Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-02-26
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Of Current Happenings Col
leeted from Various Sources.


For the third time in three weeks
ground glass has been found in can
ned tomatoes sold by Scranton. Pa
grocers.
The Rev. G. Ransom, editor of the
Afro Methodist Episcopal Review
New York, has been nominated for
congress by a convention Of negroes.
Dozens of London women are con-
tributing one pearl each to be made
into necklace to be sold at auction
for the Red Cross.
Il hope the kaiser wins the war,
said oswald Bauch. New York wait
or. \ private soldier gave him u
beating aand the police court Judge
fined him IS.
William l.. Sauer, a Chicago shoe
maker, sent TO prison as a Stacker, Is
being ostricised by his fellow prison.
ers, who refer to him in most con-
tcmptuous remarks.
Miss Pauline Plotka. 19 years old.
has been exonorated by a Chicago
coroncr's jury for the killing of DIR.
Jindrc. a hospital inferno. whom she
claimed had wronged her.
Joseph Smith, q negro. has been
sent to prison by an Atlantic City. y.
j., Judge for twelve months as
Stacker. Smith failed to file his ques-
tionnaire.
Henry Japson. sheriff of Reagon
county. Texas, a millionaire ranch
man, shot and killed James Belcher
also millionaire. and then killed
himself at Zig Lake, Thursday.
Seventeen men of the Red River
country OF Texas, have been placed In
jail at Parish, charged with. night
riding, terrorizing negro farmers agd
causing them to leave their farms.t
George Yeager, an I. W. W.. mch-
her, and Gordon Spardlin. recritly
tried by cuurtmartial at Camp Ftns-
ton, Kansas, have been sentenced to
twenty years each on charges OF
cvading the draft.
Andrew Bonar Law, chancellor OF
the exchequer, told the house OF COM
mons last week, that the average
daily cost of the war for the past -four
weeks was s31,92O.OOO as England's
part.
FL Democratic, n German organ
published in Mexico City. is soon to
be suppressed, according to infor-
nation received in Washington. The
efforts of the Germans in Mexico are
said to he not very successful.
The lower house Of congress has
voted to accept a statue of James
Buchanan, fifteenth president, fol
erection in Washington. There was
considerable opposition fromthe Re-
publican side OF the house. T1e fol-
lowing inscription is to be- thu
monument: "The incorruptibE ates'
man whose walk was on the'mountair
ranges of the law"
General Horace w. Carpenter, one
of the original Forty Miners who
died in New York a few days ago
left an estate of several millions
most OF which he left to religious
educational and charitable institu-
tions. He was 81 years old and left
no relatives.
Judge Morgan of San Francisco. /:
in favor OF the whipping post FOL
husbands guilty Of non-support o.
wives; but in lieu of that he gave
husband so accused, 80 days on thu
rock pile, while his wife Is to receive
the $3.50 per day which is paid fol
his service.
Spanish authorities have found evil
dcnce that the anarchist activities II
Spain recently have been engineered
and paid for by the German embassy
at Madrid. Capt. Won krohn, formel
German naval attache at Madrid, ha:
been called home at the request o.
the Spanish government.
The war department Is not in IA
vor of giving railroad men within tho
draft age any special consideration IT
the way of deferred classification. The
railroad administration Is asking fol
special consideration OF the railroad
men as q class. There are 100000
railroad workers within the draft
age.
Secretary Baker has authorized tho
statement that no date has been Sc
lected for the beginning Of the secont
draft. Various estimates have placed
the time between March / and June /
These are said to be entirely guesses
The governments disposition not Il
disturb the labor situation, particu'
larly on farms at the planting season
is one of the factors entering into tho
situation.
That the German government Is
taking every possible precaution Il
prevent the spread Of socialistic pro-
paganda in the army is shown by thu
following telegram from Cologne: THE
governor of Cologne has issued ar
order forbidding soldiers to join an!
political committees. Soldiers are fur
ther warned, on penalty Of imprison,
ment, against reading any Socialist oi
Radical pamphlets or newspapers par
ticularly a recent publication entitled
Social Democracy and the Field
Grays."
The capitulation Of the Bolshevik
to the Central Powers has caused
regret here, but no surprise, says Q
Paris dispatch. The Echo de Paris
expects that the event will "instill
little more common sense into thu
Allied councils" 1t hopes London ano
Washington will cease to compare
the Russian with the French revolu'
ton or to expect the revolutionar,
ferment to spread from Russia tc
Germany and Austria" Such ideas, II
asserts, stand in the way Of necessar!
action by Japan in Siberia, which