Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-03-22
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Record Of Current Happenings COL
Iected from Various Sources.
Uncle Sam wants his soldiers to be
clean shaven, and to help this along
every soldier Is to be given razor.
4 mirror and q shaving brush.
Police officials throughout New
Jersey us making vigorous efforts TO
enforce the recently passed law Of that
state against idleness during the
period Of the war.
The Young Mems Christian associa-
ton has started u national campaign
to secure 1000 "Y" workers for SER
vice in the red triangle huts with the
American army in France.
President Wilson on Tuesday signed
the daylight saving bill. Under the
terms Of the law all United States
clocks are to he set forward one
hour on the last Sunday in March.
Two men were killed and thirty
three injured by the collapse OF an un-
finished hangar at the aviation sta
ton near Miami, Fla. Tuesday. The
collapse was caused by a heavy wind
storm.
Ground glass has been found In
bread. buckwheat flour and chocolate
candies by the New York food admin
istration within the past few days 1t
is charged to be the work Of alien
enemies.
The Delaware legislature has ratified
the proposed anti-liquor amendment
to tho Federal constitution. This
makes u total Of nine states that have
ratified the amendment, one-fourth OF
the necessary two-thirds to ratify the
amendment.
Director General McAdoo has is
sued an order for the curtailment OF
useless railroad officers in New YORK
and other centers. He is having Of
6ce,s of different lines consolidated In
order to reduce unnecessary expenses
Treasury officials and congressional
leaders have reached an agreement
Under which n hill to authorize The
government to extensively deal In sill
yer certificates be withdrawn from
circulation The silver will be melteo
down and the bullion exported to pay
trade balances.
Secret service officers made import
ant arrests in New York Monday when
they arrested Nine. Despina DaVido-
witch Storch, Nine. Charlotte Nix
Baron deBeville and Count Robert de
Clermont. All of them were in the
employment Of the German govern
ment as spies. Nine. Storch Is said 10
have been the leader of the gang.
Advices from Argentina are to the
effect that hundreds of horses Of that
country have been inoculated with
germs of glanders. The horses inoc-
ulated are intended for England, but
very few OF them are reaching their
destination and more Of the animals
so infected have been landed in Eng
land.
Information reaching Geneva
Switzerland, is to the effect that res
idents Of German cities are in panic
over the afr raids Of Allied airmen. In
the principal cities along the Rhine II
is said that many houses have been
vacated and their owners have moved
further away from the German bor-
der. 1t Is also said that opinion Is
growing against the continuation oil
German air raids.
An iron pot containing $ll5,ooo 10
gold was blasted out Of an old well
near Hillsville. Pa, last wednesday
The money had belonged to a man
named Shaffer, who died in 1888
Stricken by apoplexy Shaffer tried 70
tell his family where the coin was
hidden but died before he could dc
so. Inc InOuey Ndo ~
dent, although the hunt had been 60
ing on all these years.
A. Bruce Bielaski. chief OF the
United States secret service. In an ad-
dress in New York, said that while the
secret service Of Germany had been
claimed to be the most proficient IN
the world, the truth Of the matter Is
that the secret service OF the Uniteo
States had proved that the German
service was the most laundering Or
ganization Of its kind in the world
He said that the biggest part the
German service had played In the
limited States had been the part that
brought the United States into the war
as Germany's strongest enemy.
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