Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-03-05

vious. Senator William Alden
Smith, Of Michigan, has announced
that he will not be candidate for re.
March. He has been in congress for
twenty-five years and says he wants
10 spend the balance Of his days look
ing after his snewspaper...........Im Imperial
Potentate Ovenshire Of the Mystic
Shrine, announced in Charlotte, FRI
day. that the annual convention Of the
order in Atlantic City. y. j.. this year
will be confined to business only, on
account OF the war.....-.Count Minotte,
son-in-law of Louis Swift. million
aire meat packer. detained as an
enemy alien. is now being held by the
department Of justice and will prob
ably be interned for the period OF the
war. instead Of being deported.. 90.
The two thousand employees Of seven
duck mills in Baltimore, doing gov
ernment work. have gone on strike
TO enforce demand for 100 per
cent" union labor-.,......The annual re-
port of the Du Pont de Nemurs Pow
der Company of Wilmington. Del.
shows profit Of S49.ll2.952. or IL
per cent on a capital stock OF s2ip.-
OQU, 900. ................S Secretary McAdoo has
campaign will be opened on April 9th,
the first anniversary Of the declara
ton Of the war by the United States.
The amount, terms and conditions of
the loan have not been announced as
vet ......... Mrs Mary Thompson, wn-
man strike leader of Chicago. has been
placed in Jail at Cumberland. Md.
The food adm inistration announced
that there will not be any more meat
less DAYS until April Is. Mutton and
lamb NAV be eaten in all states until
that date. Attorneys for Thos. ].
Mooney. sentenced to death in San
Francisco, for participation IN a bomb
explosion there. will not appeal his
case 10 the california supreme court.
but will appeal 10 Governor stephens
for executive clemency in behalf of
Mooney ..........A st. Louis, Mo, man
appealing for deferred draft classifi-
cation, quoted the following verse
from Deuteronomy, 24.5: When a
man hath taken new wife ne snail
not 70 out to war, neither snail ne De
charged with any business; but he
shall be free at home for one year
and shall cheer his wife which he hath
taken" report by Director Gen
eral McAdoo shows that on account
of the war the travel TO and from
Washington was l2S per cent more
i'm February than II was in FEBRUARY
Of last year. r........... Exports OF grain and
cereals from American ports showed a
steady increase during February. The
first week the exports totaled S3,6oS
tons. while those Of the last week to-
tailed 1883. The total shipments
for the month were 553,42 tons ..........
Major George l.. Peterson. formerl!
paymaster general of the North caro-
lima National Guard. charged with em-
hcZzling $1,000 OF state funds, Is to be
tried in the superior court of Wake
county, y. c., during this week
Peterson was formerly stationed al
Camp Sewer. Greenville, s. C...-.....The
Argentine government has asked the
British minister at Buenos Ayres. to
obtain safe conduct to Germany OF the
former German Ambassador Coun'
Won LuXenburg. The annual meet
ing OF the United Confederate Veter-
ans is to be held in Tulsa, Okla, III
September, instead of in June. Tht
dates having been changed on account
of war conditions. plot to release
German aliens confined at Fort Doug
las. Utah, and destroy public buildings
ut Salt Lake City, was discovered FRI
day when Frank Dimok. German
was arrested by the Salt Lake police
Soldiers at Camp Meade stood
TO lose $4,000 deposited in the state
bank at Odenton, Md, and citizens oi
baltimore made the amount good
The money was endangered 10y the
defalcations of the president Of the
bank