kansas with the begin
ming Of the next session. An AM
ster,lam dispatch says that the Huns
are again dcporting Relgians from Tn"
vicinity OF Ghent, 500 to 2,OOO being
sent away daily y......... Major John "
King. u. =. A.. was shot to death by
Chas Johnson, in the latter's home at
Aberdeen. Md, Thursday. The ship
ping board last week placed orders for
6l more ships. with American yards.
| Tho contracts call for $4,000 dead
weight tons of shipping Thre" thou-
sand bakers OF Rucnos Aires went on Il
strike last week. Tho strike is being
| engineered by an anarchist strike COM
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