Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-04-19
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lanes Wilson, chairman Of q dele
cation from the American tederatioh
Of Labor, nowsconferring with BRUSH
labor representatives in Great Britain
declared a few days ago that American
labor representatives will not meet
with enemy labor representatives DUR
ing the war....-......Lloyd George an {.
nounced to the British parliament
Tuesday that Germany has caiieo
another five hundred thousand men 10
the colors.....It Is recognized tnroush-
out Europe that Count CZernin was
really and truly in favor OF the or
ganization of a league for the en-
forcement OF peace.....--......Bolo Pasna'
recently convicted OF treason 10
France. was executed last Tuesday.
Senator VIM. J. Stone Of Mis-
somri. chairman of the senate COM
mittee on foreign relations, died IN
Washington last Sunday......"...The
British and French governments have
agreed to confer on General Foch the
title of in-chief OF the al
lied armies. Three employees OF the
Union Pacific railroad shops at Kan
sas City, who said Ito hell with Lib
erty bonds" were painted yellow by
their fellow workmen and told to leave
and not come The Chamber
OF Commerce OF Montgomery, Ala.'
through Its membership council, mas
pledged 500 homes of the city to alb
stain absolutely from the use OF hour
until the harvest Of the next CROP.
Cotton consumed during March
amounted to 571,202 running bales,
exclusive of linters..---...Col. william
r, Simmons Of the 327th infantry was
found dead in his quarters at Atlanta,
last Friday with a discharged pistol
by his side and suicide has been pre-
sumed although 30 far as is known no
reason has been advanced for the act.
The British house Of commons Is
insisting on conscripuon for Ireland
by a large majority....--About one NTH
OF the farm loan business OF the coun-
try is now being done BY the Farm
Loan banks......--Inform from
Washington Is to the effect that more
than 100 German and Austrian women
throughout the country are under
surveillance by government agents and
will be arrested and interned az soon
as President Wilson signs the bill
which includes women In the class OF
alien enemies .-..--..--.Samue EDWARDS
was electrocuted at the Pennsylvania
state prison Monday after conviction
of numbering his wife----.---Great Falls
and Cascade county. Mont, began It's
third Liberty loan campaign last Mon
day at II o'clock. At 11.30 the coun-
tys quota Of $750.000 had been sub
scribed, and IL minutes later the. hg-
ures had passed the million mark
Chairman Hurley Of the shipping
board, has announced that eighteen
wooden ships, with q total OF $1,000
tons, will be launched during April.
Charlie Chaplin, motion picture
comedian, although an Englishman.
has waived his rights and has been
drafted by the board at Los Angeles.
Cal, and expects to be called in June.
e. B. Barkman. flying in
structor at Kelly Field. Texas. was
Killed Monday when his machine. In
a tail spin, fell 200 feet. A cadet with
him was not seriously fntured----
Moonshine stills are being found In
the kitchens Of moonshinerB homes In
Jefferson county, Ala. The bloc,1aders
are making q claim that the offcers
are violating the sanctity Of their
homes, and the officers contend that
the sanctity OF the homes had already
been violated by the presence OF the
stflls----Rev. J. W. A AaSruder. ID.
D., Aethodist preacher Of Baltimore.
died from heart failure IN New York
last Sunday, while standing In tele-
phone booth Three thousand young